Goal Setting III

“If you plan and work hard, you will have plenty; if you hurry to get rich, you will end up poor” Prov.21:5 [CEV].

#7. R is for REVELATION. What Scripture supports your goal? As believers all our goals should be scriptural [based on the Bible]. There should be a revelation that backs up the goals you set. A Christian man decides one day that his goal for that year is to marry a second wife. He decides it is a specific and measureable goal. His action plan is to go and hang out with final year students at the university. It can be done which makes it a realistic goal. He sets his time frame for the second quarter. Expectation management, if he gets turned down, he will try again at the polytechnic graduating student’s gatherings. But what is the revelation, what is the Word of God that backs up this goal? None. It cannot be a goal because there is no Word to back it up. The Word of God is clear, “Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law” Prov.29:18 (ESV). There has to be a prophetic vision; it is prophetic because it is in line with God’s Word for you. At God’s Favourite House we have come up with a tool that can help you put all this things into prospective called a goals card. The action plan for some people today is to contact the church office and get the goals card and a ‘how to’ guide.

The greatest benefit of setting a goal is not what you achieve; it is what you become. When I just began to Pastor over eight years ago, on Mondays I would say to the Lord that I was not prepared to continue pastoring because it was just too hard. I usually felt depressed, drained, and just flat out. But right now by the grace of God I am not there anymore because I set goals to help take me out of that state of depression. I keep up with clear-cut plans and depression is history in my life. The key thing like I said is this, I am not where I used to be. Do I still get those emotions that try to send me into depression? Yes, but I know what to do to deal with them squarely. So set in your spiritual life, in your relationship, in your health, creative goals, educational goals, emotional goals, material goals, and leisure goals. When you are working on the goal, God will be working on you! That is the power of backing up every goal with God’s Word. However, yes we need to set goals but except the Lord builds, they labor in vain that build except the Lord watches the city the watchman watches in vain. Let your number one goal be to bow your knees to Jesus because one day Jesus Christ is coming back and every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father. The question is are you going to bow willingly or are you going to bow forcefully? You can settle that today.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, let Your Word be the foundation, the building blocks, the pillars, and the light for every one of my goals, in Jesus Name.