Provision for your vision
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God always has a plan to rebuild.
God always has a plan to rebuild.
Do you have a dream or vision?
Don’t give up! It isn’t over.
Dreamers change destinies.
A dream will get you out of bed.
It refreshes even through the most difficult times.
A vision, a dream will change your family, your wife and your children.
God has greatness.
God is no respecter of persons.
If it doesn’t glorify God, shut it down—it isn’t of God.
How do I know it’s from God?
It’s past your own strength.
It can only be a miracle.
It is bigger than you.
You have to have a spirit of expectancy.
Our job is to let go and let God.
Be separate from the world.
To build your vision you have to rely on God’s provision not your ability.
You need God’s power (supernatural supply).
Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and roused me, as a man who is awakened from his sleep.
There’s provision for your vision.
In the OT, over and over, it was sin, judgment, repent.
Wherever anything is in destruction, God always has a plan to rebuild—a man or woman with vision and passion (not a committee).
Beware of people who have zeal and excitement but no perseverance, commitment or discipline.
When you get discouraged, the Holy Ghost will give you a word.
So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,
‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ declares the Lord of hosts.”
God gives you a word to go with your excitement.
If you have a word from God you can go through the fiery furnace and the lion’s den and the jailhouse and even when people shake their heads and roll their eyes.
Vision is something that could be fueled by the conviction that it should be.
God will always confirm a word through someone else.
He said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it with seven spouts belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it;
also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side.”
We don’t have to rely on our own physical limitations or on other’s encouragement.
You need God’s grace.
‘What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” ’ ”
Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
If you want to be effective open your mouth and declare God’s grace.
Diablo in Greek means throw.
The devil throws things at our mind but throw back the Word at him.
When you quote the Word, it goes out of your mouth into the spiritual realm.
You have to have God’s people in your life—people who are anointed.
“For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel—these are the eyes of the Lord which range to and fro throughout the earth.”
You can’t despise the day of small things (ex. Wright brothers, Henry Ford, Samuel Morse, little boy with lunch).
Then I said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?”
And I answered the second time and said to him, “What are the two olive branches which are beside the two golden pipes, which empty the golden oil from themselves?”
So he answered me, saying, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”
Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth.”
Watch who you hang out with.
Surround yourself with Holy Ghost filled people who pursue the power and presence of God.
We’re not called to be people pleasers but God-pleasers.
We have to cut some people out of our life.
Surround yourself with people who believe in what you’re doing.
You show me your friends, I’ll show you your future.
Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.
There are two types of people.
1—structural (administrators)
2—visionary (prayer warriors)
Prayer brings people in.
Structure keeps them.
