Have a Goal!
February 28, 2008
By Gary Rogers
“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God
has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14, NIV).
The road to success is paved with resolute decisions. It’s a
joy to recognize college graduates achieving their goal regardless of age. I
love it when someone stops by the church and asks me to come out and see their
new car. I rejoice when someone smiling says, “I lost 45 pounds and feel better
than I have in years!” I love when someone after months and weeks and days of
counting down declares, “This was my last week! I am officially retired!”
A resolution helps you to aim at something. Resolutions let
you declare to yourself and those closest to you a dream, a desire, a goal, an
objective you would like to reach. This same concept applies to our
relationship with the Lord.
I love it when someone tells me they just received the
baptism in the Holy Spirit. I love when someone shares, “I just finished
reading through my Bible, cover to cover!” I love to hear how the Lord
ministers to people in their private devotional time or when families share
with me how they have remained consistent in their devotional time together.
What are your spiritual resolutions? What would you like to
accomplish in your relationship with the Lord? You will not accidentally read
through your Bible in a year. You will not automatically get up early every day
and spend time in prayer. It will not come naturally for you to hunger and
thirst for more of the Holy Spirit’s influence in your life. Each of these
comes only through a resolute decision to see it accomplished.
Please be encouraged to make life resolutions, but please do
not forget to include the spiritual priorities of life.
I’m praying that God will pour out of His Spirit upon our
church family in 2008. May this be our greatest year yet in building His
kingdom. And I pray that you have a blessed and Holy Spirit-filled and
God-directed year!
— Gary Rogers is senior pastor of First Assembly of
God in Coweta, Okla.
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