There sure is! Applying the Biblical word plan for goal setting, its clear that God has plans and so do people. God blesses righteous plans and blasts away ones that arent so righteous! Above all, goals and plans are subject to the will of God.
Is goal planning even Biblical? You bet! God gives people plans:
[King David] gave [Solomon] the plans of all that the Spirit had put in his mind for the courts of the temple of the Lord and all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the temple of God and for the treasuries for the dedicated things. (1 Chronicles 28:12)
Dont discount goal planning as being worldly! Not unless you want to discount God too. But there are evil plans in this world and plans that are opposite to His will and moral will. These he will frustrate.
He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success. (Job 5:12)
The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.” (Psalm 33:10)
Crafty means the schemers, the no-good-doers, the plotters. The nations get into the act too. God works both on the individual and global planes of the world; He is sovereign! And he...