Hello Everyone,

Next “Ingredient” - Work Your Plan - A plan is only as good as your commitment to making it happen.

I shared with you a couple of weeks ago a principle I believe in whole heartedly. “Stop letting life happen to you.”

Most people simply drift through life hoping when they run aground somewhere that it will be a good place.

We let our marriages, our children, and our lives just simply drift around hoping for the best - the problem is that it becomes a game of pin the tail on the donkey with people’s lives at stake.

Pin the tail on the donkey is a fun kid’s game but it’s no way to run your life, your marriage, or raise your children. So how do you work your plan?

• Set right priorities - take control of your life - stop living by everyone else’s schedule, rules, and priorities - take control of your life.

It never ceases to amaze me that people want to be strong in Christ - they want a deeper relationship with Him –

but they spend a total of an hour and half on that relationship each week and most of the time they are here they want the service to be over so they can go home.

We want our children to think Christ is important to their lives but we treat sports, band, TV, and everything else in life as more important than worship and Christian training.

We want them to be committed but only if it doesn’t interfere with our stuff.

Stop just living life, wasting time and letting life happen to you and around you - take control of life and set your priorities.

• Make better decisions - Life is an accumulation of the decisions we make. Every decision, from the house we buy and the car we drive to the words we choose and the time we spend.

Every decision either moves us closer to our goals or further away from them.

I talk to people about this all the time. You made the choices that led up to it and you made the choices in the middle of it.

Are you moving toward your goals or away from them?

• Work smarter not harder - sometimes you need to cut back and commit to doing a few things well instead of a lot of things poorly.

THINK your way through life - don’t feel your way through life. Thinking makes good decisions no matter how you feel.

Don’t just add things on to the priority list - make a new priority list. Make a commitment to your goals and live that commitment.

If you want to live a more abundant life in Christ it’s not going to happen by accident - it takes planning and commitment to the goals that He establishes for life.

If you want Godly children, a Godly marriage or to obtain the plan of God for your life - you have to Plan your Work and Work your Plan.

And you have to dedicate your whole self to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Greater Things Are Still TO Come!

Pastor Phillip