WOW – 20 AUGUST 2025: CHRISTIANS AND TIME MANAGEMENT

Senior Pastor Daniel O. C. | Aug 20, 2025

CHRISTIANS AND TIME MANAGEMENT

He who kills time injures eternity. Do not let yesterday use up too much of today.
Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell.
One thing you can learn by watching the clock is that it passes the time by keeping its hands busy.

Management begins with you, your personality, skill and ability.
Managing yourself is investing your time in accomplishing the most of what God wants you to do.
It begins with effective and purposeful living. This involves a plan, organization and management of your time and life.

There are 24 hours in each day. If you can analyse all that you do during these hours, then you can know how richly or poorly your time is managed.
When you analyse all that you did within the given 24 hours, you will be able to eliminate the following time robbing activities such as:

TIME ROBBING ACTIVITIES

Interruption such as uninvited guests and visitors who came without prior notice.
Gossip and unlimited conversations
Sickness due to lack of rest
Unnecessary telephone conversations
Unnecessary visitations that waste our time and life

It is important too that we organize activities, whether in the home, office or church to meet the principles of good planning.

SOME GOOD PLANNING PRINCIPLES

Setting Priorities

This means arranging our activities according to importance.
We must differentiate between urgent and important too.

Have A Schedule

This helps us to take inventory of what we have spent our time on.

Discipline

This helps us to do what we have actually planned.

Motivation

Accomplishing our scheduled task motivates us to do more.

Inventory

Having a regular time to review our plans and progress.
To manage our time effectively, we must learn to finish what we have to do before other things but never delay.
Take a few minutes out of your schedule to rest and endeavour to talk less.
Personal management is being sensitive to God’s leading.
Are you identifying the goals of your life and home?
You should depend on the Holy Ghost to give you understanding and steps to accomplishing those goals (John 15:5 / 16:13 / Ps 25:9 / 48:14).

Frederick Williams Faber once said that “The surest method of arriving at a knowledge of God’s eternal purpose about us is to be found in the right use of the present moments.”
How then we need to be wise and redeem the fragments of time, ensuring that none of it is lost.
The time of our lives are numbered for everybody. Time is limited. Each one of us has a number of years allotted to him or her by God.
The mystery of it all lies in the fact that though we can count days, months, and years, none of us know the length of time allotted to each life.

We must live one day at a time. Let it also settle deep down within us that our days are numbered.
Only what we do for Christ with our time and life, either within or outside our home will last.

Beloved, you may need at this point of time to evaluate your life. How rich are you? How wise are you with your time? Is your life pleasing to God?
Is your time spent for His glory? Is the primary purpose of your existence fulfilled?
Are you saved from sin? As a Christian, are you a channel of blessing to those around you? The days, weeks, months, and years are running past.
Have you brought any soul to Jesus? If God should call today, are you prepared to meet Him?
What account will you give of your life and time here on earth?

Remain blessed and rapturable,

Yours to reach this generation with the Gospel,

Dr. Daniel O. C.