{"id":429,"date":"2019-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/13\/how-to-set-your-goals-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:00:00","slug":"how-to-set-your-goals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/how-to-set-your-goals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Set Your Goals (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Ask God to tell you who you are.<\/i> Bookshop shelves are lined with volumes telling us that we can be anything we make up our minds to be. And while there\u2019s some truth to that, it\u2019s not the <i>whole<\/i> truth! A dog may believe it can fly, but if it tries to, it will go \u2018splat\u2019. A fish may believe it can bark, but it\u2019s not going to happen. The same is true for us.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: we may pray, believe, claim, confess, and try all they want, but we won\u2019t succeed unless it\u2019s in line with what God called and equipped us to be. He told Jeremiah: <i>\u2018\u201cBefore I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.\u201d \u201cAlas, Sovereign Lord,\u201d I said, \u201cI do not know how to speak; I am too young.\u201d But the Lord said to me, \u201cDo not say, I am too young. You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,\u201d declares the Lord. Then the Lord reached out His hand and touched my mouth and said to me, \u201cI have put My words in your mouth.\u201d\u2019<\/i>  (Jeremiah 1:5\u20139 NIV) <\/p>\n<p>When God equips you with one talent He doesn\u2019t give you a five-talent assignment, and vice versa  (see Matthew 25:14\u201315). And here\u2019s the great thing: the one-talent person and the five-talent person will one day stand before Him and hear the commendation: <i>\u2018Well done, good and faithful servant.\u2019<\/i>  (Matthew 25:21 NKJV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask God to tell you who you are. Bookshop shelves are lined with volumes telling us that we can be anything we make up our minds to be. And while there\u2019s some truth to that, it\u2019s not the whole truth! A dog may believe it can fly, but if it tries to, it will go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}