I have a goal that every year, I will make a goal to go someplace I have never been to, to do something I have never done, and to learn a new skill. I had not made those goals yet, but I just did. I just finished buying tickets to Oahu, where our daughter Sally and her family live. While there, I will fly to Molokai with my son-in-law, my grandson, and a friend, and we will hunt axis deer. And I just finished booking those tickets as well. I have never been to Molokai and never hunted for axis deer, but in a few months, I will have. Now, I need to think of a new skill to learn.

It is getting close to 2025, and of course you will want to have your goals for the new year done. Be sure you have a Bible reading goal, a scripture memory goal, a book reading goal, and prayer goals. One of your prayer goals should be to pray with your spouse three times a week or more. The prayer of a husband and wife is the most powerful force on earth for influencing our kids and grandkids. How could you neglect that prayer activity? Another super important prayer goal would be how many hours you will pray during the four five-day prayer events at JBC. If you don’t attend JBC, how many hours with your own church family? Corporate prayer is the most powerful force on earth for reaching lost people with the gospel. God didn’t give us prayer as a tool for living a more comfortable life here on earth but as a “big gun” for reaching people who are living far away from God and are headed for an eternity in hell.

Goal setters do much more with their life for God than non-goal setters. Goal setters are the movers and shakers, they change things. Make a goal right now to write some goals, a dozen is a good start.