When we make resolutions & don’t have steps for fulfilment
We’re just planning to fail
God has plans for us – we should have plans for ourselves
Planning is about identifying the steps to make your dreams a reality
Planning is about determining how to get to your desired destination
When we’re going to a place we’ve never been before, we put the destination in the GPS. We need to know where we’re going to know how to get there.
Planning is about taking back control
Taking control of our time, of our health, of our energies, of our resources
Planning is about determining your own priorities
3 areas in which we generally plan:
Plans focus on things – what you will have
There’s nothing wrong with that
1. God is the one who gives you power to get wealth, in order to fulfill the covenant. Deut 8:18
2. You have the blessing of Abraham – I will bless you and you shall be a blessing. Gen 12:2
3. A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. Prov 13:22
Plan to BE relevant
We have a plan to get what we want, but we don’t have a plan to be better
You will never experience true success until you know the value of Time
So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Ps 90:12
Know what to do, and when to do it
Schedules & Calendars
As long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest. Gen 8:22
Eccl 3:1-8. To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:
God puts things on your calendar
Ex 23:14. “Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year.”
Ps 81:2-4
2 Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
3 Blow the ram's horn at new moon, and again at full moon to call a festival!
4 For this is required by the decrees of Israel
Since God plans & schedules…
Stop doing things at the last minute
Stop living in survival mode & start living in success mode
Success requires preparation
Are you prepared for relationship success?
Do you have Cinderella plans?
Do you have plans past Prince Charming showing up & rescuing you?
May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. Ps 20:4
Are you prepared for financial success?
If you can’t budget what you have now…
God only blesses you with much, when you’ve been faithful with little
The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. Prov 21:5
The rich rules over the poor and the borrower is servant to the lender. Prov 22:7
Success Requires a Support System
Make plans by seeking advice. Prov 20:18
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. Prov 15:22
Stop “Flying by the seat of your pants”
Douglas Corrigan flying w/o instruments, radio, flight plan – Brooklyn to California
29 hrs later ended up in Dubland, a different continent, in a different direction
Live Life Intentionally
Stop just letting things happen
Make things happen
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. Amos 3: