To Achieve Your Goals; Keep Your Hopes Alive

Is year 2016 not your much awaited year?

Why must you now give-up on your goals when the year hasn’t ended?

Press-on towards achieving them!

If your goals for the year are SMART GOALS ...

Specific – Precise and definite

Measurable – Reasonable and quantifiable

Action-oriented – Pursued

Realistic – Sensible and practical.  

Timely – Stipulated for achievement within a time-frame

 

Then, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5,6 

As humans, it is easy for us to ask God to bless what we do but it will be better if we will discover what God blesses and dedicate ourselves to doing it. At that point, we do not need to struggle for goodness and mercy, they are already ours, following us all through the year. 

Let’s get down to the brass tack; many of us did not know that January was named after a Roman god called Janus who was said to have two heads – one facing the front and the other looking backward.

And that is a reflection of our lives … some of us cannot stop reminiscing on the goodness of 2015 whilst some of us would want to forget the year because of the inevitable tribulations and accidents experienced in the year. 

Whichever way, I have good news for you; God says, “Do not [earnestly] remember the former things, neither consider the things of old.  Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it?” (Isaiah 43: 18,19).   

Therefore, if you have been battered and bruised last year, God has now begun something great in your life and if He had been so good to you last year, expect better and greater miracles. 

How? Pray as if it all depends on God and work harder as if it all depends on you because my Bible says, Faith without work is dead; and as you continue in the habit of hard work, smart thinking and specific prayers, God will make you into a Star that will not struggle to shine, a River that will never struggle to flow, and a Chameleon that won’t beg for beauty and survival.

Hear this! God says the word ‘struggle’ has ceased in your life.  

Do not doubt God! His obsession is to be believed; His pain is to be doubted. That's why He says inquisitively in Jeremiah 32:27, “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there anything too hard for me?” 

You need to answer that question in order to build your confidence. 

Jesus once said to His disciples in Mark 4:35: “Let us go over to the other side.” He stayed in the yacht with them but he was resting – taking a nap when the storm arose, the disciples were sore afraid, ran to Him, asked, “Care not that we perish?

Jesus, Who truly cares, got up from his sleep, left his cabin, rebuked the storm sharply and it ceased! He then called the disciples ‘O’ ye of little faith.’

At exactly 12 midnight on the 31^st day of December 2015, we all crossed over to 2016 by the grace of the Living God.  You prayed, raised your hope, and believed in the prophetic utterances and the watchword for the year. Is your hope still alive?

Though, there have been contrary wind blowing since 2016 began – all I am saying is, once you are making your journey with Jesus, He will neither leave nor forsake you.

To achieve these goals of yours, keep your hopes alive;

Trust God wholeheartedly. Engage the Holy Ghost. Pray ceaselessly and praise God tirelessly.

Also; Look within yourself to bring out the best deposit in you. All you need to become all that God created you to be is already in you. Don’t be distracted through ungodly comparison and covetousness. You are who you are and you can only be the BEST by recognising God’s deposit in you. Stop looking for nuggets elsewhere; you are the shining element the world needs. What makes an orange a vine is not in the bushel, it’s been saved in the seeds since inception. That’s why we can count the number of seeds in an orange but only God can count the number of oranges in a seed.

You are a seed; be committed to God’s goal for your life. Nobody can say how far you can go until you have taken the first step. The only impediments to reaching your goals are ‘your thinking and you,’ but you’ve got to remind yourself or whatever storms whose and who you are. 

Don’t forget; 2016 is a Year of Supernatural Advancements. You may be reaching the last quarter in a few days time but God hasn’t forgotten His promises towards you. Go full throttle ... I wish you a glorious sail throughout the year ... Soar like an eagle. God bless!