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Our Theme is “Rebuilding the House of God”
Is your spirit stirred?
Is your foundation strong?
Are you ready to rebuild the house of God?
Today we are building the walls
.Walls are important to a house.
Something has to hold up the roof.
The walls protect you from what is outside.
The weather.
The animals
Sometimes even other people.
Normally, we do not want to have any walls or barriers between ourselves and other people.
But some barriers are good - like having a separate room for in-laws.
There are also times when we need to be alone - as husband and wife.
Or time spent alone with God.
In America, perhaps also here, we have begun to teach about having appropriate boundaries.
When you build a house or when you plant your fields, you know and agree on the boundaries of your property.
You do not go into another persons house without permission and you do not plant your seed in another persons field without being asked to do so.
So even though we are family, friends and neighbors, we know the limits of those relationships and we have some boundaries.
If the boundaries are appropriate, they can make relationships better and healthier.
We have a saying in America that, “good fences make good neighbors.”
In other words, if you define the expectations of a relationship by setting limits, “make a good fence,” you will get along better with your neighbor.
This is true not just of neighbors but of family and even spouses.
Even Jesus had his boundaries.
He had his twelve disciples - why only twelve?
Well twelve was a significant number because it was also the number of the tribes of Israel.
But it was also a group small enough that he could interact personally with each one of them.
And of the twelve, there were three which were closest to him.
You will also find that as a leader you will need to choose who you will spend your time with and who you will invest in, because there will always bee more demands than you can meet.
Know your limits.
As a leader there will always me more need that you have capacity.
It will be important for you to decide correctly where you will give your energy and your resources.
If you do not set boundaries, then the loudest voices will win.
The most urgent needs will consume you.
The people who are the most demanding will have all of your attention.
Limits on time
Leaders need to learn to manage their time
What is most urgent is not always most important.
Former president of the US Eisenhower was a military general who divided his priorities into four categories.
His chart has been the basis for professional time management for decades.
Urgent and important - these are the things that must be done.
They are both urgent in terms of time and important in term of priority.
Someone is sick or dying.
A bill is due to be paid or there will be consequences.
The house is on fire.
Things that are both urgent and important must be done right away.
Urgent but not important.
These are things that must be done immediately, but are not your highest priority or someone else can do it.
Delivering a message.
Making a purchase.
Even praying for the sick.
Whenever possible, these are the things that you want to delegate to someone else.
Not urgent but important.
these are things that can be done anytime, but we often do not get to them even though they are important.
Bible study to enrich ourselves and our ministry.
Meaningful time spent with our spouse and children.
Time spent alone listening to God.
These are things that you must make time for, but it will only happen if you are intentional.
You must set aside time to do these things or they will not happen.
Then there are those things which are neither urgent nor important.
These are time wasters - things that take up or time but give no meaning or purpose.
Video games or movies.
Social media and internet.
Gossiping or hanging with those who do.
Recreation is not a time waster if we are using it to grow our minds, our bodies or to build relationships.
Any of these things can be good if used properly, but most often we use them to escape reality.
Limits on resources.
The same thing that is true of our time can also be applied to our resources of money and energy.
It is good to have a plan for how you spend your money or it will disappear and you will wonder where did it go?
But not just money, how do you want to spend you life and your energy?
The question of boundaries is really a question of stewardship.
Stewardship is this idea that everything that we have is given to us by God and that we are to use what he has given us to produce increase and to glorify him.
The question of boundaries is how to balance stewardship and sacrifice?
Yes, we are called to sacrifice for the sake of the gospel.
But we are also called to be good stewards of the gospel.
If we are consumed as a sacrifice, there will be nothing left to steward.
Everyone know that Kenyans are the best long distance runners in the world.
If you are running a race, you will run differently according to how far you have to run.
If it is a short distance you will sacrifice all of your energy to win the race, because it is a short race.
But if it is a long race, you will conserve your energy and find a pace that you can maintain for the distance that you have to run.
You will need to do the same thing in ministry.
Ministry is more like a marathon than a sprint.
If you want to go the distance, you will need to pace yourself.
Set boundaries for yourself and with other people.
Be powerful people.
When it comes to boundaries with other people it thin Danny Silk from Bethel Church in Californian say it best in his book “Keep Your Love On.”
Mr. Silk talks about boundaries in relationships, especially in marriage, but he uses the language of power and powerless.
When we do not set boundaries in relationships it is because we believe that we are powerless.
I am nothing.
I am nobody special.
People can just walk all over me and do what they want with me.
But we know brothers and sisters that in Christ we are not powerless!
So if you know who you are in Christ, that you are powerful and not powerless, how does that change the way that you relate to other people?
The problem is that we also believe that only one of us can be powerful, making the other powerless.
So if I am to be powerful, you must be powerless in order to make me feel powerful.
But then if you decide, NO, you will not be powerless, then you become powerful and I have become powerless.
This is the way that many of our relationship function, only one person can be powerful at a time.
And so we take turns dominating, using and manipulating each other so to feel powerful at least some of the time.
There are two American comedians named Abbot and Costello.
Abbott is tall and thin, Costello is short and fat.
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