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As I mentioned in the introduction we are going to be discussing vision. Vision is defined in Webster’s dictionary as the act, our power of seeing. To me, that’s the world’s definition. A spiritual vision is not seen with the natural eye. I go so far as to say it’s actually defined as how you would define faith, believing in what you do not see because when God gives you a vision, it’s not like you see step by step instructions.

Most times you don’t even know what the steps are. You’re blindly following God, but the differences that you have, someone leading you that already knows the end game, so it’s really not blind is it? There is power in having a vision. Without vision, you have no direction, no compass, nowhere to go. You’re just facing life at a stand still. The Bible says where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained. Proverbs 29 18 unrestrained, meaning you’re all over the place. How many of us go through life feeling unfulfilled?

That’s because you have no vision. You have no purpose. That’s that empty feeling. You can’t escape or really explain. No matter what you try to replace it with, your life is just a routine series of events days just passing you by. Therefore, you have to have a vision. Vision gives you focus. Many times that focuses is off because our focus is not on the priority, which is God.

Vision isn’t the images I see. It’s what we feed our spirit, which in turn translates what’s in the heart. Many years ago, I know God called me to speak to women, but I was too selfish. I was too bitter, too broken to speak to anyone about God’s goodness. I knew of him, but I didn’t trust him. I didn’t trust him with the very gifts he gave me.

I didn’t trust him to see it through. I didn’t want to go through the tests because see, I knew if I said yes, the devil was coming, and to be honest, with all the turmoil I had in my life, I was like, ah, I’m just not here for it. So I would start but never finish because he was still a parttime God to me. He was my ATM, my Superman in times of trouble, my savior when I needed saving.

So although my purpose was clear, how to fulfill the vision was not, see you only glimpse from God when he’s your part-time God. But when he becomes a priority in your life, direction, strategy and steps become clear. The more you tap into him, the more vision aligns with his. And we know that when we allow what God, whatever we do will be the tutorials. There are no options. When God is in control, even when it looks like all hope is lost. Even in the midnight hour, he will come and straighten that thing out. We can just look at Moses. The scripture says, for six days the cloud covered the mountain. And on the seventh day, the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud. So the Israelites, the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire. Let’s pause right there for a second. When Moses saw the mountain, he saw God calling to him.

When the Israelites looked, they saw fire. If you see fire, you’re not walking in, right? You’re going in the other direction. It’s no different. When God gives you a vision, others may see danger. They don’t want to know how it doesn’t make sense, but to you, the vision makes perfect sense. If you don’t know how it’s going to turn out, you know it’s the vision that God gave you, but it just won’t make sense to anyone else because the vision

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