R400 The Believer’s Commission, Pt.2

We all could use some encouragement and will find it together today in the Bible-based preaching of Dr. Don Wilton here on The Encouraging Word. Today we continue a wonderful multipart series with Dr. Don Wilton on the believers commission, Dr. Don is instructing us on what it is to be called what is to be commissioned in and it's not just your pastor, your youth pastor, your music, no, no, no, it's about how each of us are commissioned believers and we have some responsibilities and opportunities. Perhaps that you're missing out on that would be happy to pray with you and for you anytime.

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I want you to read with me Ephesians chapter 6 in verse 10. Finally, be strong in the Lord and Amy's mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and often you have done everything, to stand by the Lord varieties would upon our hearts as we begin to journey through life, that the apostle Paul writing here in the final chapter of these later to the church at Ephesus was asking us questions not dissimilar to the ones that we are asking today in the midst of our sadness. What about your life, what about my life is your life in control or are you out of control. Are you symbolically writing down the length and breadth of the river same in a foreign land. Seated next to a person that God never gave you. Are you plunging headlong into the crises of life that wait for us in the tunnels of life are you in control what is happening to you today. God never promises promises us a bed of roses I want to do something this morning and I hope everyone of you got a pain in your hand because you need to write these things down. I'm going to give to you. 13 yes 13 practical suggestions on how to get control of your life. I don't know what's going on in your life today.

God does. I don't know if you're not out of control. Perhaps there's a student Jedediah who is just beginning college question I'm going to ask you is next week off.

You've arrived at college is your life going to be one that is under control or out of control.

Maybe there's a married Jedediah is your marriage under control isn't out of control on the early warning sign all the things that are happening today that perhaps 20 years from now could lead you down a river and a road and a path way to destruction. I want to give you some suggestions this morning if my beloved ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls write these down number one. Evaluate your present evaluate. That's the operative word here. Something that I cannot do for you many instances, wives or husbands family members.

It's something that we need to do for ourselves.

Evaluate where you who you are what you what you doing where you going what you've done right down. Maybe you want to take time this week to do that you not going to do it in the church service in these few moments go home sometime set-aside time and evaluate current status and be honest with yourself.

Don't try and deceive yourself full or avoid the issues. Write them down. Evaluate your current status, number two, analyze your evaluation doctrines analysis is the key analysis is the difference between diagnosis and actual surgery to rectify the problem analysis means that you're willing not only to put down and evaluate your current status but you willing to lift the surgeon's scalpel and begin to dissect get down to the bone. Oscar Silva? Why am I doing this what's causing where is it leading me to what steps are. My take on ask yourself some very searching questions. If you and your wife are not quite getting on write it down in your evaluation not getting on with my wife in your analysis. Dissect the ask yourself why and write it down. Why am I not getting on with my wife or my husband. Why am I not spending time with my family. Why am I tracing off the rainbow why do I have lost in my heart. Why do I have an inclination to lie and cheat. Why do I do these things.

Number three. Determine your needs, how folks needs are remarkable things. As in Philippians chapter 4 verse 19 he says my God shall do what shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. We wove a different needs, but we've also got different walks just recently I had the privilege of being on the beach with my family. We had a marvelous time. One day we were down there. My two sons were with me just love my sons and my daughter so much and we were having the greatest fellowship and just enjoying ourselves in out there. There was literally a flotilla of the most marvelous fishing boat you've ever seen. So I nudged my sons as a gentleman I said I need to share something with you. I have an overwhelming compulsion to do so. I said who bought you lunch today.

I said are you the dead. I said who bought your golf. Take a guess you did.

Then I said you drove your way down. You did that I said now sons I want to tell you something. One day when you get an MBA franchise when you signed up to play in the NBA, and you get $36.7 million to play two years and you sitting down.

Then you signed one another labs.

Remember all their and dad comes into your mind and you say you know we got this little bit of money right now. What should we do for him. Gentlemen you're looking at it. This will suit my personality. In fact, I've made up my mind already. When one of my sons buys me one of those beautiful books I'm going to call it visitation that you have to think and plan ahead on these things. I'm going to getting some voting so much visitation. It's unbelievable. You know we've all got 17. We love to have my own boat. One day I'd love to own a golf course, I'd love to have a motorhome, I'd love to do this, I'd love to travel the world. Those are all good things, and God blesses us so much doesn't, but you need to write down your needs. Listen to me frame if you're not willing to write down you will need if you don't know what to needs. All you will never know what to get rid of one of the reasons why our lives, get out of control is that our lives are so busy I so hectic they so collected.

Something's got to go your needs can't go back some of you wants might have to go by before prioritize. Now we have a key operative word here.

Prioritize. You see, if you write down your needs. You can prioritize. I want you to do something this week, get your family together and I want to suggest to you that you write down the six in order. The six most important things in your life.good this week. Get a piece of pipe, a gimpy one to each of your family members and write down and write only the six most important things in your life. For example, I wrote down six things the sparse week. I can tell you right now, the Lord Jesus came into the church my family was very important.

I wrote down that a priority in my life must be my family that I am doing that, according to the needs I've evaluated I've analyzed. I have determined my needs and I have prioritize my family.

I am then able to move in a systematic way that is pleasing to the Lord in determining how I need to bring my life under control. If my family is a priority to me and I'm not prioritizing my family.

Guess what, I'm a man of control.

I'm going to face the consequences.

My children are going to grow up before I even know what they going to leave and I'm not going to know them. I'm not going to have loved and I'm going to live with a lot of regret. Grandparents can do this. Widows and widowers can do this. For example, as I was doing a little bit of this response week, I began to think about my family and I I thought about the specific interests. I thought of my two boys. The fact that they play golf well and they love golf and I love go and as I sat there and I thought about it, I say to myself I do not want to become a father who always seems he's sons to go and play golf with everybody else because I'm dad now there are many times they going to play golf with somebody else and I have a wonderful time they play golf on Saturday. I couldn't go.

I was busy they had a wonderful time doing that, but friends I do not want to wait until my sons are 30 years of age before I play golf with now I'm going to prioritize doing this and many others. What is that mean means go to set aside time I bought a plan because it is a basic fundamental need that I have you take my daughter when I was writing my list down many times my daughter comes to me and says daddy want to jump on the trampoline with me up. You know what I do many times to busy sorry what happens if one of the deacons ride von see a beached whale jumping on a trampoline and folk share.

I weighed 375 pounds and she weighs 60 pounds and when I go down and she goes up. It's like antiballistic surface-to-air missile about to leave Spartanburg but I'm going to tell you something.

There is no greater fund jumping on the trampoline with my little girl silly waste of time as they going to come a time when she's not going to come and say daddy will you jump on the trampoline with me. When do I need to jump on the trampoline with her, not next year. This year, well that's what it means to prioritize number five develop a plan develop a plan. You never develop a plan if you haven't evaluated and analyzed. Determine your needs and prioritize if you prioritize based upon these other things you going to be able to get your life in control. Then you going to be able to determine well this is the area in which I have to work so I'm going to develop a plan around that you're listening to Dr. Don Wilton our teacher John The Encouraging Word don't go away will be back to complete today's episode of the believers commission in just a moment Dr. Don Wilton remind you that as we develop that plan.

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Number six provide the time and space in order to be able to do the things that you've determined you need to do.

You might be managing director of the company you're busy person phone is ringing off the hook. People look to you. They depend upon you. You might be small. Maybe a child development specialist, which I call mothers, mothers or child development specialist and it's a very difficult thing to juggle the washing machine and the baby in the diapers and the and the needs in the comings and the going with everything else, but you do know that your baby is a priority. If your children, your baby is not a priority you not gonna end up doing. You gonna end up allowing other decisions which are important to take away from your priority. So guess who suffers your baby suffers your children suffers. Your marriage suffers your studies suffer whatever it is that something begins to suffer number seven assign roles for yourself now friends, listen carefully, I role for yourself is that which you do related to the priority based upon the needs in terms of your evaluation. For example, if I prioritize that I want to spend time with my children. What role does that put me entry daddy father. That's why I do it because I'm daddy Richie was here this morning with camera and I turned to Richie and I said Richie you are the father, many of the standards you have Cameron will have. And of course that's true of moms is will equally so. But if I'm not willing to prioritize that and I'm not willing to say listen, I need to be spend more time with my children because I am the father guess what happens you ready for this.

If I put my role in that little scheme of things I come out with a value and values all those things which are missing most of all in America today, so I say I'm going to prioritize my children in my role as father based upon my value now. What is my value. My value is that I need to be the best daddy that I can possibly be as a daddy to my children because God has given them to me and I want to read them in the knowledge and admonition of the Lord Jesus Christ and so I brace my priority through my role upon my value. If you don't have values. You're not going to cultivate character and one of the reasons why many of our children today have got no values is because they not taught the roles that God has given to us based upon the priorities that we teach them throughout our lives and the word of God which in turn develops their character.

We talk about character references based upon my values upon the role that I play so assign roles for your soon if it's the Lord Jesus Christ, which is a priority. If it's the church. What is your role in the church. Your role in the church will define real value and your value system and if your value system is in place my frame and you're a deacon you never again I have any problem missing a deacons meeting without an excuse because of your value system. It's never an issue. If you're a Sunday school teacher and your value system is in place. You are going to be the best Sunday school teacher that you can never find because God has given to you. I value system if I was an employer of people I would want all the people who worked in my office to have values based upon their role in the business that they work in, and their role is defined by their priorities and what are their priorities based upon the system of needs based upon the evaluation and analysis of that evaluation number eight and list and train others you have to do that.

I don't know about you but it's hard to do all these things on our own. It's hard to be a mom and a dad today by yourself. It's hard to go to school by yourself.

It's hard to be a good athlete by you, so it's hard to gun workout at the Nautilus fitness center by yourself. You see that's why God is given us people who help us in the church and in business is giving us grandparents and friends and so you need to. Based upon all these things you need to enlist and train others and invite them into your inner circle to be partners with you Lebanon central calendar in place all you and I can talk all day about all these things, but if we don't put them down in our calendars. We never going to get them done all we number 10 implement the program. Nike multimillion organization says just do it. That's what it means to implement it all in good fun. Think about it downstairs a list everyday list is not going to help you get on and do what you have to do number 11 constantly evaluate where you all you want to keep you laughing control you need to constantly be updating and evaluating number 12 eliminate and develop.

You see, if you have a plan. If you've evaluated and analyzed to determine your needs, prioritize develop a plan if you provided time and space and assign roles yourself enlisted and train others say to calendar and implemented it and constantly evaluated. Guess what you gonna be able to do.

You gonna be able to eliminate the things that shouldn't be there. You going to be able to constantly develop and strengthen the things that to be there God is going to bless you and that you going to become stronger in our church. We shouldn't be encouraging people to grow new giftedness. We need to be encouraging people to grow stronger in the day. Giftedness become stronger in what God has called you to do. That's what we should be focusing our attention, then, of course, number 13 lost but not least, learn to say no, learn to say no is your life and control you turned your life over to Jesus Christ see the captain of your ship is. He said you in motion is able to do exceedingly unlinking above all that we could all scream perhaps got it set you in motion today and you realize he's able to do so much more than we can ever comprehend.

But I pray that you realize that there is an initial first step that's essential and that's do you know Jesus in my life I grew up going to church and knew about Jesus before I knew them personally.

If you'd like to know him personally, as your Savior and your Lord which you open your heart to what Dr. Don Wilton wants to share. Are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm so happy to hear that wanting to pray this prayer with me today.

Dear God, I know that you love me very, very much and I know that the Lord Jesus Christ came and died on the cross so that I might be forgiven of my sent today I painted myself.

I confess my sins and I invite you to come into my half my life in Jesus name I pray, if you prayed that prayer may be the first one welcome to the family of this is one I hope that you know how much I'm going to be praying how very important this is for me. Call so we can talk to connect to the right place you can begin this wonderful journey. And in just a moment I'm in a come back with the final welcome back to the family. I believe that some of you, along with the past two months ago prayed and made a decision your heart to come back to Christ and today is a brand-new beginning some of you pray for the very first time.

Welcome to the family of God, the angels in heaven rejoice and so do we.

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