New Years Resolutions With Dave Cialini:

Preparing for another year and a fresh start…

Setting Goals…

·  Setting Goals is about God’s grace and mercy

La 3:22-23 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Look back and thank God for His grace in the victory and His mercy in defeat

·  Setting Goals is about yieldedness to God

Betty Stam—“Lord, I give up all my plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Thy will for my life.  I give myself, my life… utterly to Thee to be Thine forever.  Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit.  Use me as thou wilt.  Send me where thou wilt.  Work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost.”

Sometimes God “redirects” us

Circumstances cause us to refocus our energies into different areas

·  Setting Goals is about the Glory of God

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.  (1 Cor. 10:31)

BE careful of personal ambition

·  Setting Goals is about pressing forward

Philippians 3

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

“I have not arrived…”

Mark – a visible line

The prize of THE HIGH CALLING—doing what God has called you to do

This is what our goal setting should be wrapped around

·  Setting Goals is about Stewardship

1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

Pr 27:23 ¶ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

***What are my flocks?

What is it that God made me the steward?

EPHESIANS 5-6

·  Relationship with God (Bible reading/knowledge and prayer)

·  Self—if you are not right, you are limited in how you can help others

Body—health, strength, rest

Soul—mind, heart, will

Spirit—relationship with God  “Man shall not live by bread alone”

·  Marriage/Family

·  Parent/Child

·  Vocation

·  Ministry—your particular ministry (choir, SS, Youth, Music), witnessing/soulwinning

Ministry is not just about quantity, but quality (deeper/broader)

How can I be a better minister (being vs. doing)

Look at Each role (flock) in life like a checking account…

You get out of something what you put into it.

What’s the balance?

***Be HONEST with your self and determine what is your present reality.

Decide where you want to be.  Forecast what you want your life to look like in 6 months…

Decide how to make it happen.

Schedule

Accountability

Mentors:

My Pastor

My wife

Good friends in the ministry

Great men of the past—EM Bounds, Spurgeon, Moody, Andrew Murray, RA Torrey

Those who love the Lord, yet work under me