The Ministry of the Vision Bearer
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2 Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.
18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
1. It needs to be clear; when God calls a church into being it is to further His own purposes.
1. It needs to be clear; when God calls a church into being it is to further His own purposes.
The Lord calls a person when he gets ready to start a ministry He calls a minister.
The Lord calls a person when he gets ready to start a ministry He calls a minister.
1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
1 After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying: 2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel. 3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.
5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.
11 Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor!” 13 Gideon said to Him, “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.” 14 Then the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?” 15 So he said to Him, “O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” 16 And the Lord said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.”
The Lord will Hold that minister accountable to the vision He gives the minister.
The Lord will Hold that minister accountable to the vision He gives the minister.
17 Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
2. If God has called you here, then part of your ministry is wrapped up in the mission of this Church.
2. If God has called you here, then part of your ministry is wrapped up in the mission of this Church.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
3. The vision is through you and for you.
3. The vision is through you and for you.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
We need the body to support the vision.
We need the body to support the vision.
10 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
