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We are not to allow life to manage us, but we should manage life by making plans, after all, he who fails to plan has planned to fail.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"text-align-justify\">We cannot afford to drift through life aimlessly and without direction. Thus, there is utmost need for every one of us to take charge of his\u002Fher tome and constantly get rid of the time wasters that abound around us.\u003C\u002Fp>","paragraph",{"id":82,"text":83,"type":75,"level":84},"a9094dbe-10e6-4807-bc37-16c68c245de0","LESSON OUTLINES",2,{"id":86,"text":87,"type":80},"fcd2b14c-c22c-4c7d-8942-7636deca6acd","\u003Cp>a) \u003Cstrong>\u003Cu>Identifying The Time Stealer And How To Overcome Them\u003C\u002Fu>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"text-align-justify\">1) \u003Cstrong>\u003Cu>Lack of Planning\u003C\u002Fu>\u003C\u002Fstrong>: - God our father, is a great planner, we can see this in the creation (Genesis 1 and 2). He made everything according to plan. He did not make man until after He had made what would sustain the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"text-align-justify\">Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour is a great planner and this He exhibited all time throughout His earthly ministry. He would not do anything until it was the time He planned for it (John 2:5).\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"text-align-justify\">Though He loved Lazarus, yet the Lord would not yield to pressure from his sisters to alter his own plan (John 11:1-6). When He heard of Lazarus sickness, He abode yet two more days working according to His own plan and got to Bethany at the time He scheduled, though the sisters thought He was late.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"text-align-justify\">But many of us Christians are not walking in the footsteps of our Lord. We just move from one activity to another, from one conversation to another.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"text-align-justify\">A day not well planned for is wasted on unprofitable activities before you know it the day has become a week, and a week become a month, a month become a year. You see the year ending without you accomplishing any meaningful or reliable thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"text-align-justify\">To overcome lack of planning, you must never allow a day to come without a clearly defined plan for it. Yes, plan your day. 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