Your Future Within Your Faith


What do you think your God wants for your future?




Would it be comfortable or sacrificial?




Do you see it in line with your interests and desires?




What direction are you headed now?




Have you ever had visions, dreams, prophecies, inclinations or voices offering clear direction on your life?




If so, how much time has passed since then?




Do you have the patience to prepare for whatever your vision is?




Do you have dreams for your future?




Is it hard to envision your dream actually happening?




Do you consider it a possibility?




Can you pull it off without help?




Do you have the patience to prepare through schooling, volunteer work, research and practice?




What hardships do you foresee along the way?




Do you consider these hardships a weakness on your part, or a necessary step in the process?




What considerations rank the highest in your future?

motivations Survival
motivations Human rights
motivations Future of planet
motivations Happiness
motivations Justice
motivations Relation with God
motivations Repairing wrongs
motivations Influence
motivations Avoidance of purgatory or hell
motivations Future of descendents
motivations Financial
motivations Family
motivations Reputation
motivations
motivations
motivations
motivations



Fears

What do you usually do about your fears of the future?

hopeMake inordinate preparations
hopeCower in fear
hopeTrust in your God
hopeFast and pray
hopeVisualize the best
hopeRun it off
hopeConfide in others
hopeSpeak promises into being
hopeGet worked up about suspicions
hopeTalk negatively



To what extent are your words responsible for things going well?



Do you believe that things will generally goof up for you?



Do you believe that your future is bright?



Which is easier to envision?



Is it possible to override your God's good plans for you?



Do you have any authority to override curses or things planned against you?



How do you acquire the trust that things will work out?






Think of some extreme success stories you've heard. What did the people attribute their success to?


hopeNetworking

hopeOthers' insistence they can do it

hopeStubbornness

hopeWhatever it took

hopeSingle-minded plans

hopeTheir parents

hopeDetermination

hopeOthers' prayers

hopePractice

hopeDoing what they loved

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What can you do to support others' goals?




What do you think is your ultimate destiny?




Do you have access to counseling consistent with your beliefs?




List five fears.


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3.
4.
5.



If you choose to break the power of those fears over your life, can the task be accomplished?




Do you create reasons for your efforts not paying off?




Do you spend more creativity on how it can't or how it can work?




If multiplication tables can be learned by repetition and hard work, can faith increase by studying it?




List some of your goals and ideas.



list



Now draw a pie chart showing what percentage of spare time you might spend on each in the next year.


pie chart


My idea development time



Which idea will happen the easiest?





Draw another pie chart mapping your level of belief that each of your ideas can happen.

Proportions
pie chart



My most obvious future successes
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