Are you in a battle for time? Do you have more to do than you have time to accomplish? It's time to resume our study of Joshua, which we began prior to the Christmas holidays. Joshua trusted the Lord for a significant miracle that involved time, so let's direct our attention there and see what you can learn to help with your battle for time in the days ahead (you can read Memos 427 and 428 on Joshua here).
A PRAYER OF FAITH
As you learn to have faith for money, business and
ministry to fulfill your purpose, it’s important that you also learn to have faith for time. Like you, Joshua had much
to do as he fulfilled his purpose to pursue and battle Israel’s enemies. The only way he was going to finish was to have faith for
more time. His faith caused him to
pray an unusual prayer:
A TIMELY MIRACLE
This is an unusual story, but it
embodies an important principle where time is concerned: God can help you have the time you need
to finish what you need to finish.
Armed with that knowledge, can you then believe God for the time you
need? This is critical, because
often you put off important things because you don’t believe you have enough time
to fit them in or do them well.
This week, I am determined to have faith for time, to finish all the
critical things that are before me.
I’m not going to fret, but I am going to keep my priorities in order. That means I will pray, read,
write and take time to do some schoolwork for my class in February. Because you believe God can give you
time, you can exercise, study or do the other things that you’ve previously
said you didn’t have time to do.
When you say, “I don’t have enough time,” you are making a
statement of unfaith. The truth
is, you have all the time there is—twenty-four hours a day. But God is still able to take limited resources and make
them adequate, and He can do the same for those twenty-four hours. So why not believe God for a time
miracle this week? And how will
you walk out this miracle? You will express
your faith for time by doing something that is important for you to do, whether
you think you have time to do it or not.
I invite you to join me this week as together we follow Joshua's example to have faith for a
timely miracle. Have a great
week!
Feel free to post your comment to this Memo on the site where it is located.
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Very good, John!
thank you for your novel faith-based approach to creating more time for the things we need to do.
Joe Sarria
Posted by: Joe Sarria | January 11, 2010 at 10:43 AM