Start Strategizing
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its storerooms, its upper parts, its inner rooms and the place of atonement. 1 Chronicles 28:11
King David came up with a plan for building the temple, but his son Solomon actually built it. Question: Do you have a strategy for fulfilling your dream? Are you working on it? Or are you waiting for someone like a fairy godmother to come along and bail you out? The only thing worse than having no dream is having one without a plan to make it a reality. A strategy gives you energy, direction and focus. A study was conducted on how infrequently people develop strategies for achieving their dreams. Here’s what it revealed: 26% focus on specific, tangible targets for what they want in life; 19% set goals aligned with their purpose, mission, and passion; 15% write down their goals in specific measurable detail; 12% maintain a clearly defined goal for every major interest and life role; 12% identify related daily, weekly and long-term goals with deadlines. Only 7% take daily action toward the attainment of at least one goal. Here’s a comment from the study’s authors: ‘Americans, once again, get an ‘F’ in this critical area of their performance. Simply put, they fail to consistently take the actions necessary to move their dreams and visions out of their hearts and heads and into their lives’. Dreams don’t come true because you ‘wish upon a star’. They come true because you seek God for direction, put them down on paper with specific actions and timelines, become accountable to yourself—and if you’re wise, to somebody else too. So the word for you today is, ‘Stop stargazing and start strategizing’.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, help me to accomplish Your dreams that you have given me that you want me to fulfill. In Jesus’ Name, Amen
Hi Betty, You are so welcome. Sounds like you are dealing with an immense battle. I will continue to pray for you. You are wise to hold fast to God. He does love us so, even in the midst of terrible suffering God bless you, Betty.
Sounds simple. But what do you tell a woman whose son has been in and out of hospice for over a year? How does she do “family” with her husband and 4 other children? How does she do “couple”? What do you tell the woman who spends most of her life in bed, unable to “go” or “do”? It will get better? It’s been 15 years? A dream? A plan? What do you tell the woman who has rejected her and their children and has chosen another woman? Or how about the woman who sits next to her husband in a sick bed? A dream? The only one I can see is Heaven.
I will pray for you, Betty.
Thank you. Sometimes life is so overwhelming. I praise God that He is in control.
Hi Betty, How are you today? Hope you have received some peace from God Let me know. Dawn
I suffer physically. I never know when the pain will be the worst. It was yesterday and today. I miss being with my Family. God is near and I try to hold tightly as I do devotions and Bible studies, but the depression has been overwhelming. I just can’t seem to get up. There are many things in my life that aren’t “good”. That, I’m sure, can be said for us all. God will bring me through. He always has, but I’m not in a good place and don’t know how to get there. Thank you for asking, caring, praying. God provides.