¶ Setting God Goals
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Yes, yes, yes, I do Okay we're gonna be talking about setting goals. Setting goals this is the beginning of a new year. This is what we always do. We're gonna help somebody set God goals. Today I am ready?
Whoa. I love what you said God goals, because we can set a lot of goals and if God isn't backing it, is it really? Is it really going to amount to anything?
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So much, all right, but today's episode is entitled how to Set God Goals.
This Year. We are declaring receive this, that this will be a breakout year for you, that this will be your best year ever, that you will be closer to God and the people that are in your life that God has placed there than ever, I'm not saying that it's not gonna come without a fight and without difficulties, because we live in a fallen, broken world.
But I think that the favor of God is still going before you to where this is gonna be a banner year for you, and we need to help you set some goals.
Amen. So let's go, let's set some goals.
Let's do it. Let's do it All right, guys. And so this is what we know about goal setting. All right, we know that New Year's resolutions they don't work. Okay, Now for me. We have always set goals at the new year, and usually I start goal setting November or December going into the new year.
Okay, but I'll always set goals going into the new year and revisit my goals because I feel like the new year is inspiring. I just feel like it's just.
You know, it's a new year man, it's a fresh beginning, a fresh start.
It's a fresh start, but I know statistically that 80% of New Year's resolutions do not work. By February people will have fallen off, and that's why we're not calling it setting resolutions. We're saying setting God goals. And do you know what the difference is? Why do you think that resolutions don't work?
Probably because we get excited about the new year, everything that's going on. We get excited and fall in love with the idea of a new us and a new beginning and we can plan for the goal or the.
You know, like if I want to lose weight, I can plan for like yay, I'm going to lose weight and by the time summer comes, you know I'm going to have a bikini body or I'm going to do this. Like that's the goal and we fall in love with that. But I don't think we plan for the process that it takes to get.
So we see the promise but we don't understand the process, and what we've learned is that every promise has a process. I would say also, the reason that resolutions don't work is number one they don't have a strategy with them.
So every goal need action steps, so you need things that you're going to do every single day, and those are disciplines to accomplish the goal. And number two the reason that they don't work is because many new year's resolutions are founded on emotionalism.
And.
I feel like this is a time of the year and, oh my God, it's going to be a new year and new me but emotions go up and down depending upon what's happening in your life. And what you have to do is set your will Now. The human will is one of the most strongest things that God has given you.
So you have a soul, which is your mind, your will and your emotions. And the Bible says this way I lay before you life and death, blessings and curses. It says choose this day, life, so that you and your seed can live. What it's saying is that God has given us the ability to set our will to do something meaning that.
I might not feel like going to the gym, but I said that I was going to do it. I might not feel like going back to school, but I said I was going to do it. I might not feel like praying, but what my feelings got to do with it. I understand the benefits of connecting with God and I think there's something about setting our will with action steps.
So good, I agree, yeah, and you know God is. He's not a man that he should lie, nor the son of man that he should repent, and I love it. What you say like life and death is before us. Choose life, we have a choice in it.
But I think some of us, we don't know the character of God and we don't know God enough to know that he's not going to lie, he is not a liar, and sometimes we can say things and we make ourselves a liar. We say yeah, we're going to do that. And then we don't do it because of how we feel. Or well, I just, you know whatever.
And we think that God is like us, but he's not like us. Sometimes I tell my kids you know whatever. And then I say well, you know what, I changed my mind, whatever. And I'll tell them I changed my mind. They said but you said, you know, god is not like that, right.
Right, god is going to say it and if he said it, he'll make it good and can make it good.
Yeah, I also think when it comes to what we call goal setting, I would want people to know is God wants us to have a plan? You know we've learned this over the years, but what I've learned also is to hold our plan loosely in comparison to his plan.
So there's a scripture that says that like, basically we have a plan, but the Lord establishes our steps or something like that man plans, but God directs. Yeah, so we are to have a plan. We should have a five year plan, we should have a 20 year plan, we should have a life plan.
But we don't make our plan an idol, meaning that I'm holding my plan loosely, because God's plan for us is always better than our plan, and many times we won't get his plan until we have established our own. There's something about God that he waits on us to do the natural before he provides the supernatural, and so planning is important.
I just I say that because there's some people that are slightly. Well, it ain't that big a deal, ksara sara whatever will be will be, and they're kind of floating through life and they're gonna float their way to no retirement. They're gonna float their way to the end of their life, where they don't have enough money, for you know, to take care of their needs.
They're gonna float their way where they haven't made the right investments, they haven't sold their families not being saved, and I think that it's okay to have a plan. Matter of fact, I would say that it's almost godly to have a plan, that we need it.
God says write the vision and make it plain. God says to walk by faith and not by sight. How are we supposed to walk by faith? You know what I mean. It's like whenever I set goals and you know, and make plans for our future. It's like me writing out my faith on paper and not just me. You can see my faith, my kids can see my faith.
It's like this is where I'm going, god, and I'm gonna follow this plan. Lest you say other words, it's like this is my proof.
When you first said that, I was trying to say what's the correlation between write the vision, make it plain and walk by faith and not by sight? But I think the key is that all faith needs a target. So you can say that you're walking by faith, but faith needs a target.
I'm believing for this healing, I'm believing to be debt-free, I'm believing to be married, I'm believing to be cancer-free. Like all faith needs a target. So, saying I walk by faith, well, I just believe in something.
I just believe God gonna do what are you gonna do, what do you believe in for and when you have it? You know when you have your goals. It's written down right. I sow seed toward it, I sow my words toward it, I begin to pray toward it, Like we are intentional aiming toward
¶ The Importance of Setting Goals
that target.
You know, what else I've learned about goals over the years Is that goals help keep us on track and help us stay on track.
Oh yeah.
And I just feel like for me let me just say my life I have so much going on that it is easy for me to get busy with good things. That ain't God? There are so many good things coming my way right now. I know it and the trick is to determine what's good and what's.
God and what's God?
We are living in a time where distractions are the norm. I'm talking about distractions are everywhere. People need you for this. This problem, this going on. But if you have a goal and they are written down, those goals actually help you stay on track so that you don't get sidetracked.
There's so many things pulling for your attention, but no, that is not my concern right now. I got a goal.
Yeah, that I'm trying to accomplish.
It's like guardrails, yeah yeah, yeah, and this is what we've learned about goal setting is that he who fails the plan also plans to fail. Come on, right. And so every good army needs a plan. Every good business needs a plan. Come on. Every good team needs a plan.
It's what we call a game plan.
Come on, every good husband needs to come up a plan. Where is your family going? What are the goals for this year? What do you want to accomplish? I believe every person of God. We need a plan. This is our life plan, these are our goals, and so it's interesting.
The Bible talks about this some, and I'll read the scripture and let's see what it says Proverbs 21.5,. It says that the plans of the diligent lead the prophet as surely as haste lead to poverty. What sticks out to you from Proverbs 21 and five?
I mean, sometimes we can sit around on the couch and saying, well, I hope for this and I hope for that, and I wish I had a better job and I wish my business was more prosperous and I wish you know none of that stuff is going to happen, Like you have to get up and do something.
The plans of the diligent. It leads to profit. That connects plans to your profitability or plans to your success or plans to your advancement or plans to your increase. Without a plan, there's not going to be much profit. Wow, Every business owner knows that. Every coach knows that. As people of God, we got to know that that plans are important.
Amen.
Yeah, philippians three and 13, it says brothers and sisters. I don't consider myself yet to have taken hold of it, but this one thing I do I forget what's behind I love this scripture and I strain toward what is ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me. Heavenward in Christ Jesus. What sticks out to you on that one?
I mean pressing toward the goal.
Yeah.
You know like you, you have to. I mean, if you don't have your goals written down, if you don't know your goals, how are you going to press toward it? How are you ever going to achieve it? Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I mean. Well, for me it's like Paul is saying I'm forgetting what's behind me and I'm going into my future. And it's not like I didn't learn from my past. I'm just not stuck in my past. Yeah, and I'm not wallowing in my past and I'm not pitching a tent in my past because I got oppressed towards the future.
You're gonna fight for it.
Yeah, the future is better. I need somebody to hear that today your future is brighter. You might have been the most difficult, worst season of your life, but there are better days ahead, always, and you wanna start to envision that again and meditate on that.
So if you're sick, start to meditate on the word of God, seeing that you've been healed by the stripes of Jesus. Plan to be well if you're sick and even act like you're well because that's a part of faith. Sometimes people say you gotta fake it till you make it. I will say you have to faith it till you make it. That means let the weak say I'm strong.
Let the sick say I'm healed. Let's act like I'm healed Even when you don't feel good in your body there is something that's powerful about pressing towards the goal, pressing towards the prize.
Yeah, I think there's some work in that pressing. You know, it's just like it's not easy to press anything. There's some effort that you put in toward a press and it can be uncomfortable, it can be untimely, it can be inconvenient, but there's still a press that we must do if we're going to reach the goal.
I think if that's worth noting, because sometimes we make goals and we think like, yay, it's the new year, this is gonna be wonderful and you know like it's gonna be great. I have accountability partners and you know, I got new people on my team. Everything's gonna be great. No, it's not. There's going to be something that goes wrong.
It doesn't mean that it's fixable. It doesn't mean that it's gonna be the end of the world, but there's always going to be opposition, there's always going to be obstacles. There's always gonna be something that you can overcome. So when we normalize that and understand that stuff is gonna come our way, okay, that's all right. That just means I have to press. Yeah.
You know, I think when you're talking, I'm thinking about people who set goals 10 years ago but then they just stopped setting goals because those goals didn't come to pass. How coin it today is goal fatigue.
Yeah.
They have goal fatigue and I wanna encourage somebody who's listening don't have goal fatigue Cause your goals didn't come to pass. It doesn't mean that you should give up on a full plan Absolutely and just like wander through the wilderness when you've been created for the promised land.
Yes, so every single time like so, what we do going into our year end offering is we have these cards that say what do you believe in?
God for.
And if you go back over my cards you will see out of there's probably 80% of the things that I sow towards and pray for actually have come to pass. I was actually looking at my card the other day and I was amazed to see how things that come to pass and there are 20% of the things didn't come to pass.
You can't let the 20% cause you to abort the 80%. You can't let the things that did not come to pass yet stop you from planning and pressing God. That's a word Like plan this year and press this year.
And to know that God wants you to have the desires of your heart, to know that God wants and is able to fulfill your dreams. I'm just reminding you. There are some people who they've been believing for a baby year after year and it hasn't come to pass. It hurts. Some people are believing for a spouse year after year and it hasn't come to pass.
They're believing for their spouse to come to know God or their kids to get off of drugs, and it hasn't come to pass. It will come to pass. Like I just wanna sow seeds of encouragement towards you, because sometimes it's so easy to hear all of the negative stories and the negative testimonies or the negative testimonies, but there are positive testimonies out there.
I'm reminded of some, a wonderful couple that we just became friends with. They're our age and we're in our forties and they have a two year old child, because when they had been believing God for a child for years and they just never had a child and thought that it wasn't going to happen.
When, in 2020, when COVID hit, she became pregnant and they have a child, and it was just like 13 years later. 13 or 14 years later, yeah, it's something that they just wasn't even praying about anymore, something that they maybe not necessarily gave up on, but it wasn't intentional, it wasn't in the plans anymore.
But God will come and take you from one level of glory to another. He will resurrect those old plans. Those seeds that you have sown, they're in the ground, they're still there. If you can start to water those seeds again, I believe that you can receive a harvest.
Yeah, I hear the Lord saying just don't give up, don't get weary, and well-doing for a new season. You shall reap a harvest if you do not faint Amen. Proverbs 24 and 27 it says do your planning and prepare your fields before building your house. Let me say it again Do your planning and build your field before building your house.
You know, I've been in real estate for many, many years and I'm always into development. I love to see new buildings coming about and what I realize, like even in some of our building projects, is the years of architectural work, engineering work, getting the land ready, the things that you do on the land before you ever erect a building.
And when I read Proverbs 24 and it says do your planning and prepare your field before you build your house, it makes me think that there are so many people that are trying to build their life, they're trying to build their ministry, they're trying to build their business, but they ain't got a good plan. They ain't got a good plan, man.
You gotta get a plan.
You gotta get a plan before you go out. You can't go out and start trying to build a tower and you didn't consider how much it was gonna cost the Bible says and then you're not able to do it and everybody gonna look at you and say, look at him, he didn't have everything, so you didn't have a plan. We have to be master planners.
And to me that's what goal setting is about.
Absolutely so we can't be afraid to go to other people. If you wanna build a business and you don't know anyone who's started a business or build a business or whatever, like that's step number one, talk to people who have done it and who are doing it. They will give you years of experience. You will do things that they didn't.
Well, you won't do things that they did. You know what I mean. You won't make the mistakes that they made Pastors.
Come talk to me. I've been in ministry now 20 years. I will tell you what I shouldn't have done.
Yes, and what?
I messed up. And what is that? To help you stand on my shoulders, my finish line should be your starting line. We need mentorship. That's a whole other thing.
This is the year of mentorship discipleship, but anyway, and the right mentors.
¶ Setting God Goals
The Bible says there's safety in the multitude of counselors, the right counselors. The right counselors the right counselors, not your friends, not social media, please not social media the right counselors.
You know I love it. You said Rebecca Tutu is one of my favorite, even before I was a pastor, when we owned a real estate company and I was in the marketplace. Rebecca, two and two, it always just. It struck me, it just spoke to me and I'm gonna read it.
It says write the vision and make it plain on tablets or tables that he who reads it can run with it. For the vision is for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and will not lie, though it tarries. Wait for it, because it will surely come to pass. There's just something about this principle. Now, for those of you all who are builders, listen.
The Bible basically says write the vision that you have, make it plain, set your goals, let your wife know, let your husband know, let your children know, let your CPA, your accountant and everybody let your team know. This is what we wanna accomplish.
Write the vision, make it plain, and then it says so that he who reads it can run with it. And there are some people that are sitting when they should be running. They are walking when they should be running. Why they don't have clarity of vision. There's something about writing your vision, setting your goals, that is biblical and powerful.
When we do it, do it.
I love it that it says at the end it will speak. What does it say At the end? It will speak.
I like the part that it will not tear and it will not lie. Wait on it.
Yes, yes, that's good, but at the end it will speak. While I'm planning and writing my goals, I want to what I think like from the beginning. I wanna say what does I want? What do I want it to say? If it's going to speak, what do I want it to say? Everything I do, I want it to be to the glory of God. How in my plans?
Because sometimes we plan and I believe we plan too small, I believe we plan without faith, we plan what only we can do, but are we planning something which will speak to the glory and the power and the awesomeness of the almighty God that we serve? So I think we just need to add that into our plans. What is it going to speak at the end of it?
What is the testimony going to be?
Interesting. I like that, and so I wanna go over with you and I think I have 10 keys here of how to set goals. Okay, and we're calling them God goals and some of them, of course, your goals need to be. You have different goals, you have health goals, you have career goals, you have financial goals, relationship goals, and then you have spiritual goals.
I'm calling it God goals not because all of your goals are gonna be spiritual goals, but we want God's backing and God's favor on every goal that we have, Meaning that if I don't have a God goal, I don't want it in my life. If it's not something that I feel is going to glorify him and bring me closer to him, then I don't want it.
If God's not in it, I don't want it.
Thank you for that so much. I appreciate it. How to set God goals. Number one go before God and ask him what do you want me to accomplish or do? Now, you had talked about how I do these planning praise, where I do two times a year. I go before God and I can say give me vision.
You just get a white piece of paper, some notebooks, and you just say God, what do you want me to accomplish or do? Sometimes God will speak to me and say this is the priority. Other times he will let me write down what I think and that he blesses what I think. It's amazing how God works as you begin to mature.
Sometimes he says let me see what's in your heart and see if it lines up with what's in my heart, or then he'll just say well, you go do that. Either way, I start with God.
All right holy spirit.
You know, tomorrow, today, here's a blank sheet of paper. What should I do? And I start putting down what I want to accomplish in my family, what I want to accomplish in my ministry, what I want to accomplish in my life, so forth and so forth.
And I think we could listen For me when I sit down with a paper. Sometimes I draw pictures. Sometimes God gives me visions. He might give me the vision of an object, an animal, something, and I'll say, well, what is this, God? And he will give me the interpretation for that. That's how God will speak to me about the future. Sometimes it gives me dreams.
The night before I was going to eat, my plan and pray, I had a dream. And so, okay, Lord, what was that dream about? And I can unfold that dream in the presence of God. So there's, you know, it's a natural thing, but it's not cute. Why is that cute?
It's just like he speaks to you and animals and giraffes and elephants, and then he, you know, to me it's very simple. I'm not as cute as you, that's all.
Well, I don't think it's cute, I think it's powerful.
Okay, well, cute is not a derogatory term. It's just like I just thought you're cute because you see animals and things, and then the Lord speaks to you from that. That's all. I was just thinking it's cute. Okay, I'll take cute back.
Well then, it's, it's it's anointed and discerning and prophetic.
It's profound. It is profound.
That's right All right, All right.
Number two All right. How to set goals is goals need to be smart. Sm a RT this is an acronym. Please write this down if you can specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time bound. Okay, specific meaning that you don't want to just say I want to feel better this year. You want to say I want to lose 25 pounds and this is how I want to do it.
They need to be measurable. You don't want to just say, hey, we want our church to grow. I would like my church to grow by. I need a thousand first-time guests, which will equal to 50% of people in the growth track, which will equal to this amount of people. You know it needs to be measurable, it needs to be achievable.
I think sometimes we set goals that are too big, mm-hmm, and I think there's something, there's an art to setting Small, bite-sized goals that you can celebrate quickly. It's kind of like Dave Ramsey's principle of a snowball effect. You don't want to start trying to tackle your biggest debt first.
You want to kind of go at it and look at the small things so that you can get the reward of seeing. You know, as in basketball we say, you need to see the ball go through the hoop, okay, and so I think there's something about achievable goals. They need to be relevant, okay, they need to be time bound.
It's not just like I have this goal, that's, you know, we're gonna accomplish it sometime before we go home to be with the Lord. No, I want to be. I got a one-year goals, I got some three-year goals and then I got some five plus year goals, okay. So goals need to be smart. Anything on that?
No, I love it. Number three we need to break them into categories. Okay, you got God goals that I'm calling spiritual goals. You have relationship goals, health goals. You have financial goals. You got career and professional goals Okay, and so, for me, my spiritual goals are like this Maybe I want to pray more this year.
Mm-hmm, I want to spend an extra 30 minutes a day with God. That would be a spiritual goal. I want to go on a missions trip this year. That would be a spiritual goal. I want to get into the leadership Academy to answer the call of God on my life. I want to forgive someone. I want to make one disciple this year. This is the year of Multiplications.
We're gonna multiply disciples. I'm gonna have at least one. That's spiritual goals. It's good relationship goals can be. I have a goal to have a date night once a week with my wife. I have a goal for us to have sex Twice a week instead of every 30 days. You know, I'm just saying in general. I have a goal with my children.
Relationship goals that we're gonna have a family night once a week. Those are relationship goals. Health goals I want to lose 15 pounds. I want my cholesterol to come down from 230 to 199. That's me All right. That go hit too close to home. I have some Financial goals. Financial goals is I want to pay off $15,000 of debt this year.
I want to pay off my car this year. I want to go from making 35,000 to 38,000 or 48,000 this year. You have career and professional goals. Okay, I want. I'm in business. I want to start another office this year. I want to make three hires to come and help me this year. All of those are Categories of goals as good, All right, anything on that.
No, you said it all right.
Number four is that you have to write the Goals down.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, goals that aren't written down probably are not going to pass. You need to write this vision and make it plain.
Yes, number five here I want to add, to write it down revisit the goals right Monthly, I would suggest.
I would say weekly if you can?
it just depends on what the goal is now.
You know you're gonna do it yearly and but some goals need to be monthly, but other goals need to be weekly. But I really think like you should write the goals down and put them in a place you can see them yeah, because out of sight, out of mind. Yep, right, number five is then you have to prioritize these goals.
All right.
Some are right now goals. Some of them are not as important. But as you dump all of the things that you want to accomplish on a piece of paper and you begin to put it in Categories as you prioritize it, the cream will rise to the top kind of you, know you'll be able to see. This is what's really important. This is the one.
If we did this, it's gonna make our whole life much better. All right, and so this is the process of helping you understand the goals that move the needle, the things that you need to give most attention to. Good, all right. Number six is give my goals a time frame. So I like to do one-year goals, three-year goals and five-year goals.
Okay, and so my one-year goals are really this is a new year, this is what I want to accomplish this year. My three-year goals I know I can't do it in one year, so I'm gonna extend it now. Five plus is more like vision.
This is where I want to get to, and the go in the theme is like if something didn't get accomplished in one year, I'll just move it to the next year. You know, and I'm always willing to kind of revisit, and what I've noticed about goals is that they move, they change with the seasons. Just like our lives change.
Okay, and so number seven is to write them down and put them in a place where you can see them. Okay, I said that already. You want to be able to review these goals, want to make adjustments as needed.
That's good.
Number eight is break your goals down into practical steps that you can take to achieve. Okay, now, this is huge. This is where resolutions get lost, but goals see it to the finish line. We need practical steps, weekly steps, daily steps, okay, so here's my goal. I want to. I want to pay off $20,000 of debt.
Okay, you look at your budget and you say I have left over $300 a month. How can I pay off $20,000 of debt? I might have to make this investment. I might have to reduce this expense. I might have to do this in the evenings. I might have to get a promotion at my job so I can get here when I get here.
That's the only way I can accomplish the goal, because the worst thing is to make a goal that's not realistic to get met. So you have to make the goal and then go back and say what are the day by day, week by week Strategies and action points that I need to do to reach that specific right.
That's so good. I mean, there's goals like that we can do in every area of
¶ 10 Steps to Accomplishing Goals
life. You know, if you have a goal to wake up earlier in the morning, so you want to wake up at 5 am In the morning, we have to plan for that. That means the night before You're going to have to, you know, do some things. You might have water sitting on your table. You might have. You know you had to set your alarm clock.
You might already have your clothes out, like there are things that you do to make sure that that happens. You might want to. Okay, I want to be more healthy. Um, you Like, don't start by changing your whole diet. Most of the time you're setting yourself up for failure. Let's start by drinking water.
Okay, so for the first 30 days of the year, I'm going to have a big cup of water with me everywhere I go and I'm gonna make sure I drink this water. Okay, now the second 30 days. Now I have water down. Now I'm just going to cut out eating dessert Monday through.
Friday, or eating past a certain time. I'm not going to eat anything after six pm. I'm not going to eat anything after five pm. Okay.
You're still eating all the foods you would typically eat, but after six pm, from six pm to nine am, you know what I mean? You have, you're not eating, you're drinking water.
You know, we did a podcast called Intermittent about how to fast and pray, and one thing that we didn't talk about in that podcast was intermittent fasting and it has tremendous health benefits.
It does.
It's like what is it? 16 hours of no food 16 hours yeah, 14 hours of no food.
It's the basic to go 12 hours, you know, and the kind of common rule is that you know we have breakfast where you break fast, I mean, if there's a period of time where you shouldn't be eating anything and doctors will tell you and science will tell you that that 12 hour window, like between when you eat your last meal of the day and you eat your first meal
in the morning, your body goes through so many processes as far as cleansing, breaking down food, getting out toxins, all of that Once you introduce food into your system. Now your body stops the healing process and starts to digest and break down the food that you've just put in. So it's actually it's okay to be hungry sometimes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think most people who really understand intermittent fasting will tell you to do all of your eating between an eight hour window.
Yeah, an eight hour window, a 10 hour window or a 12 hour window.
But anyway. So you were just talking about a kind of interrupted use. You were just saying that you want to. If that's your goal, you wanna.
Plan for it, set yourself up for success and then take baby steps. We all just wanna you know, especially I'm speaking for myself I just wanna dive head first into the pool, but sometimes you can go, take the steps and walk down step by step.
It's okay. Well, instead of running a marathon, let's start by just walking around your neighborhood.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So my goal this year is I'm gonna run the Boston Marathon.
And you've never ran before.
You don't even like running, you ain't got no shoes, you ain't got nothing.
You ain't gonna do that.
Why don't you just start walking around your neighborhood and then maybe you can walk fast next month, then maybe you can start jogging a half mile. Absolutely, then maybe you can jog a mile, then maybe you get up to three miles, and then just you know, let's see what happens. And so that's what we're saying when it comes to goal setting.
But number nine is ask God to come and help you again. So the first thing was to sit down with God and ask him to give you goals. But after you go through all these things, goals need to be sparked. Break them into categories, write down the goals, prioritize the goal, give my goals a timeframe, write them down, blah, blah, blah.
Ask God. Okay, god, now I have all these things, I've done the plan. Now, what you wanna change? What do you wanna highlight? What can you give me favor and wisdom with? Anything on that?
That sounds good, it sounds like, you know, sometimes I'll speak for myself, I'll go into prayer and I'm like la, la, la, la la. I'm saying all this stuff and thank you God, and thank you God, and you know all this stuff, and then it's like okay, boom, okay, in Jesus' name, amen, I'm out.
But then I oftentimes I'll hear God say wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. And he's like come here, I got, I have something to say to you. No, I have something. I wanna bless this and sometimes we'll make our plans, but we need God to breathe on it, we need his blessing on it.
We need God on all of it. Yep, and so my last one is this celebrate big time when you accomplish a goal. All right, and I'm like, oh, we accomplished it. No, give yourself a pat on the back. Okay, do something to where you celebrate you. You will celebrate your accomplishment. And for me, those are 10 simple steps of how to accomplish goals.
Okay, I wanna break down a little bit simpler, because if you are a believer, I think that we should set the God goals first. You know how I gave you the category of relationship goals.
Spiritual goals.
Financial goals, all those goals. To me, those spiritual goals should be first. Those God goals should be first. Matthew 633 says seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things should be added unto you.
If I bring that principle over into the context of goal setting, if you set spiritual goals first, all those other goals are gonna be better. Meaning that if you have a horrible prayer life and you never connect with your heavenly father but you have a lot of money in the bank, really what good is it?
To be honest, a lot of people have money and assets but they don't have peace and they don't have fulfillment because they have natural goals first, when actually I really believe that our spiritual goals should be first.
So what I want you guys to do and I'm gonna encourage you to take this assignment is I want you to start today by writing down your God goals. I want you to write down your spiritual goals. Okay, I wanna have this kind of prayer life this year. I wanna have this kind of study habits this year I wanna serve on a team in my church.
This year I wanna start to tithe. I wanna start to be more generous with my money. I've been giving this, but God is asking me to give a little bit more. I wanna go on a missions trip this year. I wanna lead a small group. This year I wanna develop the fruit of the spirit. This year. I wanna be a little bit more kind, a little bit more loving.
I don't know what your spiritual goals are, but I wanna encourage you to, right now, after we get off this podcast, to get a piece of paper out, and I want you to map out the kind of believer that you wanna be. This is your opportunity to put some things on the altar. My goal this year is to not use profanity.
Maybe my goal this year is to put down alcohol. Maybe that's you. My goal this year is to put down drugs. Maybe that's you. My goal this year is to put down unforgiveness, to put down self-hatred. My goal this year is to put down bitterness. My goal this year is to put down judgment.
I don't know what your thing is to put down, but that can be a part of your spiritual goals.
It's so good.
This will be your best year ever, if it's your best year spiritually. Let me say that again this will be your best year ever, if it's your best year spiritually. If this is not your best year spiritually, this will not be your best year ever. People might think it's your best year ever, but heaven will not be applauding. Okay, and I want heaven to applaud.
Well, you said this scripture seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these other things will be added to you.
Sometimes I think people think that you have to choose whether you want the spiritual blessings, like a closeness with God, a prayer life with God, the anointing and natural blessings like money in the bank, so living a healthy lifestyle healing in your body, the good news is it is not an either or Like I either get this or that.
It is a both and you can have it all Because Jesus came to give you life and life more abundantly. Both and Both and but.
I'm telling you the way that you get both and is by just having the spiritual things as the priority. And it's not that you don't have. You have the spiritual things as a priority because they breathe into the natural things as well. Hey, write your goals down and email us, if you can. I would love to get those in hand. You can take your name off of it.
We will have our team just pray over those. If you want to send your goals into us, we're going to have a team of people that will lay hands on your goals and we're just going to pray over what you're believing.
God for this year, I believe this that there is nothing too hard for the Lord, that all things are possible to them that believe that when two or three touch and agree, we have whatever we ask of God. Put your goals down and email them to us. We would love to pray and be in agreement with you. Well, we're out of time, sweetheart.
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¶ 90-Day Marriage Boot Camp Launch
the 1st. Okay, and this is a 90-day journey with Ken and Tabitha. Many of you all have been saying, man, you know what? Can you counsel us? We've been getting the DMs and we can't scale sitting down with all kinds of people. So what we've decided to do is turn the camera on and give you 25, almost 25 years of marriage ups and downs in a 90-day journey.
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