VISION
This devotional is inspired by the
late great Dr. Myles Munroe, who
perished last month as his plane crash landed in the Bahamas. In March, 2004, it was my privilege to attend
a conference in which Dr. Munroe was the keynote speaker. Following are some notations I made during
his seminar on vision. Because he was so
spiritually gifted, prolific and endowed with extraordinary wisdom, I took
profuse notes:
Vision is seeing what God sees.
The vision that God gives you is
always out of this world.
A true vision has (first) only one
believer…YOU.
If people laugh at your vision, you
may be assured that you are on the right track.
To have true vision, you must close
your eyes because human sight is the greatest barrier to divine vision.
Without vision, one loses discipline
and self-control.
Vision is the source of hope and the
mother of faith.
Grow your vision where God has
planted you.
Big thinking always precedes great
achievement.
Vision is seeing things that be not
as though they were.
Vision means taking bold steps of
faith.
Vision is the capacity to glimpse
and clarify purpose.
A powerful vision ignites lifelong passion.
Our vision dictates our whole life;
it even chooses our friends.
Visionaries are so focused that they
appear to be one-track-minded people.
In discovering our vision, we
discover our discipline.
Vision is manifested in phases. We must be patient to establish it in reality.
The vision predates and creates the
leader.
The vision is always greater than
the life of the visionary.
True vision is inter-generational. It cannot be completed in a lifetime.
Since God knows the end from the
beginning, He imparts strategies and directives to spiritually discerning
persons.
The fact that God started you is tangible
evidence and proof positive that God has finished you.
All of the contingency arrangements
for your purpose were set before you were conceived…before you were started.
The fact that you exist is proof
that there is something (already finished in eternity) that you were born (in
time) to start.
God is not treating you as some
cosmic experiment; you are already established, empowered and completed.
You bring glory to God by engaging
the work He has sent you (set you) to do.
Don’t let the graveyard steal your
vision. The cemetery is the richest
place on the planet, literally filled with unwritten books, unfounded
corporations and unrealized dreams. God
wants you to head into the cemetery empty – with nothing left.
Finally, ask your Creator to give
you the courage to dream as a little child again.
Dr. Myles Munroe, we salute your
life and legacy in building the Kingdom of God.
Your sage admonitions are reminiscent of powerful advice offered by one
of my early mentors, John Haggai, president of The Haggai Foundation and missionary
to China: “Dare to see a vision so large
that it is doomed to failure, save God be in it!”
Amen? Amen…Amen…Amen!
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