Do you have a vision? Do you have a plan for your life?
The say if you want to make GOD laugh, then all you have to do is tell him your vision and your plans!………….lol~
(Matthew 4:17-22) From that time JESUS began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
And JESUS, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
And JESUS said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
And they straightway left their nets, and followed JESUS.
And going on from there, JESUS saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed JESUS.
(Luke 18:28-30) Then Peter said to JESUS, Lo, we have left all, and followed you. And JESUS said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that has left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of GOD’S sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
(Luke 14:33) JESUS SAYS, So likewise, whosoever he be of you that does not forsake all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.
Brothers and sisters, everyone says they have a vision or a plan for their lives, but is your vision GOD’S vision, and are your plans GOD’S plan?
All the disciples & prophets had their own visions and plans for their lives, but when they met my JESUS things changed, then all their visions and plans concerning life became GOD’S vision, and GOD’S plan.
The disciples were already successful & established in their careers of choice until they met JESUS, & then everything changed!
Brothers and sisters, the disciples were successful fishermen, lawyers, tax collectors, physicians, etc.etc.ect….., but when they met JESUS, then everything changed, and their vision and plans became GOD’S vision, and GOD’S plan!
A man once wrote, if you want to make GOD laugh, then all you have to do is tell him your plans for life.
You got a vision, you got a plan!………lol~
(James 4:13-17) Go to now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas you do not know what shall be on the tomorrow. For what is your life?
It is even a vapour, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
Brothers and sisters, I have been to churches were everyone says they have a vision, but mostly they just have a lot of division.
Some people say their purpose is to teach, some say to preach, some say to be a business man, a nurse, a doctor, a lawyer, a police, a prophet, a pastor, a televangelist, etc.etc.etc……., & I just say ok!
But vision & purpose is connected, & purpose is not what you do, but who you are, what you were created to do!
There is no greater purpose in life than to serve our lord & savior JESUS CHRIST, that is real purpose!
Everyone in the bible had purpose, their vision was GODS vision, & their purpose was to do service unto GOD.
And all of them lived amazing lives, some of them were great kings, prophets, queens, apostles, priest, scribes, wise men & wise women, and they all became great men & women of GOD.
They all had vision and purpose, but their vision was GOD’S vision, and their purpose was do GOD’S will.
Now do you have a vision? Do you have a plan?……….lol~
Brothers and sisters, I know many of you are thinking about the most popular verse of scripture in the book of HABAKKUK that everyone quotes and uses without spiritual understanding, but the scripture in the book of HABAKKUK where it reads, “write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it. 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 to pass, it will not tarry.
Brothers and sisters, the vision GOD told the prophet HABAKKUK to write was a vision of GOD’S impending judgment upon the wickedness of man, it was not a vision of blessing!
(Habakkuk 2:1-20) 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.
And the LORD answered me, and said, WRITE THE VISION, AND MAKE IT PLAIN UPON TABLES, THAT HE MAY RUN THAT READS IT. 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.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither does he keep at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaps unto him all people: Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his!
How long? And to him that lades himself with thick clay! Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that shall vex you, and you shall be for booties unto them? Because you hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil you; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. Woe to him that covet an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your own soul.
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Woe unto him that gives his neighbour drink, that puts your bottle to him, and make him drunken also, that you may look on their nakedness!
You are filled with shame for glory: you drink also, and let your foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’S right hand shall be turned unto you, and shameful spewing shall be on your glory.
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. What profit the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts therein, to make dumb idols?
Woe unto him that says to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach!
Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Now do you have a vision? Do you have a plan?
Brothers and sisters, many people have their own plans and purposes concerning life, but there is only one vision and one purpose in the body of CHRIST, and that vision and purpose is to Go, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the JESUS:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever JESUS has commanded you in his word.
And to remind the people, that GOD so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in JESUS should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For GOD did not send JESUS into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through JESUS might be saved.
And he that believes on JESUS is not condemned: but he that does not believe on JESUS is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of GOD.
That is GOD’S plan and GOD’S purpose for his chosen elect!
There was a time when I had a small carnal plan for my life, I had plans on being a successful drug dealer, and making enough money to retire from selling drugs at the age 30, but my plans got derailed, and nobody told me I would go to the penitentiary 3 times, nobody told me I would get arrested for murder, nobody told me I would become a career criminal, nobody told me I would forever be labeled as a four time felon, nobody told me selling drugs would get me shot and almost killed, and nobody told me it would be hard for me to find employment, BUT GOD HAD OTHER PLANS FOR MY LIFE!~
And when GOD revealed his plan and his purpose for my life, then GOD himself told me I would preach, teach, prophesy, become a writer, become a poet, write poetry, and become GOD’S prophet, priest, king, and his present day anointing in the earth, and GOD sent 2 or 3 witnesses to confirm every word he spoke to me, because by the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses shall every word of GOD be established!~
NOW DO YOU HAVE A VISION? DO YOU HAVE A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE?
(Luke 14:33) JESUS SAYS, So likewise, whosoever he be of you that does not forsake all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.