#WordForTodayDevotional
Tuesday May 14, 2024
INGREDIENTS OF A WORKABLE PLAN
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Luke 14:28 (KJV)
Planning is a non-negotiable function for anyone that desire to walk in wisdom and make a mark for the Kingdom. The bane of so many believers both in their personal lives and in industry is lethargy in this area of planning. Planning starts with discovering purpose and receiving vision. Vision shows you your long-term goal. You would need to develop short-term goals in pursuit of the vision. After you have developed goals, then at the planning table, you lay out your courses of action and make a choice for pursuit. How do I organize a plan? Brian Tracy, the master of personal development developed an acronym that can helps us develop a solid plan. He called it SMART. When developing a personal development plan for work, you should focus on SMART goals. SMART stands for “Specific”, “Measurable”, “Achievable”, “Relevant”, and “Time-Bound”. Following this easy to remember acronym, you can improve both your personal and professional life. Firstly, your plan must be Specific. You must have an end in view to which you are working at getting to. Your goal is your vision. You are specific about your target because vision shows the end and you can work your plans from where you are now to that end which the Lord has shown you. Secondly, your plans must be Measurable. You must be able to quantify your goals so that you can measure outcome. This is very important. For instance, you want to improve the harmony in your family. You must identity in clear terms the points of disharmony. In planning how to achieve harmony, those points of disharmony must be identified and how to work at them clearly spelt out, so you can come back to measure how far you have gone in working on those areas.
Thirdly, your plans must be Achievable. You are going to take things one step at a time. Make plans that you can achieve with the grace of Yahweh upon your life. On the other hand, don’t allow your plans to be too easy that you don’t need the hand of Yahweh to accomplish it. Your plans must be achievable means that yours plans must hang on the balance where it will always drive you to Yahweh for grace because you wouldn’t be able to accomplish it on your own. Fourthly, your plans must be Relevant. Your plans must be relevant to your purpose and vision. Of course, we are looking at planning because it is the high way to achieving the vision of Yahweh in our lives, so they must be relevant to that vision.
Lastly, your plans must be Time-Bound. This is one ingredient of a good plan. It must be time-bound. That means, there is a starting time to take actions and there is a finishing time and a time when actions taken must be scrutinized to make sure they conform to the plan. Then the process starts all over again. In order to make progress that you can see and track, you need to document a detailed plan of action. Selah!
REMEMBER: Your plans must be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.
PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today. I ask for the grace to sit down and count the cost of whatever you are showing me by developing a solid plan in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!
PROPHETIC RELEASE: There shall be no more futile efforts again in your life from this day in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!
FURTHER READING:
Luke 14
ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
1 Samuel 24:1-25:44; Luke 8:40-56
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