HAVING A VISION- SEEING WHAT GOD SEES

Last week an announcement was made in my church that the next Sunday which will be the last Sunday of 2009, i would be the person to give the sermon. Actually I was told that if I can go out and speak to people then I should do same for my home. So today I went to church in faith and with a lot of prayer and preparation; this is the summary of the sermon. (please not that I am been a fanatic or to use facebook as a medium to be righteous. I just want to share o!) I hope that you enjoy this....................


Let us start our reading from the book of Genesis 1:1-3 (Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.)

The dictionary meaning of the word vision is, “an act of seeing, or sight, the mental picture of something or an imaginative insight of a thing or of how a thing should be”. A visionary person is someone that is given to seeing visions (things that ordinary sight cannot and will not see). In most cases before an invention can take place you first have to imagine it and then bring to life what you have imagined.

In the passage we read in genesis we were able to understand that before any of God’s work of creation stated the first thing he asked for was light. This is because he realized that nothing can be done in the dark, He had a vision of creation and for him to be able to know if the reality tallies with what he imagined then he must be able to see it. Gen 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31 in all this verses we are told that for everything God created he did a check and he saw that what he created was good; meaning they tallied with his vision (what he had imagined them to be). Therefore we must always walk in the light of God for us to be able to clearly see the manifestation of God’s and our vision.

Why was the bible written? Let us look at the book of Habakkuk 2 from verse 1.
(Hab 2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. Hab 2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. Hab 2:3 For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. )

God ordered the writing of the word which is his vision for mankind so that whoever is able to read it should not just read for the sake of it, but to run with it. In verse 3 we are told that the vision is for a time. That as we read we must run with every vision and not wait.Since we agree that vision comes from our imaginative insight which in turn is actually our thoughts, then we should be able to relate with God in Jeremiah 29:11 when he says he knows the thoughts he has for us. That of good and not of evil and to give us an expected end.

That is God’s vision for us in 2010, what is left for us is to run with that vision because the vision will not wait but shall come to pass. For the coming to pass to happen we have to be able to see what God sees. God sees his children rising up like the armies in Ezekiel 37 verse 10. Where the children of men see dry bones the Lord we serve sees an exceeding great army. The command of God to his children is fulfilled in Isaiah 60:1 and in Genesis 12:1. (Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee)
In both places God has given us a command of how we would be able to fulfill his purpose (bringing the vision to pass). Since God’s vision is to give us an expected end and he has commanded the writing of the vision so that when we see it we will run with it. Then he says we should do the following: we should begin our run by rising up like a great army; we should follow him in that vision to that place which is the expected end that he will show us. But one thing we must remember is that even though the vision takes a while to materialize, or it takes us a while to get to that place that he will show us, it will not tarry or wait for us to get ready, for the vision is for a set time and God will bring it to pass in his own time Isaiah 60:22 (Isa 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.)