The Vision - The Process of a Vision
1. The Process of a Vision and Our Faith
Hab 2:2 “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it”
Gen 15:5-6 He took Abraham outside and said, “ Look up into the heavens and add up the stars.” Then He said to him, “Your children and your children’s children will be as many as the stars.”
Vision is the idea of God revealed to the mind of man to carry it out
Vision for our priorities - God, Me, Family, Christ’s vision, My Career
Prayer is the first place where we conquer our visions
Our vision must become a belief on the inside of us and out of that belief our mouth will confess it as truth and we will have it
Matt 12:34 For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Mark 11:22-23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
2. Don’t Allow Satan To Distract You and Steal Your Vision
Mk 4:14-20 these are those by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. 16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness; 17 but have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble. 18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, 19 and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 20 But the seed that fell on the good ground are those who, heard the word with a loyal and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience 30, 60 and 100 fold
When the word doesn’t root in your heart, and when trouble or persecution comes, you become offended and believe circumstances rather than the word of God
Cares and anxieties of the world
Distractions of the world and your past
Pleasure, delight, false glamour and the Deceitfulness of riches
Cravings and passionate desires for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the word. Then the word becomes unfruitful
Prov 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people have no boundaries, but blessed and happy is he who keeps the Vision.
3. Through Faith and Patience We Will Walk in the Vision
Hab 2:3-4 “For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
To remain faithfully the same with a hopeful and excited expectation
Heb 6:10-15 do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises 15 and so, after Abraham patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Ps 1:1- 3 The Blessed man shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper
Tithes and Offerings
Malachi 3:10-11 “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.”
His blessing on our lives is priceless, the blessing can turn any barren situation into a garden of Eden.
When we tithe we are advancing God’s Kingdom
His desire is for all his children to live in abundance in every area of their lives
2 Corinthians 9:8 “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”
