Balancing Life's Demands - The Peace And Power Of A Prioritized Life, Part 1

You want this coming year to be the best year of your life what you had to be crazy if you said no and after what we've all been through lately. I mean we need a fresh start. We need to recalibrate. We need to balance the demands in our life so it can really be different in 2022 that's what were going to stay with. Welcome to this Edition of Living on the Edge with tripping the mission of these daily programs is to intentionally decide the Bible is just a literature blotch is a series called balancing life for the next several programs will explore God's plan of life, joy and purpose. Some pretty good right. Let me encourage you to stay with us for this entire will change your outlook on this new year. Before we get started if you're new to Living on the Edge or miss any part of the series, you can always catch up. The other chipping from your stripper. This talk, the peace and power of a prioritized life from Matthew chapter 6 was we get started, talk about balancing life's demands talk about biblical priorities and talk about aligning your life and your priorities doing what's important in a way that God says for two purposes.

One, so that you fulfill his purposes and bring glory to him, and second because when you do that, it is good for you is highest and best is achieved and accomplished when there is an alignment of your priorities with the way he has designed you, and designed life to work and when your priorities get out of whack when the balance gets out of whack. It produces some painful things and you in relationships often significant damage. I just so this is a theoretical night teen 83 I was a full blown workaholic early 30s driven, focused and disciplined. I learned some that for my dad. I will give you all the family of origin histories and how children of alcoholics, you know, do stuff.

But here's what I'll tell you I just I got focused early on about sports. I got this is what you do you say go you and you get focused and I was focused. I was disciplined and was driven and then I got I came to Christ and it took me a while to get going, but once I got going, I got focused. I was disciplined and I was driven and then got called me into ministry and so once I started with this church about 23 years into it, I was focused. I was disciplined and I was driven, and how in the world in a church of 35 to 50 people. You can work 80 hours a week.

I don't know, but I figured out how to do it. 1983 I was sitting in the doctor's office. My wife went with me and he evaluated everything he asked about my schedule. He asked what I did why I did it could run some tests. There were some problems with my liver and he just said you keep living like you live in your gonna die young, and he said your life is out of balance and out of control. I never heard the word workaholic, but I I learned about it about then now because I was had a couple core values one is I did not neglect my time with God and because of some real deep convictions.

I did not neglect my wife or my kids and that's it. That's kind of a neat thing. So what happens is I got up earlier and earlier and earlier and sometimes I have three or four hours and for they were woke up and then unite breakfast take him to school do whatever and then then I busted it and then I did. I was out all kind of times and I was with them and then they know to get in at work and this just driven this this need to please people. This performance this I got since the search for significance. The search for security but wondering how do you ever please God. How much is enough and I mean to tell you what I want you here is it is been a very significant journey and you don't have to be that way and you can change and priorities can change and you can be motivated and not driven and you have good priorities and discipline without being so focused that you're out of whack. But I say that so you know what I'm gonna talk about is not like theoretical fast forward 25 years and I was in a time of reevaluating God, where's my sweet spot where my gifts and so I found myself in a room with eight or nine other guys all who were very, very successful.

All very wealthy, very powerful had kinda been there done that with various levels of spiritual maturity for 26 hours evaluating how should I spend the second half of my life most of us would say they have what people look for me. They can't have it made.

They got the houses the car errs the money the businesses the and yet there was for some major damage, loss, families, loss kids and paying and now they've come to know Christ and how do I do it different for others it was they were really pretty spiritually mature but their focus was so in their business and so when things and ever so it was like you know what I've got more money than I'll ever need. For the rest of my life.

How can I leverage my life for more God's kingdom and use my gifts rather than this rat race that I'm living in an and some had a pretty balanced life. It was, you know I'm doing this for the kingdom of God. How do I leverage it. What are my gifts. What's the unique purpose God has called me to what's that. Ephesians 210 that good work God's call me to these prepared and so they take you to a process for 26 hours and so I only share that to let you know you know whether you're young in the Lord were old and the Lord whether you have had a long history with God or your relatively new in Christ.

Whether you're like super successful and will need to reevaluate or urine crisis and overwhelmed know what everyone needs to stop and look and evaluate your priorities is your life in balance is being lived the way God wants it to for his glory in your good and so do that.

Here's the format that we can use. I'm getting a little diagnosis I'm getting to six warning signs you see those of misplaced priorities, so I'm just going to go through boom boom boom boom boom and you say hey you know I think my priorities are here.

Good good good. Better check that one second, then after the diagnosis on a given will definition.

What are God's priority for life and how they fit together. Let me what does God expect, what are the right priorities and and third, I want to just get you started. You two tools two tools to start getting a handle when you hear these two tools listen carefully everyone when you hear these two tools don't fill it.

I could have that down tomorrow you not get it out tomorrow. You can recognize got to give you a tool for this hand to for that hand, and now you will start on a journey using these two tools to bring the beginning steps of bringing your priorities under the submission of God to get them in line for his glory in your good okay so let's jump in together and want to give you the six symptoms of misplaced priorities.

The first symptom is dizziness. You can write that word in dizziness but barren of fruit.

If your life is characterized where your purring all the time you're rushing your driven you eat on the run. If I went into your desk and if you have an office or your dresser and there's much piles of many things and then over underneath of it. There's piles on the floor and everyone in the garage I we wouldn't want to go there if I went to your office at work. There is stuff stuff everywhere and you're going to get to it.

But you just putting it in stacks now because there's just too many balls to juggle people who love you are saying things kindly and lovingly. Some of them you're married to others or business associates.

Others are people to just say cash when you say let's get together and say oh yeah yeah yeah you been saying that for like 18 months there saying slow down if you're fairly young follower may be remarried and now you have some kids and have some smaller kids five or six or under. They hang on your knee with their arms around you as you're leaving out the door. That's a symptom that you're doing too much and that you're too busy, dizziness. I called the activity trap Dawson Trotman, the founder, the navigator said emotion is no substitute for action and action is no substitute for productivity. Sometimes we get very very active very very busy. I believe it's the new worldliness we are important because were busy on the move. I got to do this I can do that I'm involved in this second is emotional stress and pressure, anxiety, people whose priorities are out of whack. Have symptoms like 88 uptight there sometimes have chest pains, migraine headaches, trouble sleeping, you have this uneasy feeling you feel restless a lot. It's hard to sit still. You wish you can get your mind to slow down. Sometimes you find yourself going. I just need to take a deep breath because the RPMs inside your head your multitasking about everything all the time. There's no windows of real rest your indecisive sometimes it's hard to make a decision if the truth is none. You're not very happy you get's fulfillment and the windows when you accomplish things and you love to check things off did that did that did that did that but when the things are done and when you're alone and when the media is off, there's this just ease the sense that I'm not really very happy. I don't have a lot of joy for some it ends up in burnout.

Others break down and others blow up and the anger issues flareup and then lots of big apologies follow often it comes out in conflict with family irritability when there's this emotional stress and anxiety often is characterized with the lack of intimacy and connectedness with your family and especially in your marriage. You're busy. It's interesting to changes in a change soon.

As soon as this big deals over his soccer season over for soon as this happens to sinners that have a kiss and a change in your sensing this adrift in relationships and you keep telling yourself what's temporary. The third is what I call low-grade nagging guilt you feel bad about yourself again. It's not just the restless feeling. But it's not fulfilled there's a lot of things that you know you're supposed to do. In fact, you did him in the past you actually tell other people they should do them but you don't do many more. But you know enough versus and you have enough background spiritually that you fake it well but you hate this feeling of this duplicity.

This level of hypocrisy that you know no one has altogether but right now is not the way it used to be and you keep telling yourself you know what I'm in those times in the morning that I had her this pretty, significant times in prayer. I'll get back to that.

But right now, and just have this low-grade nagging guilt relationships become superficial little time for celebration. Daily pressures push aside the need to stop envision plan. Think about the future before us is financial debt, financial problems when priorities really start unwinding you realize you know we were really committed to given the first portion we go, you know, we meant to do that for them. We had a slow pick up and then this happened in the not happy middle hospital situation over here in the company.

We thought was going to do a little bit better and that didn't work out.

And so the debt begins to pileup the giving begins to deteriorate, and by the way God speaks through your money. Jot down just in your notes Habakkuk 1 verses 1 to 10 God speaks of the prophet. Here's a paraphrase of those 10 verses because they were building their own homes and their panel houses and neglected the house of the Lord God put holes in their purses teammate they made money but it seemed to evaporate.

God was lovingly trying to get their attention. You can't figure it out in or making this much money you were making more money than we ever have, but it just seems like all it seems like God put holes in our finances. That's that's because he loves you and get your attention.

The fifth symptom of misplaced priorities is prayerless in this or leakage in the devotional life. If the truth is known. And you hope the truth doesn't get known but your deepest times in prayer on in the car by yourself most.

Your prayers are very quick mostly. The best times are with other people.

You have a hard time concentrating by yourself is been a very long time since you had an extended, honest, repentant, tearful cleaning of the slate with you and God and you get to it and you really are and you been there before, but just not right now there's just too much on your plate is too much to jungle got out.

I mean, you mean to but the superficialities with God. Down deep.

You don't click feel very close to you on a spiritual, up and down roller coaster. You have an experience at church or maybe little something hearing and then it's very up down emotional and you realize just as leakage. Just too many balls just too much fuel under pressure.

The final is escapism behavior.

We do a lot of different way. Some thrillseeking behavior lease when you're younger you know, there's just nothing like a good bungee jump to make you feel better about life very temporarily or going fast in a car as you get older it's a impulsive buying vacation you can afford. For others, you're so dead on tired to go take a pill to put yourself to sleep and takes a couple pills to get you going in your never been a real heavy drinker but you find yourself drinkable. But more than in the past you eat when you're not hungry but makes you feel better, just a little while and for us. Good Christians is just a lot of excessive TV and a lot of time on email and a lot of time doing things that make us feel like we are accomplishing something because, down deep, we don't know where were going in our Northstar feels like it's moved and you don't know is there any way out and I wish that did not describe an awful lot of believers life. But I will tell you as we get thousands upon thousands of emails I hear it over and over and over and over. In conclusion, the symptoms are always in our minds, their temporary there just small concessions on me like one or two those things. It doesn't mean you're like out to lunch and you know you don't love God anymore.

You're ready for divorce next week. They all start is just a little thing and you can fix them next week and as soon as the seasons over with us. You know, but here's what I want you here. They all begin a process the big falls always start with little things like this in one or two that you juggle and then pretty soon there's three or four. He was faithful in a very little thing will be faithful also in much.

And he was unrighteous in a very little thing, Luke 1610 will be unrighteous also in much.

And you really reconnected as a couple went in the family will start some of that devotional stuff again will get our finances in order, will be able to give like I used to and you know we need to have a budget but I mean those credit cards hey you know what everyone has a window like this but it's real temporary because an yeah it's not a life or death. You, but second Samuel 11 verses one and two, says at the time when kings went out to battle priority issue after great success at the time when kings went out to battle when the king did what a good king supposed to do. David decided he'd stay home and then Bathsheba and Uriah get penned in his autobiography and that's what happens with good people. People who make great moral financial failures family split, divide churches get killed. Kids wonder what happened to speak, they don't wake up, go into something and I get this great marital love my wife. I love my husband got a couple kids got one grandchild. Whatever it is, what I just think I'll take about 200 grand from the company that CFO and I are good buddies. I think together we could embezzle money does have a lot of fun me. No one wakes up and does that or that's Thursday, you know. Saturday I think you have an affair with him to put that on my calendar just so I don't forget it.

That's not whatever happens.

These symptoms start to weave into your life and you get vulnerable and you get hurt and you just want some relief and you never think it's possible for someone who loves God the way you love.

Got any of that to ever happen, but the right place at the right time. In a weak moment with these things happening all the sudden you're the feature film in your own nightmare. Those are the symptoms and it raises a very important question then if those are the symptoms then what are the right priorities.

I mean God help. What are the right priorities.

I like to say that I would like you turn in your Bibles to first priorities 19 and but I don't have that no but there's two books were written about the same time the call between epistles in a put a chart in your notes and the twin epistles one is written to say church first three chapters. This is what Christ has done for you last three chapters of Ephesians. This is how to live it out.

Colossians church this the preeminence of who Jesus is and this is how he wants you to live last two chapters and this is how you live it out written about the same time not, what would you see, sometimes the structure of the book can tell you as much is the content is of the first half of both those books are all doctrine.

This is who Jesus is.

This is your relationship with him.

This is who you are in Christ. This is your Dr. this is your inheritance. This is what you actually possess and then if you look at those charts when they start talking about how to live it out. Chapter 4 opens all of chapter 4, verse one. I pull a prisoner of the Lord what to say bird you command you to walk in a manner worthy of your calling that word for word the is.

It's up if we get our English word axis, and if this idea for three chapters I've told you all that you possess beliefs now let your behavior bring it into balance so that your beliefs and your behavior. Tell the same story and the whole rest of the book is how you do that and it's really interesting and this is why small groups are so important. He doesn't tell you right after that to go to church, read your Bible, or he starts with relational issues that he says with all gentleness and humility, bearing with one another with patients making every effort to maintain the bond that you already have of peace and so what I want you to see is when he opens up each of the chapters noticed the topic. Colossians 3 how it starts out starts you have God make family work ministry and and is not in here but implied elsewhere. You have, re-creation.

It is a need to get recharged as I think it's just interesting as you go through this passage is it's okay. Ephesians 5 will you learn that hey I need to be filled with the spirit. My relationship with God. It goes right there to my marriage to my children to my work and into my ministry. By the way, everyone's in full-time ministry.

Some people are called in a vocational way and what we do is we pay their time so they can study the word to give us what we can't get on our own, but you are a priest you're an ordained full-time minister of the gospel posing as housewives soccer moms computer operators, business owners, lawyers, doctors and nurses and grandma's. And God has you as an Ephesians for the leaders of the church equip the church to do the work of the ministry. All of us are ministers until the church fulfills our calling and so these priorities are for all of us, not the problem.

I think when we look at priorities, however, is we tend to view them literally no money like in straight line, and so here's how you think about priorities, the good work God is first in my life good. I love you got okay my wife is second choice.

Okay hello you got got Teresa got you got them down. Okay, what was it was missing the family family kids.

Kids get God.

Teresa kids is good. Google can what comes up that ministering on Vincent. What's at work. Work is that your first ministry.

That's where he spent 67% of time. Okay. And then it would be like what is second Treece is sick but streets I would love to help you know your vomiting on the couch but God is more important. So I have my quiet time. See you later honey or you have a crisis at work.

The plan blows up. Yeah I'll be there in a couple days. I'm getting refreshed with my wife yes were Malley. Have a great time yet what you understands it's God they don't work that way likes very confusing. It's very demanding. You're pulled in different ways and so I put a picture. This is this is kind of a picture that's really really help me with priorities.

If it's a fountain.

Okay, it's a multitiered fountain and here's what I want you to limit let me read one verse and jot this passage because it's really powerful. Jesus is speaking to the woman at the well and I'm in John 40 revokes both 13 for contacts and 14 and he says to the woman at the well. Everyone drinks the water. This water will be thirsty again but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst again.

Indeed, the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life welling up to eternal life. You might jot down Proverbs 423 Solomon would say the same thing.

Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the issues of life and so what I want you to see is I want you to imagine you that top wrong words were what has God, I would like you to imagine there's little slits and loop movies and some of you will get this this otherness and as a kid. Does anybody remember what it before icemakers. What an ice cube tray was. This is a great group. Those of you like under some major thinking ice cube tray never heard of that but to give a lesson in sociology.

You know, people take these plastic little praise and I had all these little square boxes and you would still but then you would. It was real hard and usually spilled him, especially when you try to get refrigerator so some brilliant person made little plastic trays and they put a little V between all the little boxes so you could put it under the water and when this one got filled it would fill this in this one and this one and this one and it wouldn't spell and then you put it in and it was great.

I want you to imagine a fountain and each one of these God your mate, your family, your work, your ministry is a want you to imagine they have those little slits and here's how priorities actually work living in you is the spirit of God in John six he would say the word that I speak to you is Spirit and it is truth and dwelling in you is the same power that raised Christ from the dead and what our priorities are really all about is what do you need in your relationship with Jesus and the father and the spirit so that your full of him so that there is connection and abiding so can overflow into your relationship with your mate and he'll show you what's it look like how much time it's different for every couple me. My poor wife. She married the super high need guy matching couples that you they have a couple good talks week and they're both doing great. Poor Teresa, honey I come home I have 15 minutes today what's going on with my day.

How you doing what's going on like one date a week like to three times a year. I want to get away from everybody. I'm like really high need, but that's that's to be filled out for our kids.

I mean, even all those young years we eat. Tell the kids I love you scram investments in tumbleweeds that have coffee at the table or take a little walk but just listened. What do you need is it 15 minutes in the morning and packs and presence of God is an hour in the morning is about.

I don't know what you need, but I know it's the word it's prayer, it's the community of believers in its application and you walk and abide with Christ and then the overflow that is you treat your mate empowered by the Holy Spirit and then that overflows your kids and that overflows to a high capacity, nurtured, loved husband or wife who walked to the door he goes to work and then your work is done in the power of the spirit, with the support of those relationships. People wish they had a boss like you are an employee like you because of who shows up in your work is a test one and then your ministry in the local church or team expansion. Did you see the difference. And so it's a fluid thing and it's the spirit of God leading and showing you in this situation on this thing out. You develop certain structures were to talk about coming there certain things I need to do with my time on a regular basis. Certain things I need to do develop that with my wife with my God with my kids in my work and will talk about those but don't think of them is just mineral.

It never works that way. Just a linear 1234 think about is what do you need in every relationship so that the spirit of God can allow love that you possess in your relationship with Jesus to come out of you into that relationship and so you, especially if you're married with your wife or husband live in such a way that that flows into the life of your kids and you know what if it's not happening here.

Don't export what people do is that they get the flow in the relationship of God and maybe often not with their mate and an innocent you get a lot more strokes at work in the take all that energy and take it to work or what a lot of women tend to do is they may have with God, and pretty soon there's all these needs and the such fulfillment mommy. I love you and I need you and you help my me to did this and help with my homework in this wonderful person and that nurturing and pretty soon her second priority becomes the kids so he goes to work. She loves the kids in the reconnect after 25 years of marriage, and that's why other than the first five years of marriage. The most dangerous zone of divorce is about 20 to 25, 25 to 7.7 years depending on when your kids leave the nest priorities are about walking in the spirit and you can see a clear structure, but you don't necessarily do them.

1234 Dwight Eisenhower made an interesting comment as president. He said the urgent is rarely important and the important is rarely the things that matter most the things that will just take you down the road and help you become the person you long to be there is no gun to your head that says develop a deep intimate relationship with God study his word when there's 15 emails are hundred 50 emails to answer will how do you get a hold of how to get a grip on.

We looked at six ways that say you know what these are indicators. These are like six lights on the dashboard of your of your of your life telling you what's going on in your soul and you know it. If you get two or three of those flashing God saying hey timeout, by the way, something I want you to hear.

It will require. This is not one of those issues that you say all I heard from God I'm gonna start tomorrow and everything be fine. You didn't get your priorities where they are, that affects so many relationships like overnight. They don't change overnight someone is said significant lasting change never occurs without serious prolonged thinking. The issue is not tweaking something I mean on the I'm not an expert but I can just tell you this is a smart group of people.

If tweaking your priorities work, they would already be fixed because your smart people. I'm telling you, for many of you what you have to realize is what is my purpose. Why am I here what season am I in it is not tweaking it saying I've got all these things on my plate that doesn't belong to my plate. That's not God's will. That's expectations that doesn't belong on my plate that was for the last season but not this doesn't belong my foot wake.

This does not make room, but that's really good have always done it. I love it and people can be so many lordship okay Lord. This does take time to think, to ponder priorities in balancing your life really have to do with getting really clear on who you are what God wants you to do and then getting a sense of holy urgency and realizing life is passing and you're going to die and I'm gonna die in this unconscious human thought that we had the you know I'm gonna can work on that next week. And so we spend our life responding to details and data and feeling good about. I answered 7550 emails. I returned all the calls I did my list isn't the right last are you doing the right thing.

You gotta stop. That's why coaches I mean they just call timeout the momentum going is why they scored three times in a row. Hey what were doing, but is not the right thing and some of us we have we have those misplaced priorities and some of you have four or five of the symptoms and instead of stopping and saying well I got a really, really anyway we go faster, multitask more this application just to be listening to the first part of his message of peace and power of a prioritized life series Ellingson life's demand.

Do you long to get out from under the pressure to do more, have more and achieve more in this five part series 2 provides practical biblical steps to help you move your life from chaos to contentment will discover what it means to prioritize your hopes around God's hopes for your life and how to not only put first things first, but keep them there. You're not going to want to miss a single part of this series for limited time the resources for balancing life's demands are discounted and the MP3s are always free. For more details go to LivingontheEdge.org or call us at AAA 333-6003 that's AAA 333-6003, or LivingontheEdge.org app listeners Special offers which of thanks for bringing us this series at such an appropriate time a new year is when a lot of people reevaluate their priorities and how they spend their time what you hope people will get from these messages.

Why is it so hard to balance the demands of life will I think it's it's always been hard and we live in a world that a great majority of people are overwhelmed, overcommitted and exhausted and and I think this is a time where we all kind of traditionalist say okay we really want this year to be different and we start out with a few things, but we don't have a system we don't think through the deeper issues because you know I'm gonna go to the gym. I'm going to lose weight, you have family dinners were going to do only one sport for each kid you know you come up with all of this and you find yourself near the end of January, at best or the middle of February and all those good resolutions are out the window unless you identify where your at Dave and less you begin to think about.

Who do I want to become. And what's a strategy and a plan that aligns with our calendar and our schedules but it really got a get a hold of some key things like your time, your energy, your money and rethink those first so that what gets played out in terms of our family, our calendars and our work just doesn't multiply the way it is. I mean I am guilty of trying to accomplish more in a week more in a day more in a year. Then I can as people listened to this message. I think they heard a number of symptoms though think, oh my, how could anyone ever know about these things. Well, it's because I've lived them and what I long for people to do is be able to break out of the cycle.

I still struggle, but I've really broken out of it in major ways, and I have to recalibrate. Sometimes it's every you know, six or eight months. Sometimes it's a big recalibration like I did just about to three months ago where I just said I have to rethink my whole calendar and my whole focus for the next year and so we want to give people God's word on how to do that.

Thanks for that ship well.

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Now here's chip with his final application. You know the older I get, I realize that life is lived in seasons.

You know there's different seasons and and there's different priorities in different seasons whether your, like young and the student is a set of priorities and you know like changes for many to get married, have kids, empty-nesters grandparents. Some of your grandparents raising kids again physical limitations job and career changes every season of life demands that we stop begin to ask ourselves Lord, what season am I in and are the priorities that I have right now the priorities that you want me to have were going to go on a journey about bouncing likes demands and let's face it, most of us in the least. Everybody I know we try to take on too much were really busy. We feel overwhelmed. This series is about helping you balance and align your life but I just want to warn you.

It takes courage to evaluate what I might let go of, because it almost always means that someone gets a little bit disappointed. Here's the good news. Your life is given to you by God he's got a set of priorities you want you to richly enjoy it and when you are doing what he want you to do. It's not just good for you it's best for everyone around you. Hope you'll stay with this for this entire series. I think it's can be a great time together just before we close. I want to thank those of you who financially support the ministry of Living on the Edge. Amazing things are happening in your part of it. If you want to get in on what the Lord is doing through Living on the Edge.

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