Restoring Balance toOverloaded Lives

Teach us to make the most of our time, so that we may grow in wisdom.

Psalm 90:12 NLT

Agenda

SESSION 1: OVERCOMING OVERLOAD: LIVING WITHIN LIMITS

Session 2: Regaining Margin: Making Room for Life

Session 3: Restoring Balance: Creating Role Harmony

Session 4: Adjusting Priorities: Choosing the Important

Session X: Optional Q&A Session

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

James 4:13-15"Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.' Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, 'If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."

Philippians 2:13"...it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose."

James 4:7 MSG

"...let God work his will in you."

Restoring Balance toOverloaded Lives

Session 1: Overcoming Overload: Living Within Limits

"Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed."

Job 14:5

Overload: defining it and its causes Overload: diagnosing it Overload: curing it

Overload

"A state of chronic overage that leads to dysfunction in at least one important area where God requires a decent minimum."

Choices

125 Kinds

of Yogurt

30,000 Products in the average grocery store

551 Kinds of Coffee

184 Kinds of breakfast cereal5,000 Magazines to choose

from

80 Different

blood

pressure

medicines

752 Different models of cars and trucks sold

in the U.S.

250 Kinds of toothpaste

Life Stressometer

Romans 12:2

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world..."

Titus 2:12

"[God's grace] teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled,

upright and godly lives in this present age."