For His Kingdom, 2, Vision 2025 | Mac Hammond
 
Recap
 
Pastor Mac’s first message in the vision series for this year was entitled, “The Vision Imperative.” The title underscores the vital importance of vision to your own experience of life. The vision being talked about is God’s vision for your life personally. How do you gain clarity of God’s vision for your life and then the human and financial resources to accomplish that vision?
 
Dive Deeper
 
Having a vision for your own personal life is imperative. Proverbs 29:18 says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
 
Vision is the direction of God for your life. This vision brings direction and momentum toward the things He wants for you to achieve in your life.
 
Vision will determine whether or not you experience the blessing, enablement, and empowerment that God intends for your life.
 
Having no vision for your life is like being all dressed up with nowhere to go!
 
His righteousness, faith, power, favor, and enabling ability are God’s equipping will help you to fulfill His vision and plan for your life.
 
Without a vision, you perish. Your life will begin a slide toward death… a progressive death. Death occurs in many different forms in many different arenas of human experience. That’s what will be the result when there is no vision.
 
The ending phrase of Proverbs 29:18 says, “He that keepeth the law, happy is he.” This implies this person has some vision going for him in his life.
 
The phrase “the law” is what we call the Bible. The Word of God provides the foundation for the vision that is specific to your life. The Word of God is God’s will for all believers of all ages. It’s what the vision of God for your personal life is founded upon.
 
The first part of God’s vision for your life is provided by the Word of God… things like “don’t worship other gods, don’t lie, don’t cheat,” etc. It’s the general will of God for all believers.
 
The Holy Spirit provides the vision for your life that “eye hasn’t seen, ear hadn’t heard, neither has it entered the heart of man…” This suggests that God’s vision for you is bigger than most people would imagine for themselves. Also, you’re not going to get it from anyone or anywhere you might think.
 
Where do we get that personal vision then? First Corinthians 2:10 says, “God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit.” Them what? Things that eye hadn’t seen, ear hadn’t heard, neither has entered the heart of man. This is the way you’re going to begin understanding the high purpose of God.
 
God the Holy Spirit will begin directing your life through the desires of your heart. Desires that come from God will not contradict the Bible. These desires will begin to orient you in a particular direction.
 
First you identify those desires in your heart as God given. The next step is to take those desires to the Lord in prayer. Talk to Him with your understanding, “How does this work in my life?” Then pray in the spirit, your heavenly prayer language. The Holy Spirit will make intercession for you according to God’s perfect will for you. You’ll start seeing things and vision will begin to come. That is how vision is shaped in your life. 
 
So now you have the vision, God’s plan for your life. How do you get it to come to pass? How do you get the resources needed to make it happen?
 
Habakkuk 2:2 shows us a principle about vision: “And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”
 
Writing the vision down brings needed clarity that will produce momentum or direction in your life. Clarity must come first before it can produce momentum in your life.
 
The other thing about fulfilling vision is that no vision from God is attainable by one person. It requires other people running with you to achieve your vision. It’s not something you can do on your own.
 
The first aspect of vision you’re going to encounter is running with someone else’s vision. You help others to achieve their vision. Luke 16:12 says, “And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?” This is a rhetorical question. The obvious answer is “nobody.”
 
You have to be faithful to help achieve another man’s vision. Then clarity will begin to come to your own vision. Other people will be excited about the vision God gave you and will “get in the boat” with you.
 
It all begins by being faithful in that which is another man’s.
 
Read About It
 
Proverbs 29:18, “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
 
1st Corinthians 2:10 says, “God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit.”
 
Habakkuk 2:2, “The Lord answered me and said, write the vision, make it plain upon tables that he may run that readeth it.
 
Luke 16:12. “If you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s who shall give you that which is your own?”
 
Discussion Questions
 
Do you know what God’s vision is for your life?
 
If no, name the steps on how to get God’s vision for your life.
 
What does Habakkuk say about vision?

These sermon notes are from the opening minutes of this weekend’s message. If you would like to hear the entire message, click on the link above.

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