20160805_130054-2Hi Ladies,

I’m giving up! This is hopeless! I quit!

Does this reflect your current attitude as you strive toward the Vision God has given you? Well, that’s exactly the response that He wants you to have!

The vision process outlined here is from Dr. Robert Heidler of Glory of Zion. It’s essential to understand it in order to know what you’re going through as you await the completion of your Vision, whether for a spouse, a career, a ministry or whatever Our Father has placed upon your heart.

 STAGES OF THE VISION

What happens when we step out in faith to achieve a Divine Vision?

#1  RECEIVE THE VISION:   If we prayerfully seek Our Father’s direction in any area, He will reveal it, because we’re an integral part of His Body. When His answer comes, whether as a small voice in the still of night, or in a revelatory flash of blinding clarity, we must then fully embrace it.

The urge to accomplish a specific task or goal for the benefit of others indicates the core of our personal Vision. Most of us will accept the revelation as answered prayer, and eagerly commit to taking the necessary steps to strive toward it, certain that God has already placed a plan within us to achieve it.

#2  DECLINE OF THE VISION:   The next step, from the peak of receiving a Vision, is downhill. At first we will be enthusiastic and excited about our new undertaking, and may remain on that mountaintop for a good while. We’re confident that we will soon make significant progress toward reaching our objective, and that our efforts will make a difference.

But God will, usually over a period of time, allow that initial Vision to recede. As weeks or months pass with fewer accomplishments than we’d anticipated, we start to feel that time is running out, and begin to doubt ever seeing it actually manifested.

This necessary step removes our ego from the process. God always requires that we put our faith into action, but often in the excitement of rushing headlong toward His plan, we try to move ahead in our own strength.  We may exalt His Vision as being our very own, to be achieved by us solely through our deeds and efforts.

When we begin to falter, when our plans don’t work out, and we only seem to be wasting our time, we may waver in our commitment. The flesh is weak and tends to retreat in the face of adversity, yet adversity is what we’ll confront as we work toward the realization of a God-given dream.

With problems, delays, or unforeseen trials, the enemy will seek to entrap and derail us, while The LORD is testing and strengthening us. As I Peter 5: 10 reassures, “But, may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”   Difficulties will confront us along the way, but Our Father has a purpose for them.  When we doubt that we can climb back up, when we struggle and the Vision grows dormant within us, then stage three can begin.

# 3.  REVIVAL OF THE VISION:  In this most significant phase, God Himself moves to supernaturally bring it to pass. In our own strength, we will fail, and it becomes clear that His is the Power, working through us, that enables the Vision to manifest.We can no longer claim credit, and The LORD receives the glory when we reach the fulfillment of the Dream He has birthed within us. Then the process starts all over again because there are always more goals to achieve, and God has need of us.

Have you determined which stage you’re in with your Vision? If its stage two, don’t despair – your help is on the way! Next week, we’ll look at how some of God’s Women of Faith exemplified this process… Joy and Shalom!

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