SELDI Podcast with Tony Williams

"Planning With God! - Vision 2026!"...

• Tony Williams

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Greetings, my friends.

Let's begin 2026 with a God-centered vision and plan that fills you with hope and confidence, knowing He guides your steps. 

I am sharing a simple, repeatable way to move from anxious goal-setting to a grounded vision shaped by intimacy with God, anchored in Matthew 6:33 and Proverbs 3:5–6. Instead of guessing your way forward, learn how to listen well, write clearly, and act boldly with a peace that lasts.

Today, you can begin by being alone with God. A quiet-time rhythm, practiced consistently, that unlocks clarity through unhurried moments with a Bible, a notebook, and clear guidance, helping you experience God's presence and direction more deeply. 

Listening to and trusting God strengthens you — building resilience, surfacing the right opportunities, and giving you the courage to face the impossible. 

There is a vast difference between self-powered planning and God-led planning, showing why humility and dependence produce better decisions for your family, your work, and your calling.

Together, with God, you can shape your 2026 vision with confidence, one that you can run with: goals that fit your season, next steps you can take this week, and a God-inspired plan that integrates your faith into daily actions. You will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water—rooted, fruitful, resilient, and prosperous in the ways that matter. 

I am praying, believing, and expecting God to meet you as you ask, seek, and knock, empowering you to see His vision for you, helping you plan, and experiencing the joy and prosperity that come from walking with Him throughout the process.

Tony.

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Tony:

Greetings, my friends. Tony Williams here. God loves us unconditionally, and because he loves us this way, he wants us to start 2026 expecting him for greater things. Do you have a vision for 2026? God wants all of his children to have a vision for their lives. And when we plan with God, our vision, we can be assured that we have his help, his assurance, his presence to accomplish and achieve all he sets in front of us to accomplish and do. So our message for today, it's called Planning with God. Vision 2026. You know, in the Bible it talks about people perish for lack of vision. God says, My people perish for lack of vision. So vision is very important with God. He wants us to get a visual picture of what he wants to accomplish in and through us in our mind. So take time to envision your vision. And so what I want to share with you is what God placed on my heart today. As I sit alone with him in the quiet with a notebook and pen with my open Bible and reflecting on his goodness and his love, he spoke to me. He gave me a vision, and that's what I want to share with you. God wants us to have a vision. And it starts with a relationship. Just before I began to record this podcast, the Lord spoke, Matthew 6.33, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you. God wants a relationship with us, and through that intimacy with him, the overflow, he gives us a vision, goals that he helps us set, and assurance and a pathway to achieve them and accomplish them and to enjoy all the good things that he desires for us to have in life and career. So the core, Proverbs 3, 5, and 6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him, and he will make straight your path. You see, as I sat alone with the Lord, he said, Tony, the way you accomplish anything is relying upon me. Trust in me with all your heart. You know, sometimes, at least I did in the past, and maybe you may be tempted to do the same thing. I attempted to set goals just getting alone with pen and paper and just thinking up things that I thought would be good for me to accomplish. I tried that, but that's not the best way. The best way is sitting alone with God and asking him, Lord, give me the vision you have for my life. What goals do you want me to set for myself and for my family and for my company in this year? And just get quiet and reflect. Be still and know that he is God. And as you do that, God will begin to calm your spirit, and then you will begin to envision the goals and vision he has for your life. That's what happened to me the day. I just sat before the Lord in a quiet place with notebook and pen, with Bible, and just reflected on the Lord, his goodness and his love for me. And as far back as I can remember, my brothers and sisters, maybe as early as 2004, I have been practicing what the Lord is prompting me to share with you today. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, number one. Number two, don't lean on your own understanding. Don't feel like you have it all figured out and you know exactly what you need to do. That's futile. But God says, lean not on your own understanding. And then this is what he says. In all your ways, acknowledge me. What does acknowledge mean? It means, Lord, I'm going to rely upon you. Lord, I don't know the future, but you're omnipotent and omniscient, and you know exactly what's in store for me. So I'm not going to lean on my own understanding, and I choose to acknowledge you. In all your ways, acknowledge Him. And this is what He promises He will do. He will make your path straight. Don't go through 2026 meandering all from here to there, left to right. Let God give you a straight path. Trust me with all your heart. Don't lean to your own understanding, he says. In all your ways, acknowledge me, and I will make straight your path. Woo, great day. God is saying, when you trust me, I'm going to go ahead of you and I'm going to clear the pathway. I'm going to remove those obstacles and hindrances that you don't even know about at this point in time, but I will make a way for you. I will make it possible for you. When you have this confidence and this assurance in God, it makes you plan boldly with the Lord. When you plan with your own strength, you don't have this confidence. But when you plan with omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresent God, it gives you a boldness to believe him for what seems to be the impossible. This is how we accomplish great and mighty things. This is how God works through us to do what seems to be the impossible. So don't limit God in 2026, my brothers and my sisters. Get alone with him and let him set bold, grand plans for you that he will help you accomplish. And when he does, he wants you to take time to give him all the praise and glory and honor. But first and foremost, how do we do this? It starts with an intimate relationship. We have to spend time with God. And as I mentioned today, I was alone with God, and this is my routine every day. I awaken morning by morning, listening for God, expecting him to speak to my heart. And today he gave me the vision for 2026. And he said to me, speak the vision, make it clear so the one who listens may hear it and run with it. My friends, God wants you to have a vision for your life. Take time with a notebook and pen, get alone with him, and write your vision down. Write it on paper so you can see it and you can run with it. And so he says to me today, this is what I'm going to do for you in 2026. And my podcast, the Celdi Podcast, I have a vision. My vision for the Celdi Podcast, for you, my brothers and my sisters, wherever you listen to this, is that you will be like a tree, planted by streams of water, firmly planted by streams of water. You yield your fruit in your season, your leaf does not wither. And whatever you do, you prosper. That's my vision for you. That's my prayer for you. And that's my mission as I record these podcasts, Celdi Podcast. I envision God doing this for you. And this is my prayer for you in 2026 and beyond. Not only for you, but for those that you love, those that God places in your pathway to serve your clients, your colleagues, all along the way. Prosperous in everything that you do. Father God, I pray for my brothers and my sisters that they will take time to get alone with you. You will speak to their heart. Give them a vision as they plan for 2026. Planning with God. Vision 2026. Give them wisdom, give them knowledge, give them understanding, and let them know that trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your path. Let this be the best year of their lives, Lord. Fill with joy, prosperity, and intimacy with you. In Jesus' name. Amen.