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30and His vision were clear in His mind. They were not set by other people. Yours shouldn't be either.Craft Goals1. Goals reveal your vision. From the vision statement of your life, you begin to craft goals. Goals simply are the statement of faith to accomplish your vision. They are the steps you must take to get to where you want to go. Goals take you to your vision and in so doing they help you accomplish your life mission. I know most of you are not accustomed to setting goals and some of you may even have a theological persuasion against them.I believe with all my heart that God wants all of us to set goals. Some of you say, \rather presumptive. Didn't Jesus teach in the Sermon on the Mount, 'take no thought for tomorrow%u2019? Didn%u2019t James say that we shouldn't say, \if the Lord wills?\tomorrow.\the New International Version, \planning. He's talking about fretting or being overly concerned. He's talking about an insecure spirit that sits around and says, \me?\about tomorrow.The teaching of James \remind us that any vision and goals we strive for should seek God's wisdom for its success; otherwise failure will be under His sovereign power. Scripture clearly, CLEARLY, points out the need for vision and goals. \discerning man keeps wisdom in view, but a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth.\(Proverbs 17:24) Do you see what that says? That says when you fail to plan you just go off in a bunch of different directions. You've got to have a game plan in life. Otherwise, you're just going to react from one crisis to another. You're going to be blown from one problem to another. Without vision and without goals, you're not controlling your life, you're life is going to be controlling you.Jesus commended proper planning. In Luke 14 when Jesus was trying to encourage \be\He said, you've got to count the cost, you've got to think ahead. In verse 28, He said, what man for example would build a tower without first counting up his money and looking at his inventory of supplies? He wouldn't try to build that tower without knowing he could finish. Or in verse 31, he said, a king won't go to war in a battle unless he knows he's got enough troops to do the job. Well-formed goals help us achieve a vision. They're good, they're necessary.2. Criteria for good goalsa. Relevant