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Vision 2020 Pt.1 The Power of Vision

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20/20: The Power of Vision! 

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Joshua 1:1-3 NKJV After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying: 2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel. 3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.

Habakkuk 2:1-2 NKJV I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected. 2 “Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it."


  • “A man without vision is a man without a future. A man without a future will always return to his past.”
  • “A church without a vision is a church without a future. A church without a future will always try to recreate the past.”
  • Helen Keller was asked “What would be worse than being born blind?” She replied, “The only thing worse than being blind is to have sight without vision.”
  • Vision; the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom, (a mental image of what the future will or could be like). 
  • Vision comes from the latin Videre, to see. Visio… Verdero, Transliterated video. 
  • Vision is an ongoing revelation of God’s will. Vision is never static. It is dynamic, fluid, ever evolving!
  • Proverbs 29:18 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
  • NKJV Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law.
    • Where there is not ongoing, progressive, prophetic revelation, the people cast off restraint….
    • Vision = ongoing, progressive, prophetic revelation. 
    • Restraint= Guidance. Structure. Path to follow. 
    • Law = instruction, direction. body of prophetic teaching.

      • Vision is introduced by the spirit of god. 

      Habakkuk 2:2 2 Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.

      Joshua 1:2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel.”

        • A vision that is not introduced by The Lord is not a vision from The Lord. Anything you begin on your own, you will have to sustain on your own. 

          • Receiving vision;

          Habakkuk 1:1-3 I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected. The Just Live by Faith

          1. Meet with The Lord. “I will stand my watch, set myself on a rampart.
          2. Look for God to speak. “And watch to see what He will say to me”
            • Oral Roberts “If you can see the invisible, you can do the impossible!”
              1. Wait! 
              2. Believe! “The Just live by faith!”

                3. 2 Then the Lord answered me and said:“Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.

                3 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.

                Vision is birthed from a burden (not ambition).

                Habakkuk 2:2 was preceded by Habakkuk 1:1 (NKJV) 1 The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.

                  • A burden leads to a mandate or an assignment. A mandate, when accepted, will give place for God to release the vision. 
                  • A burden will produce a vision. A burden is the seed that produces vision. The vision is the seed maturing and the manifestation of the vision is the seed being birthed.
                  • The vision is how you accomplish the mandate God has given you!
                  • Mandate; an official order or commission to do something. Give (someone) authority to act in a certain way. To assign (territory).
                    • 3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.
                    • Tread is a military term. It means to march upon.

                      • Vision will always includes the presence of god!

                      Joshua 1:5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.

                        • Immanuel. God with us. Immanuel is not so much a name of God to be expresses as it is to be a name of God to be experienced! 
                        • Leave; to stay behind. Forsake; to go ahead of. 
                        • God would never call you to do anything and then stand back and make you do it on your own. God would never call you to do something and then get so far out in front that you have to catch up on your own. 
                        • This is God’s promise to us, but I believe it should be our promise to Him as well. 

                          • Vision will always be lead by the presence of god!

                          Joshua 3:1 Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and they set out from Acacia Grove and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they crossed over. 2 So it was, after three days, that the officers went through the camp; 3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.”

                            • The presence of God is the mark of a God given vision! 
                            • Exodus 33:1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’ 2 And I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. 3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
                            • Ex 33:15 15 Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.

                              • Vision always requires faith to accomplish.

                              Joshua 1:6 6 Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

                                • In Joshua chapter 1 “Be strong and of good courage” occurs 4 times! 
                                • Joshua 3:4 …that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.”

                                  • Vision always inspires and requires commitment from God’s people.

                                  Joshua 3: 5 And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”

                                    • A God given vision requires both God and man to fulfill! 
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