Show Me Your Vision

Pastor E. Keith Hassell

Proverbs 29:18 KJV “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

I. What is your vision?

A. How you answer that question will determine how you live and what your outcome will be

II. What is vision?

A. Vision can be natural or spiritual.

B. Spiritual vision is seeing things from God’s perspective

C. Spiritual vision a prophetic revelation of God’s redemptive plan that locks you in on a course of faith (personal, family, church, city, region, nation, global)

D. Visions and dreams are the language of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:17)

E. Vision speaks of things that are not as though they are (Rom 4:17)

F. The opposite of vision is blindness. We stumble over the circumstances and situations around us.

III. Vision gives birth to faith

A. Faith does not give birth to vision, but vision gives birth to faith.

B. Abraham, the father of faith

1. Abram did not have faith to believe for one son

2. Genesis 15 God told Abraham to go outside and look at the stars

3. Abram believed God

4. God changed Abram’s name from Abram (“Exalted father”) to Abraham (“Father of a multitude”)

C. Jacob and the streaked rods (Genesis 30:37-38)

1. Jacob didn’t put the rods before the sheep for their sake but for his sake

2. Jacob was building his faith for “speckled and spotted” sheep

3. Jacob’s faith caused God to adjust the genetic code and bring forth speckled and spotted sheep

IV. Vision changes what we see on the inside

A. Abraham began to live by what he saw on the inside rather than what he saw on the outside

B. Romans 4:17-22 (NKJV) “(as it is written, ‘I have made you a father of many nations’) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, ‘So shall your descendants be.’ And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore ‘it was accounted to him for righteousness.’”

C. Abraham became a father of a multitude on the inside before he became a father of a multitude on the outside.

D. Vision changes our hopes into faith

E. Vision changes our discouragement into expectation

F. Vision changes our lack of energy into fresh energy.

G. Vision changes “I can’t do it” into “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”

H. Vision changes “impossible” to “all things are possible to them who believe”

I. Vision turns cowards into heroes

J. Vision turns fear into faith

K. Vision turns doubt into strong confidence

L. Vision turns weak people into strong people

M. Vision turns ordinary people into mighty leaders for God

V. Our vision on the inside is the key to changing things on the outside

A. Jesus endured the cross because He saw the joy on the other side (Hebrews 12:3)

B. What do you see?

1. The problem or the answer?

2. Giants or grasshoppers?

3. The mountain or the plain?

C. What is your vision?

D. Stop looking at the problems around you. Look up and see God’s answer. Then by faith believe. Once you do then you will enter into the realm of visions and dreams, a spiritual realm of possibility in God.

E. Show me your vision, and I will show you your future!