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32don't want to do it here. Pick up and move.\I live to please you.\b. Abraham had a vision. The vision complemented his mission. \well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in every way. He said to the chief servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, %u201cI want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.%u201d (Genesis 24:1-4)Do you see the vision? Abraham knew God's purpose for him. He was going to be the patriarch of a great nation. But now for that to happen, he had one son, Isaac, and that boy needed to get married, so that he could have children and eventually that great nation could come about. So here's Abraham, in tune with his mission, and he has a vision. He can shape a plan to get Isaac a wife that will go along with God's plan.c. Abraham established a series of goals. He sent his servant to go find a girl from his home country. He said, I want that girl to be one of my relatives. I want her to be of my faith not one of these pagan Canaanite women. She must be willing and a virgin. Do you see all these series of goals that Abraham had for Isaac's wife?Now here is a classic illustration of what not to do when you're shaping your vision and goals. \me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?'\know what Eleazar did? He's understood Abraham%u2019s vision and the goal, but he immediately jumped to the potential problems. He doesn't even get started before he says, \minute, what happens if she doesn't come back?Never confuse the goalsetting stage with the problemsolving stage.Don't ever mix those two. Many people don't write down a vision because while they're writing it down they begin thinking about all the problems that may come up. They think of all the hurdles. I don't have enough money. I don't have enough time. I'm not smart enough. They talk themselves out of it. If you do that, you're going to fail with your life.d. Pray constantly.As soon as he gets to the place where he wants to find that wife, Eleazar bows down and he prays. (Genesis 24:12) While he is praying, Rebekah, the wife to be, walks up to him. (vs. 15) He then prays in front of the family. (vs. 52)When you pray about your goals it does two things. a) it reveals your desire andb) it tests your dependence. If I'm not praying about goals in my life, I'm saying to God, \need your help with this.\don't pray about, you%u2019re telling God, I don't need you for this. Your prayers indicate your dependence upon God. Much of your prayer list should be on the goals that lead you to your vision that fulfill your mission. That's not all of it. You should pray for other things, but a big chunk of your daily prayer should be about the goals that you have written down for your life to be what it can be.