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"How to Have a Happy New Year"
* Top 10 New Year's Resolutions -- none of them spiritual in nature
* Important to have commitments, especially in your walk {Isa32:8}
* Three basics of goal-setting
- Write goals down
- Read goals often & ask God for power to accomplish them
- Make first few goals most important ones
* Important Goals
- Bible-reading {1Pet2:2, Ps1:1-3, Josh1:8}
- Prayer {Luke18:1, Eph6:18, Col4:2}
- Marriage {Eph5:25, 1Pet3:7}
- Small group {Prov27:17, Heb10:24-25}
- Financial stewardship {Mal3:10}
* Three benefits of goal-setting
- Self-control {1Cor9:24-27, 1Tim4:7b-8}
- Motivation {Heb12:1, Phil3:13b-14}
- Joy {Prov13:19a, Prov13:12b}
* Other things to consider
- Do something never done before
- Learn something never learned before
- Go somewhere never gone before
- Ask someone to hold you accountable