Balancing Life's Demands - The Peace And Power Of A Prioritized Life, Part 2

I don't know about you, but as the world seems to be going crazy. There are two things I mean things I desperately won, and I desperately need number one I want and need God's peace peace of God that everything's going to be okay.

And number two I need God's power. I don't know how I'm going make it through some of the things I'm facing.

And I know a lot of people have exactly that same feeling you need God's peace and God's power to talk about how to get you for joining us for this Edition of Living on the Edge with shipping drip survival teacher for this international discipleship ministry focused on helping Christian Christians in this program to picks up where he left off last time series balancing life's demands by giving us two tools to help us get our lives organized around what matters most. If you're looking for is more practical guidance. Stick around after this message for some additional thoughts from the Bible heavy turnout of Matthew chapter 6 for part two of chips message peace and power of a prioritized life limited to tools there's two things we have to do to get a hold of our priorities to weights.

They hold the key to enjoying the peace and power of a prioritized life and by the way, I think that's when your priorities in line those of the two big characteristics, personal peace, and experience that's power. Number one in order to get a hold of your priorities. You must start with your time. Key I am a give you an old and New Testament passage first. The only song that Moses wrote toward the end he says the length of days is 70 years or 80, if we have the strength yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass and we fly away.

Who knows the power of your anger for your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you application teach us to number our days are right that we may gain a heart of wisdom. If we were doing some quick Bible study verse 10 he says basically life's brevity. It's going to be short verse 11.

There's coming judgment to give an account for what you do in his life. Verse 12 therefore pray God gives me wisdom.

Show me how to live this life.

I mean this is written by Moses who did.

Maybe I'm not sure how it all worked out. They probably did about a million or million have funerals at sobering yellow perspective on what matters right not honor when the last time I did a lot of funerals I've never done one to date that I didn't just get a gut check about my own mortality.

I have a friend I was doing little mentoring with them. He's a very zealous guy and his boss couldn't do some things we got this project in his project was to interview people that were 100 years old or older and so I saw I'm later in an icicle how to go this is really amazing. They all had one thing, here's they said universally to things number 1 We Were We Way over emphasize our accomplishments and all the things that we thought were such big accomplishments you know after for five or six decades. Realizing what such a big deal and we underestimated the value of our families in relation what we I mean you're talking now former workaholic driven, focused, disciplined why because I get it impact you make a difference.

I got approved to me probably maybe to God or to someone that I am worthwhile that I'm significant and you like me in my life matters him to make a difference.

And God wants us to make a different, but he wants us to make a difference.

According to his calling.

He wants us to use our time wisely. He wants us to discern and to number our days, and you know Moses is a guy to that for Russia at about 40, with a lot of zeal said you know what I think I know God will be with me deliver and Moses in his great strength and his flesh killed one Egyptian and didn't have the wherewithal to even bury him well really. And so he went on.

You know sometimes we think will likes passing by never comes what God wants me to 40 years of training about learning how to trust God and discover who he was and then out of trust God says Moses watch this. I can bury them all, the entire army and no one comes up afterwards.

And a lot of us have to discover are you live your life and seek to do it. By the way, with people like us is not like it's not like were usually out doing all these bad things. It's all these good things that are killing you that you're doing good things for the wrong reasons that are God's unique calling for you and so your multitasking or overloading your overextended near all all those meals and those cars are going to all this practices and doing all that stuff and attending stuff. You don't even like that you just feel you ought should chewed on chewed expectation. Visible words come from I don't know. It is to do it and and you crashing your tiredness and put on the TV you know the BBB BBB. My wife watch me watch TV. One time she goes. You make me dizzy. I said I sent you know this is this is before they had letters behind your names and talk about what you're like I said you know honey what I realizes when I get tired when I lose focus and when I don't want to think I it. When a commercial comes on board. So what part of this part of this part of this part of this you what it drains me. One of the disciplines I'm going into right now is realizing one I have to limit even really good media and I have to realize quit trying. I'm trying to control everything. Part of quarter one of this part of one of this part of Novocain in my brain. I can watch my wonder how that was coming over here. Another reason you're laughing is there's other people that are his wife tells me this is true in this realm. He says our time notice with the apostle Paul would say is is, therefore, he's talked about who we are in Christ is talk about being different from the world. Verse 15 Ephesians 5 therefore be careful how you walk, it's that metaphor for the way you deliver your whole life negatively not as unwise men but as wise, you get that idea. Wisdom discerning God's will and doing it God's way, making the most of your time circle were time in your notes. Why, because the days are evil he thought was evil then we think about now. So then do not be foolish when you have misplaced priorities and you're spending your life instead of investing it.

It's foolish. Don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is an outward time in the New Testament is a couple different words for one is we get our word chronology chronological time like 10 minutes 15 minutes 11 minutes the others a different word Kai Ross and has the idea of a window of opportunity. It's like during this window of opportunity. You know what, there's a window of opportunity when your kids are of between about two and six or seven of unique spirituality of training. I kinda text my boys ill have little kids and I just, you know. Just try not to be too pushy but it's like hey guys I just want to know, whatever you do. Keep reading his Bible stories at night can tuck your kids and let your wife have all the fun.

Tell them stories about you, I mean. And then there's a window of time in preteens and teens. There's a window of time in early adulthood. There's a window in time in your life and you're in it there certain things that happen in this season, some that are in the twentysomething 30 some of the 4757 6770s beyond but there's a window there's a window for activity.

There's a window for mentoring. There's a window for risk.

There's a window of time by up the opportunity and what we tend to do is have some success in the last window and hang onto it and God is always asking us to risk. Trust me. So you gotta get your time under control.

I spoke on a title called good to great in God's eyes, and we were talking about the group of people that had been kinda successful in their endeavors, and I was encouraging them that the temptation when you have done some things that come out pretty well is to rest on your laurels instead of look you know that your best days are out in your windshield city review mirror we find yourself always talk about what you did what you did what you did what you did in a pinch yourself and it now faith is always futuristic what you trust in God for what you hear, what can you do today so that and you know, so I am us. I didn't mean it to be all that challenging. It was really fun. They were really warm enough. I love this couple came up and said no man that God really spoke to me will great you know we talked a little bit 510 minutes in and then the guy just looking at how to we meet Sybil how he said. I mean you own my own business she's doing this we got we got so much stuff so many people so many commitments only committee some stuff, you know, I mean there there just kind of pillar people and other on this committee. To do this in the church doing this in the eye. Sitting at hear from God. What I don't have time hear from God to did you hear yourself. I'm gonna give you a very brief and this may be elementary. The greatest single gift God gave me is early Christian was a bricklayer with a high school education.

More than anything I learned in seminary more than any travel I've had in a book that I've ever read any mentor I've ever known.

The single greatest gift God has ever given me was a bricklayer who came on Tuesday morning after I was a Christian for three months. I did not usually want to meet with him early on, and he knocked on my door and he taught me how to have what he called a quiet time, some kind of weird to me but nobody else was up at seven of my dorms. I guess it was quite an and I I struggled and I couldn't get up and I finally my roommate to set an alarm in you. Finally I got to where I could get up in the morning on unlike many people, I like breakfast and so I just made a rule not not legalistic. Leave it just because I wanted to, but I was so undisciplined I just said no Bible, no breakfast and I developed the habit of someone like 1015 minutes early and then like after years of Axel's fun God was speaking to me and all of a sudden I thought he knows everything I could ask about that test at 1 o'clock and I could ask about you know you know this relationship that once want to go check in with him on Madden and Friesen. I started talking to women and no one told me that I went and got in at the bookstore like one of those rules simple like spiral notebook things like $0.89 and I started just writing stuff down in a like and I'm not.

I'd never read the Bible for hey God this is Chip.

What you think about and I would write these things down and would you help me with this. And then I would go back and read. I started checking them off started doing that about 30 years ago and and and not and it was hard at first and then probably 15, maybe 18 years ago or so. I dismember saying God I don't know how much time we need. I just love being with you what it was it was diligence. Diligence duty duty to meet with you and I don't feel like I meet you when I do.

And sometimes it's really good, and sometimes okay but got an a member just going to bed little early. You wake me up and he woke up pretty early.

I got it made a pot of coffee and I found the corner and I just said thank you.

What what what what would make you happy day, witnessing the thank you, yet some for me, click tell you people is it just clears the chunk light it just all those pressures all those demands. All that dysfunction. All that expectation all that list of got to most of my got twos literally in my journal you not just thinking, and sometimes I can't pray because of all the things to do and how to start write them up and up a little box and so instead I got to do God will you please help me with the following this date and show me how to… And I was the 11 things that come with the come to my mind and boom boom boom boom that I take those my given the God that I pray and then instead of the two dues God will bring to my mind.

Some of the two bees has Teresa being in this area. What about that guy that you met on that trip house he being what you WANT TO SAY, IF YOU WILL GIVE THE FIRST PORTION OF YOUR TIME TO GOD HE WILL CLEAR AWAY AND SHOW YOU WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO, WHERE TO GO AND WHERE NOT TO GO, WHAT TO SAY YES TO AND WHAT TO SAY NO TO AND GIVE ME THE COURAGE TO SAY NO TO IT AND SO II PUT IN HERE ACTUALLY A LITTLE SIMPLE SIMPLE WAY. I DON'T BELIEVE YOU NEED TO MEET WITH GOD IN THE MORNING. FIRST, I KNOW SOME OF YOU ARE NIGHT OWLS AND YOU JUST REALLY TURN IT ON AT MIDNIGHT WHEN I'M IN BED FOR A WHILE SO I DON'T MEAN THIS LEGALISTIC WAY, BUT I WILL SAY IF YOU HAVE A HARD TIME IN YOUR REALLY INCONSISTENT. MY THEORY WAS DO WHAT MATTERS MOST. FIRST, DO WHAT MATTERS MOST FOR NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN THE DAY IF I MEET WITH THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE. I'VE HAD A PRETTY GOOD DAY IT HIT MY CAR LATER. OKAY YOU KNOW WHY GOOD DAY TO ME WHEN I STOP WHEN I PRAY WHEN I DISCIPLINE MYSELF AND SAY, GOD, I'M GOING TO BE HERE AND I WANT TO BE WITH YOU FIRST. WHAT I'M SAYING IS HUMBLE. I CAN'T DO IT. I CAN'T MAKE THE DECISIONS CHECKING MY EMAIL CHECKING THE STOCK MARKET MAKING SURE THIS IS DONE MAKING SURE THAT IS DONE WHEN A SECOND.

WHAT ABOUT CONTROL THE WORLD ALL THAT STUFF WILL BE THERE AN HOUR LATER 1/2 HOUR LATER CEASE STRIVING LITERALLY MY TRANSLATION THAT ONE IS NOT GET OFF MINUTES, THAT'S THE CHIP HEBREW NOT GET OFF QUICK, TRYING TO MAKE SO MUCH HAPPENING AND ORCHESTRATE EVERYTHING AND NO TIME GOD, I'M IN CONTROL AND BY THE WAY, AND THAT I LOVE YOU I'M GOOD AND I'M FOR YOU AND I MISS YOU AND SO THERE'S A LOTTA WAYS TO STUDY THE BIBLE FOR ONE OF THE EARLY WAYS THAT GET YOU IN THE TEXT BECAUSE MY FEAR IN OUR DAY IS WE HAVE EVERYBODY EATING PREDIGESTED SORT OF GERBER'S SPIRITUAL FOOD. THAT MEANS SOMEONE ELSE STUDIED REAL HARD AND YOU READ WHAT THEY SAY THERE'S LITTLE VERSE OF THE ENDING IS A PRAISE LORD. AMEN. AND YOU WHAT IT'S LIKE IN ITS AND NOTHING IS BAD. IT'S A GREAT APPETIZER. STRENGTH AND CONVICTIONS AND POWER WERE ENCOURAGED TO DO THE WILL OF GOD IS WHEN YOUR NOSE GETS IN THE WORD FOR YOURSELF IN THE SPIRIT OF GOD TAKES OFF THAT PAGE INTO SOMETHING IN YOUR HEART AND GIVE YOU A STRENGTH. YES, THUS SAYS THE LORD.

FOR ME NOT. HE SAID IT THROUGH SOME OTHER PERSON AND GOD BLESS ALL THE GREAT TEACHERS AND ALL GREAT WAYS. I LOVE THEM ALL. BUT THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE.

SO THIS LITTLE TWO PRO APT YOU KNOW II KIND OF PUT HERE.

IF YOU'RE IF YOU'RE NEWER CHRISTIAN I ENCOURAGE YOU START THE BOOK OF MARK, AND IF YOU'RE AN OLDER CHRISTIAN, JUST AS A CIVIL APPLICATION ORIENTED JAMES SO HERE. READY, I JUST GO THROUGH QUICKLY. YOU START AND YOU PRAY, DEAR GOD, YOU SPEAK TO ME TODAY AND THEN I DON'T WANT YOU TO READ A WHOLE LOT MAYBE A COUPLE PARAGRAPHS OF THE MOST AND THEN YOU READ IT SLOWLY AND PREFERABLY OUT LOUD. IT'S AMAZING WHAT HAPPENS A SECOND TIME AND THEN THE NEXT DAY.

O IS FOR OBSERVATION. YOU READ IT 1/3 TIME SO YOU DON'T TAKE SO MUCH YOU SLOW IT DOWN AND YOU DIG INTO IT AND THIS TIME IF THERE'S A WORD THAT'S REPEATED YOU UNDERLINED IT OR SOMETHING STICKS OUT.

HE MIGHT CIRCLE IT AND SO YOU PREVIEWED IT AND YOU READ IT SLOWLY OUT LOUD AND THEN YOU READ IT REAL SLOWLY MAKING'S OBSERVATIONS AND THEN THE AREAS FOR APPLICATION AND IS ONLY COUPLE PARAGRAPHS. WE SAY GOD SPEAK TO ME AND JUST THINK WITH A SEAT. THIS IS A LETTER OF ENCOURAGEMENT, NOT LETTING NOTHING REALLY STRUCK OUT BUT IT WAS ENCOURAGING THIS GUY HOLD DO I KNOW ANYBODY NEEDS ENCOURAGEMENT BEFORE I GO TO WHAT I'M TO JOT A NOTE TO BOB.

HAVEN'T SEEN HIM IN AND DO SOMETHING SPIRITUAL GROWTH IS NOT ABOUT GETTING MORE BIBLE KNOWLEDGE IN YOUR HEAD. IT'S ABOUT RESPONDING TO THE TRUTH AND THE LIGHT THAT HE GIVES YOU, THEN THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID AT THE PARABLE THE SEED IN THE SEWERS. HERE'S HERE'S HOW LIFE WORKS YOU RESPOND TO THE TRUTH GOD GIVES YOU GIVES YOU MORE TRUTH YOU DON'T RESPOND TO THE TRUTH OF LIGHT BECAUSE YOU NEED WHAT YOU HAVE WE TAKEN AWAY.

WE CUT A GENERATION OF PEOPLE AND KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT GOD BUT DON'T HAVE A EPIC ENDOSCOPE A INTENSIVE PERSONAL RELATIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF HIM BECAUSE THAT DOESN'T COME THROUGH THE HEAD THAT COMES TO APPLICATION THE HEART AT THE END OF THE DATE YOU WANT TO HEAR GOD YOU WILL HEAR HIS VOICE WHAT YOU WANT TO SAVE YOU FROM THE WORD AND THEN THE KEY IS YOU TELL SOMEBODY BECAUSE IS JUST SOMETHING AND I MEAN YOU HAVE TO GO EVERYBODY ON SHOW.

I SPENT 15 IS GOD'S WORD TO THE TWO PRO A METHOD OF ABOUT NOW. I WANT TO KNOW THERE'S DON'T TELL YOU ANOTHER JUST RUN YOU OFF THE JOB. BUT YOU KIND OF IN A CASUAL WAY TO PEOPLE THAT YOU KNOW IT MIGHT BE ANOTHER.

SOME GUYS GUY LIVES IN TEXAS IS A GOOD BUDDY COUPLE TIMES A WEEK WILL DISSIPATE WHAT YOU READ WORDS THAT SPEAK TO HIM. SHARON OSHER OR HOW YOU KNOW, OFTEN IN THE CAR SAY HONEY WHAT WORD YOU READ THIS MORNING.

SHE'LL TELL ME AND I'LL TELL HER AND IS NOT LIKE I'M CHECKING UP ON HER. YOU CAN SHE WAY FARTHER DOWN THE ROAD. TO ME, BUT IT'S JUST I WANT, WHEN YOU TELL IT CONCEALS SO THAT'S A LITTLE METHOD.

IT'S BEEN VERY HELPFUL FOR ME SO TOOL NUMBER ONE AND THIS IS JUST GET YOU STARTED TOOL NUMBER ONE. IF YOU GET A HOLD OF YOUR TIME. I BELIEVE YOU GOTTA START BY SAYING GOD I GET ALL THESE POOLS ALL THESE DEMANDS I'M GONNA GIVE THE FIRST BLOCK FOR THE BEST BLOCK OF MY TIME.

WHENEVER THAT IS. FOR ME, AS MORNING TO YOU AND I'M TO ASK YOU TO START SORTING OUT MY LIFE AND I WILL TELL YOU IT'LL BE DRAMATIC. SECOND TOOL THAT WILL HELP YOU GET A HOLD OF YOUR PRIORITIES IS YOUR MONEY JESUS SPOKE MORE ABOUT MONEY THAN HEAVEN AND HELL COMBINE AND I THINK HE COULD ACTUALLY CARE LESS ABOUT YOUR MONEY HE NEEDS NONE OF IT BUT YOUR MONEY REFLECTS YOUR VALUES, YOUR MONEY REFLECTS YOUR HEART WHEREVER YOUR MONEY GOES. IMAGINE JUST EVERY EVERY EVERY TIME HE PUT THAT CREDIT CARD DOWN EVERY TIME YOU WRITE A CHECK EVERY TIME YOU SPEND MONEY EVERY TIME YOU INVEST MONEY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS HERE'S YOUR HEART, THERE'S LITTLE CHAIN CONNECTED TO IT WHEREVER YOUR MONEY GOES YOUR TREASURE FOR YOUR HEART DOES YOUR HEART ALWAYS FOLLOWS THE MONEY. AND THAT'S WHY IF YOU WANT IT. SOMETIMES WHAT I WANT TO GOTTA CHANGE MY HEART ACTUALLY HAD LIKE A PROBLEM WITH SOMEONE YOU KNOW, DID SOME BAD CANADIAN LIKE HIM VERY WELL IN HEAVEN WILL FORGIVE THEM INVOLVED IN MINISTRY. START GIVING OVER THE MONEY AND WHAT I TELL WHAT YOUR HEART ALWAYS HAS TO SULLY YOUR MONEY AND SO WHAT HE WANTS AS HE ONCE YOUR HEART. HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR WEALTH, WITH THE FIRSTFRUITS OF ALL YOUR CROPS THEN NOTICE THIS IS AN UP PROHIBITIVE THEN YOUR BARNS WILL BE FILLED WITH OVERFLOWING IN YOUR BACK TO BRIM OVER WITH NEW WINE.

PROVERBS 3, NINE, 10 MEET YOU ALL KNOW, PROBABLY MANY, MANY VERSES ABOUT YOU AND BY THE WAY, THE GIVING IS NOT ABOUT JUST GIVING GOD OWNS IT ALL CORRECT, THE EARTH AND ALL THERE IS THE LORD SO HE EVALUATES THAT THE 10 OR 15 OR 20 OR 80% THAT I GIVE AWAY WHERE YOU'RE AT IN YOUR LIFE AND ALL THAT I KEEP I'M A STEWARD OF IT. IT'S NOT JUST THE MANAGER. YOUR MONEY WILL TELL YOU I WILL TELL YOU THIS, IF WE DIDN'T KNOW EACH OTHER AT ALL. YOU GIVE ME YOUR PDA FOR A HALF-HOUR OR YOUR CALENDAR YOU CANCELED CHECKS. HOWEVER, YOU WORK YOU LET ME SEE YOUR TIME AND SEE YOUR MONEY AND I WILL GIVE YOU DIAGNOSIS OF WHERE YOU'RE AT IN YOUR LIFE THAT IF YOU WERE HONEST YOU SAY ALL MY LANDS THAT IS SO TRUE AND AND THAT'S WHY WE'LL RINSE TALKING LATER ABOUT THE NEED TO HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WHERE PEOPLE IT'S AMAZING TO ME WERE PEOPLE CAN REALLY TALK ABOUT THIS WITH ONE ANOTHER. WE HAVE DONE A COUPLE THESE BIG MEN MOVEMENT THINGS YOU KNOW NOW WORK WERE SECURE MEN OR TALK ABOUT A CONVOY LIKE NEVER BEFORE. EVERY ROOM HELLO SARAH THOUGHT YOUR SEX LIFE KNOW I BROUGHT GUYS WILL TALK ABOUT SEX STRUGGLES ALL KIND OF THINGS NOW YOU LOOKING TO GUIDE SAY EXCUSE ME, BUT FRIENDS ARE, WHAT PERCENT OF YOUR OF YOUR INCOME TO GIVE AND WHERE YOU GIVE IT YOU KNOW WHAT NEXT YEAR YOU WILL BE HELPFUL IN OUR BIBLE STUDY.

LET'S DO THIS.

LET'S ALL BRING OUR TAX STATEMENTS IN THE PAST. I'M DEAD SERIOUS. I'M DEAD SERIOUS.

LET'S PASS THEM TO THE LEFT AND LET THE OTHER PERSON GIVE AN EVALUATION OF HOW WHAT YOU TELL ME WHY THAT IS OFF LIMITS IS BECAUSE IT REVEALS THE VERY HEART AND THE VERY VALUES OF WHO WE REALLY ARE ONE OF THE BIGGEST STEPS FOR ME AS A THERE'S A GUY IN CALIFORNIA THAT JUST HE KINDA HAS A PICTURE OF HOW THINGS MIGHT DEVELOP AN SO HE SAYS CHIP IS WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU IS TO SOMEDAY IF THAT HAPPENS IN BOOKS OR TO SELL AND YOU MIGHT GET SOME MONEY.

I SAID OKAY I'M I'M HELPING YOU START THIS RADIO MINISTRY WAS THE FIRST TIME. ONE OF THE GUYS I REALLY BELIEVE IT, BUT HERE'S PART OF THE DEAL. DON'T YOU TELL ME. SO WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR MONEY, AND HE TALKS ME LIKE THIS SO YOU'RE NOT THINKING SOME BIG SHOT IN OUR YOU IN ALL THIS JAZZ RIGHT RIGHT HONEY NOT BELIEVE THAT PRESS OKAY JUST TO CONSIDER SAID SO. SO HOW MUCH YOU MAKE LAST YEAR, I MEAN INCLUDE IF THERE'S A BOOK SALES NOW MEMBER YOU PREDECIDED THE GIVEAWAY UNIT, A BIG CHUNK OF ANYTHING THAT OVERCOMES IT.

ARE YOU STILL DOING THAT. SO HOW MUCH TOTAL.

HOW MUCH KNOW WHERE YOU GIVEN IT. PLEASE DIRECT WITH ME AND YOU NOW HOW SAFE IT IS TO OPEN UP FINANCES TO SOMEONE YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S A GOOD THING. I WANT TO HAVE A GOOD REPORT, BUT THE HEART IS WHAT DECEITFUL AND THAT IS WHERE A LOT OF US YOU HAVE TO GET A HOLD OF YOUR TIME.

YOU HAVE TO GET A HOLD OF YOUR MONEY AND THIS IS NOT A LEGALISTIC. I'M NOW GIVING X PERCENT AND NOW I'M TALKING ABOUT YOUR MONEY AS IT RELATES TO YOUR HEART BE INTERESTING. SOME OF THE YOU HAVE YOUR YOU GET YOUR NICE BLACK AMERICAN EXPRESS OR YOUR PLATINUM EXPRESS YOUR GOLD EXPRESS YOUR LEADER, YOUR MILEAGE OR THE END OF THE YEAR THEY GIVE YOU THAT LIST OF OKAY HERE IS YOUR END-OF-THE-YEAR CREDIT CARD STATEMENT. UNLESS YOU HAVE SWORN THEM OFTEN ARE FREE AND LIBERATED DEBT FREE AND FIGURE OUT OTHER WAYS TO DO IT, WHICH IS A GOOD IDEA TO BUT I'VE NEVER SEEN WHERE THEY HAVE THE CATEGORIES SO MUCH IN FOOD SO MUCH AND TRAVEL SO MUCH AND YOU IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THAT SAID, WHILE CAN YOU EAT THAT MUCH IN ONE YEAR AND I MADE IT OUT IN YOUR SHOP THAT MUCH OF HOW MUCH ALL I'M SAYING IS LET'S GET OFF OF BEING DOWN ON OURSELVES. LET'S TRY JUST GETTING REAL WITH OURSELVES GETTING HONEST WITH GOD.

HE LOVES YOU SO MUCH THAT HE WANTS YOU TO LEARN TO GIVE SO THAT HE CAN GIVE GOOD MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN TOGETHER, RUNNING OVER BACK AT YOUR LAP. HE WANTS YOU TO LEARN TO BUDGET AND SAY THIS IS YOURS IN ORDER TO BE A GOOD STEWARD. HE WANTS YOU NOT TO FIX YOUR HOPE ON THE INSERT YOUR RICHES BUT ARE YOU READY HE WANT YOU TO RICHLY ENJOY EVERY GOOD THING HE GIVES YOU WHAT YOU THINK.

A GREAT VACATION AND HAVE A GREAT STEAK AND HAVE SOME REAL FUN AND HAVE YOUR PRIORITIES IN ORDER SO SIT ON I FEEL GUILTY ABOUT THIS. WHERE YOU ENJOY IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT'S THE BLESSED HAND OF GOD UPON YOUR LIFE AND YOU NOT MAKING EXCUSES. I'M JUST SO TIRED OF SOMEONE SENT A WHAT YOU LIKE. I GOT ON SALE OR YOU DON'T ALWAYS GOT THE SWIMMING POOL THAT'S GOING TO IS FOR BAPTISMS BACK TO THE HOUSE IN THE MOUNTAINS. OUR PASTOR, OUR PASTORS REALLY TIRED THE HOUSE AND THE MOMENT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU IT'S A GOOD REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT ALIKE TO GET AWAY AND GOD BLESSED ME, BUT I'M GIVEN A TON OF MONEY AWAY AND I LOVE THE MOUNTAINS MY FAMILIES THERE IT'S REALLY WONDERFUL.

CAN I JUST HAVE A BLAST THERE SO THE PASTORAL STAFF. WE FELT BUT NEED A PLACE TO GET AWAY COUPLE TIMES YOUR BY THE WAY, LET HIM GO THERE THOUGH. OKAY II HAVE BENEFITED GREATLY FROM SOME OF YOU DOING THAT GOD LOVES YOU GUYS YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE SIX AREAS AND BE HONEST I DON'T.

SO HOW DO YOU GET YOUR MONEY UNDER CONTROL FOR STEPS NUMBER ONE. GIVE THE FIRST PORTION OF EACH PAYCHECK TO THE WORK AND FOR SOME OF YOU HAVE A REALLY HARD TALKING TO SOHO MIND. HOW CAN WE DO THIS IS A FAITH STEP GIVE THE FIRST PORTION TO THE LORD SECOND PAY YOUR BILLS NEXT. DON'T TAKE A VACATION. DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY, DON'T GO TO COSCO. DON'T BUY SOMETHING ON SALE. OKAY MONEY COMES IN. HERE'S ALL YOUR BILLS IN ONE SPOT GIVE TO GOD THE FIRST PAY ALL YOUR BILLS NEXT NOVEL IDEA LIVE ON THE REST. YOU DON'T HAVE IT DON'T SPEND.

I MEAN WE CAN WELL AFFORD IT NOW, BUT WE HAVE A BLUE FOLDER. THE TREES AND I WOULD DO THE BILLS TOGETHER BECAUSE WE BOTH DON'T LIKE TO DO IT EVERY TWO WEEKS I GET A PAYCHECK.

WE OPEN A BLUE FOLDER IN ONE POCKET IS ALL THE BILLS HAVE COME IN WITH FULL AMOUNT PUT IN THE MIDDLE WE HAVE A WONDERFUL COUPLE COFFEE.

MAKE IT FUN. I WRITE OUT ALL THE CHECKS SHE PUTS THEM IN THE ENVELOPE AND SHE DOES THE LITTLE LEDGER SO THAT IT'S ACCURATE BECAUSE I SORT OF THOUGHT IS ACCURATE AND AND THEN WE GIVE FIRST WE PAY ALL OF HER BILLS AND WE TALKED HOW MUCH IS LEFT AND THEN I WRITE A CHECK THAT HAS OUR GAS MONEY ARE RECREATION AND TRUTH.

RATHER, THINGS, AND SHE GOES TO THE BANK LATER AND WE PUT THAT MONEY IN AN ENVELOPE THAT SAYS BUDGET AND PUT IT UNDER THE DUCK.

SO IF YOU EVER WANT TO ROB MY HOUSE UNDER THE DUCK I AND AND YOU KNOW WHAT WIT WHEN THERE'S NO MONEY IN THE ENVELOPE DON'T GO OUT TO EAT THAT KIND STILL 40 GOT IT. OF COURSE I CAN STAGE MY LIFE, BUT YOU IN THIS.YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON IN AMERICA IS SPENDING ABOUT 17% MORE THAN THEY BRING IN EVERY MONTH. DO YOU UNDERSTAND LAST YEAR MORE COLLEGE STUDENTS.

I HEARD THIS ON THE RADIO, SO DON'T ASK ME TO QUOTE IT BUT I MEAN IT'S ON THE RIGHT. YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE. IT'S ALMOST AS RIVALS INTERNET COVERAGE FOR SARAH SLAMMING INTO IS ONE OF THOSE DAVE RAMSEY PROGRAMS MORE COLLEGE STUDENTS WENT BANKRUPT AND GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE LAST. SO GIVE TO THE LORD FIRST PAY YOUR BILLS LIVE ON THE REST AND GET OUT OF DEBT. THE VERY BUSIEST DAY OF JESUS LIFE IS RECORDED IN MARK 135 AND HE IS HEALED AND THERE'S DEMANDS AND THERE'S PRESSURES AND YOU THINK YOU GOT A TOUGH LIFE.

HE'S PULLED ON FROM EVERYONE AND IT SAYS A GREAT WHILE BEFORE DAWN. HE WENT OUT AND FOUND A SOLITARY PLACE AND THERE HE PRAYED.

I BELIEVE JESUS IS MODELING FOR US THE DEMANDS TO KEEP YOUR LIFE IN FOCUS, I BELIEVE, I THINK I KNOW WHAT HE PRAYED. I THINK HE PRAYED LORD I'M BEING PULLED IN BUT HE WANTS ME TO DO EVERYTHING ONLY TO THESE TOWNS.

EVERYONE IS SICK AND THAT IS MAN'S AND THEIR POLYNOMIAL TO HEAL IN THE MOMENT.

EVEN THOUGH WE DO EVERYTHING WE YOU PLEASE REMIND ME WHILE I'M HERE. YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW THAT BECAUSE THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS YOU WERE HIT LAST NIGHT THAT WAS AWESOME. ALL THOSE HEALINGS, IT'S GOING CRAZY.

THERE'S A BIG CROWD. I MEAN THEY ARE GETTING. WE ARE BIG TIME AND WERE GLAD TO BE ON YOUR TEAM AND THE BOY SAID TO HIM, I MUST AND IN THE GREEK IT'S A MUST OF DAYS IN THE DIVINE NECESSITY I MUST PREACH THE GOSPEL, AND WE MUST GO TO OTHER VILLAGES FOR THE SON OF MAN LOOK WILL TELL US LATER CAME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH IS LOST. JESUS PRAYED TO REMEMBER WHY AM I HERE WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO. I NEED TO HEAR THE FATHER'S VOICE IN THE MIDST OF ALL THE NOISE THAT'S GOD'S WILL FOR YOU AND WERE ON A JOURNEY AND A PROCESS IS NOT HAPPEN ALL AT ONCE. SIX. SYMPTOMS DUE TO TIME MONEY AND OPEN-HEART PATIENT. THIS MESSAGE USING POWER OF A PRIORITIZED LIFE FROM HIS SERIES BALANCING LIFE'S DEMAND DOES IT FEEL LIKE LIFE IS PULLING YOU IN THOUSAND DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. YOU EXHAUSTED TRYING TO JUGGLE YOUR JOB, KID MARRIAGE AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR. DO YOU WISH THERE WAS A WAY TO RELIEVE THAT STRESS AND TENSION ON YOUR SHOULDERS.

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FIRST OF THOSE WHO GAVE TO CREATE THIS MATCH BILLED THAT EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR UP UNTIL TOMORROW NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT WILL BE DOUBLE DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR AND I JUST WANT TO THANK THOSE OF YOU WHO'VE ALREADY GIVEN IT IS BEEN AMAZING TO SEE HOW GENEROUS YOU HAVE BEEN AND WHAT IS GOING TO ALLOW US TO DO, NOT JUST TO FINISH THIS YEAR OUT, BUT TO DO THE KIND OF THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT ALL YEAR FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE BEEN INTENDING AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF YOU THAT YES I'M GOING TO.

I KNOW YOU GET BUSY, JUST A REMINDER TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY THAT YOUR GIFT WILL BE DOUBLED DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR SO MAKE SURE YOU GET IT IN THE MAIL AND POSTMARK ON DECEMBER 31 OR GO ONLINE AND GIVE BEFORE MIDNIGHT DECEMBER 31 SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT THE GIFT THAT YOU GIVE GETS MATCHED. THANKS SO MUCH IN ADVANCE FOR WHATEVER GOD LEADS YOU TO DO WILL IF YOU BELIEVE GOD IS CALLING YOU TO JOIN THAT FUTURE WITH US, WE'D BE HONORED TO HAVE YOU ON OUR TEAM RIGHT NOW IS A GREAT TIME TO BECOME A FINANCIAL PARTNER BECAUSE EVERY GIFT WE RECEIVED BETWEEN NOW AND MIDNIGHT TOMORROW WILL BE DOUBLED. THANKS TO SOME VERY GENEROUS FRIENDS OF THE MINISTRY TO SEND A GIFT OR TO BECOME A MONTHLY PARTNER.

JUST GIVE US A CALL AT AAA 333-6003 THAT'S AAA 333-6003, OR IF YOU PREFER TO DONATE ONLINE, GO TO LivingontheEdge.org APP LISTENERS JUST Donate FOR ALL OF US HERE. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR SUPPORT WILL NOW HERE'S CHIP WITH A FINAL THOUGHT FROM TODAY'S MESSAGE TODAY. WE TALKED ABOUT TWO SPECIFIC TOOLS TO THINGS THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN IF YOUR PRIORITIES ARE TO GET AN ORDER AND NUMBER ONE YOU HAVE TO GET A HOLD OF YOUR TIME AND NUMBER TWO, YOU HAVE TO GET A HOLD OF YOUR MONEY ON THOSE TWO THINGS CAN FEEL EXTRAORDINARILY OVERWHELMING. AND WHAT I WILL TELL YOU IS HERE'S WHERE TO START. LET'S START WITH YOUR TIME AND I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO MAKE A COMMITMENT WITH ME TODAY. I WRITE A MEAN RIGHT NOW JUST YOU AND ME. I WISH WE WERE SO SHE COULD SIT IN THE ROOM WITH ME.

I LOOK YOU RIGHT IN THE EYE AND I'VE HAD PEOPLE DO THIS WITH ME AND IT CHANGED MY LIFE.

I WILL LOOK YOU DEAD IN THE INI WOULD SAY WE YOU FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS COMMIT TO SET YOUR ALARM 20 MINUTES EARLIER AND MEET WITH GOD FOR 20 MINUTES BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE AND I DON'T GIVE ME ALL THAT STUFF ABOUT YOU KNOW YOU'RE A KNIGHT NOW AND IT'S HARD TO GET IN A WE ALL HAVE OUR ISSUES. I'M ASKING YOU TO START YOUR DAY.

GIVE GOD THE FIRST 20 MINUTES. NOW HERE'S HOW YOU KNOW YOU CAN BE GROGGY AND IF YOU'RE A COFFEE DRINKER, YOU BETTER. YOU KNOW, MAKE IT THE NIGHT BEFORE SO YOU CAN JUST PUSH THE BUTTON, THEN TAKE YOUR LITTLE ALARM CLOCK AND PUT IT ACROSS THE ROOM SO YOU HAVE TO GET UP OUT OF BED BUT I'M TELLING YOU, IF YOU WILL GIVE GOD THE FIRST 20 MINUTES YOU WILL BEGIN TO SEE THINGS HAPPEN NOW.

WE WENT OVER HOW TO DO IT. THE TWO PRO APP THAT I WALK PRETTY BRIEFLY THROUGH HOW EXACTLY HOW TO DO IT.

YOU CAN DO IT IN 20 MINUTES. WERE YOU IN. ARE YOU PRAYING AND YOU DO A PREVIEW OF THE PASSAGE AND THEN YOU READ IT SLOWLY AND THEN YOU READ IT 1/3 TIME WE MAKE OBSERVATIONS AND THEN YOU APPLY SOMETHING SPECIFIC THEN AND THEN YOU PRAY AT THE END AND ASKED FOR GOD'S HELP AND STRENGTH AND THEN YOU TELL SOMEONE TO PRO AT THAT LITTLE ACRONYM THAT WE GAVE YOU NEED TO GO TO Living on the Edge WEBSITE AND THEN GO TO MESSAGE NOTES AND I WANT YOU TO PRINT OUT THE NOTES AND I WANT YOU TO USE THAT TO PRO AT METHOD FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. DO THIS WITH ME WILL YOU AND ANY SINGLE WORD. I BEGIN IF YOUR NEW CHRISTIAN OR A NEWER CHRISTIAN.

I WANT YOU TO START WITH THE BOOK OF MARK, IF YOU'RE AN OLDER CHRISTIAN. I WANT YOU TO START WITH THE BOOK OF JAMES, LET'S START THE YEAR BY MEETING WITH GOD FIRST. IT'LL BE HARD TO BE DIFFICULT IT MAY NOT BE REALLY GREAT. THE FIRST THREE OR FOUR OR FIVE DAYS.

I WILL TELL YOU IF YOU HANG WITH ME ON THIS GOD WILL BEGIN TO ORDER THE REST OF YOUR LIFE AS YOU SAY TO HIM, LORD, I NEED YOU I WANT TO MEET WITH YOU FIRST. WILL YOU DO THAT I'M TO PRAY FOR YOU, LORD, GIVE THEM GRACE GIVE THEM COURAGE GIVE THEM DISCIPLINE TO MEET WITH YOU FIRST. IN JESUS NAME, AMEN. JUST BEFORE WE CLOSE ON THE THANK THOSE OF YOU WHO FAITHFULLY PRAY FOR OUR TEAM AND SUPPORT THE ONGOING MINISTRY OF Living on the Edge.

AMAZING THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN YOUR PART OF THAT. IF YOU WANT TO JOIN THE TEAM. THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME BETWEEN NOW AND TOMORROW NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT. EVERY GIFT YOU GIVE WILL BE MATCHED DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR TO SEND A GIFT. JUST GO TO LivingontheEdge.org OR GIVE US A CALL AT AAA 333-6003 Listeners JUST Don't LET WRAPS UP THIS PROGRAM UNTIL NEXT TIME, SAYING THANKS FOR LISTENING TO this Edition of Living on the Edge