Hab 2:1 I will stand on my guard post And station myself on the rampart; And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, And how I may reply when I am reproved. 2 Then the LORD answered me and said, "Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run. 3 "For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay
Ge 30:25 Now it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country. 26 "Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me depart; for you yourself know my service which I have rendered you." 27 But Laban said to him, "If now it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined that the LORD has blessed me on your account." 28 He continued, "Name me your wages, and I will give it." 29 But he said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you and how your cattle have fared with me. 30 "For you had little before I came and it has increased to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?
" 31 So he said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock: 32 let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep and every black one among the lambs and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages. 33 "So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen." 34 Laban said, "Good, let it be according to your word.
" 35 So he removed on that day the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, every one with white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons. 36 And he put a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. 37 Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was in the rods. 38 He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they mated when they came to drink.
39 So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted. 40 Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock. 41 Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods; 42 but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's. 43 So the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.
SUSTAINING MOMENTUM MEANS SUSTAINING VISION Pr 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law. Matt 15.12 Then the disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?" 13 But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. 14 "Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
BACK STORY ON JACOB 1. The POWER OF STAMINA Tenacity, Work ethic, Resilience. STAMINA 2. The POWER OF LOYALTY Jacob was loyal even when it wasn t in his favor Resist the temptation to be narcissistic 3. THE POWER OF CALLING Jacob recognized the Hand of God on his life.
KNOW WHAT YOUR VISION IS Hab 2:1 I will stand on my guard post And station myself on the rampart; And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, And how I may reply when I am reproved. 2 Then the LORD answered me and said, "Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run. 3 "For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay.
We Are Required to Stand Eph 6:13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. We are Required to Listen We are Required to Adjust
Prov. 9.8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. GETTING VISION FROM GOD IS THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SET MAN OR WOMAN IN THE HOUSE! GETTING THE VISION FROM THE LEADER IS THE MEMBERS RESPONSIBILITY
COMMUNICATE IT CLEARLY AND SIMPLY Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run.
Frankly sometimes the vision is too complicated. It s some morphed version of where we started, what we have become and who we wish we were. NONE OF THESE ARE NECESSARILY GOD S VISION
BUILDING AN OVERCOMING CHURCH OUT OF BROKEN LIVES THROUGH THE POWER OF JESUS CHRIST 1. What we re doing. 2. How we are doing it. 3. Who we are doing it for!!
PLACE IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE Only when the people get it does it have POWER!!
JACOB COULDNT PRODUCE GOATS, THE SENIOR PASTOR CANT EXECUTE VISION
Eph 4:11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
1. Place the Vision Where They Eat Where we receive the Word! 2. Place the Vision Where They Mate Where we Pray! 3. Place the Vision Where They Are Broken Where We Hurt!