Welcome to the final countdown of 2025. Together, we will use these final days to fully seek God for guidance in planning the new year of life in the offering.

What will you do with 2026? How will you live your days? What will you pursue? Who will you become?

Life can just happen to you – or you can answer the call to live up to your potential as God’s masterpiece created in his image. Which will it be for you? It’s a decision only you get to make. You either settle, or you go for it. You either dismiss yourself, or you dare to believe God created you for more. You either belly up to the table God has set for you and dive in, or you refuse your seat and survive on scraps.

Within you and I is the potential to do really great things. So … why don’t we just do them?!!!!! For real – let’s live up to our design and dare to be and do everything Jesus says we can.

What if that’s what the new year is about?
About daring to live up to your God-given potential.
About doing the great things Jesus said you could do.
About becoming everything God imagined when he created you in his image.

You can’t live that life without seeking God first. Oh you can work and grind and strive and you can experience temporary highs and momentary successes, but they always come crashing down. Did you know people who achieve a big financial goal typically feel a depression after reaching that goal? You know why – they have the money, they are finally successful, they built the business, met the goal, but they still don’t like who they are.

Every goal you will ever have is a temporary high from which you will come crashing down if you’re not becoming who God created you to be. If the inside doesn’t match the outside, the battle will rage.

I’m a HUGE fan of goals. I’ve dedicated the past 16 years of my life to creating a goal setting system that really works. In the process, my life has radically changed. Yes, I’ve met some huge goals along the way. I’ve run the marathons, I’ve built the business, I’ve built the big house – then I sold that house and decided I’m better suited for being homeless and traveling, I’ve seen beautiful things and had awesome adventures. And all along, God has been sweet enough to let me do all those things while patiently waiting for me to discover something so much bigger, deeper and meaningful.

It’s not the goal you set – it’s WHO you become to achieve that goal! The rest is just details my friend – it’s WHO you are becoming on this journey. This is the journey of becoming the image of God. Becoming the reflection of his light. Becoming the bearer of his good news. Becoming the vessel that carries his Spirit and shares his love.

Does God care about the goals of achievement, the goals of success, the goals of personal dreams and desires – ABSOLUTELY!!!!!! As you surrender your life fully to Him, he becomes the author of your desires and they grow like seeds leading you to the live you were always designed to live, producing the fruit that honors him.

God loves goals and here’s how I know. God is a God of vision. He had a vision for his creation, then he spoke it into existence. And when he created you and I, he created us in his own image with the ability to share his vision, speak it, create it and live it!

The enemy of our soul also love goals. Goals that busy us, distract us, divide us and discourage us. Satan is happy to let you be successful and gain everything you’ve ever wanted if it means you lose your soul. Satan is always delighted to distract you with busy work so you never achieve your real life work.

But most of the time we never reach success – we’re down here struggling with disappointment. We’ve lost our confidence, forfeited our power, twisted our identity, and settled for lesser than versions of who we were created to be – and the enemy of our soul is DELIGHTED!

Well it’s about time that nonsense STOPPED! That’s why we’re doing GOALS and we’re doing them with GOD FIRST! Before you begin writing the things you want to achieve and the places you want to go in 2026, we will seek GOD FIRST.

I really do believe Jesus when he says in Matthew 6:33, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Everything else comes when you put God first. His kingdom means his way, his timing, his plan – seek that first! Seeking his righteousness means desiring God’s nature of being holy and true becoming your nature. Less of you, MORE OF JESUS. And when you do that, all these other things will be added.

God first, then everything else!

I’ve spent many years chasing everything else first and adding God in as the sprinkles on top. I never understood the true fullness of life God offers until I put him first. Jesus came to give us life, LIFE TO THE FULL – and he means it! Life overflows when God gets that first position.

So, over the next 4 days, I will teach you in very practical terms how to seek God first in your goals. And if you do, everything else shall be added to you. (Jesus’ words, not mine.)

We divide goals into 6 areas of life:
1. Spiritual
2. Relationships
3. Health
4. Home/Money/Career
5. Mind/Happiness
6. Fun

For each of these areas, we will first seek God’s voice and guidance for who he wants us to be and how he wants us to show up. How do you hear God’s voice? How do you receive God’s guidance? Quite simply – READ HIS WORD! Everything we need is right here, if we simply read it, believe it, and start doing it.

Today, we will seek God in the first area, our Spiritual life for 2026. How can we grow in our Spirit and become more like the girl God created us to be?

I have 4 scriptures for you today. Write down each one, study it, then create goals to apply these scriptures to your life. I’ll show you how.

Scripture 1. Psalm 37: 4-5, “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you.”

Delight in the Lord. How do you do that? The Hebrew word for delight is Anag. It means to enjoy God so much that your heart is pliable and can be shaped to align with his will, leading to truly fulfilling desires. This is the key to your heart’s desires!!!!! What does that look like as a goal?

Goal: Grow in relationship with God and let him change my heart.

The second part of that scripture says to “Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him.” Commit means to literally roll it to God. This verse in TPT translation says, “Give God the right to direct your life, and as you trust him along the way, you’ll find he pulled it off perfectly.” What does that look like as a goal?

Goal: Let God direct my life. Release control and trust him.

Will you trust God enough to let him into the dark corners of your heart you’ve hidden away? That guilt and shame? That hurt and pain? That anger and bitterness? While you don’t always realize it, it’s been eating away at you. What would happen if you really surrendered every corner of your heart to God and let him clean it out? Oh, I can tell you – You would receive radical healing. Your feelings would change. Your perspective would change. Your words would change.

Goal: Continual clean out of my heart and renewal of my spirit

Scripture 3: Psalm 25: 4-5 TPT, “Direct me through my journey so I can experience your plans for my life. Reveal the life paths that are pleasing to you. Take me by the hand and teach me.”

Goal: Seek God first for my plans. Grow in discernment to know his path.

Scripture 4: John 15:4, Jesus says, “Remain in me and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.”

Some translations use the word ‘abide’. Abide in Greek is meno. It means a permanent and active connection with Jesus. It means MOVE IN, not just visit on Sundays. We all want to produce fruit in our lives – outward proof of good things growing from us. But understand your fruit will always come from connection before it comes from effort.

Goal: Seek connection over performance. Stay connected to Jesus.

Begin with goals that flow from God’s word! Let him speak to you first! THEN EVERYTHING ELSE. Will you spend time connecting with God, seeking his voice, reading his word, and writing goals for 2026 from his word? Begin today with these 4 scriptures on your spiritual growth. Tomorrow we will focus on relationships and health! (big ones for the New Year.)

BUT FIRST – GOD!

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