Choosing Our Priorities Are Your Efforts Producing the Results You Want?

(The following are based on the Pereto Principle.) Effort Results

20% of your effort produces 80% of the actual meaningful results! Effort Results 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% It is also true that 80% of your effort produces 20% of the actual meaningful results! 20% of your effort produces 80% of the actual meaningful results!

5% of your effort produce 64% of the actual meaningful results! Effort Results 100% 80% 80% 64% 60% 40% 20% 5% 5% of your effort produce 64% of the actual meaningful results!

1% of your effort produce 50% of the actual meaningful results! Effort Results 100% 80% 60% 60% 50% 40% 20% 5% 1% The remaining 99% of your effort produce the other 50% of the actual meaningful results! 1% of your effort produce 50% of the actual meaningful results!

Effort Results 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 5% 2% 20% If you discover what that 1% is that is producing the results you want and increase that to 2% of your effort you could double your actual meaningful results!

150% Effort Results 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 5% 3% 20% If you discover what that 1% is that is producing the results you want and increase that to 3% of your effort you could triple the effectiveness of your ministry in actual meaningful results!

What Do You Value In Life and Ministry? Are You Investing Your Life Accomplishing the Things You Value?

Are You Tired of Pushing and Pulling A Church With Square Wheels? Is it possible that you and your people may Not be Focused on the Right Priorities that the Lord has for you? There certainly seems to be a lot of stiff resistance somewhere! Boy, we really must be going uphill! It takes more than dedication to lead a Ministry God’s Way!

What Does God Value? How Do We Determine What God Values and then Spend Our Effort on the Things that Matter to God?

Choosing Right Priorities List all the activities of your week. Past/Present Future Arrange the same activities as you would want them in the future. Place in the 80%, 20%, 5% or 1% the things that you believe would produce the results you and God would want! List all the activities of your week. Start with the Top Priority Activities in the 1% space. 20% 5% 1%

God’s People Also Need Excellent Leaders The common denominator of Excellent Leaders found in the Bible is that: “The Lord Was With Them” There was a genuine and manifest sense of the presence and power of God on their lives and ministries!

“The Lord Was With Them” Abraham (Genesis 21:22), Isaac (Genesis 21:20, 26:3,24& 28), Jacob (Genesis 28:15&20, 31:3 & 42), Joseph (Genesis 39:2,21 & 23, 48:21), Moses (Exodus 3:12, 33:15 & 16; Joshua 1:17), Joshua (Joshua 1:5 & 17, 3:4, 4:4, 6:27, 7:12), Gideon (Judges 6:13 & 16), Samson (Judges 13:24, 14:6 & 19, 15:14, 16:20), Samuel (1 Samuel 2:21, 3:19), Saul (1 Samuel 10:7),

“The Lord Was With Them” David (1 Samuel 16:13, 17:37, 18:12, 14 & 28, 20:13; 2 Samuel 5:10, 7:3; 1 Kings 1:37; 1 Chronicles 11:9, 17:8; 2 Chronicles 1:1), Solomon (I Kings 1:37, 8:57;1 Chronicles 22:17,28:20) Asa (2 Chronicles 15:1 & 9), Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:3, 19:11& 17), Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:5), Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:7; 2 Chronicles 31:21, 32:8), Ezra (Ezra 1:3, 8:18 & 22 & 31), Nehemiah (Nehemiah 2:8,18, 4:20), Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:8), John the Baptist (Luke 1:66).

Pray! Ask God to show you His Priorities. God Has Already Provided Everything You’ll Ever Need to Grow Your Ministry Boy am I glad we discovered those round wheels and the sail in our wagon! I’m just thankful that God will be with us as we accomplish the priorities He has for us! Our God is With Us! Right Priorities and Strategies Pray! Ask God to show you His Priorities.

The Great Commission “All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matt. 28:18 -20

God’s Promise! Seek God and Focus on the Right Priorities and Strategies and He Promises to be With You – Right to the End!

What Will be the Results: Changed Lives Changed Families Changed Churches Changed Communities Changed Nations and A Changed World!