Goal Setting: The Key to Success - Part 2

Welcome to this weekend and get back To tell today's lesson had a sick self-centered attitude to a kite that you have the key to think that the remote God's very best for your life.

Are you willing to settle for just what you can remember. If you keep doing what you doing you'll keep getting what you're getting what you have to ask is this, do I really want the best that God can provide for my life and remember that we have defined success as the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants us to become and accomplishing those goals that God is help us to set if God desires that you succeed in life and he has a plan for your life, and he has equipped you with the Holy Spirit to help you giving you spiritual gifts to equip you, giving you the privilege of prayer to call upon in and given you, given to every single one of us is an innate desire deep down inside to achieve and to accomplish and you either follow that you had to put that the death some fresh because God's put in every single one of us. There is no way that you can live a life and waste time and resources in the birth gift of life itself without sinning against God.

It ends up being sin. That doesn't mean that you have to get to set a goal equal to someone else's in life you want to be like anybody else in life it's amount of God what you want to do with my life. What is my potential. What's your plan for my life.

What you plan the day what you plan three months now what your plan continues. I got what your goal, how do you want to say we don't belong to us as we read the Scriptures and remove run over. He says you are not your own. You have been bought with a price. The blood of Jesus Christ. We are the blood bought possessions of Jesus Christ. We don't belong to himself. We have a life to live a life to invest alike to counter the glory of God.

If somebody says to me, or what is your overriding goal apart from your personal relationship with Christ is what I'd say to get the gospel of Jesus Christ as many people as possible as clearly as possible as quickly as possible as irresistibly as possible to the glory of God. Now. So what is at my house that motivate me as my head motivates me motivates me to want to eat right, sleep right have enough recreation. I take care of my body as healthy as I possibly can watch because the healthier I am. Maybe possibly the longer I may be able to live and the more gospel. I can preach out of the preach of 40 years in the printed 20 years.

Why if it's amount of me taken care of this body and doing simple right things. I'm going to do my best I can.tomorrow tonight the next five minutes. But God knows is best. I know my heart and my life. I am motivated to be healthy, not so that I just feel good in all that the gospel of Jesus Christ may be preached and taught from this place as long as possibly, God allow me to do it so that's my motivation. Motivation. Motivation is and this will be healthy so I can this run around saying feeling good and just spending my time wasted my time.

I believe there's a sense of contentment is a sense of satisfaction that is a sense of happiness even in the process of pursuing goals that are life stretching, go, and some of them are those counter goals that which leads me to the thing that I will discuss here for a few moments and that's it.

That's why people fail the Citgo. A lot of people fail to send now ask you again, how many of you really and truly, if you could set three goals in your life and know that you could not miss. You could not fail.

What will they be well why don't people set goals number one let's give it the song they don't know how they honestly don't know how to do it and send secondly that mentally lazy sometimes. This minimize it when you sit down and you begin to ask the Lord to show you how and what he would have you to do, how he would have you to go about it.

Nothing but just buying this and having that, but maybe achieving this and accomplishing that maybe something is going to take you a several years to accomplish or to achieve most people they don't they don't take the time and the energy to think through. So one of the reasons is ignorance. A second reason is the fact that they are mentally lazy and the third, they lack the faith, why you know what, I don't think I could possibly let you know what is what odds are long time and I will try some absolutely fail at it in the trial nothing and totally succeeded. And that's exactly what if it is that this is better to try and fail, then need to say you know what, I just don't think I can answer the question what can you do what can you achieve if you let God have your full life. What could you achieve in life. One of the reasons people not set goals is because they don't have faith. 1/4 reason is because they're afraid yeah what you know what I set some goals in my life but you know what I'm just afraid I'd play will you know what, so listen distinguish now between being a failure and failing at something distinguish between failure and defeat. I may be defeated in this particular game, but that doesn't mean I'm a failure on they failed to reach that goal that that particular time, but you know what I'm gonna keep trying. I may failed to reach it on my schedule and I'm not going to fail because I'm gonna get there sooner or later when God allows defeat in the life of a believer. He's got something better in mind. I believe another reason I think is a lot of people think is necessary. Well, you don't want Citgo's love. Give your reason for that. And then something just shortsighted to his mother get it, they can plan today or tomorrow next week and next month but you get past that, unless it's for example ago about hell is that there somewhere. Our cars and the like that. But when it comes the many goals they just don't want to think beyond today this it will you know the Bible says we never know what a day may bring will thank God we don't would you know what, there's a God who does, and the God who knows what tomorrow is all about is the God who is helping you set your goals. He's not going to help you set a goal for something he wants you to accomplish or even wipe you out three weeks before you can, I got it not God's own outside the Bob's is. Don't you know that God is for you when you one of his children. He's for you. He's there to help you to achieve and to accomplish whatever it might be.

With all that in mind what areas of our life should be set goals and number one spiritual goals, so what do we mean spiritual go well let me ask you when you like to have a deeper relationship with God.

I'm not talk about goals and a few moments about being able to measure something so hold onto them easier as you might think what how can you measure that you can. Let's talk about spiritual goals. Let's talk about, for example, your prayer life. Let's talk about your Bible, your meditation and prayer time how much time let's talk about it a goal to learn how to share the people with other people. Jesus Christ means to you or maybe to start a Bible study your home or to serve the Lord the church will play in the orchestra so short range long-range immediate goals. Whatever now and for example, personal goals, things that you want to accomplish and she for yourself and then of course there are family goals for your family educating your children, buying a home, whatever it might be lots of goals for your family and then for example your vocation. You want to be. Maybe you want to be number one salesman your vocation. Maybe your goal is to it is a promotion.

Maybe that's an immediate goal. So you got goals about how you want to progress and that then there are goals. For example, in your social life, and you can just go on and on own dividing up financial goals.

For example, what your financial if your financial my financial goal is to be rich, forget it. That is not a legitimate goal.

All right, now how do we go about setting a goal not to say that you listen say man you not going to use all of these points for every single goal you not going to understand that, especially if it's an immediate goal for tomorrow. For example, every night before I go to bed or sometime during the evening I make me a list of all the things that I think I need to do want to do the next day, God get them all done, all good.

I wish I did know I don't. You know, under the next day. I guess I've scratched out the ones I got done and I just added to the next day and so every day I have go there immediate goals. I don't have to go through this process every night.

All right you think about this though, they just natural number I'm talking about things that that that you want to accomplish and achieve that are bigger than just your ordinary, everyday affairs, though some of them are extremely important and need to be a definite goal you set the goal tomorrow on the students and there are those that fit in that category. Well let me just start. How do you set goals for libel number one you ask God to guide you.

God, God need to set goals of this goal what it might be according to your purpose and plan for my life now listen carefully. Don't underestimate what God wants to do for you.

Don't underestimate that I get example, back in the early 70s Berber early 70s went to a stone mountain travel trailer said to the whole week and one thing in mind. At that point God what you will do with my life. What county goals do you want to sit for my life. Monday morning through Saturday afternoon faster than sometime spend time praying, writing them out as he got the seminar I remember.

Oftentimes I'd come up with something.

I think there is one more egotist as God said, write it down I come up with something else will. No way. Write it down so I came back home. I typed out every single one of them in complete sentences so that I know exactly not only what the goal was what was I willing to do in order to reach that goal. You know what everything that I thought was an impossibility and far beyond my reach every single one of those with a few exceptions. I so I have seen the Lord in these years accomplish every single one of those goals. I would never take any credit because he knows that when I wrote some of the Lord. There is no way that I feel you said right now I'm writing it down if you right now my goal is not of God, it won't take you long you pray about it. You know what you get this real empty feeling inside that's God's way of saying scratch that one that one of me. We can all make those mistakes to meet nobody is to list all perfectly here are God's infallible goals for my life.

No, because we don't make mistakes, you know what scratch those he's not disappoint. He knows this. We still got enough naturalness in us that we understand some, but not necessarily our number one person you want to do it number one is to ask God to guide number two you want to determine exactly what you want to watch this carefully. Listen, you don't want to be fuzzy. Get these three things three words then fuzzy, unreasonable, unmeasurable. So you determine exactly what it is that you believe God would have you set is ago.

Thirdly, you've got to ride it out if you still I got in my mind, forget it, because what you that you got to ride it out, and this is what you should write about. My goal is to finish college in four years.

My goal is to finish this seminar course in three years instead of four or my goal is to say this much money and how to put down the house of whatever the goal maybe you've got to write if you don't write it out is not going to work is something about writing it down to save exam you say what you are ovulating you want to redecorate your how she has been living same furniture, same place and move that stuff five years and you are you on the redecorate your house. How would you set that is ago.

My goal is the redecorate this house in a way that will be pleasing to God and to my family and talk with animals but that's something very specific. All right, not only you want to write it out, but you will ask this question. Does this goal, for God's purpose and plan for my life so Moses will know what he may have. If my goal is travel and I want to go.

For example, the selling of this residency valves I want to go to Australia. I want to go. How can God be in that well why don't you give them a try is when I discovered that often times I will set a goal for something, and this is my purpose and what happens when I reach that goal, I discover that something God help me, but you know what his purpose for getting me there and my purpose would get me there. Want the same in all and I found that his purpose a whole lot more important than mine.

So don't underestimate just because you have a for example you so I'm just going nowhere. You may get over there use a lot of it got sent me not you get all that God get you the convict.

Next thing you know, you come home you going back as a missionary. They got have anything do that yes he did. Don't underestimate God's ways and what he wants to do in your life so one of those steps is the question God, how does this fit your plan for my life now listen this next one and this will always be true understand them right then and away set a goal so high. If God doesn't help you going to fail said it so high you know that God doesn't help you do it there's no way to do it. We grow by being stretched pulled challenge our gifts and talents are abilities things that you never thought you had there. There because God is going to give you a go not equip you to accomplish it or give the resources to do it so set a goal (that doesn't mean every time and every goal but some of them high enough that if he does not do it. It won't get done and then his other big problem people have you got a set a date by if you don't want to date but you won't get there remotely said he can't be fuzzy can't be totally off-the-wall and it can't leave want immeasurable. If I set a goal I need to put a date down by because how my going to measure my progress. If I say this will take me six my want to get this done in six months and three months go by and I have even got started. That should tell me I'm not committed to that if I were committed to getting started that day and so you will put date down by you say will put a date down Bob Kumar goes in and then come out that way. We also we all sometimes it can be more optimistic than we realize, and so we set goals they don't, but you don't answer question if you set a goal and your date doesn't come up just right is that me throwing his awkward I was defeated know it doesn't mean that it simply means that in our humanness. We could not predict all the circumstances involved in causing some bit of delay and so what happened you keep moving on. Most people don't reach their goals. Just only the exact minute. This is the day and this is the day I got it. So what you know what your goal should be so important your life what you reach him beforehand because I reach Lebanon before the time and some after the time this making them this long as you reach it. As long as you achieve it a few days a few months even what year so doesn't make an image as long as you get what you believe God set out to you to have auto accomplish in your life. You gotta have a date and then his last without mention and that is you gonna make a commitment. If you send a here's what I desire, forget it. Here's what I've always dreamed of. Forget unless you put into a specific goal unless you make a commitment.

I'm going to work at this. I'm not do whatever's necessary. Probably this what God would have me to do or to accomplish and listen when you get committed.

Something's going to happen now own answer question if you knew you couldn't fail and you could set three goals for your life, what would they be, do you want God's best for your life. You just want to get what mediocrity will give spiritually, our unit condition that you can ask God to help you achieve the goals that you want to set for your life and if you keep doing what you doing you going to keep getting what you're getting.

Are you willing to change what you doing so you can get something you have not been able to get achieve something you have been able to achieve become something you have not yet become God is on your side is one of his children if you trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior. He's on your side to help you enable you strengthen you and encourage you, motivate you in every possible way provided the resource necessary to accomplish those things. He's going to accomplish it all begins with a personal relationship with his son Jesus Christ whose death at the cross atoned paid for do it then send that info in his death, making it possible for you to confess your sins and ask him to forgive your sins, receive him personally, as your Savior. And in that moment you become a child of God in all this all that God's promise to his children becomes yours for the asking God begin the work in your life in the most incredible invention. Thank you for listening to part 211 goal setting. The key to success. If you like to know more about her family or intense ministries and has started waxing this time is the presentation of intense ministries in Atlanta, Georgia