There is nothing passive about the word ‘PRESS.’ Press is action, commitment, and perseverance. Only when we press, we can meet our highest potential, ‘the mark for the prize.’ There are so many nuggets in Scripture to help us press towards our goals.
I can remember vividly the excitement of me first joining the family of God, a Christian! My energies were of 40 horsepower, happy to carry my Bible everywhere…
When we focus on God rather than others, we can make real progress with our goals.
1 Corinthians 9:26 says, “I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step.” In the second half of this year our goals and our movements have to be purposeful. A lot of goals were set, but how many of them had a KINGDOM FOCUS?
As we start a new year, we all focus on new goals or plans for the year ahead. Many persons set New Year’s resolutions on how they will make the year better than the former.