VISION
Deuteronomy 33:25 The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days.
It Doesn’t take much effort to start things.
Diet, school, family…
Starting is easy — finishing is what can be difficult.
Any young lady can have a baby but mothering is harder.
Any two people can get married but being a team takes some time!
Anyone can have a dream; it takes perseverance to see it come to pass.
The question is not will you start, but will you finish?
People have setbacks.~They get discouraged.
But- the Scripture tells us-
Hosea 4:6
My people perish for lack of knowledge"
Heb. 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;
God is called the author and finisher of our faith.
He’s not only given you the grace to start,
He’s given you the grace to finish…
It's time to TAP INTO YOUR Finishing Grace!
If you can remember this it will carry you through anything in life-
Remind yourself I was not created to give up or quit – but to finish.
Loan for house- …
Shake off self-pity.
Live forward in faith.
God is breathing in your direction with finishing grace.
You must tap into it.
Don’t sit around in self-pity.
You have the grace to finish.
Don’t talk defeat, talk victory.
Quit telling yourself you won’t make it.
God gave you the grace to start, and He’s giving you the grace to finish.
Even in simple things.
You start cleaning your house your room and if want to quit 5 minutes later.
-First day in College… packed…
Tap into finishing grace…
Creating you’re world because you’re on a mission from God.
Your life is a Mission from God-
God tells us to write your Vision-
Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish:
but Those that keeps the Word, happy is are They…
Write, Weather & Win
1. Write Down The Vision
Habakkuk 2:2 `Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets,
That the one who reads it may run.
Take Holy Spirit Notes-
Write down the vision-
God gives you Vision-
Pre vision leads to Pro-Vision-
Maybe you’re tempted to give up on a dream.
The enemy doesn’t try to stop you from starting.
He’s seen a lot of people start.
But when you have a made-up mind and keep pushing forward,
That’s when he’ll work overtime to try to keep you from finishing…
As a child of God you’re NOT a Quitter-
The opposition is a sign you’re moving towards the goal.
Progress gets the enemy’s attention…
He thought you’d give up after the first few difficulties.
Instead you kept moving forward.
Tapping into finishing grace.
Is. 43:26 Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.
Ecc 9:11
I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
When you should’ve been depressed you were smiling.
Talking about how big your God is.
When you didn’t see a way He made a way.
You may be up against challenges now;
It’s because of your progress.
He didn’t bring you this far to leave you.
In Philippians 1:6 it says He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion.
He will bring you to a flourishing finish
This happened to Joseph.
As a teen he dreamed of ruling a nation.
He started out great with a big dream and supportive family.
His brothers were jealous and threw him in a pit to die, then decided to sell him into slavery.
Joseph do anything wrong but his world was turned upside down.
Then he was put in prison for 13 years for something he didn’t do.
Joseph knew he had the grace not just to start but to finish.
He kept doing the right thing when the wrong thing was happening.
Pharaoh had a dream that Joseph interpreted and Joseph became ruler of Egypt.
God has put something on you that will override people being against you.
You cannot stay defeated.
Life may push you down but God will push you back up.
Situations may look impossible but God can do the impossible.
When you have finishing grace all the forces of darkness cannot stop you.
It’s just a detour on the way to your destiny.
Faith and patience work hand and hand. Faith takes the promise, and patience keeps it. Prioritize these two together, and you can receive anything from God!
The enemy doesn’t fight people that are going the wrong way.
He comes against people headed towards the fullness of their destiny.
Keep moving forward despite the bad breaks.
My assignment is too important to get discouraged.
When you’re tempted to get discouraged and settle it’s because you’re close to breakthrough, and seeing your problem turn around.
It’s on the way.
Tap into finishing grace.
You’ve come too far to stop now.
It may be difficult.
You may hear negative voices say quit.
But Jesus endured Because Hos Love Always Prevails-
This is How much Our God loves us-
Jesus Praying for you-
John 17:23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
You are Loved- put Your Desires in His Love for you-
You’re close to your destiny.
I am in it to win it.
1. Write,
2 Weather The Vision
Hebrews 12:2
looking unto Jesus, (Fixing Our Eyes On Jesus) the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Weather the Storms & Battles-
Hebrews 6:21 do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Jesus rested during the Storm-
The Prayer of Jabez comes from the Bible.
In 1 Chronicles 4:10, we read: "And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that Thine hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested."
The prayer is composed of four parts.
First, Jabez asks God to bless him.
Second
He asks God to enlarge his territory or increase his responsibility.
Third
he prays that God will be with him and stay close. Lastly,
Forth
Jabez asks that God keep him from harm so that he will be free from pain.
I am not moved by this opposition.
God began a good work in me and He will complete it.
I’ll keep doing my best.
You’re one day closer to coming in to your finish line
Deuteronomy 33:25 says as your days are, so shall your strength be.
Your strength will always be equivalent to your need
Your strength will match what you’re up against.
The closer you get to your destiny the tougher the battles.
Critics come out the woodwork.
You lose a loved one.
God knows exactly where your path is leading.
He knows every setback.
His grace is sufficient.
More than enough-
You’ll never come to a hill where you won’t have the strength to climb it.
The apostle Paul faced some huge hills.
He was sharing the Good News when he was arrested and put in prison-
The closer he got to his destiny the more obstacles came.
Write, Weather &
3. Win The Vision
Philippians 3:14
1 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 12:1 12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
Paul wasn’t defeated and depressed.
He pressed ON-
Phil. 3:13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead
Philippians 3:14
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
He couldn’t speak publicly so wrote letters to the Churches-
They thought they were stopping him but they amplified his voice.
God will use the ones trying to hold you down to propel you forward.
Stay in faith you will accomplish your assignment.
KEY!!
Quit focusing on who’s against you
Or how steep the hill is.
God has the final say…
No bad break can keep you from your destiny.
At the end of his life Paul said I have finished my race – with joy.
We all have things come against us.
It’s easy to drag through life but there’s no victory in that.
Determine to finish your course with joy.
Thanking God for what you do have.
Thousands of years ago in Greece there was a race called a torch race.
At the start of the race they’d light the fire and runners would run with the torch.
You could only win if you finished with your torch still lit.
They had to protect their fire.
It’s the same principle in the race of life.
Guard your fire.
Don’t let your flame go out.
Don’t lose your passion.
God is not done with you.
Shake off the blahs and discouragement.
The scripture talks about how we have to fan the flame and stir up the gift.
2 Timothy 1:6-7
6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
A Tanzanian runner fell and broke his leg during Olympic race but he finished his race.
Everyone else was gone but he kept going.
The runner said he didn’t quit when he broke his leg because his country didn’t send him 7,000 miles to start the race but to finish it.
He got a standing ovation-
Excited 9:11 The race is not for the swift or the strong but to those who endure to the end.
You weren’t created to quit.
You have to dig your heels in and say I am determined to Finnish in His Grace-
No Fear
No Floundering
But love
But Power
But soundness of Mind Body & Soul
Write, Weather & Win