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Living the Vision

Hebrews 10:35-36

³⁵Do not, therefore, fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward.  ³⁶For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away [and enjoy to the full] what is promised.

One man defined vision as “foresight with insight based on hindsight.”

Vision is clearly about the future.  It is a clear mental image of a preferable future imparted by God to His chosen servants and is based on an accurate understanding of God, self and circumstances.

Kierkegard (a Christian philosopher) said, “What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know…  The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do…to find the ideal for which I can live and die.”

We must be driven by our passion to fulfill our vision.  Not only do we need perception (understanding) and perfection (to improve, complete) we must also have performance.

Unless you perform the vision, you will never fully accomplish the will of God in your life. 

Unchurched people need to see a demonstration of God’s power flowing through us causing us to live as blessed, favored, conquering people.

Paul worte in Ephesians 6:10 – Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

Performance depends upon strength.  The word “strong” indicates an empowering or an inner strengthening.    It conveys the ideas of being infused with an excessive dose of dynamic inner strength and ability.  This power is deposited into a container, a vessel or a receptacle.

When this power is released into the life of a believer, it takes normal believers and turns them into spiritual giants.

It is demonstrative, eruptive, tangible, and it always comes with some type of external, outward manifestation that can be seen with the physical eye.

Paul says this same power dwells in us.  And this power is given to us in order to accomplish God’s will in our lives.  It was this power which caused Jesus to be moved with compassion when He saw the lost sheep (Israel), the sick, the afflicted.

It is time for us to perform the vision that God has given us.   See the vision and take action!

If you missed this weekend at TheChurch on Strayer 11.28.11

…Stepping Through

Finishing well doesn’t happen by accident.  It takes effort.  It takes courage and perseverance.

In life, many have a good beginning; few have a good ending.

What ultimately matters is taking action to step through whatever challenges, obstacles, hindrances that get placed in our path of life.

Your success in life is determined more by what you finish than by what you start.  Ability has more to do with finishing than it does with attempting.

God is the original finisher.  He always finishes what He starts – not necessarily what we start.

Commitment is only experienced when you step through your circumstance, your trial, your difficulty.

Paul gives us a three-fold formula for success in stepping through our challenges and finishing strong.

          I have fought a good fight – Discipline.

          I have finished the race – Direction.

          I have kept the faith – Determination.

I Corinthians 9:25 in the Living Bible says – To win the contest you must deny yourselves many things that would keep you from doing your best.

Sometimes you must fight with yourself in order to accomplish it. To step through, you must keep fighting. To step through, you must keep running.

Even when you are weak, keep running.

It is not how you start or how fast you run, how high you climb – it is whether or not you keep the faith and finish strong.