Establishing Priorities – 

What Really Matters

May 18, 2025  Chaplain Doug Kinder

Matthew 6:19-21 NIV   Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

CONTRIBUTING FACTORS

1. Avoiding the Money Trap

Ecclesiastes 5:10 NIV   Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.

2. Contentment

1 Timothy 6:6-10 NIV   But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Being Settled

    Philippians 4:10-12 NIV   I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. 11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

God Awareness

    Philippians 4:13 NIV    I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

3. Time Management

Characteristics of Time

Keep a Yearly Calendar

Priorities

Philippians 3:13-14 NIV   Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Posteriorities

The Pareto Principle

Critical Success Factors

“May the things that matter most never be at the mercy of things that matter least.”

~Johann Goethe