God Goals and Passions: What Is It?
When it comes to ambition, I believe deep within we all have dreams. We have goals. and we have God goals.
What’s the difference?
Dream: My dream is to become a princess. (Still taking offers, so if you know a Prince, do not hesitate to send him my way.)
Goal: My goal is to have a “wedding bod”. (AKA a bod that if/when a prince were to come my way immediately, I would be satisfied with the body I have and wouldn’t have to lose weight/diet in preparation for the wedding)
God Goal: My God-goal is this! It’s BAE and my specific purpose to catalyze a generation of women to know their God is and live out their God-given purpose.
…so how do we define a “God-goal”?
A God goal is that one (or two or ten) thought you had in passing that seemed too great to be true.
The thing that was in perfect keeping with God’s will in your life, that rang true and dear to your spirit and your soul for a moment was aligned, but you put it away in a little box in the back of your head deeming it “too big” or “no that’s not for me”
A “God-goal” versus a “regular goal” :
Hebrews 12: 1 - 2 perfectly unveils three criteria of a God-goal:
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12: 1 - 2 (NIV)
God goals impact more than yourself.
One of the prime factors that distinguishes a God-goal is that it will have an impact greater than yourself and accomplish a Kingdom purpose. A God-goal will show itself to be something that takes up its necessary piece in God’s eternal plan.
God goals have an eternal echo.
For all my lovers of Gladiator “what you do in life… echoes in eternity.” When God reveals this goal, you take part in the “cloud of witnesses” that have gone before you and will succeed you. It is something that will translate beyond this life and into Heaven.
A “God-goal” can’t be accomplished just by you.
Note that we say “need”, as in, God’s not your optional buddy for this ride, but He’s the one driving the entire thing and you’re a conduit for wherever He’s going. A God goal is meant to frighten the holy wows out of you. You weren’t meant to pursue it alone, and the position of impossibility is necessary as it is in that very limit of what you can do and what God needs to do that points only to His glory.
We’re beyond excited to see what God goals God Himself remind you of throughout this series! It’s our prayer that we can catalyze the boldness needed for you to fully live the life God has planned for you.
xx,
Jo