I love planning – a little too much. I sometimes make plans to make plans. One of my favorite sayings is:
“A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true. – Greg S. Reid”
It is important for us, as Christians, to make sure our goals and plans are focused on Christ and honoring Him. See the post 5 Questions to Ask to Check if Your Goals Are Godly, to help you clarify if your goals are honoring Him.
Here is a list of 20 Bible Verses about Goal-Setting and Planning. Enjoy!
May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!
Psalm 20:4 (ESV)
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
Psalm 37:4-5 (ESV)
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
Proverbs 21:5 (ESV)
But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”
2 Chronicles 15:7 (ESV)
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Luke 14:28 (ESV)
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Proverbs 16:9 (ESV)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith
Hebrews 12:1-2a
And the Lord answered me:
Habakkuk 2:2-3
“Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it;
it will surely come; it will not delay.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:13-15 (ESV)
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13 (ESV)
Commit your work to the Lord,
Proverbs 16:3 (ESV)
and your plans will be established.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:14 (ESV)
But he who is noble plans noble things,
Isaiah 32:8 (ESV)
and on noble things he stands.
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Proverbs 19:21 (ESV)
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
1 Timothy 1:5 (ESV)
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 5:30 (ESV)
Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.
Proverbs 13:16
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect
Romans 12:2 (ESV)
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 15:22 (ESV)
Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law
Proverbs 29:18 (ESV)