1. Life Plan: By priorities

2. What is a life plan? Priority goals, plans, and dreams for your personal life written down on paper for you to read over, pray over and follow all the days of your life, so that at the end of your life, your most important priorities will have been achieved.

3. Why have a life plan/ prayer list? To focus on personal Worship To aid in self accountability To discover and focus on your top priorities To aid in discipleship of self To prevent judgmental critical focus on others To help you teach others how to help themselves.

4. Getting started: Ask the big questions What’s your purpose? Why do you exist? What are you created to be ? What are you created to do?

5. Think backwards What will be important to you when you are 100 years old? What will be your priorities then? Go to the end of your life to discover what really matters. What matters to you the most then is what should really matter now.

6. What are the big priorities? God Getting to Heaven Family Friends Helping them to Heaven Helping others make it to Heaven Setting up the next generations faith

7. Discovering purpose by priorities

8. Top Priorities God: Worship Him Following Jesus Christ: Walk with Him Family: Walk in love Love others: Witness to seekers of God Love: Work to build the Body of Christ

9. Scriptural basis for life plan

10. Deuteronomy 17:18 “When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priest, who are Levites. It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.”

11. Deuteronomy 17 Applied The King would have personal time w/ God The King could hold himself accountable The King would be better in discipleship of self The King would be more humble, less hypocritical/ critical The King would be better equipped to help others

12. Nehemiah 9:38 “In view of all this we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priest are affixing their seals to it.”

13. Nehemiah 9 Applied Goals and commitments that are not written down are easy to forget. Written commitments are more binding. Written agreements are more likely to be kept.

14. DC Regional Church Leadership The blind cannot lead the blind… First take the plank out of eye…then help others… Every leader is expected to have a life plan

15. DON’T PROCRASTINATE You can do it. Put it in writing. Start today. It’ll take some time to complete. Pray over it daily. Hold yourself accountable to what matters to you most. Share your Life Plan/ Prayer list with your spiritual instructors and friends.