What does the coming year look like for you? Will you be expecting great things from God and attempting great things for God? (Hat tip to William Carey!) Recently when people have asked how they can pray for me, I’ve been sharing a desire to know God’s plans, purposes, and dreams for me and through me in 2020. I’m feeling ready for fresh direction and big challenges.
Being prone to both delusion and sloth, I know I’d best get in league with like-minded buds or that vision could all be for naught. I need people to dream and scheme with, to push and be pushed by. Maybe many of us need people who’ll ask, “Are you doing what it takes to get done what you’ve determined to do?”
Toward that end, a good friend and I are beginning this morning to read through Goals! How to Get Everything You Want—Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible. I hope reading this book together will culminate in some pretty serious goal setting next month.
If you want to set great goals but struggle with motivation to actually do so, check out this brief article on the brain science behind goals. Apparently setting your mind on challenging goals that also capture your heart actually rewires your brain to accomplish them!
And as mission mobilizers we need big, biblically sound, do-it-or-die-trying goals. The harvest is indeed plentiful, the laborers yet few. God is inviting the likes of you and me to rally, equip, and release laborers into his harvest.
If you’d benefit from sharing your goal journey but don’t have a pre-formed fellowship with which to do it, shoot me an email. I’d be happy to hear what you’re hearing from God, dream with you, and cheer you on to completion. And I wouldn’t hate having your input on my goals!