[I pray] that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe… (Ephesians 1:1819a).
Today’s Devotional Keeping our vision of the Lord clear before us will sustain us through the many labors of our lives and ministries. Over the years, I have become convinced that in Kingdom life, at least two things are certain: God ever changes, and we are always changing. Our lives as Saints and Kingdom Believers are a continual transition from one place to another, one realm to another, one understanding to another. The purpose of spiritual light is to bring us into change and growth. The more light we have, the more change we experience, and the more we change (for the better), the more we are brought into higher realms of glory. Unless we are in constant transition, we will stop somewhere along the way and settle down. The Kingdom Believers' life is a frontier. God did not call us to be settlers, but to be pilgrims and pioneers.
This is the point of Apostle Paul’s prayer in the first chapter of Ephesians. The more enlightenment we have, the more wisdom and revelation we are open to receive, and the greater understanding we can develop of the hope of His calling, the glory of His inheritance, and the surpassing greatness of His power as they apply to our lives.
1. How has keeping your vision of the Lord clear before you sustained you through your labors in ministry and in your life?
2. How do you personally know that God ever changes? What Scripture confirms this to you? What experiences have you had to testify that this is true?
3. How do you know that humanity is always changing? Where do you find this in the Scriptures? Have you seen this to be true in your experience?
4. How well do you weather transitions in your life? Do you see your transitions as bringing you from one realm to the next? Do they help you grow in your understanding of God?
5. What factors help us develop the understanding of the faith of God’s calling and His surpassing greatness? How can you develop these factors?
Meditation: We need the vision to sustain us as a people—a vision that shows us clearly how the promises of God are more than all the power of evil.
Let us then be a people of vision who will not perish, but walk together in hot pursuit of the Lord, that we too will be able to hold before our eyes an all-consuming vision of the conquering Son of Man and the Ancient of Days sitting upon His throne. Do others have the same vision as you?
Are you walking in hot pursuit with others of like vision?
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1.It's if it's helped me to stay connected and focus and it's helped me get into a place of deep worship and it's helped me to see more clearly in my visions and it helps me to want to see him in a different way it helped me to be able to help other people by sharing other my insight that I have and how I got them and it helps me understand myself better it's helping me get to know myself and who I am so the Lord has helped me in my visions and a new way and I'm definitely seeing him and a brighter different bigger way and I'm just grateful to God.
2. Praise God how I know that God ever changes is because of the scripture reading from 136 of Psalms and its states that his love endures forever and that right there is enough to let me know that God ever changes it lets me feel the love and how His love doesn't waver it doesn't change and its long lasting and how I know this for sure is how he's been in my life since childhood sparing My Life coming in my life saving me and showing me love even in my mess he showed love genuine. In the midst of me being in my mess he still showed me how much he loves me and cares and he still was protecting me so that's how I know for sure and I can testify about it cuz I'm still here today as a witness and I'm still loved incredibly so in a good way in a deep way his faithful love endures forever its Facts.
4. For me we always go through challenges it's not that we're not willing it's not that we're not accepting its we always have a challenging fight on our hands when it's time to transition it's always like that and we are willing to transition we are willing to grow and give it our all you know cuz we desire it but at the same time is always be something in the way that tries to hold us back so it's a push transfer situation for us. Yes for the transition it is me moving from one room to the next I do sometimes feel myself doing the transition if that makes sense it is like a feeling that I feel when it happens and that's when everything is Starts 2 collaborate and I am constantly in a battle you know until the transition is finished. It actually does help it tells me how to fight but it shows me to fight in a deeper way and then how I normally have been. It also helps me to understand that I need to in order to be a warrior and God's kingdom that I need to be able to fight stronger way than what I've been.
5. For us the factors for were being willing Desiring faithfulness humbleness patience humility openness and just that drive to keep going those are the factors that we used and that got us through and that also showed a light to God's faithfulness these are all the things that he is and for us to have used the same tools help us realize that. It definitely takes time and patience to do all these things it takes also being organized and it also takes you to have definitely some good Zone in life when coming across these factors so it's time to do those things and may not be easy for those that's not used to it so it's going to take time but trust me when you use these factors it will bless you.
Yes I would say that I'm around a group of folks they actually share my vision which is to please God which is to serve Him which is to go to heaven and overcome this evil that's in the world and would like to see the promises of God.
1.Staying focus, keep the vision forever before you. It keeps us, we are like in rehearsal, we are in a practice, learning that what we are laboring in within our ministry and in our life, it will definitely be use for the Master’s Use. Staying in the Word, creating a serious fasting life, things will continue to be clear, even if the no name comes, we can recognize and begin to sniff it out and demolish it.
1: My vision was clear until.I had sustained my self but taking my own road instead of following God vision. Now I am working hard towards ministry. Likenever before God is showing me new things daily in my road with him. I see my path with him more clear then ever before.
2: Because he told my mother that as long as she serve him she won't never die. And she still here teaching us today. So I know God don't change up on us, he always remain the same. God's first promise he made and it still going forth today when he promised Noah in Gen 9:8-17. He also made an promise to Abram that still is going on as up right now. God has promised me that he will show me his true love, and he will never let me go back to my old ways of thinking.
3: By the way people think about themselves. How they don't value there life anymore, how us as people don't listen to any instructions that God gives us or he sends people to give us instructions. That's how humanity is changing no one want's to listen it seems. It's multiple scriptures in the bible. When Noah was propheting that it will rain no one listened. Gen 6:9-22. Yes it's still happening now people don't listened to warnings now. Even John the Baptist, old them to repent but they didn't listen.
4: I'm willing to go all the way, I desire to see my life grow even more so daily. I put my trust in him through every sitution that is possible. Yes I am increasing in different realms daily my growth in him has expand. My love and hunger for God is real. I can't live without him. Yes it does God give me wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, on my journey in him. My growth in and elevated extremely.
5: The increase of our faith and his love for him truly. We must know that God will train us the way he desire for us to do his will. We must allow him to teach us him ways. Because us as people got long way to go to say that we know God. We have no clue of who he really is unless we trust him and get to work. By asking God to strengthn us and allow us to understand what is taking place in our lives.
I don't know maybe it depends on how truely do they really want it. I'm walking in the happniess of God glory.