Towards the Goal

STORM Students/Youth Retreat @ GAC VaranasiBy Mariyosh Joseph

“I press on toward the goal”Php 4:14

Towards the Goal – Sessions Overview

• Goal Setting• Personal Goals – An

Application Study from Philippians

Goal Killers

Smart Phones

Internet

Social Media

Movies

Books – Novels, Comics

What?

• Chetan Bhagat has commercialized his creativity to make the masses buy his books

• Two States - “he said, are you still pure or something, she giggled. What a loser. What is he looking for - ghee?' I asked. If there is an entrance exam for virginity, you can be sure I won't top it."

Goals for your Life

• Character Goals• Relationship Goals• Financial Goals• Spiritual Goals

Foundation of Success

“There is no effectiveness without Discipline & there is no Discipline without Character”

- Stephen Covey, ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’

Foundation of Success

“If I try to use human influence strategies & tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me & each other – while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity & inscerity – then, in the long run I cannot be successful.”

- Stephen Covey, ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’

Character Goals

If wealth is lost, something is lost,If health is lost, something is lost,

If character is lost, everything is lost

Character Goals• Loving प्या�रा�• Joyful आनं�दपूर्ण�• Peaceful शां��ति�पूर्ण�• Patient सहनंशां�ल��पूर्ण�• Kind d`ik• Good अच्छे�• Faithful सच्चा�• Gentle सज्जनं• Self-Controlled la;e

Galatians 5:22, 23xyfr;ksa 5:22,

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Character Goals

•HumilityPhp 2:5-7Php 3:4-6

August 2014

Yoshiki Sasai Robin Williams

Character Goals

• Gentleness (Php 4:4-7)– Be Joyful– Be @ Peace

Case Study: Joseph

• Robert Morris: Dream to Destiny- Genesis 37:2b; 5-9; 37:18, 19

• Changed Joseph– Genesis 41:25,

32-33Founder: PDS

Relationship Goals

• Unity (Php 4:1,2)

Relationship Goals

• Attitude toward others (2:2-4)

Case Study: Joseph

• Genesis 45:1-22 (5-8; 15; 22)• Genesis 50:15-21

Financial Goals

• Php 4:10-17–Content Living–Concern for Others Giving

Case Study: Joseph

• Genesis 41:48-49

Spiritual Goals

–Php 3:19-21–Php 4:8,9

Case Study: Joseph

• Genesis 39:2• Genesis 39:6b-12

Spiritual Goals• Know Christ More

(Php 3:7,8)• John 17:3

Daniel 11:32b

“the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.” (NKJV)

God has a Goal for YOU!

Philippians 1:6 (NRSV)“the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.”

Shine Like STARSPhp 2:15

“so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world.”

God is @ Work in YOU

• Php 2:12, 1313 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling

you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always

obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;