Life Wouldn't Be So Hard If You Can Just Control This One Thing

Most people have not been properly taught to find success in life.  What does that mean?  Most people are actually working too hard to get results or reach a richer, fuller, more fulfilled and inspiring life.  The good news is you that by the end of reading this blog you can stop working so hard, and change your life immediately.

Your working to hard because your ax is dull... Spend time sharpening your ax or making yourself more efficient and you will chop down those trees and accomplish your goals easier and quicker!!    

Ecclesiastes 10:10 says: If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.


Before I give you the 4 ways to change your life instantly, let me tell you why you are working so hard in the first place.

Most believers know that God loves them, and they love God with all their heart.  However, too many believers are in complete darkness on how to turn around the things that trouble them.  So, they pray, beg, kick and scream about it to God but with no results.  Actually, that routine of crying and begging and shouting and singing is what most people call a GOOD CHURCH SERVICE NOW A DAYS! 

After living in your bondage, debt or despair for long enough many people even start to think, well God loves me but He won't help me because He is teaching me a lesson.  That is just not true.  God created you and designed you to be in control of life, above in life, FREE in life.  There has just been a missing piece of information to getting control.

Here it is... WISDOM!  Nothing to do with God's love, because He loves you dearly... Nothing to do with your sin, because Jesus' blood washed you clean if your born again and nothing to do with your church attendance... NO, WISDOM IS WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN MISSING TO GET CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE.  See Proverbs 8:15- By Me Kings Reign (the me is wisdom in this verse)

Now, let me be more specific... 

You were made to be a manager of an Expansion program for God.  Meaning, he wants you to have more, do more, and experience more than you are right now.  He designed you to evolve and develop the potential that is in you to come out.  He built you like the seed of a flower.  To start off as a beautiful bloom tucked in a small package until properly cared for and placed in the right environment.  Then to be slowly revealed in stages until the FULL EXPRESSION IS REACHED!!  You were not made to be a SURVIVOR BUT A THRIVOR (if that is a real word)!!

SO HOW DO YOU REACH THAT FULL EXPRESSION... WISE. TIME. MANAGEMENT.

Yesterday we discussed the power of managing your time and considering the value of your time.  Because the Truth IS... YOUR LIFE IS YOUR TIME.  A LIFETIME IS THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU HAVE ON THIS LOCATION (earth).   So, your time must be carefully SPENT.  Your life and your time is what you are spending everyday on something you want to achieve or experience tomorrow.

The most important time you have is not your whole life time, but the current day time your in now.  The 24 hours you get today must be mastered and correctly appropriated in order to get control of your life and live your life on a new level.  DON'T TRY TO MASTER A LIFE TIME... JUST MASTER THE DAYTIME OR THE TIME OF TODAY!

EVERY BODY HAS A GOAL OR IDEAL LIFE IN MIND THAT THEY WANT TO LIVE... no matter if it's to lose weight, start a business, write a book or improve in what you currently are in consider these 4 things and your life can improve starting today.

1. FOR THOSE OF YOU STUCK ON A JOB-- what do you do after work... do you work on your work.  Meaning, after 5pm do you go straight for your sweat pants and the remote or do you intentionally research your business or do one thing that moves you in the direction of your work and off of your job.
2. WHAT DO YOU DO BEFORE YOUR JOB... are you investing the time that is free on freeing your time.  What do you do on your lunch break?  Do you redeem that time to move yourself forward.  Do you read a new book, attend a online conference call, write a paragraph or page in your book... or sleep.  Are you using your free time to free your time?
   
3. DOES YOUR TIME HAVE A DESIGN TO BRING YOU WHAT YOU WANT- Do you have a written schedule for each hour of your day.  You get 24 hours just like the millionaire down the street.  Do you think of each hour as important and necessary to plan the activities in it.  Don't let other people plan your 24, take dominion over your own time or somebody will steal it or kill it for you.
4. DO YOUR ACTIVITIES YOU USE YOUR TIME ON, CONFLICT IN REGARDS TO YOUR GOALS... Example:  Don't spend time in the gym and drive through the fast food resturaunt when you leave.  They are conflicting activities and a HUGE WAST OF TIME IN THE GYM.  NO, Spend time in the gym and then eat a healthy meal right after that.  Spend time reading a book and then a few minutes thinking or writing what you read.  Don't read a good book and call your best friend and forget everything you just read.

DO THIS and GET CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE!

Based on the news today it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to have a good life.  Even more than that people are actually having a hard time just having a good day.  Mastering a life seems like an impossible task up against the storms and set backs we all face in the world.  Trouble is everywhere.  Money trouble, job trouble, family trouble, terrorism and relationships are trouble... Mastering your life is what we all want to do, but how can that be done.

If you don't want to settle for just existing you must finish reading this today!  The key is in this short blog.  You must also share this with someone after you read it.  MY GOAL IS NOT to just attract readers but to attract feeders... Those who will feed and share this on social media and emails to get the word out.

HOW DO YOU GET CONTROL?
In order to master a life, you must forget that you are mastering a life.  You must instead master 1 day first.  You don't get to live one life at a time, you live one day at a time.  A person who sets lifetime goals but fails to put small steps on paper everyday will never accomplish anything.  You must master your life one day at a time.

IF IT ISN'T ON THE CALENDAR
DAILY, IT WILL NEVER BE IN THE FUTURE PERMANENTLY.
You have to take time on a regular basis to make a daily schedule that reflects your priorities and goals.  Jesus told His students to seek 1st the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all the things they were worried about would be added to them.  Proper scheduling means to make a priority list everyday for yourself and manage your time.  When you do that instead of just winging it everyday, the things you desire and need for your life will seemingly just add themselves to you.  Ask yourself, IF SOMEONE LOOKED AT MY SCHEDULE ON PAPER COULD THEY SEE WHERE I HAVE PLANNED MY DOMONANCE IN A CERTAIN AREA OR PLANNED TO REACH MY FUTURE.  If it isn't on the calender every day it will never be in your life later.

YOU WERE CREATED TO BE A MANAGER NOT NEED A MIRACLE
When God made you, he was in need of a manager.  Someone who could see what God was up too, and lead that mission to it's completion.  You were not created to wait on miracles to rescue you out of every mess your in.  Though God is a God who does miraculous things for people, that is not the original design for mankind.  Miracle living is painful, and it is not God's best for your life.  Since you were designed and equipped to manage, then you must SEEK WISDOM BECAUSE IT'S BY WISDOM THAT KINGS RULE AND HAVE CONTROL (Prov 8:15)

GOD TESTS YOU THROUGH MANAGMENT
Often times when you pray, you only get part of what you asked for.  Meaning, if you prayed to prosper God will say OK, and send you to the library to get WISDOM TO PROSPER.  You can't be upset that you didn't hit the lottery or say God didn't answer your prayer.  God gives you what you can manage and then your capacity must GROW to be given more.  Manage reading a book, and you can manage THE BOOKS FOR A PROSPEROUS COMPANY.  In Matt 25-14-30  Jesus tells the story that illustrates how Kings think before they give people huge RESPONSIBILITIES!  Manage little things well and God makes you RULER OR MANAGER OF MUCH!!

You were born to MANAGE GOD'S KINGDOM AND EXPAND IT TO REACH THE WORLD.  SO SEEK AND EQUIP YOURSELF TO BE A DISCIPLINED MANAGER IN EVERY AREA OF YOUR LIFE AND YOU WILL HAVE CONTROL OF THAT AREA OF YOUR LIFE NO MATTER WHAT IT IS.

Blessings in the name of our King Jesus!!

Mike Darnell
Lead Pastor Excel Church
www.ExcelChurchAtlanta.com