Setting Priorities by Pastor E.A. Adeboye

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Open Heavens for Teens Saturday 16 February 2019 Daily Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye

Topic: Setting Priorities

Memorise: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” – Ecclesiastes 3:1

Read: Ecclesiastes 3:1

1 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven

Bible In One Year: Leviticus 22-23, Mark 1:1-22

MESSAGE:

The way you spend your time tells a lot about your priorities because what you spend more time doing is more important to you than what you spend less time doing. It is good to set your priorities consciously. If you don’t, you will be allowing your flesh to set your priorities for you and you may be unconsciously prioritizing the wrong things.

The most important thing to any Christian teenager should be spending time with God. In fact, as you go on with your day, you should be taking small breaks just to pray to God. Your academics must also rank very high in your priorities. It is foolishness to read your Bible and pray all day when you have exams the next day; our God is a God of diligence.

If you spend more time on social media than with God, then you have placed social media above God in your life. If you can spend one hour in front of the mirror, doing make-up, but you cannot spend 30 minutes praying to God, obviously, your make-up is more important than God in your life. Setting priorities is a very important and tough task that requires discipline. Don’t leave you flesh to set your priorities for you.

Key Point: Your priorities determine your destination in life.

Hymn 9

  1. I am so glad that our Father in heaven
    Tells of His love in the book He has given;
    Wonderful things in the Bible I see;
    This is the dearest, that Jesus loves me.

Chorus
I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
Jesus loves me, Jesus love me;
I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
Jesus loves even me.

  1. Though I forget Him and wander away,
    Still He doth love me whenever I stray;
    Back to His dear loving arms would I flee,
    When I remember that Jesus loves me.
  2. Oh, if there’s only one song I can sing,
    When in His beauty I see the great King,
    This shall my song in eternity be,
    “Oh, what a wonder that Jesus loves me.”