Time management strategies how to get more done and keep Jesus at the center
of it all I figure to get a lot out of it may give me three practical tips
coming up next
Hey everyone welcome to Wednesday's with Crystal I'm Crystal Sparks I'm so glad
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my channel every single week on Wednesday I put on a new video and my
channels purpose is this is to help grow your faith and help equip you to
accomplish your dreams and your goals so I was reading a statistic the other day
and I thought it was really interesting and it said this that 80% of Americans
cite that they feel overwhelmed if they feel like there's more things to do then
there is time to do it have you ever been guilty of saying man all's I need
is more time alright how about you guys like you feel like sometimes you're just
running from one thing to the next and you feel like you're just never having
enough time there's always so many things to do so many errands to run and
it just feels like you're stretched thin well whatever I was reading the Bible
the other day I thought hit me that Jesus had his ministry for three years
he lived 33 years on this earth and out of that he fulfilled
almost 400 prophecies in those that short period of time and what I love is
we can learn a lot about Jesus through studying the different stories but I
want you to just really pause and in this video I want us just to really
realize like how much Jesus did in the little ways that he did them in fact
even his mode of transportation decided that he was never in a hurry here he is
the son of God he's got all these prophecies to fulfill in his lifetime
and he never gets in a hurry in fact he's so much not in a hurry that when he
tells his disciples to go find a way for him of transportation he tells him to
find a donkey and not just any donkey he has for a baby donkey now I want you to
think about this that is like the slowest moving animal and Jesus could
have picked anything he could have picked a strong horse he could have
picked anything right he could have picked a chariot with a team of horses
leading it but he picks a baby donkey every time you see Jesus you never see
him running place to place you never see him stressed out or overwhelmed you see
him just calmly moving from location to location assignment to assignment It was
as though he knew that everything was going to work out in just the right time
I heard this recently and I couldn't I just can't agree with it more and it
says this that any time that we are feeling stressed it's because we begin
living in Pride and I thought about in my own life that the times when I don't
feel like my time is being managed right and I began to let stress get on me it's
because I'm walking in Pride and simply put I begin to think that the results
are all based on my performance and how well I do them how quickly I can get
things done see Jesus lived his life fully looking
to God as his source he knew that if he was going to be able to do all that God
had sent him to do it was only gonna happen if God empowered him to do it so
he didn't let himself get in a rush he didn't let himself get in a hurry and
back in Luke chapter 8 we read the story of Jarius coming to Jesus and he's
telling him that his daughter is sick and has need of him so Jesus as Jesus
does doesn't get in a hurry and he's just walking through the crowd when a
woman with issue of blood touches the hem of his garment right then he stops
and has this meaningful conversation with her
don't you know Jarius must have been frustrated knowing the urgency with his
daughter he was probably thinking Jesus like don't you even care my daughter is
dying I need you to hurry up and there Jesus in that moment that woman's life
was changed forever see Jesus knew that he had enough to not only heal the woman
with issue of blood but he knew it didn't matter what was happening with
Jerry's his daughter the his strength was more than sufficient so he didn't
allow himself to get in a hurry or how about the story in John chapter 11 it
tells us about Lazarus they send word to Jesus that Lazarus was sick and the
Bible says and Jesus stayed there a few more days and then they sent word to
Jesus that now Lazarus was dead and then Jesus decides to come see it almost
seems like Jesus never gotten a hurry no matter how urgent the situation was he
had made up his my god you're my source and I don't know
that you're gonna fulfill everything that you sent me to do I'm not gonna let
pride come in and let me push into a place of stress but I'm gonna carefully
walk out the plan that you have for me the first thing that I want you to do is
you begin to think about this time management strategy is own the language
that you're saying the words that are coming out of our mouth are defining the
life that we live listen to how you say things I remember
there wasn't too long back and I had a whole bunch of things on my calendar and
Brian was telling me babe there's no way that you can do all this and I was like
well I have to go to this party and I have to go to the school meeting and I
have to and he's like crystal honestly you don't
have to do any of these things you're choosing to do them and a lot of the
things that are on our calendars aren't things that if we just be real honest
aren't things that we have to do it's things we're choosing to do maybe we're
choosing to do them because we're trying to get their approval of others maybe
we're choosing to do them because we're trying to make ourselves feel like we're
better than than what we are sometimes it's just doing it to make up for
failures that we made in the past so we're overcompensating with filling
our schedule in these other areas see the truth is you don't have to do
anything you're choosing to do it and every time used to begin to say the
words I have to do it you are getting yourself into a victim mentality I love
my friend Allison Faulkner said recently that whenever we talk that we're owning
the language of being a victim and when we own the language of being a victim
then everything in our life we look like they are taking from us and stealing
from us and you never feel positive and happy when you're in the state of being
a victim so instead of saying I have to do these things change your language too
I choose to do these things and just making that small change is going to
begin to change the way you show up to that circumstance um I loved in Matthew
11:30 it says that my yoke is easy and my burden is light when Jesus gives you
something to do it doesn't come with stress worry anxiety frustration know
Jesus said the things that I've called you to do the things that I've asked you
to do they are see and his burden is like you know last
year with everything we had going on in our church and we were expanding into
our second campus and I had a lot of things happening in my ministry and a
lot of things happening in my family and I put a sign on my wall and it said this
it said overwhelm is a choice and every time I looked at it it served as a
reminder to me that if I was being overwhelmed it's because I chose it not
because my schedule dictated it and whenever you feel stress it's a choice
whenever you feel joy it's a choice whenever you feel peace it's a choice
see every day you cannot allow your schedule to determine your feelings
instead you've got to let your feelings determine your schedule right and so
when we begin to show up with joy then Alice and our day becomes great so maybe
the problem isn't as much the things that you have in your schedule but it's
the way that you're showing up but to change that you have to change the way
you're talking you have to own the language the second thing I want you to
get out of this is to own the time does your time reflect what is important you
have to own your time so I'll just tell you that a lot of times we're good at
giving time to all the things that aren't important that we forget the
things that are the most important I love that Jesus in his lifetime
fulfilled every single prophecy that was spoken over him he healed I love that
the Bible says that he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed
of the devil it tells us all that the great and
wonderful things that he did but what I love is he was never too busy for the
things that were most important it talks about daily he went as his custom was to
go to prayer see here's the thing is that a lot of times what we do is we
fill our schedule with everything else and then we schedule the things that are
the most important and so for Bryan and I we always have Thursday nights our
date nights and so every single Thursday we're going to make it our goal to go
out on a date does it happen every week no but we
always try for it right because you've got to begin to schedule the things that
are important if family time is important to you can you show me where
it is at on your schedule if making time to read is important to you can you show
me where you made time for it see you need to begin to own your schedule when
you begin to lay out the most important things and then schedule your life
around those things then all of a sudden you'll begin to realize that you have
the time for the things that are the most important and so I would just
challenge you that just because others expect you to do it doesn't mean that
you have to do it and that just because you love it doesn't mean you still have
to do it so sometimes there's things that I love but maybe it's not the
season for me to be able to do those but on the flip end of it I'll say that if
scheduling that one thing that I love is going to make me be able to show up
better and the rest of the week then I'm going to make sure to make time for that
so I want it I want you to ask this question whenever you're trying to make
a decision of do I need to say yes to this event or yes to this assignment ask
yourself this what if I didn't do this and if it brings you peace to put it
down then walk away from it you know I had a major decision to make last year
as far as for time management goes and it was a really big thing a really big
thing that a lot of people wanted me to do and honestly I loved doing it but
every time I thought about doing it it just brought immediate dread and so if I
might ask myself this question what if I didn't do it and I put it down and I
walked away from it and I felt immediate peace and even though a lot of people
were disappointed in me a lot of people were sad that I didn't do it I knew it
was the right thing for me in that season so for you maybe you're listening
in and you're going through a difficult time in time management maybe is
something that you love but maybe it's just not the right season for you to be
doing it so ask yourself what if I didn't do it and the third and final
thing is defend what God has called you to do defend what God has called you to
do you know last year was probably our most successful year on my ministry just
continue to expand through YouTube and my online courses and God just doing
amazing things all over the world I'm getting to go to different places and
speak and minister and in all that our staff had over doubled our church had
doubled in size I'm just amazing growth right but at the
end of the year the Lord just really firmly said crystal you did really good
at these things but you didn't do what I called you to
do and he took got real firm with me that he wanted me to make an appointment
every single week where I would sit down and begin to create new content began to
write next but begin to give myself to the
things that God had called me to do now it's part of my assignment running my
staff yes it's part of my assignment growing our church yes it's part of my
assignment traveling and speaking yes but here's the thing is I was doing a
lot of the things that God called me to do but I wasn't making the time for the
one thing that I knew that he had called me to do and that is writing and
creating content so in that I want to challenge you that you can only have
three things that are important and that remain the focus in your life and so
those three things are going to get the majority of your time your energy your
resources and so you want to make sure that those top three things are
important so I want to challenge you again are you defending what God has
called you to do are you letting everybody else is calling and what they
need from you become your purpose when you start getting real diligent about
defending what God's called you to do you'll be surprised at how quickly God
begins to accelerate you and grow you like never before so hey I hope you got
something out of that and let's begin to be more purposeful with our time I hope
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