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Vision brings vitality Vision brings clarity Vision brings creativity Vision brings risk God imparts vision, we must embrace vision Vision always entails change.
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Vision brings vitalityVision brings clarityVision brings creativityVision brings riskGod imparts vision, we must embrace visionVision always entails change
Vision is God given, not man centered Visionfocuses on what others think is impossibleVision invites criticismVisionmakes room for God’s known will to unfold
Visionwill not be derailed by fads, trends or methodsVisionnever acquiesces to the status quo Visionmust ‘morph’ and therefore details of vision must never be ‘set in concrete’
PersevereTo persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragementNear antonyms: give up, quit, surrender, yield; falter, hesitate, vacillate, waver
Acts 16:6-10verse 6 = ‘as they were traveling’Vision, that specific inspired guidance, that ‘word’ comes to those who are already on the way, to those who are already seeking and doing the will of God
verse 9 = ‘..during the night Paul had a vision’Vision comes not only to inspire passion but vision comes out of passionOne man saw the vision…one man got the word…one man heard the voice…one man heard God for the rest!
Persevering vision does not come through committee or by consensus
NoahAbrahamJosephMosesJoshuaGideonUzziahJesusPeterPaulNone of these guys took a vote!
Genesis 1:1 ‘In the beginning….God!’GOD SPOKE THAT THING TO YOU! THAT DESIRE, THAT LONGING, THAT YEARNING, THAT DRIVING THING, THAT PULLING THING, THAT ‘WORD FROM GOD’ THAT WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
“All men die, few men ever really live.” William Wallace
Persevering Vision willBring claritySpark creativityBuild confidence and establish authority‘Keep’ you in difficult situations…”Where we are going determines what we are undergoing”Help you endure the ‘loneliness’ of it
Give you courage in the midst of a stormHelp you in selection of leadersKeep you from ‘settling’Get you past the fear of failureWill keep you flexible
The vision is not a building, a ministry, a church, a number, a dollar amount. The vision is Jesus!