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Keeping Your Balance. Walking Uprightly. Keeping your Balance. A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. Proverbs 11:1. Walking across the Grand Canyon. What can get you Off Balance ?. Priorities out of Balance. What happens?. Proper Priorities.
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Keeping Your Balance Walking Uprightly
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: • but a just weight is his delight. • Proverbs 11:1
Priorities out of Balance What happens?
Proper Priorities • A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work. • Proverbs 16:11
False Balance • Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; • And a false balance is not good. • Proverbs 20:23
Horse and Cart • The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Example – Man or Woman of God • Elders … If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. • For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; • Titus 1:5-7
What is our Life made of? • And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses. • Luke 12:15
What then? • The invisible things of : • Love of God • Love of others • Love of self – Self-Esteem (Purpose) • Stewardship – Talents, Gifts, Possessions
Put First Things First • The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Key – Proper Balance • You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, unapologetically, to say “no” to other things.
Change the direction of Your life. • The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, • but to schedule your priorities.
Urgent vs. important • Too much time on what is urgent • And • Not enough time on what is important.
Keep the Main thing the Main Thing • And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”
I am not a product of my circumstances. • I am a product of my decisions.
Choose Life !!! • I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life • Deuteronomy 30:19