BENEFITS OF SETTING GOALS 

#1

GOALS ARE NECESSARY TO SUCCEED. 

  • (No goals = No future success)

2 Chronicles 7:11 (AMP) And so Solomon finished the house (temple) of the Lord and the palace of the king. He successfully accomplished all that he had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his palace. 

  • Success: (dictionary definition) the accomplishment of one’s goals.

    • #2

    GOALS DELIVER US FROM LIVING IN THE PAST. 

    • (Goals push us forward.)

    Philippians 3:13-15 (GNT) 13 Of course, my friends, I really do not think that I have already won it (achieved it all); the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead.14 So I run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above. 

    • A. Without goals we are going backwards. (Goals put your life in Drive. In life, there are only two gears in the transmission, Drive or Reverse, no Neutral.)
    Proverbs 29:18 (BRG) Where there is no vision, the people perish: …
    • Perish: (para) go backward, are barren, are non-productive, become naked and ashamed, are zeroes (accomplish nothing that is meaningful and honorable .), cast of restraint (no longer practice self-control, lose morals and conviction.)

    #3

    WHEN WE HAVE A GOAL, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL GUIDE US EVERY STEP OF THE WAY TO ACHIEVE IT. 

    (What comes with Goals and Vision is divine direction and support. No use for a GPS if you have no desired destination. The GPS only works when you have a specific address or location.)

    Isaiah 30:21 (TLV) 21 Your ears will hear a word behind you saying: “This is the way, walk in it. When you turn to the right, or when you turn to the left.”

    #4

    GOALS KEEP US FROM WASTING TIME AND FALLING FOR TEMPTATION.

    (A great goal will give us the ability to say No to non productive and harmful activities and meetings. Wasting time and distractions are harmful to our future success.)

    Nehemiah 6:2-3 (TLV) 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they were scheming to do me harm. 3 So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am doing an important work, so I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?” 

  • A. DAVID’S LOSS OF FOCUS ON HIS SPIRITUAL GOAL AND PURPOSE CAUSED HIM TO REPLACE IT WITH A LUSTFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE ONE. (Either we are moving towards a worthy and Godly goal or a destructive and demonic one. When we are not where we are supposed to be doing what we are called to do by default we will be where we are not supposed doing what we shouldn’t. Many a man/woman have falling from Grace when they lost track of their God given call and vision for their lives.)
    • 2 Samuel 11:1-2 (CEB) 1 In the spring, when kings go off to war, David sent Joab, along with his servants and all the Israelites, and they destroyed the Ammonites, attacking the city of Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. 2 One evening, David got up from his couch and was pacing back and forth on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. 3 David sent someone and inquired about the woman. The report came back: “Isn’t this Eliam’s daughter Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 So David sent messengers to take her. When she came to him, he had sex with her. (Now she had been purifying herself after her monthly period.) Then she returned home.

    #5

    GOALS WILL HELP US DEFEAT WORRY AND DEPRESSION. 

    (Prayer is setting our minds on what we desire (specific Goal, petition) and asking Him to help us achieve it. Without prayer all we can see is what is -not what can be. Worry is believing and focusing that something bad is going to happen to us in our future instead of something good. A person without a prayer is a person without faith. We must continue to keep our goals in front of us and in front of God through prayer. Prayer supernaturally empowers our God given Goals and dreams.)

    Philippians 4:6 (AMP) Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God. 

    • A. We can not worry or be depressed when we have faith that the goal that we are desiring is actually going to happen. (When have a vision/goal and believe with all our heart that it will come to pass their is no way we can be worried and depressed at the same time.) 

    Hebrews 11:1 (TLB) What is faith? It is the confident assurance that something we want (desire/prayer/goal/vision) is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead.

    #6

    AN ACCOMPLISHED GOAL QUALIFIES US FOR A GREATER VISION/GOAL FROM GOD. 

    (The Lord visited Him again with further instructions only after Solomon achieved everything that he set his heart on doing. We should not expect for God to give us a greater vision and assignment when we haven’t accomplished the last vision/goal that he gave us.)

    1 Kings 9:1-2 (MSG) 1-2 After Solomon had completed building The Temple of God and his own palace, all the projects he had set his heart on doing, God appeared to Solomon again, just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

    #7

    ACHIEVING GOALS ALLOWS US TO HELP OTHERS ACHIEVE GOALS.

    Philippians 2:4 (EASY) Do not think only about the things that you want to do for yourself. Each of you should think also about how you can help other people.

    QUESTION: WHAT ARE YOUR TOP “3” 90 DAY GOALS?

    D.G GOAL: EVERYONE OF US LAUNCH ONE D.G AND HELP OF OUR D.G LEADERS TO DO THE SAME IN NEXT “90 DAYS”.