***And you shall know the truth. And the truth will set you free!!!***

Hab 2:1-3
I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected. Then the Lord answered me and said: "Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
1. Seek God for the vision
You got to see it to conceive ur vision...
2. Write the vision down
We have to stay focus on our vision to complete ur goals...
3. Obey the vision
Run after ur vision
4. Dun Dilute ur vision
Hold on to ur vision, It will come to past...
5. Have Faith in ur vision
When u have faith n vision of God, all things are possible...

Why dun ppl set goals?
1. Ignorance
So u need knowledge to help u
Hos 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge... Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
2. Laziness
U need to be diligence
Pro 13:4
The soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.
3. Resignation
4. Presumption
Pro 16:9
A man's heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.
Pro 13:16
A wise man thinks ahead; a fool doesn't and even brags abt it!(TLB)
Wise people think before they act; fools don't and even brag about it!(NLT)
Sensible people always think before they act, but stupid people advertise their ignorance. (The Good News Translation )
Luke 14:28 (u have to plan n check)
For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it-- lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'
Luke 14:31 (God expect us to plan)
Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
If u fail to plan, u plan to fail!!!
Pro 6:6 -11
Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, Which, having no captain, Overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep-- So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.

How to set goals the SMART way?
1. S pecific
You got to be specific with ur goals... Make ur dreams with Hands n leg so tt it can be fulfill in real life... Only clear goals leads to a purpose... Define it clearly!!!
2. M easurable goals
How would u measure ur success?
3. A ction plan
Faith is an act!!!
Gen41:28-31 (the vision)
This is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do. Indeed seven years of great plenty will come throughout all the land of Egypt; but after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine will deplete the land. So the plenty will not be known in the land because of the famine following, for it will be very severe.
U got to have wisdom n careful planning
Gen 41:34-36 (the plan)
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. Then that food shall be as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine."
Gen 41:56-57 (A blessing to others)
The famine was over all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine became severe in the land of Egypt. So all countries came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all lands.
4. R ealistic
Pro24:3-4 (TLB)
Any enterprise is built by wise planning, becomes strong through common sense, and profits wonderfully by keeping abreast of the facts.
Know ur strength n weakness and set ur goals as if u r alone n no one is helping u...
Isa 1:18
"Come now, and let us reason together," Says the Lord,
Ur goals got to be realistic doable...
5. T ime Conscious
Set time frame for ur goals...

But as Christian we shld set our goals the smartER way!!!
So with the above we shld also have:
6. E xpectaion Management
Be flexible and able to adjust when ur goals ain't progressing...
Pro13:19
It is pleasant to see plans develop. That is why fools refuse to give them up even when they are wrong.(TLB)
How good it is to get what you want! Stupid people refuse to turn away from evil. (The Good News Translation)
7. R evelation
We have to walk with spiritual revelation...
God's purpose is highter than ur Purpose... Stimes delay is not denial but it simply means not now...
Pro 16:1
We may make our plans, But God has the last word.(TEV)
Eccl 3:11
God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.
Rom 8:28
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha went to the town of Shunem. A wealthy woman lived there, and she invited him to eat some food. From then on, whenever he passed that way, he would stop there to eat.
2 Kings 4:9-10 (A plan)To make room for God
She said to her husband, "I am sure this man who stops in from time to time is a holy man of God. Let's make a little room for him on the roof and furnish it with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. Then he will have a place to stay whenever he comes by."
2 Kings 4:17-20 (Dream was gone)
But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elisha had said. One day when her child was older, he went out to visit his father, who was working with the harvesters. Suddenly he complained, "My head hurts! My head hurts!"His father said to one of the servants, "Carry him home to his mother." So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died.
2 Kings 4:31 (It is not a method formulae)
Gehazi hurried on ahead and laid the staff on the child's face, but nothing happened. There was no sign of life. He returned to meet Elisha and told him, "The child is still dead."
2 Kings 4:32-34 (The breath of God tt breathes life in u)
When Elisha arrived, the child was indeed dead, lying there on the prophet's bed. He went in alone and shut the door behind him and prayed to the LORD. Then he lay down on the child's body, placing his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on the child's eyes, and his hands on the child's hands. And the child's body began to grow warm again!

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First sermon of the yr!!! Plan ur goals!!!