Daily Huddle - Tue Sep 17, 2019 Rhythm And Sequence

Love you all, praying for you.  
 
We recently shared the Daily Huddle - Baseline and Rhythm.  Sometimes you need to get to the baseline, so you can establish rhythm.  As God directs – be willing to cease and desist every other thing – to get to His rhythm for you.    Getting to the baseline, lets you start rhythm.  To understand rhythm, you have to understand sequence.  Rhythm starts with sequence.  God’s rhythm includes sequence.  God is a God of order – and God’s order includes the thing that must precede the next thing.  Ask God for the sequence He has for you.  What do you do each morning?  Sequence gets you into His rhythm.  For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. – Ecclesiastes 3:1, but there (also) is a proper time and procedure for every matter… Ecclesiastes 8:6  Let God tell you the sequence.  First things first, then next things next.  Sequence is important.  Have you ever made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with jelly first, then the peanut butter, then slap a piece of bread on top?  Probably not – kinda messy…  Always start peanut butter sandwiches with bread first – then peanut butter – then jelly.  Somehow it just works better that way.   Not a peanut butter and jelly religion, just sequence.  Some baseball players have a funny way of getting ready to get into the batter’s box, adjust their cap, or gloves, or uniform or other things, it’s almost humorous.  We’re not talking about superstition here, it’s just that in things of importance, you can be infinitely more effective in life, when you have a sequence.  To do what God wants you to do today, first do what He wants you to do every day.  Today’s task will get you something or somewhere, but every day’s tasks will make you something for you to be there.  Every time you obey – it’s reinforcing your DNA.  Praying that PiVAT before dinner – will not only reveal what God has for you today, but also remind you what He has for you every day.  Your left Column- will be that Number 1 Thing God wants you to do today.  But be sure you include in the Right Column those things that will grow you every day – and be sure you know their time slot.  Sometimes you have to get up a little earlier – in order to do things in His Sequence.  Just ask Him, He’ll tell you.  God has me start with two things every morning -  The Fear of the LORD  and BRCBC (a sequence of personal faithfulness in natural things) - that we have taught our kids for years.  I always want to be faithful spiritually and naturally.  After The Fear Of The LORD, and BRCBC – I will usually do my 4C’s even before my PRISM time with God in His Word.  Wow that sounds complex.   Not at all.  See the RelationshipTopic – How2 Fear God Right Now.  This start to my day – has me begin in the position of humility and focus my mind, heart and spirit on obedience all day long.  It’s something I rarely miss.   Second  BRCBC  - don’t have a Relationship Topic for it yet… but I need to get one.  How we care for the physical things God has entrusted to us – is a relationship issue.  BRCBC - Bed, Room, Clothes, Bath, Clean.  Even children can learn this simple sequence to be faithful naturally.    When your feet hit the floor – right after the Fear of the LORD – make your bed, then clean the room – every surface clean, run the duster – make sure everything is in it’s place – if its not a decoration – put it where it belongs.  After a few days – you’ll do it the night before so the morning is a breeze.  Bed, Room, Clothes – run a load of laundry first thing.  If you don’t have a full load yet, have it in the basket ready to run the load tomorrow.  If you have a spouse and several children you can probably do a load a day.  Just make it a part of your sequence.  No brainer.  Only takes a few minutes.  Just do it.  And this is not a woman’s job.  A friend of ours once said – “Nothing sexier than a man folding laundry.”  Don’t know about that, but I appreciate the appreciation.  Bed, Room, Clothes, Bath – run the duster in your bathroom and wipe down the sink.  If you keep your bathroom clean daily, just like your car – if it stays cleaner longer, it’s easier to clean.  Bed-Room-Clothes-Bath-Clean.  The Last one, clean – is your daily chore.  Everyone in your family should have a daily chore.  To keep the house clean.  If you're worried about someone stopping by... you don't understand God's Rhythm and Sequence.  The house you live in – are you faithful with it?  It’s God’s house?  Does it look like He lives there?  Doesn’t have to be fancy but is it faithful?  Faithful with little, will qualify you for much, unfaithful with little – who would entrust you with more?  Luke 16:10-11  Cleaning daily takes just minutes - waiting for the weekend and it takes hours - a waste of your Saturday.  These spiritual and natural things The Fear of the LORD and BRCBC – are sequence, daily habits that propel you to the assignment God has for you today.  Next I always do my 4C’s – (to simply give an account of yesterdays financial transactions).  A friend recently told me…  when I do my 4C’s first thing in the morning, I am done thinking about finances for today.  It’s funny how we can be consumed with money, the seeming lack thereof, when God doesn’t want us focused on money – just faithful with it, obedient with it.  So we can focus on obedience in the other things that He has for us today.  Praying that you have a 4C’s Accounting Tool – that helps you know where God’s money is, so you can do what He tells you to do with it.  Then I do one or two parts of my PRISM to begin the day – and keep coming back to them.  Wow – that’s a huge sequence, do you have to get up at 4 am?  No.  That’s the devil's lie.  The Fear of the LORD, BRCBC and 4C’s  are a matter of minutes.  I pray in the spirit – while I’m doing my BRCBC.  Sequence is simply habit.  You shower the same way every day – you probably get dressed the same way every day – even drying off from the shower…  you don’t stop and think about how to brush your teeth.  You’ve known the most efficient way probably for years now.  Sequence brings Rhythm.  Sequence has you becoming, and focuses you on God’s assignment for today.  Obedience in Sequence, brings joy in obedience.  Praying that you are walking in the sequence He has for you – so He can bring the Good He wants for you.  Ask Him, He’ll tell you.  He may even change up your sequence, or bring you to new insight.  He loves you! He has the best sequence and rhythm for you.  Jesus knows a little about sequence himself.  He always did what His Father told Him.  Walk in the Spirit – and you will too.  Sequence releases you to walk in the Spirit.  He has good for you!
 
Love you all,
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