REBOOT – to start (something) anew; to refresh (something) by making a new start or creating a new version; to make a fresh start; give fresh impetus or forward motion to something.
Psalms 51:12 | NKJV Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
Restore – Hebrew (sub – Pronounced Shoob) – A verb meaning to turn, to return, to go back, to do again, to change, to withdraw, to bring back, to reestablish, to be returned, to bring back, to take, to restore, to recompense, to answer, to hinder.
This word appears over 1058 times in the Old Testament.
Psalms 85:6 | NKJV Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You?
Psalms 119:130 | NKJV The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.
Hebrew – someone that is naïve concerning the challenges and complexities of life.
Dictionary – not complicated or complex, free of deceit or guile, believing every word
To place all of this in its proper context, we must always remember that we are all called to be stewards or managers of our resources for God in order to accomplish His purpose in the earth.
Manage – the organization of the resource at your disposal in order to accomplish the desired purpose.
Simplifying your life is to make good choices, choosing those things that are needful in order to organize the resources of our lives.
The solution to a complicated life is to be a better manager of your life.
The resources of our lives can be categorized in three general areas:
- Time Management
- Resource Management
- Relationship Management
We can also see that the complications of our lives will show up in these three areas of our lives.
Proverbs 24:3-4 | AMPC (3) Through skillful and godly Wisdom is a house (a life, a home, a family) built, and by understanding it is established [on a sound and good foundation], (4) And by knowledge shall its chambers [of every area] be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Knowledge – the acquisition of facts, truths and principles
Wisdom – applying knowledge to make good decisions
Understanding – to mentally organize, or arrange. The ability to arrange the information so that it connects with each other so that it makes sense to you.
Wisdom will not come until you are organized.
Proverbs 10:23 | NKJV To do evil is like sport to a fool, But a man of understanding has wisdom.
Proverbs 24:30-34 | NKJV (30) I went by the field of the lazy man, And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding; (31) And there it was, all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down. (32) When I saw it, I considered it well; I looked on it and received instruction: (33) A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest; (34) So shall your poverty come like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.
The lazy man and the man who was not organized achieved the same results – failure and chaos.
Proverbs 16:16 | NKJV How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Organization is second in value only to wisdom.
Organization – to put in working order, to gather available elements into a functional arrangement
Because God has called us to be organized, He has given us the ability to be organized or He would be unjust.
We are required to manage or organize the resources of our lives in order to carry God’s will in the earth.
We must learn not to confuse “neat and tidy” with organized. They can be two different things.
Being organized has less to do with the way an environment “looks” than how effectively it “functions”.
There are two phases to time management:
- Planning
- Implementation
Jeremiah 29:11 | AMPC For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.
There is something that we need to understand about the supernatural: God cannot do His part unless you start with your part.
Planning
Three major contributors to planning:
- Meditation
Joshua 1:8 | NKJV This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Psalms 2:1 | KJV Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Meditate – means to mentally image, using your imagination
Build pictures of how your day will be. The more pictures you have of how your day will be, the less complicated your life will be and the less opportunity there will be for the enemy to cause challenges.
- Selectivity
Martha (of Mary and Martha) needed to do the best things for her instead of “good” things.
Philippians 1:9-10 | AMPC And this I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more and extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight [that your love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment], (10) So that you may surely learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value [recognizing the highest and the best, and distinguishing the moral differences], and that you may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless [so that with hearts sincere and certain and unsullied, you may approach] the day of Christ [not stumbling nor causing others to stumble].
A lot of our lives are not being defined by the important – they are being defined by the urgent.
Life’s Priorities According to the Word of God:
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- My relationship with God
- My relationship with my spouse
- My relationship with my children
- My relationship with my church
- My job
- My social life.
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- Delegation
Delegate the responsibility of time consuming tasks to someone else freeing your time.
The best manager is the best delegator.
When you delegate, you are training, and you are freeing your time.