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Great Goals, Great Sacrifice

The only thing free in this world is salvation from God through Jesus Christ, and that one’s free because Jesus paid the price on the cross. Eliezer had to pay a price to get Rebekah to come back with him and marry Isaac. Genesis 24:53 says, “Then he brought out gold and silver and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave expensive gifts to her brother and her mother.” Great goals require great sacrifice. If you are serious about getting a focused life, you need to ask three questions:
1) What will it cost?
2) What am I willing to give?
3) Is it worth it?

The greatest use of your life is to invest it in something that will outlast it. Jesus said, “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36 NIV) Don’t begin working toward your goals until you’ve counted the cost.

I pray that God will help you get a clear vision of what he wants you to be and do. And I pray that the rest of your life includes the best years of your life.

Patience and Persistence

Nothing great is ever accomplished without persistence and patience because, in order to be successful, your dreams must translate into work. The people who succeed in life are the people who are willing to do what they don’t feel like doing. They are not mastered by their moods, they are mastered by the Master, and they establish their goals and plans according to God’s will. Eliezer was a great example of patience and persistence.

We see his patience in choosing the right woman by making a detailed plan. He didn’t make a snap judgment. He wasn’t impulsive. The Bible says in Genesis 24:21 (NIV), “Without saying a word, [he] watched her closely to learn whether or not the Lord had made his journey succeed.” If you are going to really reach your goals in life, sometimes you have to delay gratification. You have to do the tough thing instead of the fun thing, the right thing instead of the pleasurable thing.

Any goal that’s worth achieving is going to have obstacles in the way. You need to have a long-term view so, when difficulties come, you can persevere knowing that you are going to get past it.

God’s timing is perfect and ours is not. When you find yourself in God’s waiting room, just be patient and persistent. A God-given vision will always be fulfilled.

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What’s Keeping You from Your Goal? Ask yourself,

“Why haven’t I reached my goal already?”

What are the barriers, obstacles, and road blocks in your way? It may be a financial problem or a relational problem or an educational problem holding you back. For some people, it’s an emotional barrier. A lot of people sabotage their own success because they think they aren’t worthy of it.

Whatever your barrier is, you need to identify it before you can move forward. In Genesis 24, Eliezer had a number of barriers to his goal of finding a wife for Isaac. He had to figure out how to get to a country he’d never been to, then he had to find the right woman he’d never met. And then he had to convince her to go back with him to a country she’d never been to and marry a complete stranger. Oh, and he had to convince her parents to let her go! Most people would call that “mission impossible.”

Today I have an assignment for you. I want you to write down on paper what your goals are and then I want you to list the barriers.

Why am I having you do this? Because you can’t remove an obstacle until you first identify what it is.

Ask God to Help You Get There

Once you have found your promise in God’s Word, pray and ask God for success, just as Eliezer did in today’s verse. Is it really okay to pray for success? Yes! If you aren’t praying for success, what’s the alternative? Are you going to pray for God to make you a failure?

Eliezer clearly shows us that it is okay to ask God for success in accomplishing a goal as long as the motive is right. When your success helps people and honors God, praying for success does not become a selfish act.

So my question to you today is this: Are you praying about your goals? Are you praying about your future? Are you praying about your dreams or are you just kind of keeping them to yourself? Your prayers reveal a couple of things. First, they reveal how serious you are about your goals.

If you don’t pray about them, you really don’t care about them that much. If you only pray about them once, they are not a desire, they are just a whim. The other thing your prayers reveal is how much you are depending on God to reach your goals. If you never pray about your goals, never pray about your job, never pray about your finances, you are not depending on God in any of those areas.

The more you depend on God, the more you’ll pray.

God’s Promises for You

The Bible has over 7,000 promises from God to you - promises of success, confidence, health, prosperity, strength, wisdom and more. Why does God make these promises? Because he wants you to learn to trust him. When you set a goal, don’t focus on the problems, focus on the promises. Find a promise in God’s Word that will take you to your goal.

This is what Abraham does when Eliezer, his servant, starts to worry about accomplishing the goal he is given. In today’s verse, Abraham tells Eliezer about the promise he received from God: “He’ll [God] send an angel before you so that you can find a wife there for my son” (Genesis 24:7b NCV).

You don’t need an angel because dozens of time in Scripture God has said, “I’ll be with you no matter where you go.” God is always with you whether you feel it or not. You just need to plug into the power. The size of your God determines the size of your goal. And godly goal-setting always starts with a promise of God.

Don’t look at your limitations; look at the promises of God.

Be Specific About Your Future

In order to get to where you want to be, you need to describe exactly what you want. For instance, Abraham told Eliezer exactly what kind of wife he wanted for Isaac. He told him to go back to the land of his relatives instead of picking Isaac’s wife from among the Canaanite women.

You will never reach a vague goal. The more general it is, the less power it has. But the more specific it is, the more power it has in your life. Ask yourself these four questions: 1) What do I want to be? 2) What do I want to do? 3) What do I want to have? 4) Why do I want it? You can’t just know the what, you need to know the why - that’s your motivation.

If you don’t know why, you will give up when it gets tough. When Eliezer heard Abraham’s goal, he started asking “What if?” If you listen to the what-ifs of your goal, you will fail because of worry and fear. You don’t need to focus on the how for now because, once you figure out the why, God will show you how.

He will help you solve the problems that stand in the way of your goal.

Focus Your Life The next ten years can be the greatest of your life. They can become a Decade of Destiny, where your life is focused and, as a result, you’re able to make an impact in all you do.

To get where you believe God wants you to go and be what you know God wants you to be, there are several steps you need to take that will get you focused — First, determine your present position — You’ve got to know where you are before you can know where you are going.

To do that, ask yourself two questions: Where am I now? Where are you spiritually, financially, emotionally, relationally, physically, and occupationally? What would I like to change?

In all of those areas you identified, what would you like to be different? God promised Abraham that he would become the father of a great nation. But in Genesis 24, we find Abraham is now an old man and his son, Isaac, still doesn’t have any children yet.

Abraham assessed the situation and, as a result, he sent his servant, Eliezer, to find a wife for Isaac. An important principle here is that it is never too late for you to make a change in your life, even though making the change may take longer than you think.

This is why you can’t procrastinate. You can either drift through the next ten years or you can have direction over the next ten years. God wants you to have direction.

Happy Birthday to me 🎁❤️💐

I don't need to write an epistle of the faithfulness of God over my life, the Lord has been faithful, Kind, Merciful and caring, no words can quantify how He has always surprised me with so many blessings, favour and Grace.

Thank you Lord, let my light shine so bright in this new season of my life that men will see the Good works you do through me and Glorify your name.

Happy Birthday, 🎁🎁❤️🎁💐🎉🎈

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That's amazing

It's been a while since I showed up before the new year I haven't been consistent on the Instagram app for some reasons which I think I should share but not today I will do that in my next post.

Looking forward to a beautiful time on this app, you all can make it a great one for me by liking, commenting and engaging on my post and telling me how inspiring, and educative you find my content.

God bless you all 🌹❤️❤️🙌🏼

I hope this message finds you well. Can you believe it's already 2023? Time sure does fly.

I just wanted to take a moment to wish you a happy new year. Here's to a year filled with health, happiness, and all your heart's desires. May all your dreams come true and may you have a year filled with blessings.

I am so grateful to have you in my life and I am looking forward to all the adventures and memories we will create together in this new year.

Here's to a fantastic 2023!

Best wishes, Sam ❤️🎆