Summary: Victory, Vision and Value

The Value of Vision:

We wanted to share these nuggets and powerful truths with you. Life changing truths that can propel you forward into your God purposes and God Destiny. It's a new day, but are we ready to enter in? Moses led Israel, but then Moses died. Joshua became the leader of a transition that led them into the promises of God. Are you ready for momentum and increase?

Vision is a mental picture, internal photograph of your future that will mold your present. Momentum is because of a move, a velocity. To go or to pass from one position to another. What would take ten years will take minutes in God...revelation that will launch you into movement and manifestation of power and glory.

Miracles happen when there is movement and momentum. You must have movement and not simply pass the time. The Spirit of God hovered and then God spoke and it came into being. Familiarity is fatal, but vision moves you into a fresh future. Momentum is the addendum to movement. Things have to start moving. Momentum is movement, but dreaming is just passing time.

Movement is the changing of position, comes through revelation, extraordinary unveiling and seeing like God sees, an internal photograph the eye of spirit to move into the future that God has for you. In the Spirit things can happen quickly, a kairos turning into insight, vision, creativity, the unseen things brought into the seen realm.

Vision gives you a clear path and releases a creativity to conceive the unseen into the seen realm, calling those things that are not as though they were. Without a vision, the people will perish. Vision in the Hebrew is a dream, a revelation or oracle, to behold, to look to prophesy, the act of seeing, to foresee or perceive a mental picture of my future to mold my present

When you get a vision, everything on the outside has to comply with what is seen on the inside. Revelation molds your present and transforms your future. Vision is a dream come true. You are in this world, but not of this world, and not afraid of who you are, to make a difference and solution to those around you.

You are not there to fit in but to take over...you are there to bring the change. You are the kingdom of God brought forth in due season to infect change all around you, to bring forth the great commission. You must show that Christianity is more than just a private belief. We build upon the only foundation, the solid Rock of Jesus Christ. We don't build on doctrines, but on the Rock Himself.

The book of Joshua is a book of transition, of passing from one place to another. You are in the transition of God from one person to another person, from a nomad to a conqueror. To possess to see His manifestation, we have to look at Joshua, NOW AFTER, you can't move into your future until you bring closure to your past. The past dictates more about our present than our future does. To move into your future, you must bring closure to your past.

The gatekeepers are keeping charge over all your stuff until the time of release to you. They are occupying and protecting all your stuff and there will be a time of release. There is a prepared place for a "prepared" people. A stronghold is a mindset that is resistant to change. We are the hardest thing to change. The Lord has to change our

mindsets and paradigms. Something is about to change. He will push us out of old mindsets into the mindset of the future He has for you. He will cause you to possess.

You teach what you know and you transfer what you are. Impartation is what God has done on the inside of you. You cannot impart what you don't have. You can teach what you know, but you can only impart what God has done in you.

The prophetic is the anointed utterances from heaven. We have to bring closure to our past...only we can bring closure to our past, so we can go into our future. Now faith is...To move forward, we must close off the past. How we move in our now, will be determined by what we put away from our past. Woohoo...get ready for your future!

Now After: What we have known as God has now gone up to the mountain, Moses, and he spends time there and then comes back down with the word from God. He does this all the time. He course corrects the children of Israel. Patterns tell us, Moses went up and then he comes back down and He gives destiny and direction. But this time, Moses goes up and the children of Israel are in a transition and they are on Mt. Nebo. What do you do when your life does not work out the way you planned it. How do we move on and move into our future when we are waiting for something to regurn to our life. To wait on God is to aggressively serve God.

Moses should have been back by now. The turn should have come by now, the restoration should have come by now but it hasnt happened. The thing that was supposed to return has not come back and it is dead and its not coming back. Its creating a place of tension in our life. Do we go forward or do we go backward, but you feel stuck. You know you have a promise, but why are the same cycles repeating themselves. You keep wandering in the wilderness, but you get into a survivor mode, instead of a prospering mode. You are just trying to survive. The ways you have done it before are not working like they did before. God is not moving the way He moved before. He is doing a new thing today and He is looking for a people who will lean into Him and listen with the ear of the spirit. We havent been this way before. God is not going to leave us just surviving when He has success for us in Joshua.

Deut. 34 is all about closure. The first thing we have to do is bring closure to the past. Its time to put the drama away and stop the suspension. God has a new system and a new way of doing things. There is something new getting ready to hit your life. Something new is getting ready to hit your church and your job. There is a new expression. We have to let go of that past so that we can move into that future. Its over and what was, was, but now its a new day. We have to shift our vision focus from the past and what was to the future and what is gonna be.

Now After: God will not speak into your future until you bring closure to your past. The bitterness within the context of that thing has to go. You have to bury the days of glory, the days of good and the days of bad. We have to bury some things.

The people were waiting on Moses to come back and they did not know that this time he was dead. He was not going to come back. Its hard to transition or bury something if you are not even sure its dead. They did not know Moses fate. This environment has to change and sometimes our environment has not changed for many years. Sometimes we even have to change our surroundings. We have to be real and relevant. We are having to shift our mindsets. We cannot keep thinking about yesterday. We have to bury yesterday and all that it was, both the good and the bad. We have to go home and change our atmospheres. You might even just need to get some paint on the walls. You may need to go out and get a blue light special if you need to. Its easy to bring closure when you know something is dead, but they did not know that Moses was dead. You cant bury it if you dont know that thing is dead.

The last time you saw that thing it was strong and healthy. The last time Moses went up and came back he was healthy and strong. When Moses went up, his eyes were not dim, and he was full of life. No one knew he had died. If you think it is still alive, you cannot bury what you dont know is dead. The problem is that we try to bring something back and are expecting a return that is dead because we get tied to an old system that God is not going to use anymore. We have to be those who make the shift with God to the new season.

Joshua saw differently and he knew when Moses was dead. Joshua and Caleb had a different spirit. They had a different paradigm. They knew they could go in and possess the land. They were not afraid of the giants. They believed Gods promise and were ready to go in. They were chomping at the bit to go.

The old system is dead and its not coming back anymore. We have to bury the old thing and not try to prop up an old move or old wineskin. God is bringing us out of dead systems that we used to walk in and that stuff wont work anymore. We have to move with God in the new thing. We have to have the ear of the spirit to know what He is doing now. You are trying to listen through an old system or paradigm and then you wonder why you are not hearing God. We have to have the willingness to let the old system go and an ear to the spirit to hear the new thing.

The Value of vision: We pressure people to be okay and force them to be in a position without allowing them to go through the process. IF you need to cry and sob, if you need to scream in your pillow and pour out your heart to God, we have to do whatever we need to do to get that old pain out and put it behind us. You must go through the process. You are not denying the pain, but you have to process the pain and be done with it. When you allow the Lord to take that pain, you will be able to move forward. The weeping is going to be over and you have to make a decision for it to be over. Its a new day. There has to be a real healing of the past. When our hearts are healed from the past, then we can all corporately move forward into the new day.

We have to have our hearts healed of the disappointments of the past. We must put the old glories and the old failures behind us, the old successes and the old failures. Weep and do whatever you need to do to let the grief out once and for all. Then you will be ready to move forward when the grief of the past has been finished.

We have to stop making excuses because of the pain of yesterday. We dont talk about that pain anymore and you might even still have places in your heart that have pain, but we are going to be able to move forward as the Lord heals those places. We choose to let go of the bitterness and the pain. Weeping is over and stop feeling sorry about yourself and stand up and look to your future and its a new day.

Everything can be better in your life because your history says something about your destiny. Your capacity is being enlarged and it is time to occupy and be positioned in the new place. We learn from our mistakes. We learn when we should have stood. We learn when we should have confronted things. We learn our past mistakes. It wont be a stumbling block, but a stepping stone. Your new beginning is in your ending. Moses is dead, but now we have to arise and move forward. If you can get over it, then you get through the Jordan. Get over what happened. Choose to forgive, choose to forget what lies behind and move into what lies ahead. When you get through it, the Lord will give you new borders. You dont want anything outside of God parameters and borders.

No enemy will be able to destroy you or take you out. The fear of your past keeps trying to enter into the faith of your future. You are about to receive a inheritance and a possession. You will occupy all that He has said and your borders have been increased and your family will see His goodness. Every place where your foot goes, you will possess the land. God is giving you a new inheritance. Integrity and honor are returning to your life. We have to get out of yesterday, because its a new day. We are going to be world changers and history makers. The glory of God will go forth again and encircle our region and His Kingdom shall go forth in Jesus Name.

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