FOCUSED: Larger Purpose, Bigger Story While coping with daily life and full to-do lists, we must contend for our assignment to be part of God s larger purpose and bigger story!
The Starting Line to the Right Race When our eternal yes acts in simple obedience, God changes the world through us each day.
Limiting Beliefs or Liberating Truths
FOCUSED: Vision s Birthplace True vision for life is birth through discomfort.
Not the discomfort of wanting something others have, which is how most create goals for themselves
Human eyes focus on what other s have that we don t. Jesus eyes are focused upon what others don t have.
FOCUSED VISION As our hearts are moved because others need the gospel, poor children need food, shelter and education, young people need mentoring, those left out need a community, the silenced need a voice, this discomfort births life-changing vision vision that changes the lives of others, as well as our own.
Discomfort is the Birthplace of Vision 2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help? But you do not listen! Violence is everywhere! I cry, but you do not come to save. 3 Must I forever see these evil deeds? Why must I watch all this misery? Habakkuk 1:2 4 (NLT)
Discomfort is the Birthplace of Vision Wherever I look, I see destruction and violence. I am surrounded by people who love to argue and fight. 4 The law has become paralyzed, and there is no justice in the courts. The wicked far outnumber the righteous, so that justice has become perverted. Habakkuk 1:2 4 (NLT)
Habakkuk s Discomfort human misery destruction and violence people who love to argue and fight the legal system paralyzed and perverted injustice the wicked seem to outnumber the righteous
The Power of Conscience Our conscience is not only to guide personal behavior. Our conscience is given to birth a vision for a more Christ-like world.
What discomfort unsettles your comfort? Families without safety Children lacking education Human trafficking Gang impacted kids The addicted
What discomfort unsettles your comfort? Those with sickness and disease Hurting hearts due to bullying, abuse, and violence Seniors bound in loneliness People battling anxiety, depression and mental illness
What discomfort unsettles your comfort? Motherless and fatherless children Immigrants and refugees needing a home People needing good jobs Injustice against the powerless Tax dollars wasted
What discomfort unsettles your comfort? Church as it is compared to the love and power of the NT Christians hurt by the Church Creatives with no place in the family People needing Jesus, neighborhoods without churches, nations without the gospel
Let discomfort give birth to vision
Define and Declare Vision 2 And the LORD answered me: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. 3 For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up (the impatient one); it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith (no matter how long the race takes). Habakkuk 2:2 4 (ESV)
FOCUSED: A written vision that clarifies, defines, and focuses a God-given passion, allows us to run, and gather others to run with us. 2 And the LORD answered me: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. Habakkuk 2:2 (ESV)
FOCUSED: Define and Declare the mere act of writing one s goals boosted achievement by 42 percent. Michael Hyatt, Your Best Year Ever, citing Gail Matthews, The Effectiveness of Four Coaching Techniques in Enhancing Goal Achievement.
FOCUSED: A written vision sustains us as we adjust to God s sense of time, not our own. 3 For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. Habakkuk 2:3 (ESV)
FOCUSED: A written vision inspires the faith we need. 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up (the impatient one); it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith (no matter how long the race takes). Habakkuk 2:2 4 (ESV)
FOCUSED: See as Jesus sees. 36 When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; 38 therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Matthew 9:36 38 (ESV)
FOCUSED: Lift Up Your Eyes 35 Do you not say, There are yet four months, then comes the harvest? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. John 4:35 (ESV)
Give to others the grace I ve received. And the angel touched my mouth and said: Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for. And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here I am! Send me. Isaiah 6:7 8 (ESV)
Here I am! Send me.
The Greatest Vision Ever Written: The Promise of the Gospel in the Bible Admit: Ask: Accept: Announce:
FOCUSED: Discomfort Births Vision And the LORD answered me: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. Habakkuk 2:2 (ESV)