2028 2026 GOAL WRITING – Part 3 of 4

Home/Money/Career

Does God care about where you live, where you work, how much money you make and how you spend it? Absolutely. Jesus tells us to look at the birds and notice how God takes care of them, then know how much more valuable you are than the birds to God. Jesus tells us God is so intimately involved in the details of your life that he numbers the hairs on your head. NUMBERS. Not only counted, but numbered. Meaning when one hair falls out, he knows precisely which hair it was. And if God has the care and capacity to number your hairs, then I assure you he has the capacity to care about your home, your work and your money.

Also, be aware of this – Satan loves to meddle in these things as well. He schemes in Hell how he can bring chaos and disorder to your home. How he can make you miserable in your work. How he can make you so consumed with the pursuit of money that your priorities become twisted. How he can make you continually unhappy because of what you don’t have and miss the blessing of what you do have.

The spiritual battle is for real over your home, over your money and over your work. God wants to bless you, and Satan wants your blessings to become burdens. And that is why we must seek God for our goals. How do you live in the blessings without them becoming burdens? How do you pursue good things without the pursuit consuming you? How do you get every single thing God has for you without getting what the enemy pushes on you?

Today, we will look at 5 scriptures directly from God’s word for guidance in setting our home/money/career goals for 2026.

Scripture 1: Matthew 25:29, “To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away.”

Here’s what God knows – If you won’t take care of the little house, you most certainly won’t take care of the new big house. If you won’t show up on time for your hourly pay job, you won’t show up on time for your higher level promotion. If you don’t spend $100 wisely, you certainly wouldn’t spend a million wisely. We are continually revealing what we will do with more.

Scripture says God has the ability and resources to generously provide everything you need. There’s nothing he can’t do and nothing he can’t give. It’s all under his power. We also know God is not a greedy God, but he is gracious and generous in abundance. He likes to pour to not just fill your cup, but overflow your cup. But, God is not foolish or reckless. In his divine wisdom, he watches to see how you use what you are given before giving you more.

What if our prayer shifted from “Lord, give me more” to “Lord, I want to be faithful with what I already have. Thank you for this, now I want to use it well.”

GOALS:
• Be faithful with the work I have.
• Care for what I have been given with delight.
• Waste nothing.

Scripture 2: Romans 12:13, “When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality.”

We aren’t given homes to hide behind our doors and create our safe little spaces. We aren’t given money to keep buying more stuff so we can hoard our treasures. We are entrusted with homes to offer hospitality. We are entrusted with things to give them. Out of greed, cynicism and self-protection, we have closed our doors, closed our hands and closed our hearts. God says, OPEN THEM BACK UP!

Have you ever prayed for God to show you the needs around you, then you suddenly started noticing people you’ve never noticed before? Why are these needs around you? Because God put you in the middle of them to help! Stop falling for your own fear-driven excuses of not having time, not know what to do, and not being good enough to help. God wants to make you EAGER to help in 2026!

GOALS:
• Open my home, open my hands and open my heart to help
• Be moved by what moves God, then get in motion
• Offer my time, talents and treasures with no strings

Scripture 3: Proverbs 2:9-10, “Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine.”

I don’t have barns with grain, nor do I have vats with wine, but I do have a business – I do have a family – I do have a bank account. And I know without a doubt those things get filled when I honor God by offering my best. God’s economy works very different. His math doesn’t make sense. The more you give him, the more you somehow end up having.

God doesn’t want your leftovers, he wants your best. You honor him by offering your best. In a very practical sense, this means making everything you have an available offering. Have you ever given away something you really love? Just how good did that feel? Gosh, nothing compares to the feeling of blessing someone else with what you have. And that good feeling isn’t an accident – it’s by God’s great design. You and I are literally designed to feel a level of joy and contentment unlike any other when we are ridiculously generous.

GOALS:
• Be ridiculously generous
• Tithe faithfully and joyfully
• Give away great things

Scripture 4: Matthew 6:21, “Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.”

If what you treasure most is building a business, then business will consume you. The rest of your life may very well fall apart because your heart simply never leaves work. If what you treasure most is building your fortune, then money will turn you into a person you never wanted to be. If what you treasure most is fame, praise, comments, affirmations, likes and shares, you will be consumed with what everyone thinks of you and says about you. The world in your phone will become more valuable that the real world where you live and your heart will be stuck in your phone.

Your heart will always be where your treasures are. This is a priority issue, and 99% of us have a real priority issue. Oh Lord, please help us realign our priorities. God teaches us to seek him FIRST, then everything else will be given to us. God says to love him with your whole heart, soul and mind AND love your neighbor as yourself.

Our priority issues are heart issues. We waste our time, we waste our money, we invest in things that simply don’t matter because our hearts are always set on what we treasure most.

GOALS:
• Get my priorities right
• God first, then everything else
• No more wasting time or money
• Be in my REAL life

Scripture 5: Colossians 3: 23-24, “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Remember that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward, and the Master you are serving is Christ.”

Whatever your work is, you don’t have to be miserable in it. No matter how ungrateful your boss or your family might be, remember this – God sees your work and He will reward you! So, do your work for God.

A funny thing happens within us when we do the absolute best work we can – we actually feel our best. Again, not an accident. That’s by God’s divine design. He put within you confirmations of when you’re really doing this thing right! Nothing feels better than doing the work, and doing it right! Cutting the corners and doing just enough to get by is a trick of the enemy that steals your joy and zaps your energy. Start doing your best again at whatever you’re doing, like you’re really doing it for God – because actually you are!

GOALS:
• Give my best effort
• Offer my work as worship

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MIND/HAPPINESS

What an area of attack this has been for the enemy. Our mental health is a wreck, our happiness is so surface level and fleeting. This is NOT God’s desire, plan or will for a single one of his girls. It’s time we stop settling for a life overwhelmed by depression, anxiety, worry and fear. Take your peace back. Take your joy back. In the name of Jesus, take back everything the enemy stole.

We are actively participating in the very things that are wrecking our lives and our addictions have put us under a spell to just keep doing it. Statics show cutting and self harm tripled in teenage girls once social media was introduced. Suicide increased by 151% with social media. We’re more connected than ever, yet so totally disconnected. We are now more fragile, more anxious, more depressed, more fearful, and more unproductive than ever in the history of mankind. We are seduced and manipulated into being zombies – and we’re very unhappy zombies at that.

So, what are you going to do about that? What is God telling you to do about that?

Scripture 1: Romans 12:2, “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.”

Let GOD transform you by changing the way you think. The world has made you think in a way that doesn’t align with God. You can’t just keep copying the patterns of the world. You can’t keep doing what everyone else is doing. It’s time to be different! God wants us to be different.

God, how do you want to transform me into a new person. What patterns have I gotten into that have warped my thoughts? What has made me negative? What has made me cynical? What has turned me bitter? What has made me harsh? What has me absent, scattered, disconnected, rushed, unproductive? Where has the enemy hijacked my mind and stolen my contentment? Help me to take it back!

GOALS:
• Drastically limit screen time
• Delete social media
• Dedicated unplugged time
• Ditch my phone and get a Bible
• Be different with Jesus
• Take back my time
• Take back my happiness

Scripture 2: Philippians 4: 6-7, “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.”

I mean basically this scripture says it all and write our goals for us!

GOALS:
• Trade worry for prayer
• Journal my prayers
• Live in gratitude
• Seek God and receive peace

Scripture 3: Philippians 4:8, “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”

Fix your thoughts – wow, maybe it’s your thoughts that are broken and you need to fix them. Hey, I know the healer!!!!

Your thoughts are 100% up to you. And what you think about affects the way you feel. The way you feel affects the way you show up for life. Change your thoughts and you will change your life. God has given that divine power uniquely to us, and only us. And, his word has given us a list of things to think about. Now, take captive your thoughts, don’t let your mind run wild, and MAKE your thoughts them be obedient.

GOALS:
• Think about what’s good, right, working & coming together
• Look for, notice & talk about the good
• Take my thoughts captive

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