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Father they were Bush.

Now is restate.

Your word teach our hearts.

Help us to be more and more like you.

We love you and we praise you.

In Jesus name, we pray Amen.

Amen.

We started looking at the book of Ezra.

I know some of you were not here last week.

You will have a hard time finding the book of Ezra.

Ezra is kind of like toward where you have a ride on like that because you're not using paper Bible, you know, just Isabel Jurupa Bell going back and and trying to get the people back into worship and it from chapter 6 and on you have a new character named Ezra and Ezra is about rebuilding the temple.

And as there is about a teaching the people God's word So this morning, I want to continue our study from last week.

God blueprint for success and let's do a part 2. So last week will look that verse 6 through 10 and today we're going to look at verse 10 to 24 so that just a short series that we're doing from last week and this week on God's roadmap for your life.

So today God's blueprint for Success part 2. So let's look now, what will it take for you to win in 2023?

So he's a message in one sentence.

When you prioritize, what matters?

Most your position, you position yourself to be blessed and to maximize success, you need a plan.

When you prioritize, what matters, most you position yourself to be blessed, and to Maxim.

My Success.

You need a plan, encourage you to memorize to have by heart.

It says for Ezra had said, he's hard to study the law of the Lord and to do with or to practice at to live it out and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

So Ezra only talk to talk but Ezra Walk The Talk.

The Ezra was intentional, it says Ezra set his heart.

That means Ezra was committed to the things of God.

Azrael was committed to God as your says, hey, I'm going to study God's word.

I want to stay on guys were very intentional.

My heart to study God's word and all of us need to be student of God's word.

And we need to strive to do with, living out the practice and to teach it to others.

And last week, that's where we came with.

The 3L azra as a student, who study God's word.

We say that answer everybody needs to be a learner.

So when we come to church, we need to come with an attitude of learning.

That's where you seen your message.

Note at the bottom, I put there, it says, learn live and lead and then what we learned was to, put it into practice, with live it out.

And then as we remember, he taught that God's words that we need to speak to leave and where we lead others were with teach them what we have learned so that they can repeat.

The process where the learn the live it out and then they become teachers also and leading others to learn live and leave.

So you will see that all year long, Tony Evans puts it this way.

A good leader is someone who knows the way goes the way, and shows the way, and that's my prayer for each.

One of us this year did, we will be Believers, will know, the way.

And the only way you can know the way is you have to study not just listen to me.

But you have to personally studies the address said he is hard to study, so you have to have some personal study time and then supplemented with what I teach and other people that you met listen to online.

But we need to be Student of God's word where we need to be serious about learning God's words.

We may know God's word and not do it but we cannot do it.

If we don't know it it would mean we may know God's word in that, do it.

But we cannot do what God calls us to do if we don't know it.

So that's why we have to be student of the word.

Nothing just changed the nameks of our family, more than seeing my dad reading his Bible.

That's one thing like that might be earlier in an hour life, all of us children growing at home.

We were scared of our dad scared scared, scared, scared, scared.

But you say you something happened to my dad along the way K-8.

Just like somebody like you, if my dad is in the living room, you try to go in a back room and a back door somewhere.

So you don't see him if it takes going through a window.

So you can go further back and you don't see him because you just afraid of what he might you do a tell you to do you just and me you know my my older siblings that laughing.

I'm number six.

My older siblings.

You know had all the discipline me, I didn't get much but still have never personally.

Spect me a family.

One time I got to thinking from my dad, but but the oldest siblings already tell you.

You look scared of you that but you know, the picture.

I have my daddy's just sitting in the living room and just reading his Bible.

I just totally transformed his life.

Now I want to spend time with my dad and end, that's the same ball myself, trying to avoid him.

We want to spend time with him because every day, my dad will wake up.

Yet is coffee or even before just sit at the dining table and just reading his word for hours and then praying for us, he wakes up at 5 a.m. with my mom and just praying for us.

It's just a blessing when you stay in God's word, I love being with my dad.

But before I could not say that, but the transformation is God's word.

Cuz God, what if you end up seriously, like to grow, it will transform your life.

See a leader or someone?

Who knows, the way goes the way, and shows the way, and I can tell you stories again after stories, about other people have Gods has changed their lives.

Just two fingers coach, Tony Dungy, talk about how guys would change his life you know that just save his marriage.

It's just bless the life that they have because of a commitment to God's word.

So someone who knows the way goes the way and shows the way to remember the Three L's, learn live and Lead.

Now here's the first thing that you need to do and your message notes.

So it says they're the first thing we need to do another to be very successful in life is that we need to prioritize.

What matters most at the beginning of the year.

Everybody's always thinking about success and success.

Does that mean like a money?

But it's whatever is important to your life.

For some of us it's our family different things we have to prioritize.

What matters?

Most Christians the very first thing we need to prioritize is come on.

Tell me.

God's God's word as Christians.

We need to prioritize.

What matters.

Most.

Okay, so when you prioritize what matters, most God will take care of you.

This is Stephen Covey, says things which matter most should never be.

Put at the mercy of things, which matter, lease things, which matter most should never be.

Put at the mercy of things, which matter least give the thing.

A lot of those things are good things.

They are very good things.

That's why Jim called and says in his book good-to-great to good is the enemy of great for us, but rather the enemy Keeps Us busy with good.

Because Christians if I going to be like the crazy stuff that's going to, that's going to attract Us in the very good things.

See a bit when we focus too much on those good things, instead of the things of God, instead of God's word, then we can not really live the great life that God has for us.

So we need to be careful about good things in our lives because it was good.

Things become the center, then now we cannot become great as God calls us to do.

To be, I was reading an article about team collecting calories.

One of my Favorite features Riders and then he was going to like reflecting in his life and then he said this it says he's going to pancreatic cancer right now stage for knowing that you are really going to die changes the way.

You look at your time, The way you look at God, the way you look at your spouse, everything just changes when you actually realize time is limited and I am mortal.