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Knowin’ Where You’re Goin’

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Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

Where there is no vision, the people perish

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Setting Goals That God Can Bless

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Why Set Godly Goals?

• Provide Hope

• Focus Life & Energy

• Build Character

• Require Faith

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Proverbs 10:6 (NLT)

The godly are showered with blessings by God.

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What Makes Goals Godly?

• Based on God’s Values

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God’s Purposes

• Connect

• Grow

• Serve

• Reach

• Worship

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1 Corinthians 9:26 (NCV)

So I do not run without a goal. I fight like a boxer who is hitting something — not just the air.

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In a Race…

• You don’t set the finish line

• Progress is made one step at a time

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What Makes Goals Godly?

• Based on God’s Values

• Motivated by Love

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1 Corinthians 14:1 (NLT)

Let love be your highest goal.

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Love for God

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Isaiah 1:17 (NIV)

Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.

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3 John 11 (MSG)

Friend, don't go along with evil. Model the good. The person who does good does God's work.

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Matthew 28:19-20 (MSG)

Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you.

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Love for Others

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1 John 4:12 (ICB)

No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us and, God’s love has reached its goal.

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What Makes Goals Godly?

• Based on God’s Values

• Motivated by Love

• Only Achieved with God’s Power

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Galatians 3:3 (NIV)

Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?

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Proverbs 16:9 (MSG)

We plan the way we want to live, but only God makes us able to live it.

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James 4:15 (NIV)

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow.... So you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.

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What Makes Goals Godly?

• Based on God’s Values

• Motivated by Love

• Only Achieved with God’s Power

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Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT)

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will direct your paths.

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Setting Goals That God Can Bless

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