What an awesome ladies night out! Our Pastor’s wife is such an encouragement!
Okay… I need to share my pain. It’s only fair, right?
In actuality it was self-inflicted and then treated by the Word of God, applied with great care by our Pastor’s wife, Paula Carter, during ladies night out tonight. Such a great word that my ol’ wicked heart needed to hear.
PROCRASTINATION: yep… she went there. And like I’ve never heard anyone before.
We know it’s wrong and yet we’re all likely guilty of it. But I don’t think I ever faced the reality of how wrong it is.
James 1:5 – If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
• God will supply us all the wisdom we need to get any job done. (liberally)
• God will cheer us on, not tear us down. (He upbraideth not)
So have we asked His help, for what needs to get done? At best for me it was half-hearted.
Proverbs 13:4 – The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
That one hurt…
Procrastination is a sign that something is missing or wrong. We put things off because the result of dealing with it may be facing the reality of what it is that’s missing in our life:
• Forgiveness
• Love
• Compassion
• Understanding
James 1:6 says “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.” God’s waiting, there is nothing to fear.
Procrastination is a sin.
James 4:13-17
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
We know that the will of God is that “good thing,” all else is sin. Owch!!! But all Satan has to do is to get our mind off of that good thing, by telling us there is a better, less confrontational, less hurtful or demanding way. We choose ease over discomfort.
1 John 4:4 refutes that
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
An eye opening thought for the evening was the many available buttons that Satan uses to get us frustrated and off task.
• Email
• Text
• Facebook
• Phone
• Messaging
All great ways to distract or frustrate us. We’re reactive rather than responsive, thus negatively effecting our priorities.
5 ways to over come Procrastination
1. What is it that only I can do? Can anyone else do what’s being ask of me?
2. What has God entrusted solely to me? My home, husband, family, ministry, gifts, etc.
3. Am I a good steward of what his given me.
4. What is the passion and dream that God has placed with in me. God, not me.
5. What has God asked me to do that I have refused?
God desires new things… but first we must take care of the old list.
Isaiah 43:19
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Devotion notes taken by The Jesus Chick during a Ladies Night Out Celebration at Victory Baptist Church in Grantsville, West Virginia. These thoughts were from a devotion given by our Pastor’s wife, Paula Carter on September 15, 2015
