EVERY MAN MUST HAVE A VISION AND HAS TO MANAGE IT WELL PART III

“Where there is no vision, the people perish ...” (Pr.29:18) (KJV), Look around us. Notice the tall buildings, machines, streets, schools, hospitals, bridges, airplanes, ships. Look at our own homes: In the kitchen, sitting room, and bedroom. Everything we see that is man-made was first an idea, a dream, or a vision in someone's mind. All things start as ideas, dreams, or visions. Then, when that idea is implemented, it becomes a reality. Yes, all man-made creation starts as a thought in the mind. All great accomplishers have been people motivated by their dreams.

In managing the vision there is a belief that all realistic dreams, aspirations and visions can be achieved if well planned, managed and cultivated by men who are open-minded, filled with faith in God and willing to pay the price it takes.

The birth of a vision is the starting point of success. A man without a vision lives an aimless life.

Vision overcomes fear and hopelessness. It stimulates us to action and moves us from

 complacency to higher spiritual levels. James 2:14-17

 “What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”(NKJV)

Following are motivational scriptures for the man who is a visionary

 Are we a diligent person? Are we building and nurturing our dreams? In times of difficulty do we hang on to our dreams? Do we keep on dreaming and giving life to our dreams?

Are we skillful in our business⁷ Then the Lord will increase our stature. We will find favor with God and man. Remember the implementation of one idea is worth more than ten good ideas that are just lying dormant in our minds.

Proverbs 22:29: Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before unknown men.(NKJV). Arise and let us put our vision to action. Walk through our vision and visualize God's bringing it to pass.

Genesis 13:17: “Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you."(NKJV). Can we visualize that? Then possess the land with God's might. Go forth and tread upon the land - our dreams, vision, and desire.

Joshua 1:3: “Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses”.(NKJV). We must shake ourselves from all those negative thoughts and ideas. We need to loose ourselves from the chains that have bound our mentality.

Isaiah 52:2 : Shake yourself from the dust, arise; Sit down, O Jerusalem! Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion!(NKJV). Believe in the law of growth, increase, and multiplication. 

Psalm 115:14: May the LORD give you increase more and more, You and your children.(NKJV) Confess this truth. Visualize God's blessings and strength increasing in every area of our lives.

Job 8:7 : Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.(NKJV). What obstacles, mountains or competitors are against us and the vision that the Lord has given us? If we are faithful and trusting, the Lord will enlarge our borders. He will bless our work, our business and our vision if we will make a habit of appearing before Him.

Exodus 34:24:For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.(NKJV). We are to enlarge our vision, our goals, our dreams, and our territories. Stretch our curtains, our skills, our knowledge, and our influence. We are not to limit ourselves. We will spread abroad and the Lord shall bless our doings, if we are committed to His will for us.

Men who are visionaries dream big

Isaiah 54:2-3: "Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inherit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.(NKJV). It is a God-given vision that keeps us motivated and willing to press on. Let us catch that vision.

Proverbs 29:18: Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law.(NKJV)

It is a must to pray for God's guidance

It is not enough to have a big vision. We must desire to be in God's perfect will for us. Let Him guide our desires, our goals, and our drives. 

1. Let His eyes guide the way. Do not be as stubborn and difficult as some kind of animal. We are God's children. Let Him be in partnership with us. He will do the leading and we will do the work ... with His power. Psalm 32:8-9 : “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you”.(NKJV).  

2. We are to give God our hearts and our desires, ambitions and wishes, and He will teach us His perfect will and how to bring our vision to birth. Proverbs 23:26: “My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes observe my ways”.(NKJV) 

3. The Lord wants to bring us into a new way of life that we have never known.  He wants to give us a new visions, new desires, new friends and to open new doors for us.  He will make darkness change into light and crooked things straight; But we have to be willing to see things from His point of view. Isaiah 42:16: “I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have   not known. I will make darkness light before them, And crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, And not forsake them”.(NKJV) 

4. Is He our teacher? Are we teachable? Psalm 27:11:  “Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my   enemies”.(NKJV).

5. Let Him shepherd us all the days of our lives.Psalm 23:1; GOD, my shepherd! I don't need a thing. (MSG)

Finally

There is room in this world for men with a vision, men who are willing to pay the price to make this world a better place to live; room for men, who dream God's dreams and feel God's desires for humanity, men who vow to seek God's best in everything they do for others and for themselves. There is room for men who turn daydreams into realities and believe that they are God's workmanship. They sing aloud the music that stirs inside their hearts, paint the beauty that forms in their minds, build bridges across rivers, trails through the woods, ships across the oceans, planes to cross the air, tunnels through the mountains, and they leave a legacy behind them as a gift to their fellow beings and as a sign of thanksgiving to their Creator.