Christ Discipleship Forum

😀🌹🎀🎁💝🌺MORNING TEA. THE WORD FOR TODAY
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 8, 2025.
"YOU ARE THE CHURCH (1)"

‘…To equip God’s people to do his work...’ Ephesians 4:12 NLT

IF YOU think the unemployment statistics in the country are bad, take a look at the church. Twenty per cent of its members give eighty per cent of its income, and do eighty percent of its work. The rest are happy just to be spectators. It’s easy to sit back, criticise, and say, ‘Why doesn’t the church do something about the problem?’ Hold on there: You are the church; you do something about it! You say, ‘But I left my church because I don’t like the way they do things.’ You didn’t leave God’s church, which is the body of Christ, did you? So, instead of talking about what your church doesn’t do, look in the mirror and ask yourself, ‘What am I doing for the Lord?’ Do you know what an Armchair Manager is? It’s someone who analyses the game when it’s over, criticises the players, complains about the referee’s calls, and is content to sit in the stadium and be a spectator rather than a player. Hello! It takes commitment to spend hours in practice knowing you’ll be booed by the crowd, tackled by opponents, and will leave the field beat up and covered in dirt. The Bible says that the job of your pastor is: ‘…To equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church…This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. Then we will no longer be immature like children…’ (v. 12-14 NLT). Think about it!

Bible In A Year: 2 Sam 14:21 – 17:13, John 3:1-21, Ps 89:15-37, Pro 23:15-18. Courtesy Grace So Amazing Foundation🌹🎀

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😀💝🌺🎁🌹🎀MORNING TEA. THE WORD FOR TODAY
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2025.
"TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR TIME (2)"

‘Teach us to realise the brevity of life...’ Psalm 90:12 NLT

GORDON MACDONALD gives us some of the traits of a disorganised life. See if you recognise any: ‘1) Appointments/messages/deadlines missed. I know I’m disorganised when there are a series of forgotten appointments, telephone messages to which I have failed to respond, and deadlines which I have begun to miss. The day becomes filled with broken commitments and lame excuses. 2) Unproductive tasks. If I am disorganised I tend to invest my energies in unproductive tasks; there is a tendency toward daydreaming and avoidance of decisions that have to be made, and procrastination. 3) Lack of intimacy with God. Disorganised Christians rarely enjoy intimacy with God. No one has to tell them that time must be set aside for the purpose of Bible study and reflection, for intercession, for worship. They know all of that. They simply are not doing it. They excuse themselves, saying there is no time. But they know it is more a matter of organisation and personal will than anything else. 4) Shallow personal relationships. Days pass without a significant conversation with my son or daughter. My wife and I will be in contact but our conversations may be shallow. I may become irritable, resenting any attempt on her part to call attention to things I have left undone or people I appear to have let down. 5) Lack of self-esteem. When we are disorganised in our control of time we just don’t like ourselves, our jobs, or much else about our worlds. And it is difficult to break the destructive pattern that settles in. This terrible habit pattern of disorganisation must be broken, or our private worlds will quickly fall into total disorder.’

Bible In A Year: 2 Cor 5-8, Matt 25:14-21, Ps 78:65-72, Pro 20:26-30. Courtesy Grace So Amazing Foundation

😀🎀💝🎁🌺🌹MORNING TEA. THE WORD FOR TODAY
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2025.
"TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR TIME (1)"

‘Walk in wisdom…redeeming the time.’ Colossians 4:5 NKJV

NOTHING IS more costly than wasted time. Every minute lost is gone forever. Today, we have more time-saving devices than any other generation, yet we seem to have less time. To get control of your life you must first get control of your time. That means redirecting each lost minute toward a worthy purpose. We all have things we want to do, plan to do, and feel bad about not doing. Understand this: the difference in who you are right now and the person you’ll be ten years from now, will largely be determined by your relationships and your reading habits. And the first book you should read is your Bible, the world’s greatest wisdom manual. Here’s a suggestion that will help you: instead of having an ‘all or nothing’ attitude to Bible reading, seize your ‘in between time.’ You’ll be amazed how the wasted minutes in each day and week add up to hours of productive time. J. Oswald Sanders gives us three great insights: 1) Stop leaks. Let us not consider our day only in terms of hours, but in smaller areas of time. If we look after the minutes, the hours will look after themselves. 2) Set priorities. Much time is spent on things of only secondary importance. We give such undue attention to petty details that matters of major importance are squeezed out. This is especially so where spiritual things are concerned. 3) Start planning. Without a plan we all tend to drift. So in the attitude of prayer, ask, ‘How can I best plan today?’ Buy up the spare minutes as eagerly as a miser hoards money.

Bible In A Year: 2 Cor 1-4, Matt 25:1-13, Ps 78:56-64, Pro 20:25. Courtesy Grace So Amazing Foundation💝🎀

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