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Waiting Time III
‘But Ruth replied, “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God’ Ruth 1:16
Waiting time is not wasted time, waiting time is People time. When the king’s baker and the cupbearer told Joseph they had dreams, if it were some of us, as soon as we hear the word dreams, we will run because it was dreams that caused our problems initially. But the dream that brought you into the problem is the same dream that will take you out of the problem. You are coming out; so don’t run from people. People propel us to go Read the rest of this entry
Waiting Time II
‘But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!” Num.13:30
Waiting time is not wasted time, waiting time is Prayer time. Caleb at eighty-five said to Joshua, ‘give me this mountain’. Caleb was asking for Horeb where there were giants. Caleb says, ‘as I was forty years ago so is my strength. I’m going to go and kill these giants’. Many people would rather ask Joshua to send people to go and clear the place for them; but not Caleb. Learn from Caleb, Nehemiah, and David. You have to take Read the rest of this entry
Waiting Time I
‘For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done”. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands’ Neh.6:9 [NKJV].
Yesterday we established the fact that waiting time is not wasted time. Today we will delve into the four “P’s” of waiting; these will help you maximize waiting time.
Waiting time is not wasted time, waiting time is Pondering time. It is the time to soak yourself in the vision Read the rest of this entry
Heaven’s Timetable
‘For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven… Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time…’ Ecc.3:1 & 11.
Once you have qualified the dream and authenticated the vision, I have just one advice for you; give your life to it. For some of us the truth is that the vision that God is going to give us is going to be embedded in the vision of another person. Some people cannot stand that and that is a problem. Pharaoh understood that the vision for his country’s prosperity was embedded in Joseph’s vision but Joseph’s brothers didn’t understand that. Read the rest of this entry
Counsel
‘Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety’ Prov.11:14 [KJV]
The fourth thing in authenticating your vision is counsel. I am sure you have heard this before but I will share it again and trust God for fresh revelation. There are five people in my life that I call my advisory board. They know themselves in a way but they have never come together on my account. I don’t make major spiritual decisions without clearing from these five people. So when we were sure that God wanted us to start God’s Read the rest of this entry
Moral Imperative II
‘The Lord said to Moses, “Get going, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt…Then Moses said, “if you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place’ Ex.33:1 & 15.
Does your vision deliver a moral imperative? Does your vision deliver a sense of responsibility so strong that it becomes an instruction for you? If you see someone that is lethargic and has no fire in his or her life, it’s a vision issue. It may be a suggestion for other people but for you it is an instruction. For some people it may be a suggestion; they do not have to work in a school for instance. But for me it is an instruction; I can’t do without Read the rest of this entry
Moral Imperative I
‘For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!’ 1Cor.9:16 [NKJV]
Yesterday, we began to talk about the question of burden as it relates to qualifying a dream or an idea. Let me just reiterate this point; do not go into what you don’t have a burden for. The fact that there is insecurity in the nation does not bother some people at all. So it cannot be the vision God has given them. If you find yourself as the chief security officer of a nation and it does not bother you that people are dying, you shouldn’t have that Read the rest of this entry
Differentiating
‘O Lord, listen to my cry; give me the discerning mind you promised’ Ps.119:169
The fact that something is possible does not mean it is plausible. The fact that something is possible does not mean you should pursue it. Just differentiating between these two will save you a lifetime of stress. At this point a lot of people would want to know what to look out for. So how do you know what could be that should be, especially now that you know that not everything that could be should be? How do I know what could be that should be? How do I know what dream qualifies to be the vision I should pursue – Read the rest of this entry
A Vulnerable Heart
‘I lie awake thinking of you, meditating on you through the night’ Ps.63:6
Everything starts with an idea. Many times when God wants to give us a vision for our lives, He starts by giving us a mental picture –an idea. Some of us get most of our ideas in the bathroom. Have you experienced getting songs in the bathroom? Have you ever wondered why? The reason is that when a lot of people come to church, even though people hear from God in church also, they are full of themselves. They seem like they are Read the rest of this entry
God’s Idea
‘I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations’ Jer.1:5.
Everything starts with an idea. You probably moved around today in a car; that car was somebody’s idea. Even if you walked, the shoes on your feet were someone’s idea. Even you reading this today, you are an idea, somebody’s idea. Sadly, for some reading this today, their parents told them that they were born mistakenly or they should have been flushed down the drain. Have you heard some parents say that very nasty thing? Guess what, you are God’s idea. They just didn’t know but God had you in mind. For some, their parents tried to abort Read the rest of this entry
