"I DO" BUT I CAN'T - (31 Day Challenge)

DAY NINETEEN

GIFTED WITH TIME

Everyday you will add a new principle from the previous day.

I BELIEVE, IF YOU COULD TAKE ONE MESSAGE FROM THIS WHOLE BOOK, IT WILL BE - THIS TOPIC . THIS IS MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE AND THE CORE TO HOW I LIVE MY LIFE.

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When was the last time you woke up with the urge to - NOT waste time?

Like, you woke up with this urge to rush out of bed and use every second of the day you had been given?

Now I want you to look at your wrist and imagine you had been given a countdown watch with a certain amount of time. You can see it ticking down, you can see as the minutes reduce and the 60 seconds start over.

What will you do right now?

I'm guessing, you'd read this as fast as you can to get on with the day right? You'll stop thinking about video games, text messages, vacations and what you need to wear, eat or drink. You will be so quick to praise God, so quick to make a timetable and set alarms to not get caught wasting the time before you face the king of Kings. Am I right?

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Why don't you live like this?

You know you have a time frame on your life but the most dangerous part is, you don't know WHEN your time frame ends. You don't know when you will depart so why don't you literally take every breath like it's your last?

This is not a motivational speech, this is your life that is soon to be taken. It's a vapour in comparison to eternity and whatever plans, ideas or thoughts you have to pleasure your flesh or simply waste time - must go. You have a mission, you have a purpose, you have a time frame. You also have a loving God, a Holy God and a wrathful God who will soon judge the world.

He has empowered you with gifts, with talents, with time, with people and with abilities enabling you to go through this life victoriously.

What will you do now? What are you planning to do? But most importantly, what do you NEED to do right this moment in time?

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When you focus on your mission in this very, very, very short time period you have been given; you forget about 'marriage or relationship goals etc.' You see, some people have idolised marriage, they have placed it as the centre of their prayer. Not knowing that God didn't call us to marry but to make disciples. That could be in marriage also, don't get me wrong but marriage is temporary but the lives that are transformed forever brings an eternal satisfaction.

Your willingness to love, provide and share with others the good news should be your heart cry to God every single day. If you ask for a loving spouse, good. However, your intensions should always be to serve others in whatever situation you're in, single or married.

You should call upon God to empower you, teach you and encourage you to love others and if He wills, He will bring a man, or a woman of God along. It will still be for the same purpose: to glorify Him through serving, giving and sharing the gospel to this lost and dying world.