Destiny City Church

Priorities. Priorities. What is your family really living for?

Oct. 6, 2009 at 10:46am

"Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people), Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil. Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is."

Ephesians 5: 15-17 Amplified

The year our third child came along, God challenged our family to reevaluate all the ways we were spending our time. Here is a quote from that year's Christmas letter.

"This year was a very different one for us. We actually decided to slow down . . . for the first time, since. . . . well, we can't remember. Throughout the year as each activity would present itself we would ask these questions-

· Does it grow our relationship with God or our family?

· Does it increase the peace in our home?

· Does it better our health?

If it didn't necessarily do any of those things we were not to feel obligated to it."

That letter generated five months of post-Christmas phonecalls from families asking us our advice on how to make and impliment goldly priorities for individual families! Its been four years since we wrote that declaration, but the fruit of that original year was so rich that we have continued to use these standards to this day. Its about becoming true investors in life as a family and knowing exactly what that looks like.

"Therefore I do not run uncertainly (without definite aim). I do not box like one beating the air and striking without an adversary."

-1 Corinthians 9:26 NIV

Pray for God's leading as you establish your family's priorities. We have found that without God's leading all our good intentions fall flat. It is imperative that your family's priorities are lining up with scripture and are birthed in you by the Holy Spirit. . . . "understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is."

Then, let us know what your family is living for by posting them in the comment section.

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