1) The document discusses balancing resources by analyzing one's lifestyle, utilizing the present time effectively, and prioritizing what's important. 2) It encourages the reader to carefully evaluate how they spend their time and money by keeping logs or records. 3) The document emphasizes making the most of current opportunities and eliminating time wasters so that the reader can focus on doing God's will.

1. Balancing our Resources

2. Reflection Activity
You’l be given Php 86,400 / for 1
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month.
You can spend it any way you want.
But at the end of the day, anything
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Woul you try to spend it al? How
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wil you spend it?
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3. Balancing our Resources

4. “ I have used up my strength but have
accompl ished nothing.”
- Isaiah 49:4
This is about INVESTING!

5. Anchor Verse
• Ephesians 5: 15-17 (NAB)
• Watch carefuly then how you l
15
l ive,
not as fool persons but as wise,
ish 16
making the most of the opportunity,
because the days are evil Therefore,
. 17
do not continue in ignorance, but try
to understand what is the wil of the
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Lord.

6. Three Step Rule
1. Anal your l
yze ifestyle
2. Util the Present
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3. Prioritize what’s important

7. Analyze Your Lifestyle
• Ephesians 5: 15 (NAB)
• Watch carefuly then how you l
15
l ive,
not as fool persons but as wise
ish
Be aware of “robbers”
In order to save (time/
money), we must
know how we l it.
ost
Carefuly eval
l uate how you spend your
resources

8. Analyze Your Lifestyle
“ I wonder where al my time went!”
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Tip:
Sit down and make a time l “How did I spend
og:
my time l week?”
ast
O r, make a record of how you spend your hours
everyday.

9. Utilize the Present
• Ephesians 5: 16 (NAB)
• making the most of the opportunity,
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because the days are evil.
The best time to manage your resources is right
now!
• Proverbs 27:1
• 1
Boast not of tomorrow, for you know
not what any day may bring forth

10. Utilize the Present
Eliminate time wasters
• 1Corinthian 10:23 (NJB)
• 'Everything is permissibl maybe so,
23
e';
but not everything does good. True,
everything is permissibl but not
e,
everything buil peopl up.
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11. Prioritize What’s Important
• Ephesians 5: 17 (NAB)
• 17
Therefore, do not continue in
ignorance, but try to understand
what is the wil of the Lord.
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You always have enough to do God’s wil.
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12. Prioritize What’s Important
• If you do not have enough time right now, it
means one of severalthings is going on:

You’re doing something God never intended for
you to do.
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You’re not doing what God intended you to do.
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You’re doing the right thing in the wrong way.

13. Prioritize What’s Important
God woul not give you a purpose in l then
d ife
not give you the time to do it.
So if you don’t have time to do everything
you need to do, it means God didn’t expect
you to do it al.
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