Edition #023 | FAITH | The Compound Calendar | Wednesday, March 25, 2026

You say your faith matters. But open your calendar and show me where it lives. Between the practice schedule and the group chat and the part-time shift and the Netflix queue, where exactly did you block time for the thing you claim is the foundation of your life?

Most young people treat their faith like leftovers. Whatever time is left at the end of the day gets tossed toward prayer or scripture. By then you are exhausted, distracted, and running on fumes. The result is a faith that feels distant. Not because God moved. Because your calendar pushed Him to the back of the line.

Here is the system that fixes the order.

Let’s get into it.

1 PRINCIPLE

FAITH

The Compound Calendar

The Compound Calendar works like compound interest at a bank. Small deposits made consistently over time create results that are wildly disproportionate to the effort. Miss a day and nothing dramatic happens. Miss a month and you barely notice. Miss a year and you wake up wondering why your faith feels hollow.

Picture an empty glass jar on a table. You have a pile of large stones, a pile of gravel, and a pitcher of water. If you pour the gravel in first and then the water, the large stones will not fit. But if you drop the large stones in first, the gravel fills the gaps around them and the water fills whatever space remains. Everything fits when you get the order right. When you schedule your faith time first, everything else arranges itself around it. When you schedule it last, it gets squeezed out every single time.

What would change in your life if the first twenty minutes of every morning belonged to God before they belonged to anyone else?

Proverbs 3:5-6

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”

Submitting your schedule to God is one of the most tangible acts of trust you can practice. It is easy to say you trust Him with your future. It is harder to trust Him with your Tuesday morning. But the path gets straighter when He goes first.

“The key is not to prioritize your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

Stephen Covey spent his career teaching leaders that effectiveness is not about doing more things. It is about doing the right things first. His book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over forty million copies and shaped how an entire generation thinks about time and priorities.

That one sentence dismantles every excuse you have for putting faith last. You are not too busy. You are misordered. When you flip the sequence and put your priority on the calendar before anything else claims the space, you stop hoping it happens and start guaranteeing it.

The Compound Calendar

For the next seven days open your calendar or planner every morning and block the first twenty minutes of your day for faith. No phone. No scrolling. No multitasking. Read one chapter of scripture. Pray specifically about one thing you are trusting God with that day. Write it down in a notebook so you can see the deposits accumulate by the end of the week.

Hit reply with the word DONE when you have completed all seven days.

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