1. Invest your Time

4. Biblical Truths about Time
We don’t get much
James 4:14
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

5. Biblical Truths about Time
We don’t get much
Life could end at any moment
Even a long life is short

6. Biblical Truths about Time
We don’t get much
Psalm 39:4-5
“Lord, make me to know my end and what is the extent of my days; let me know how transient I am. Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; surely every man at his best is a mere breath.”

7. Biblical Truths about Time
It belongs to God
Psalm 31:15
“My times are in Your hand...”

8. Biblical Truths about Time
It is a test
1 Corinthians 3:12–15
Now if any man builds on the foundation [of the church] with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire...

9. Biblical Truths about Time
It is a test
1 Corinthians 3:12–15
... and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

10. Biblical Truths about Time
It is a test
"God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends."
Jeremy Taylor

11. How to Use your Time Well
Ephesians 5:15-17

12. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Matthew 22:36-38
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.”

13. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Love God

14. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Matthew 22:39-40
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

15. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Love God
Love people

16. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Matthew 28:19
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit”

17. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Love God
Love people
Build God’s church

18. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

19. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Love God
Love people
Build God’s church
Work

20. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

21. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Love God
Love people
Build God’s church
Work
Take care of yourself
Sleep, Eat Well, Exercise, Rest

22. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Balance your priorities

23. Family Work Church Self
Friends & Neighbors
Work
Church
Self
God

24. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Balance your priorities
Give 100% to whatever you’re doing
Proverbs 18:9
He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys.

25. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Balance your priorities
Give 100% to whatever you’re doing
Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men

26. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Balance your priorities
Give 100% to whatever you’re doing
Be sensitive to opportunities

27. How to Use your Time Well
Matthew 14:13-14 Now when Jesus heard about John [that he had been murdered], He withdrew from there in a boat to a secluded place by Himself; and when the people heard of this, they followed Him on foot from the cities. When He went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick.

28. How to Use your Time Well
Set godly priorities
Balance your priorities
Give 100% to whatever you’re doing
Be sensitive to opportunities
Evaluate and adjust regularly

29. Invest your Time