God at Work: How Do I Balance Work, Family & Ministry?

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How do I balance work, family and ministry? 

1. Be Honest with yourself. 

Track where your best goes now: 

1. Time 

2. Creativity 

3. Measure of success 

Key: Therefore, what are your present priorities?  

Key: Who are you cheating? Who are you trusting to make up for you?  

Daniel 1:5 

The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king’s table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king’s service. 

Daniel 1:8-9 

But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. Now God had caused the official to show favor and compassion to Daniel 

2. Make a decision based on conviction. 

   1. God 

   2. Spouse 

   3. Kids 

   4. Ministry (To a person not a Job) 

   5. Work  

Daniel 1:10-12 

but the official told Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.” Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. 

Daniel 1:13-14 

Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.” So, he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.  

3. Make a plan: Share it together  

   1. Communicate the plan  

   2. Live on less (obstacles are something we share) 

   3. Adjust for emergencies together 

   4. Obstacles often reveal Idols 

Daniel 1:15-16 

At the end of the ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. So, the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead. 

Daniel 1:20 

In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom. 

4. Watch God work in you and often be amazed by what he does around you.