HOW IS YOUR VISIOIN?
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
Vision: revelation, manifestation of unseen, the power of imagination, foresight, discernment,
Visual problems:
We have in the church today spiritual blindness. Today one is considered legally blind if they
have 1/10 of normal vision.
Hyperopia --- far sightedness, can’t see today, but looks only to tomorrow;
Myopia, --- nearsightedness, --- can only see here right now;
Presbyopia, just plain short sightedness;
Amblyopia --- they can see with one eye, but the other eye is dim and they have trouble
judging distances.
Stratismus, which is an eye problem where the muscles of the eyes do not work together,
we call this crosseye, what usually happens is one eye pulls toward the nose.
Then there is tunnel vision where the peripheral vision is lost and one sees in extreme narrowness.
I. AFTER A TERRIBLE TIME OF HURT AND DESTRUCTION, THE DREAM AND THE VISION SHALL RETURN! THE DREAM SHALL BRING TO PASS. VISION RETURN HERE!
Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm,
the caterpillar, and the palmer worm, my great army which I sent among you.
28. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men dream dreams, your
young men shall see visions.
II. THE ROLE OF THE VISION IN THE CHURCH IS TO SEE BEYOND HERE, TO SEE BEYOND TODAY. VISION IS THE ART OF SEEING THINGS INVISIBLE.
JOEL 2: 32 And IT SHALL COME TO PASS, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered.
III. THERE IS POWER IN A DREAM. WE NEED DREAMERS BACK IN THE CHURCH.
Genesis 37:19 And they said, (Joseph’s 10 brothers), one to another, BEHOLD THE DREAMER COMETH.
IV. OFTEN TIMES A DREAMER ABUSES HIS DREAM.
A DREAMER IS NOT ALWAYS APPRECIATED.
Joseph did not use wisdom as a dreamer. He was proud and boastful.
Joseph dreamed his Dad and brothers were going to come and bow at his feet.
The dream will be real, but Joseph should have had tact and wisdom instead of in your throwing his dream in their face.
V. A GOOD DREAM HAS A PREPARATION POWER. GET READY!
Remember a story that comes out of Egypt.
The King had a dream, no one could interpret the dream.
Joseph was remembered while he was forgotten in the jail.
The power of this one dream would forever change Joseph’s life, and this change
by a dream would support the people of God through hard, difficult times.
Genesis 41: 26- 27.
There were 7 big, fat cows; then 7 skinny cows, and the 7 skinny cows ate off the fat cows.
There was a second dream, 7 big, fat corn cobs, ---7 dry and skinny corn cobs.
The 7 skinny corn cobs fed on the 7 fat.
The dream was a preparational dream, 7 good years, then 7 years of drought,
Be ready, get prepared. The vision will sustain you through the dry times.
VI. LOOK AT THESE GENERAL IDEAS ABOUT VISION!
Every man tends to take the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Cynic --- has faulty vision, he can only see things as they are, and he refuses to see things as
they should be.
We need to grow a special ability to have RE-VISION, the act of looking back with fresh eyes,
and enter old thoughts from a new critical direction.
HOPE IS AN AWAKING VISION OR DREAM! There is hope beyond our ability to dream.
Will we be a "DREAM TEAM?"
Young people dream of else where to be, mature people dream of home.
A good vision is a door of escape from the trap where we are into the realm of Divine possibilities,
a hope of better, a peace that there is more.
Men never plan to fail, they fail to plan.
They become trapped in the menial with no joy or expectation of better.
What do you do with a deferred dream?
God’s plan is for us to DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM, AND TO REACH THE UNREACHABLE STAR.
God has promised His people that where two or three gather together in Jesus’ name,
that God would hear and grant our request.
For we must have faith that the hand of God is our personal promise.
VII. WE MUST PROTECT OUR VISION ABILITY, LIFE WILL STEAL OUR DREAMS,THEREFORE WE MUST GUARD THEM. WE NEED A FIREWALL AROUND OUR DREAMING ABILITY.
The reality of daily menial --- domestic flunkyness of life --- will kill the dreamer in any person.
Man gets TIRED, DRAINED, WEAK, their patience worn out, weary to the point of quitting.
Old men are still to dream.
Zechariah 2:5 For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
VIII. NO VISION IS A GREAT HINDRANCE AND KILLER IN THE CAMP OF GOD!
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
The work of God, the Word of God, will be limited by the lack of vision.
Weak nearsighted vision will handcuff the deliverance, the healing, the ability of the
release of God’s plan.
IX. THE VISION MUST HAVE GREAT CLARITY!
Habakkuk 2:2 And the Lord answered me, and said, WRITE THE VISION, AND MAKE IT CLEAR
upon the tablets, that he may run that readeth it.
Our vision needs to be bright, clean, pure, easily understood, no ambiguity, not limited by human
thinking but reaching into God’s potential.
X. WE MUST HAVE PATIENCE TO WAIT ON OUR PROMISE AND VISION.
Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Ephesians 6:13 ---- having done all stand.
Joseph had to wait 13 years to see his dream.
Abraham had to wait 20 years.
Noah waited over 100 years to see the rain start coming down.
XI. SUBMIT YOUR VISION TO THE WILL OF THE FATHER, AND SEARCH YOUR MOTIVES, WHY DO I WANT TO SEE THIS?
James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
We need to discern our motives? Is profit our goal? Do we have a right spirit?
XII. A GOOD VISION CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED ALONE. LET US PRAY TO THE LORD OF THE HARVEST FOR HELPERS TO HASTEN OUR DREAMS REALITY.
God has promised His people that where two or three gather together in Jesus’ name,
that God would hear and grant our request.
Matthew 18:20.
What would a family dream be able to accomplish? What if a husband and wife united on a vision for God? God give us helpers to come along side of us, and bring this vision to pass.
We must pray God bring the right people and pieces together to accomplish our dreams.
A good vision cannot be accomplished by what I can do, but what a team of believers can
come together and accomplish. We must dream beyond our ability.
XIII. WE NEED GOD’S HELP TO STOP THE NEGATIVE CLAIMS AND THE MOUTHS THAT WOULD HINDER OR KILL OUR VISIONS.
The challenge to Daniel’s faithfulness in prayer was his enemies that plotted against him.
The real challenge Daniel faced was the lions’ mouths. God helped Daniel because Daniel trusted
God, long before the lions’ den. Daniel trusted God at the prayer window. Daniel’s prayer window became a WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY.
Don’t ever forget that the people that are saying it cannot be done, are being passed by those that
are doing it.
There is always a jealous, envious group of people that would love you to fail. If you fail they will
have an excuse to not try?
Sometimes God will not stop the mouth of Sanballot, we must learn to sing praises above the sound
of the negative.
But never underestimate the power of the 10 negative reports. Whose report will you believe?
Be teachable! Be reachable. learn how to adapt your dream.
Be willing to fight in the spiritual warfare against any tactics our enemy would come against you to
hinder or delay your vision from God’s timing.
Our dreams need to be fresh from the heart of God. You cannot allow any past experience to keep
you from your dreams. A scar is a testimony of survival and not meant to stop you from dreaming.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
God help us be hope givers. God help me to dream a fresh dream.God bring forth Your dream right here.
Father, some have been in a terrible battle, the war has been long --- hard --- seemingly endless, please
God remember these that are so tired.
Clarify Your Holy Vision in our hearts!
Give us faith that will exercise patience as we stand and wait. God reveal Your plan to us.
Teach us, grow us, stretch us beyond the reach of our hearts, God many are drowning in the sea of menial task.
Father bring real meaning to suffering, birth a HOPE GIVING SPIRIT IN EVERY HEART THAT WILL RECEIVE THIS.
God give us vision! Teach us to avoid the traps of feeling worthless, and see into the realm
of God possibilities through us. Lord, I am waiting on Your touch.
Launch faith, launch beyond us.
