VISION

VISION

This devotional is inspired by the late great DR. MYLES MUNROE, who perished in November, 2014, when his plane crash landed in the Bahamas.  One decade prior to that, it was my privilege to attend a conference in which Dr. Munroe was the featured keynote speaker.  Following are some notations I made during his seminar on vision.  Because Pastor Munroe was so spiritually gifted, prolific and endowed with such 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 time and 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 already finished you.

All of the contingency arrangements for your purpose were set before you were conceived, long before you were started.

The fact that you exist is proof that there is something (already finished in eternity) that you were born (in the realm of time and space) 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 (and 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 undone and 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.  He wrote, “Dare to see and embrace a vision so large that it is doomed to failure, save GOD be in it!”

AMEN?  Amen…Amen…Amen!

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING.  Maranatha!