A Biblical Discovery:
I've been reading through my Bible and just finished the book of Nehemiah. If you want to learn and study how to have a worthy goal that you actually accomplish... this is the book for that!
Step #1 (Choose ONLY one Goal):
As I started reading, I noticed that he didn't choose many goals. He didn't say "let's build the wall, the temple, the houses, the city... instead he picked only one goal: the wall. He also didn't make it a vague ambition or idea or dream. It was concentrated determined goal on one task.
"Most of the confusion and indecision found with the majority of people is because they want so many things they don't decide on which to accomplish first. And as a result they often accomplish nothing at all."*
Write your goal down and keep it in your pocket. This will help you remember it and its importance to you. Look at it every day until it's accomplished.
Write your goal down and keep it in your pocket. This will help you remember it and its importance to you. Look at it every day until it's accomplished.
Step #2 (Make it a SPECIFIC Goal):
Nehemiah was the king's cupbearer. The king noticed he was sad which lead him to send Nehemiah to Jerusalem. The king sent him with supplies and provision for the journey and repair.
"So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire." Nehemiah 2:11-12 KJV
Prepare and Define your Goal: Before he asked others to help him repair the wall. He planned and surveyed the damage. This helped him to define the right goal and to make it specific. He studied to see what was most important and turned that into his goal!
Step #3 (Is it WORTHY?/Stay FOCUSED):
Nehemiah was the king's cupbearer. The king noticed he was sad which lead him to send Nehemiah to Jerusalem. The king sent him with supplies and provision for the journey and repair.
"So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire." Nehemiah 2:11-12 KJV
Prepare and Define your Goal: Before he asked others to help him repair the wall. He planned and surveyed the damage. This helped him to define the right goal and to make it specific. He studied to see what was most important and turned that into his goal!
Step #3 (Is it WORTHY?/Stay FOCUSED):
The book of Nehemiah has many examples of trials you face with accomplishing a goal. People made fun of him, mocked and oppressed him. He had threats on his life and his workers. He had people trying to distract him and persuade him to do other things less important. He faced lots of hardship, yet he found strength in God.
"Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands." Nehemiah 6:9 KJV
This goal will take up your time and treasures. You will be challenged by others. You will have distractions and hardship. Is the goal worthy of all that? Is a valuable one? Have you prayed or talked with godly counsels on it? Do you have Bible verses to back it up?
"There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose, nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every sort."*
Step #4 (An ACCOMPLISHED Goal):
"So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. And it came to pass that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God." Nehemiah 6:15-16 KJV
FIFTY-TWO days!! He and the people built the wall in fifty-two days. Everyone around was amazed. Yet, because his goal was godly and right... and because he stayed faithful and concentrated on it, God strengthened Nehemiah's hands and rewarded his hard work. Nehemiah accomplished the goal he set out to do.
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal"*
* Lead the Field, Earl Nightengale
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