Making the Most of our Time - Oct 20
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🗓️ 20 October 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
As we begin wrapping up our week focused on centering our lives around Jesus, today we’ll look at how to make the most of our time. Where we spend our time is where we place our value. As you begin to examine your life today, may God give you eyes to see what’s hindering you and what truly brings you life. How we spend our time is foundational to how we center our lives around Christ.
Our Scripture for today comes from Ephesians 5:15-16, and today's worship is The Secret Place by Phil Wickham.
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin wrapping up our week focused on centering our lives around Jesus, |
| 0:09.0 | today we'll look at how to make the most of our time. |
| 0:12.0 | Where we spend our time is where we |
| 0:14.4 | place our value. As you begin to examine your life today, may God give you eyes |
| 0:20.3 | to see what's hindering you and what truly brings you life. How we spend our |
| 0:25.2 | time is foundational to how we center our lives around Christ. Welcome to the |
| 0:30.9 | First of Team Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Ephesians 5 15 through 16. |
| 0:55.1 | Scripture says, look carefully then how you walk, |
| 0:58.8 | not as unwise but as wise, |
| 1:01.7 | making the best use of the time because the days are evil. |
| 1:09.7 | Our time is of the utmost importance here on earth. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll never get back the days we spend frivolously pursuing the things of the world. |
| 1:18.0 | We'll never get back the time spent outside of God's purposes of receiving and giving love. |
| 1:25.0 | Our time here is too limited and too important to spend on burdens, stresses, sin, and worldly pursuits. |
| 1:36.0 | If we're going to make the most of this life, |
| 1:39.0 | we must learn to center our time around the eternal value of meeting with God. |
| 1:45.0 | It's for this reason James 413 through 15 says, |
| 1:49.0 | Come now, you who say, today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town, and spend a year |
| 1:55.8 | there and trade and make a profit. Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for |
| 2:06.2 | little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say if the Lord, we will live and do this or that. |
| 2:18.0 | Looking at the ways in which we spend our time is one of the best ways to assess the posture of our heart. |
| 2:25.0 | If we spend all our time working for and thinking about the things of the world, |
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