2 Timothy 1
We are walking in today: Weekend Meditation--We Have To Fight For Our Vision!!!
Witness see throughout the Bible: H2372 chazah--to see, perceive, look, behold, prophesy, provide;
to have a vision of:— see, perceive with the intelligence or to see (by experience)Witness see throughout the Bible: H2372 chazah--to see, perceive, look, behold, prophesy, provide;
Psalm 63:2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen
H2372 thee in the sanctuary.
The Torah testifies...............
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The prophets proclaim..................
Isaiah 48:6 Thou hast heard, see H2372 all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
The writings bear witness...........................
Job 15:17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen H2372 I will declare;
Zechariah 10:2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen H2372 a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
Fight for Your Vision
There will always be people who are committed to destroying you. They will criticize you, ridicule you, and become angry with you. Let them. You are not responsible for their actions, only your own. Fight for your vision. Share your dream only when you must, and choose carefully with whom you share it. Do the background work and stay on course when the going gets rough. Expect opposition and be careful not to allow the threats and accusations of your enemies to intimidate you. Stick with your decisions and remain committed to your goal. Don’t let quietness fool you so that you are caught unprepared by a later attack. Talk to The Most High about your needs and allow Him to respond to your oppressors. Never answer them yourself.
Finally, keep yourself busy. Don’t allow the battle to interfere with your work. You may not be popular, but you will be successful because The Most High works with those who put forth the effort to stay with the vision He has given them. Thus, your opposers will learn that they are not as important as what you are doing, and you will remain focused on your vision with renewed wisdom and strength to accomplish it. Your potential is worth the effort of overcoming its enemies.
Get Moving
The Most High helps those who help themselves. This familiar saying expresses an important truth. Paul told Timothy to seek the help of the Holy Spirit (see 2 Timothy 1:14), not to expect Him to run the whole show. The Holy Spirit will not take over our lives, but He will assist us in running them. That’s the meaning of His name (paracletus). He is our helper or assistant. He doesn’t guard our potential. He helps us to do so by guiding our decisions and by empowering us to withstand and triumph in the midst of trials. Guidance, by definition, requires movement. Merriam Webster’s 10th Collegiate Dictionary says that to guide is to “direct in a course or to show the way to be followed. [It] implies knowledge of the way and of all its difficulties and dangers.” As a ship that is resting in the harbor cannot be steered, so the Holy Spirit cannot guide us if we are not going anywhere. When we say, “Guide me, Lord,” the Holy Spirit replies, “Where are you going?” He needs us to move so He can turn us in the right direction. If you want The Most High to guard your potential, you have to start using it. If you want Him to protect it, you have to start protecting it.
Let’s say, for example, that you have a dream to go back to school and become a teacher, but you’re struggling with your dream because you have poor reading skills. The Most High will help you protect your dream of becoming a teacher if you sign up for an adult reading class and work hard to learn to read.
Or again, you may have the ambition to be a nurse or a cabinet maker or a store manager. Research the nursing programs in your area and get all the facts before you present the idea to your parents or your spouse. Find a skilled carpenter to serve under as an apprentice before you set up your own shop. Start going to school in the evenings to get your master’s degree in business administration before you apply for a supervisory position. That first step you take may not be the right one, but The Most High can’t help you until you do something. He can’t close a door you haven’t opened or affirm a decision you haven’t made. If you aren’t doing anything to accomplish your goal, He isn’t doing anything either. The Holy Spirit can’t work for you unless you are working.
The same principle is true for protecting your potential. Perhaps you have the ambition to graduate from school with honors, but too much of your study time is being spent working a part-time job or hanging out with friends. Quit your job or rearrange your hours to give you more study time. Limit your social activities and make your free hours productive and relaxing. When you do something to remove the attack against your vision, The Most High will aid your efforts.
Nevertheless, the initiative must come from you. Or perhaps you’d like to lose weight because your appearance is affecting both your self-esteem and the confidence others have in your ability to accomplish a given task. You know you can do the job, but you never get the chance to try because neither you nor your boss is willing to risk giving you the extra responsibility. When you make a sincere effort to watch what you eat and to get the proper exercise, The Most High will reaffirm His estimation of your value and motivate others to see you as a capable, valuable person. His action to protect your potential depends on your actions.
The Most High won’t take a bad habit or an inappropriate lifestyle from you because He didn’t give it to you. He will affirm your decisions and strengthen your efforts when you start taking positive steps to rid yourself of the negative influences, the wrong attitudes, or the poor choices that are threatening your potential. Destroy the cigarettes or drugs. Move out from living with your boyfriend or girlfriend. Stay home instead of spending every night at the local bar. Leave the room when you are about to hit your child in anger. Take responsibility for your own actions when your boss asks you why a project isn’t completed or your spouse is disappointed that you forgot her birthday or your wedding anniversary.
A boat that is still cannot be turned no matter how long or how far you turn the wheel. Move a small distance and the boat will respond to a gentle touch on the wheel. The guarding and protecting of your potential is the same. If you stay stuck in your present rut with no attempts to get out of it, your dreams will wither and die. Start moving and the gentle touch of The Most High will begin changing you and helping you to achieve seemingly impossible dreams. The Most High is your partner. You must work together to protect your potential. When you start contributing to your own protection, the Holy Spirit starts to protect you as well. He empowers what you begin and redirects your efforts when they don’t match His expectations. Then you can begin to discover your potential and to protect what you see.
Guarding potential is a daily task that requires more wisdom and power than we possess. The Most High is in the business of maximizing potential. He’ll empower our efforts if we cooperate with Him, but He will not do the work for us. Begin today to follow the guidelines for guarding and protecting your potential. The future of your dreams and visions is at stake.
Principles
1. You are responsible to guard and protect your potential.
2. The treasure you must defend is The Most High’s wisdom, The Most High’s power, and the presence of The Most High’s Spirit in your life. This potency of The Most High within you is your potential.
3. Guidelines for safeguarding your potential:
• Recognize your enemies as the forces of evil.
• Expect HaSatan’s attack.
• Prepare to overcome his attack.
• Stand firm in the midst of attack.
4. Guidelines for protecting yourself from attack:
• Don’t answer your critics.
• Post a guard to deter attack and to warn of impending danger.
• Allow The Most High to fight for you.
• Don’t allow a lull in the battle to convince you that the war is over.
• Stay away from your opposition.
• Don’t waste time talking.
• Refuse to be intimidated by your critics’ threats and accusations.
H2372 thee in the sanctuary.
The Torah testifies...............
***
The prophets proclaim..................
Isaiah 48:6 Thou hast heard, see H2372 all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
The writings bear witness...........................
Job 15:17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen H2372 I will declare;
Zechariah 10:2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen H2372 a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
Fight for Your Vision
There will always be people who are committed to destroying you. They will criticize you, ridicule you, and become angry with you. Let them. You are not responsible for their actions, only your own. Fight for your vision. Share your dream only when you must, and choose carefully with whom you share it. Do the background work and stay on course when the going gets rough. Expect opposition and be careful not to allow the threats and accusations of your enemies to intimidate you. Stick with your decisions and remain committed to your goal. Don’t let quietness fool you so that you are caught unprepared by a later attack. Talk to The Most High about your needs and allow Him to respond to your oppressors. Never answer them yourself.
Finally, keep yourself busy. Don’t allow the battle to interfere with your work. You may not be popular, but you will be successful because The Most High works with those who put forth the effort to stay with the vision He has given them. Thus, your opposers will learn that they are not as important as what you are doing, and you will remain focused on your vision with renewed wisdom and strength to accomplish it. Your potential is worth the effort of overcoming its enemies.
Get Moving
The Most High helps those who help themselves. This familiar saying expresses an important truth. Paul told Timothy to seek the help of the Holy Spirit (see 2 Timothy 1:14), not to expect Him to run the whole show. The Holy Spirit will not take over our lives, but He will assist us in running them. That’s the meaning of His name (paracletus). He is our helper or assistant. He doesn’t guard our potential. He helps us to do so by guiding our decisions and by empowering us to withstand and triumph in the midst of trials. Guidance, by definition, requires movement. Merriam Webster’s 10th Collegiate Dictionary says that to guide is to “direct in a course or to show the way to be followed. [It] implies knowledge of the way and of all its difficulties and dangers.” As a ship that is resting in the harbor cannot be steered, so the Holy Spirit cannot guide us if we are not going anywhere. When we say, “Guide me, Lord,” the Holy Spirit replies, “Where are you going?” He needs us to move so He can turn us in the right direction. If you want The Most High to guard your potential, you have to start using it. If you want Him to protect it, you have to start protecting it.
Let’s say, for example, that you have a dream to go back to school and become a teacher, but you’re struggling with your dream because you have poor reading skills. The Most High will help you protect your dream of becoming a teacher if you sign up for an adult reading class and work hard to learn to read.
Or again, you may have the ambition to be a nurse or a cabinet maker or a store manager. Research the nursing programs in your area and get all the facts before you present the idea to your parents or your spouse. Find a skilled carpenter to serve under as an apprentice before you set up your own shop. Start going to school in the evenings to get your master’s degree in business administration before you apply for a supervisory position. That first step you take may not be the right one, but The Most High can’t help you until you do something. He can’t close a door you haven’t opened or affirm a decision you haven’t made. If you aren’t doing anything to accomplish your goal, He isn’t doing anything either. The Holy Spirit can’t work for you unless you are working.
The same principle is true for protecting your potential. Perhaps you have the ambition to graduate from school with honors, but too much of your study time is being spent working a part-time job or hanging out with friends. Quit your job or rearrange your hours to give you more study time. Limit your social activities and make your free hours productive and relaxing. When you do something to remove the attack against your vision, The Most High will aid your efforts.
Nevertheless, the initiative must come from you. Or perhaps you’d like to lose weight because your appearance is affecting both your self-esteem and the confidence others have in your ability to accomplish a given task. You know you can do the job, but you never get the chance to try because neither you nor your boss is willing to risk giving you the extra responsibility. When you make a sincere effort to watch what you eat and to get the proper exercise, The Most High will reaffirm His estimation of your value and motivate others to see you as a capable, valuable person. His action to protect your potential depends on your actions.
The Most High won’t take a bad habit or an inappropriate lifestyle from you because He didn’t give it to you. He will affirm your decisions and strengthen your efforts when you start taking positive steps to rid yourself of the negative influences, the wrong attitudes, or the poor choices that are threatening your potential. Destroy the cigarettes or drugs. Move out from living with your boyfriend or girlfriend. Stay home instead of spending every night at the local bar. Leave the room when you are about to hit your child in anger. Take responsibility for your own actions when your boss asks you why a project isn’t completed or your spouse is disappointed that you forgot her birthday or your wedding anniversary.
A boat that is still cannot be turned no matter how long or how far you turn the wheel. Move a small distance and the boat will respond to a gentle touch on the wheel. The guarding and protecting of your potential is the same. If you stay stuck in your present rut with no attempts to get out of it, your dreams will wither and die. Start moving and the gentle touch of The Most High will begin changing you and helping you to achieve seemingly impossible dreams. The Most High is your partner. You must work together to protect your potential. When you start contributing to your own protection, the Holy Spirit starts to protect you as well. He empowers what you begin and redirects your efforts when they don’t match His expectations. Then you can begin to discover your potential and to protect what you see.
Guarding potential is a daily task that requires more wisdom and power than we possess. The Most High is in the business of maximizing potential. He’ll empower our efforts if we cooperate with Him, but He will not do the work for us. Begin today to follow the guidelines for guarding and protecting your potential. The future of your dreams and visions is at stake.
Principles
1. You are responsible to guard and protect your potential.
2. The treasure you must defend is The Most High’s wisdom, The Most High’s power, and the presence of The Most High’s Spirit in your life. This potency of The Most High within you is your potential.
3. Guidelines for safeguarding your potential:
• Recognize your enemies as the forces of evil.
• Expect HaSatan’s attack.
• Prepare to overcome his attack.
• Stand firm in the midst of attack.
4. Guidelines for protecting yourself from attack:
• Don’t answer your critics.
• Post a guard to deter attack and to warn of impending danger.
• Allow The Most High to fight for you.
• Don’t allow a lull in the battle to convince you that the war is over.
• Stay away from your opposition.
• Don’t waste time talking.
• Refuse to be intimidated by your critics’ threats and accusations.
Shema selah what is it that you are doing that the Holy Sprint will guide you in???
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