In my last message of the year, during these last minutes of 2023 I want you to think about this year. What have we done this past year?
Today’s message : You are product of how you use your time!
What did I do with the last 365 days that just passed?
What did I spend this year on?
We are accountable to God of our time. Why? Because He gave us a gift ! He gave you time to live. He gave you free will to choose how you’ll spend this time.
The one thing you can never control or stop is: TIME! You cannot control or stop Time!
The most difficult thing for us to manage is TIME. And just like that, whether you like it or not, the New Year is coming.
A man’s life consists of how he manages and uses his time. TIME !
We have become what we are now as result of how we’ve used our time. You are a product of how you use your time.
The key to your success is good management of time. You can’t stop time. So all you can do is manage it well and use to achieve your goals.
You are simply the product of how you use your time!
What you will become in 5 years from now will be a result of how you start managing your time today until then.
Time is an amazing power ! Every day, week, month or year is a gift, given to us by God!
And that gift is given to us to fulfil an assignment.
That means that You were sent to earth to complete a task and to fulfil a specific purpose. And you were sent to do within a certain amount of time.
So you don’t have forever to fulfil your purpose! (This is important)
You were sent to earth to do something and you were given a certain amount of time to do it in.
So, we can’t waste our time.
The passing of time makes you accountable to God.
What did I do with the year that just passed?
How much of it that I wasted on social media, internet or Tv ?
Being involved in habits that didn’t improve my life, my body or my spiritual life?
What did I spend that year on?
We are accountable to God. Why? Because He gave us a gift !
Let’s read a verse from the book of Job 14:5 – this is a verse that you have to remember all your life.
“You have decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer” Job 14:5 NLT
That means that you don’t decide how long you will live, your life is on a timer!
God has decreed the number of months and have set limits that you cannot exceed.
You can die earlier, depending on how you manage your life, what you eat, what you drink and the habits you keep but you cannot exceed what God had decreed.
God sets limits that you cannot exceed
“So, leave us alone and let us rest! We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace“ Job 14:6 NLT
You came to earth, you were born at a certain time and you only get a certain time to do what you are supposed to do and then you must leave.
Attention: Being old doesn’t mean you are blessed. Because if being old means that you have God’s blessing then Jesus was cursed!
Jesus died at 33! But He didn’t die sick! Before dying He said: It is Finished!
He died because He had completed His assignment within the time!
God is saying to you: What are you going to do with one more year?
Your days are numbered! You and I have only one life to live, so how are you living it? Are you living it for Jesus? Are you fulfilling your calling? Have you been faithful to the Lord?
I don’t want to die wishing I could stay alive for longer!
I want to die like Paul the apostle:
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful.“ 2 Timothy 4:7 NLT
I have finished my race! I have remained faithful!
Why are you here tonight in this New Year Service? What are you doing here?
Are you afraid that Jesus may come back at twelve? Or are you here because God sent you here to get your life sorted out, to get your priorities back in order and to help you understand that you are not here on this earth just to pay bills, to buy a house , watch TV and live for your own satisfaction.
You were sent here to do something within a certain amount of time and you don’t have forever to do it! (This is so important!)
My beloved ones, I’m always concerned about people who say: I’m too old or I have lived a good life!
Let me tell you something about age: The important thing is not living until an old age but completing the assignment that God has given you.
Please write this down: Every New Year is a new chapter! It is a chapter in your own life book of how we managed the time we’ve received! That’s what a year is! Is a new chapter!
So today you must close one more chapter, and you ask yourself how did I do?
What did you do in 2023? How many people did you bless? How many people did you save? How much did you invest in the kingdom of God? How much time did you spend with God and in prayer?
Time is the raw material of life! It is a thing that you cannot stop, it just keeps on moving, it keeps on happening and your life is built upon it!
Time is like building blocks! It’s is the only commodity of life that every human have in common! All of us are given 24 hours every day!
No one is better or worse when it comes to time.
You became what you are by how you use your 24 hours gift (Your Time).
Every New Year is an opportunity given to us to improve our management of time.
I want you to make a decision tonight that you became a better manager of time.
I want to encourage you, please stop wasting time!
Use your life to fulfil Gods plan!
Everybody is expecting a good new year, a happy and a blessed new year.
But it is not going to happen in a puff of magic or just because a new year has started.
If you want to experience a year of miracles and receive what God has for you, you need to renew your mind and you have to be prepared to make it happen, we must stop wasting time!
Use your time wisely and invest your time in what is eternal!
Happy and Blessed 2024