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36Did three or more of those symptoms hit home with you? How do you manage your time for the maximum life? Well I want to share with you now the seven laws for managing your time. Beside each of them I've given you a scriptural example. I think every one of them is as spiritual as it can possibly be. If your will, if your mission is to please God, you need to examine these seriously and apply them.Laws of Managing TimeA.Take control of your time.The central principle of all personal time organization is simple: Time must be budgeted. People who say, \You never have the time, you make the time. Take control of your time.Look at what David said in \wisdom.\you%u2019re going to have a heart of wisdom, you must know where your time goes. Better yet, you must decide where your time goes so you can devote your time to the important rather than the urgent.One of Satan's most effective strategies for Christians is just to keep us busy doing less important things. If Satan can't make you bad, he'll just make you busy. In other words, he can make your life ineffective by distracting you with worthless activities.A few years ago Time Magazinecame out with an issue and on the cover there was the headline \the eighties, time is going to be in the nineties because we're running out of time.\we're not running outof time, we're not scheduling our time. We're not numbering our day%u2019s right. Take control of your time.Have you ever noticed for example that we tend to give priority to scheduled events over non-scheduled events? Let me explain. If the only thing you've scheduled on a Monday is a 2:00 dental appointment, you will revolve the rest of your day around that dental appointment. Well, I might can go here, I might can go there, but I've got to go to that 2:00 dentist appointment. In other words, you give priority to scheduled events.Rather than always letting other people determine what's important in your life by scheduling your time, you determine what's important. You schedule time for the things that you value and that you want to accomplish. That is your responsibility. Stewardship is critical to living the Christian life. You are a steward of your money, abilities, activities, functions and time. Don't let people take it from you unconsciously. It's your decision.B. Start with God.