Theodore Roosevelt
"Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward."
Roy T. Bennett
3. Goals Keep Me Going
Goals give me hope to keep moving. Also, they give me hope to endure and persist.
Your vision gives you a purpose to get of bed every morning.
Goals Help You Navigate A Tough Time.
When you are going through a difficulty, what do you do, you keep going.
You don’t want to make a home in that difficulty, your destiny is beyond that.
You keep pursuing your goal in Christ. The way you can overcome is that you have a goal beyond your circumstances.
Jesus endured the cross because he looked forward to the goal and the glory that was set before him.
Hebrews 12:2 For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jesus looked beyond the pain to the payoff. We need to do that too.
Goal gives us that hope.
Job 6:11 “What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
NLT But I don’t have the strength to endure. I have nothing to live for.
You need a goal to keep you going.
A study was done on the survivors of the holocaust. In WW2 the Nazi’s killed 6 million people and many other besides Jews. They put them all in the death concentration camps. These people faced a lot of tragedies and hardships. They studied those who survived the holocaust and they discovered only one thing common in all those people.
Everyone of them had something to look forward in life. Everyone of them had something waiting for them. Every one of them had something that they wanted to live for. They had a goal.
Yes, they were many who died innocently. But most of the survivors were the ones who had something to look forward to in life. Some did not even want to escape, they lost hope and simply gave up their will to live and they died in the camp.
When we started our church, the congregation consisted of our family. What kept us going through those difficult years is the goal and vision that God had gave us.
When you have a long-term goal, you keep going.
Long-term goals keep you from being discouraged form short-term setbacks.
Everybody has setbacks, everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has failures. In fact, failure is the only way you succeed.
You cannot succeed in life without failure, because that is where you learn what works and what does not work.
That is why failure is not a failure, it is an education.
We all fail and the more we fail and the more we learn from our failures, we just need to keep moving forward, one step at a time to success.
If you are discouraged and feeling low, you need to set some new goals.
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I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.