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Time
By Jesse Jenkins
Benchley, August 17, 2008
By Jesse Jenkins
Benchley, August 17, 2008
- Psalms 9:1 - God is eternal
- Each has all the time there is.
- 8760 hours per year
- 525,600 minutes per year
- Properly used, we can have time for:
- God
- Family
- Work to provide for our own
- Others
- Leisure
- In the way we use our time, we are laying up treasure somewhere.
- We must redeem the time.
- Time is now, use it for:
- God, family, brethren, others
- Counting your blessings
- Time is now, use it for:
- We waste too much time by letting time slip away.
- What can we do in one minute?
- Pray
- Read five to ten verses
- Call to encourage someone
- Say, “I love you.”
- What can we do in one minute?
- Time is brief and uncertain.
- Mark 1:35 - begin each day with God.
- Live each day with Him.
- Matthew 15:36 - at meal time
- Luke 6:12 - in the evening
- Mark 14:32 - in times of distress
- Matthew 14:23 - in times of peace
- I Peter 3:10-11 - If we would love life and see good days, we must use time wisely.
- Busy people are the only ones who make time to serve.
- Look at what Paul accomplished in less than thirty years.
- Look at what Jesus accomplished in three years.
- The only ones Jesus ever called to serve were busy people.
- Peter and Andrew, James and John
- Matthew
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
- Time properly used will include time for rest.
- Mark 6:31 - Jesus commands rest for the disciples.
- Matthew 14:23 - Even Jesus needed some quiet time alone.