Making The Most Of Your Time | Joyce Meyer | Radio Podcast

Discover how to make the most of your time with Joyce Meyer in this insightful radio podcast episode titled ‘Making The Most Of Your Time.’ Joyce dives into the importance of using our time wisely, emphasizing that each day is precious and should be lived with purpose. Learn how to stop wasting time, make prudent decisions, and live a fruitful life according to God’s will. Tune in now and start maximizing your time effectively!

Joyce Meyer, one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers and New York Times best-selling author, shares encouragement and advice to help us enjoy our daily lives.

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Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times best selling author Joyce Meyer.
On today’s program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, living purpose or a purpose.
Each day, god gives us is precious. And once it’s gone, we can never get it back.
We can all make a decision to use our time wise so we can accomplish all that god wants us to.
Now here’s Joyce with today’s teaching.
Tonight, I wanna talk to you about making the most of your time. Father help us tonight.
You speak through me. They don’t need to hear from me. They need to hear from you.
And I thank you for your anointing.
I thank you that people’s lives are gonna be impacted, and they’re gonna use their time more wisely than ever before in Jesus name.
Amen. Okay. Time is something that we all have the exact same amount of.
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That’s all you’re gonna get.
Isn’t it amazing that some people do so much with their life?
And other people do so pitifully little with their life? We can’t blame it on circumstances.
We are the ones who need to rise up and begin to live the life on purpose that god wants us to live.
And stop just blaming everything that’s going on around us from how we were raised to the government to this, to that, to something else.
Time is too valuable to waste.
And if you don’t believe that now, you just wait till you get somewhere up in the sixties or seventies and see if you don’t think that time is valuable.
I never even thought much about this until the day I had to go sign up for Medicare.
And I’m telling you that was like I was like Medicare.
I am old enough. To be on Medicare. It just I don’t know.
It was just like this thing. You know?
And Every year, you get a year older, and the older you get, the faster those years go by.
Now I know if you’re 20, you’re like, well, this just doesn’t relate to me at all.
Well, honey, please listen to me. You are not gonna be 20 forever.
And you will be 40 before you know it.
And those of you that are 40 will be 50 before you know it.
And the thing is is if you live your life smart now, you can have a great future.
But if you waste your time now, You know what you’re gonna end up with?
Nothing but regrets. And I think regret is a terrible, terrible thing.
It’s like you’re you’re sad and you regret something that now you can’t go back and fix.
You can’t go back and do anything about it.
That’s why we need to do the right thing when we have the opportunity to do the right thing.
Time is just too valuable to waste.
I wonder how many people at the end of their life feel that they have truly lived the life that they were meant to live or wanted to live.
Was talking to somebody the other day, and he said, you know, the biggest majority of people go off to work every day at a job they can’t stand.
And you know, you know why most of them do it? Money.
Just just money. You know what? We need a little more courage.
We need to find what god wants us to do, and we need to not be satisfied just to live our life doing something we hate.
But let god help you find a way to do what you really love. I love what I’m doing.
Now I did a lot of things before I got here. But I love what I’m doing.
And when you love your work, you don’t even I mean, yes, you know you’re working, but it’s like sometimes I can’t tell the difference between when I’m working and when I’m not because I don’t really feel like this is my work.
It’s my life. It’s my life.
And you say, why wish I had a job that I love?
Well, you’re not gonna get it wishing. Come on.
We gotta go back to that same gate all the time. I wish. I wish. I wish.
That’s what we have to stop. We can’t wish. We gotta take action.
We gotta start praying and start believing god and start stepping out and start making plans.
If there’s something that you really wanna do that you’re not qualified to do now, then while you’re doing what you’re doing, start getting some education to do what you really wanna do later on.
God can do so many great things through us if we’ll take steps of faith.
If you don’t like the way your life is going, and I’m sure some of you don’t.
And certainly many people watching TV right now, maybe you just think you accidentally turned this program on and you just stop to see what I think I’m doing or something.
If you don’t like your life, You’re the only one that can change it.
Now, obviously, we trust god to change our life, but god does things through us.
He doesn’t just do things in spite of us.
We’re not gonna sit around and be lazy while god does everything for us.
You know, there’s a scripture that I think we don’t really see the fullness of and it’s ephesians 320.
For god is able to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond, all that we could ever dare to hope, ask our think.
And boy, people love that scripture, but the rest of it says according to his power that worketh in us.
Come on. According to his power that worketh in us.
And so god is able to do great things, but only as we let his power work through us.
It’s not about god just doing everything for you. He wants to do things through you.
I keep saying all the time, we are participators with god. We can’t just sit around and spectate.
We have to start participating and let god do some great things in our life. Amen?
Now, one of the things that has a lot to do with what’s gonna happen in your future is your words.
So while we’re talking about waste, let me just stop a minute and say, stop wasting your words.
Stop just saying dumb stuff that not helping you or anybody else.
Matter of fact, could be really hurting you.
I talked to you last night a little bit about the seven things that it says in the first five verses of Proverbs chapter 1 that really are one of the some of the main ways that we learn how to hear from god.
Wisdom. Understanding, knowledge, discipline, discernment, discernment is so important when it comes to being led by the spirit and hearing from god.
You can’t live off of what you think. You gotta go down deeper.
But there’s another word there that we didn’t get around to too much and it’s the word prudence.
Prudence. Prudence means wanna give it to you correct.
Careful judgment that allows one to avoid danger.
The ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason shrudeness in the management of affairs and good judgment in the use of your resources.
Good judgment. That means a prudent person will not waste money. They won’t waste time.
They won’t waste energy. They won’t waste their talents. They won’t waste their words.
Proverbs 1821 says the power of life and death is in the tone.
And then when it comes to talking about prudence, Proverbs 1019 says in a multitude of words, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his life is his lips is prudent.
He restrains his lips, is a prudent person, a good manager.
Proverbs 12 16 says a fool’s wrath is quickly and openly known but a prudent man ignores an insult.
How much time do we waste in our life being angry about something that somebody said to us And so now we’re letting them steal our time and control our joy when really we could have made the choice to just turn away from their dumbness and stay smart in our own life.
Amen? Don’t waste any more time being angry.
Do not waste another day of your life being angry about something that you cannot do anything about.
And I love this one. Proverbs 31 16.
Now Proverbs 31 is about this awesome woman, you know, that does everything right.
I used to really not like her.
I mean, I just couldn’t hardly read Proverbs 31 because I was so far from that.
That every verse just put me under condemnation.
I get along a lot better with her now after 40 years in the word.
Proverbs 31 16. This smart woman, she considers a new field before she buys or accepts it expanding prudently.
In other words, that means she doesn’t just take on something new without seriously considering if she really can fit it into her life and still have peace.
Come on. What have you said yes to lately?
On the spur of the moment that you’ve been wishing ever since, you would have not said yes to.
Anybody here done that recently? Yeah. Well, be more prudent.
She considers a new field before she buys or accepts it expanding prudently and not courting neglect of her present duties by assuming other duties.
I love that. Some people are so stinking busy. They don’t need time to talk to their kids.
They’re so busy. Some people are so busy out making money that by the time they are ready to die, all they’re gonna have is a bank account.
Can I tell you when you’re on your deathbed, you’re not gonna ask to see your bank balance?
You’re gonna want your family. And so now is the time to be spending time with them and not be doing so many foolish things that you don’t even have time to do the things that are really important.
Thank you for your excitement.
And then I love the rest of this.
With her savings of time and strength. She plants fruitful vineyards in her vineyard.
Here’s a lady who had some wisdom. Why? Because she used prudence. She didn’t waste time.
She used time to her benefit.
How many of you need a little message tonight about not wasting your time?
About how about not wasting your energy?
Do you know that every time you get good and angry and have a good temper tantrum that you waste so much energy.
It is unbelievable. Somebody said one day of worry takes as much out of you as a whole week of work.
It’s hard to do those things because we’re not built for that.
That’s not what god has built us for.
Now If you’re not living a productive life, you need to look at the fruit of your life.
What am I accomplishing in my life? Have a meeting with yourself.
I tell people all the time, set an appointment and have a regular meeting with yourself.
Come on. To just say say yourself, okay, am I really doing what god wants me to do?
Am I getting enough rest? Am I bearing good fruit?
You know, today, everybody’s busy busy busy busy busy, but god has not called us to be busy.
He has called us to bear good fruit. Amen?
And so let me ask you, are you busy or fruitful? This is the 1st May.
What have you accomplished so far this year?
You know, get up, go to work, come home, gripe, complain, get up, go to work, come home, go to the grocery store, play I know. I lived like that for years.
If you’re not living a productive life, don’t blame it on your circumstances.
Other people, the way the world is today or anything else.
We have been given a free will by god and that means we can make choices in literally every single area of our lives.
You don’t have to be a victim to anything.
You can make choices if you don’t like the way things are going in your life right now is the time to make a change.
Can anybody here think of anything that they need to make a change about in their life?
Anybody at all? Let’s see. You too tired to lift your hand up? Okay.
Boy, we got some good stuff coming tonight.
If we don’t make our own choices guided by the spirit of god, we will end up with regrets.
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