Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
Time Management Mario Denton Module 50 C Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Passage to memorize Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Time scheduling versus time spending
• Read Psalm 90:12 • Ecclesiastes 3: 1-1.There is a time for everything.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Time scheduling versus time spending • The first of time management is recognizing the value of tim e and redeeming it- buying it up carefully as the priceless resource which it represents: Ephesians 5:15-17
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Effective leaders • Effective leaders do not start with their task .. They start with their time. • They manage their time and cut back unproductive time. • They consolidate their discretionary time into the biggest possible continuing time units. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Time Wasters: Three critical questions 1. What would happen if this were not done at all? 2. Which of the activities on you time log could be done by somebody else just as well, if not better? 3. What do I do that wastes my time without contributing to my effectiveness? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Each of us is allotted a finite number of days. • Are we spending those days wondering aimlessly, with no goal, no purpose in sight?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
God’s plan for you • God’s plan for you has been unfolding since the beginning of earthly time. He calls you to seek out his plan for your life and act on it • What steps can you take today to begin the work God has called you to do in your family, personal and professional life? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Don’t worry saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear? ………………... But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness………………. Matthew 6:31-33
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
My priorities are in order: • • • •
First comes my Lord. Second comes my wife. Third comes my kids. Forth comes my ministry. • Fifth comes my job. • Sixth comes my …….
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Time is a major component of life. Through time… • Plants grow • Children mature • Friendships blossom • Wounds heal
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
C ommon Time Wasters • • • •
Procrastination Socializing Unexpected Visitors Telephone interruptions • Unnecessary meetings • Addicted habits • Gossip Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
"The bad news is time flies . The good news is: you're the pilot ." -- Michael Althsuler
You are the pilot
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Prioritizing your life Urgent and Important
Not Urgent but Important
Urgent but Not Urgent Not Important Not Important Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
“Mount Everest,you have defeated me.But I will return. And I will defeat you.Because you can’t get any bigger and I can..”
“..every mountain and hill shall be made low..” Isaiah 40:4
Sir Edmund Hillary Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
The peace in my life today is the result of finding a balance between: • Being and doing… • Family and ministry… • Playing and working…. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Diversity of Goals: They range from very personal to very social: • Personal goals • Family goals • Spiritual goals • Business goals • Social goals Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
A soccer match without goalposts !
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
• Lord, give me the guidance to know when to hold on and when to let go and the grace to make the right decision with dignity. R.H. Schuller
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
• God created each of us for a specific purpose. • Our ultimate GOAL in life should be to fulfill that purpose for which we were created. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Your goals are…
What God wants you to do. “May He give you the desire of your heart & make all your Ps 20:4
plans succeed”. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
“ For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord. I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope”. Jeremiah 29:11
Make God’s goals your own. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Traffic Light Technique 1.What should I stop doing ? 2.What do I need to consider continuing Or perhaps stopping ?
3.What did I do well ? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Starting Questions 1. Do I complete the projects I begin? 2. Do I have some bad habits I can’t seem to break? 3. Do I have the same daydreams over and over about my successes in a given area? 4. Do I usually talk and think about my goals in a positive way? 5. Do I know where I’m going in my life? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Further Questions • One goal I really want to reach in the ministry is… • I would like to be the kind of person who… • A place I would like to visit is… • My life would be better if… • If I had the time I would… • If I could start over I would Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
In Christ alone IN CHRIST ALONE I PLACE MY TRUST TO FIND MY GLORY IN THE POWER OF THE CROSS IN EVERY VICTORY LET IT BE SAID OF ME MY SOURCE OF STRENGTH MY SOURCE OF HOPE IS CHRIST ALONE Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25
• “Do not m erely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the m irror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV)
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
Learning, application and commitment • One of the Biblical truths (principles) that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this truth (principle) in my business/Ministry by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. I ask and expect my group to hold me accountable for this and to check with me periodically to determine if I am doing so. Please ask me ….. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Time management