VISION IS THE ONLY THING THAT WILL BRING YOU FULFILLMENT

Proverbs chapter 29










Today we are walking in: Vision Is the Only Thing That Will Bring You Fulfillment







Habakkuk 2:2




And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, ​ and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.








VISION








Today we look to the word​ VISION- H2377 chazown- vision(in ecstatic state)​, vision​s​ (in night)​, oracle, prophecy (divine communication)​, vision (as title of book of prophecy)​ ​from H2372; a sight (mentally), i.e. a dream, revelation, or oracle:—vision. to see, perceive, look, behold, prophesy, provide​, ​to see, behold​, to see as a seer in the ecstatic state​, to see, perceive with the intelligence​, to see (by experience)​, to provide









The Torah testifies........




Numbers 24:4




He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw ​ the vision H2377 of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:




Numbers 24:16




He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the Most High, which saw ​the vision H2377 of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:









The prophets proclaim.........

1​ ​Samuel 3:1




And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days;there was no open vision H2377. ​





Jeremiah 14:14




Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision H2377 ​ and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.








The writings bear witness.........




1​ ​Chronicles 17:15




According to all these words, and according to all this vision H2377, ​so did Nathan speak unto David.





Psalm 89:19




Then thou spakest in vision ​H2377 to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.




Vision Is the Only Thing That Will Bring You Fulfillment Another way you can know that a vision is real is when it is the only thing that gives you true satisfaction. Merely working at a job is disheartening. Going to work is a dismal experience for many people because, day after day, they are doing something they hate. That is not what you were meant for. Ecclesiastes 3:13 says, “That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of Yah.” It is Yah’s desire for us to enjoy our work, but this can happen only when we’re doing the right work. Therefore, until you follow Yah’s dream, you will be unfulfilled. Proverbs 19:21 says, “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” No matter what you are busy doing, no matter what you are accomplishing, if it’s not what Yah wants you to do, you won’t be completely successful in it. Why? Because true success is not in what you accomplish; it is in doing what Yah told you to do. That’s why people who build big projects or gain great fame can be successful and depressed at the same time. Going against your purpose may be a personal issue, but it’s never a private one. You can mess up others’ lives if you aren’t supposed to be where you are, or if you are supposed to be somewhere that you refuse to go. Remember the story of Jonah in the Bible? Yah told him that his purpose was to go to Nineveh to warn the people there to turn to Yah. Jonah’s response was, in effect, “I’m not going!” He got on a ship headed for Tarshish, instead. Yah had purposed that Jonah would go to Nineveh even before the prophet was born. His purpose had already been completed in eternity, and now Yah was sending him to fulfill it. Yah didn’t want Jonah to be on a ship going to Tarshish when he was meant to go to Nineveh. If you get on any other “ship” than the one you were meant to get on, you are going to cause others to have problems. In Jonah’s case, the ship he got on came in danger of sinking in a terrible storm. He knew Yah’s hand was in the situation, so he told the sailors that the storm would stop if they would throw him overboard. When the sailors did this, the sea became calm, and Yah provided a great fish to swallow Jonah—protecting him from the sea until he agreed to do what Yah had called him to do. (See Jonah 1– 2.) I urge you not to board the wrong ship, but to remain on course in Yah’s purpose. Maybe you’re in the fish’s belly right now. You can find your way back to dry land by returning to what Yah has purposed for you to do. Vision Requires a Vital Connection with Yah Many people don’t recognize the vision Yah has placed within them because they don’t have a vital connection with Yah. This connection with Him needs to be restored before they can see their true purpose. Humankind as a whole lost its relationship with the Creator when man and woman turned their backs on Yah and tried to pursue their own ways. Yah’s purpose, however, never changes, and since His purpose is woven into our desires, our own ways are never ultimately satisfying. Yah is committed to your purpose, and He provided salvation through Hamachiach to salvage His will and purpose in your life. He said, in effect, “I’m not going to lose what I gave you birth to do. I’m going to save you for your own sake and so I can redeem what I want to accomplish through you.” He restores us to Himself so we can do the works He had in mind for us before the world began. Again, “we are Yah’s workmanship, created in Hamachiach Yahusha to do good works, which Yah prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10). We are not saved by doing good works but for the purpose of doing good works. In other words, we are redeemed to fulfill our earthly visions. If we are redeemed just so that we can go to heaven, then Yah is taking a long time to accomplish His plan. The quickest way to heaven is death. If Yah wanted us in heaven immediately, He would redeem us and then cause us to die the next day. Yah wants us to accomplish the purposes He’s given us to fulfill on earth; that is why He saves us, sanctifies us, and keeps us here for a time. Once we are restored to Yah, we receive His Ruach HaQadesh and can see and understand the vision He has placed in our hearts. We learn to discern true vision through our relationship with Him and by reading His Word, because genuine vision is always in alignment with His nature and character. The Bible says, “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of Yah” (2 Corinthians 10:5 kjv). This verse is talking about ideas. It continues, “Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Hamachiach.” Any idea that isn’t contrary to the Word of Yah, or to obedience to Hamachiach’s wishes for your life, is a Yah idea. Yah ideas are always in agreement with His will. Yah would never give you an idea that is contrary to the Bible. That is impossible. Therefore, you are to cast down any ideas that are contrary to His Word. You are to ignore them. If an idea is not in keeping with Yah’s will, set it aside. Corporate Vision and Personal Vision The fifth key to understanding vision is to realize that it is both personal and corporate; personal vision will always be found within a larger corporate vision. It is not Yah’s method to give a vision to a group. He gives the vision to an individual who shares his vision with the group and transfers it to them. The members of the group then run with the vision because they find in it a place for their own personal visions to be fulfilled. Moses was constrained by a vision to deliver the people of Israel and lead them to the Promised Land. Joshua was motivated by a vision to possess that land. David was driven by a vision to settle Yah’s people. Nehemiah was possessed by a vision to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. In every case, the vision was given to an individual who was ultimately responsible for seeing it through, and the individual transferred it to a group. Working Together to Fulfill the Vision When a person starts to sense his purpose and gift, he often interprets this as a call to autonomy and separation. However, nothing could be further from the truth. A sense of personal vision is birthed within a broader vision, and it will also be fulfilled in the context of a larger purpose. This is how Yah weaves personal and corporate vision together. In order to accomplish a corporate purpose or make a larger vision come to pass, Yah brings together many people’s personal gifts and unique visions. Yah wants you to bring your time, energy, resources, and creative power to be part of a larger vision to which your vision is connected. We know that a car functions only when all the parts of the engine are working together. Although each part has its unique characteristics and private functions, all the parts “submit” to one another to make the car run. The same principle holds true for corporate and personal vision. No great work was ever done by just one person. Many people are needed to fulfill a vision. Read history. Read the Bible. A group of men, for example, supported and helped Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in fulfilling his vision. We all know Dr. King’s name, but we hear very little about these other men, even though they were essential to his purpose. Dr. King could not have fulfilled his vision without their assistance. Likewise, we don’t know the names of those who helped Moses judge and arbitrate between the people of Israel, but they were an essential support element in the purpose of leading the people that Yah had given Moses. Those men worked hard. They had to execute judgment and keep everyone in order, yet we know only Moses’ name. Moses received a personal vision, but all these men were needed to see the corporate vision through. (See Exodus 18:13–26.) Yah will bring together private purposes and visions in order to facilitate corporate success. When people don’t understand or accept the relationship between personal and corporate vision, there can be problems. If the members of the group think they are inferior to the person with the original vision, or the leader starts to think he is more important than the members, or if one or more of the members wants to supplant the person who has the larger vision, that is when the trouble will begin. Moses had the latter problem with Miriam and Aaron, his sister and brother. Yah had appointed them all as leaders. (See Micah 6:4.) Moses, however, was the one who had received the original vision, and he was the one with whom Yah met directly and through whom Yah spoke. When Miriam and Aaron became jealous of Moses and wanted to usurp his role, it caused turmoil within that leadership group. Yah had to remind Miriam and Aaron in a very graphic way that it is His purposes that prevail, not our private ambitions. (See Numbers 12:4–15.) However, if we are in line with Yah’s nature and character, we will desire what He desires, and we will be fulfilled in a way we never could have been by following our own ambitions. We must have an attitude of cooperation with those with whom we share corporate vision. Fulfilling your vision requires your being able to submit to others in the larger purpose. It means working with your boss and coworkers in a productive way. It means not trying to undermine the leaders of your group or letting jealousy get in the way of the vision. It means not going off and trying to fulfill a corporate vision all on your own. If we are going to do something for Yah so that the world will be better off because we were here, we can’t do that with a private, individualist attitude. It is important for us to be cautious when we’re dealing with vision. Let us be cognizant of Yah’s ways and work with them rather than against them. Drawing Out the Vision When we understand the relationship between personal and corporate vision, we will know a chief way in which Yah fulfills people’s dreams. Proverbs 20:5 says, “The purposes of a man’s heart are [like] deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.” In other words, everyone has a vision in his heart, but a person of understanding causes that dream, that purpose, that vision to be brought out so it can become reality. A person of understanding will figuratively lower a bucket into the deep well-waters of your soul and begin to draw out what you are dreaming and thinking. He will give life to your desires and thoughts and thereby help make them a reality. What is the process by which this occurs? After Yah conveys a vision to a leader, you will then—in one way or another—come into contact with this person, who will present the corporate vision, and you will become excited about participating in it because you will see how your private vision finds fulfillment in it. It is essential for you to understand that Yah brings the corporate vision into your life not to give you vision, which He has already given you, but to stir up your personal vision. In other words, you don’t receive your vision from other people, but you are enabled to fulfill it through others. The leader of the corporate vision helps to activate your passions, dreams, gifts, and talents. In a sense, that is what I hope to do through this teaching. It is my desire to stir up your vision. As I wrote earlier, my own vision is to inspire and draw out the hidden leader in every person I meet. You are a leader in the specific purpose Yah has given you to accomplish through your gift because no one else but you can fulfill it. I hope my vision of your potential for leadership will excite and motivate you to fulfill the vision in your heart. Perhaps something has already begun to happen within you. Are you starting to think differently? Are you beginning to dream? Are you able to believe in the possibility of things you never thought possible before? Then you have started to catch the vision for your life. The corporate vision in which your personal vision will ultimately be fulfilled might be that of a company, a church, a non-profit organization, or even your own family. That is why, when you hear of something that is related to your vision, you should pay attention to it, because it may be that you’re supposed to attach yourself to it. You yourself may be given the corporate vision, such as starting a business or organizing a community project. Yet none of us is meant to complete our visions on our own. The joy of Yah’s plan for personal and corporate vision is that nothing we are born to do is to be done by ourselves or for ourselves. If you and I are part of the same corporate vision, then I need your vision, and you need mine. Therefore, we must stay together and work together. We are not to isolate ourselves in our private successes. I’m not involved in the work that I’m doing to build a name for myself. My life’s work is to complete the assignment Yah gave me. Every member of my staff and organization has a part to play in our vision. My part is to stir up their individual dreams, and their part is to stir up mine. When we stir up each other’s visions, the divine deposit of destiny starts flowing. Vision generates vision. Dreams always stir up other dreams. Whenever I begin to feel discouraged, I always telephone my friends who have big dreams. One day, I called my friend Peter Morgan. When he heard my voice, he said, “What’s going on?” I said, “I just called to talk to you.” He said, “What’s wrong?” “Nothing; just talk to me.” “What do you mean?” “Just talk to me. Tell me what you are going to do with your life. Tell me where you are headed. Let me know I’m not alone in pursuing a vision.” You need people around you who believe in dreams that are even bigger than your own so you can keep stirring up your vision. There are too many other people who will tell you to settle down and do nothing. Yet a person of understanding will stir up your purposes. A person of understanding will cause your dream to rise from that deep well within you and will help you make real progress toward your vision. You’ll begin to believe that, no matter where you came from, where you’re going is better. Action Steps to Fulfilling Vision •Take half an hour and allow yourself to dream about what you would like to do in life. What ideas and desires do you have? What have you always wanted to do? •Think about your primary gifts or talents. How do your dreams and your gifts go together? •Write down your ideas, desires, and gifts and read them over every evening for a week. Then ask yourself, “Do these ideas hold true? Are they what I want to do?” If the answer is yes, keep them where you can refer to them as you read this teaching and watch them form into a specific vision and concrete goals that will move you along toward the completion of your purpose. Chapter Principles 1.Vision comes frompurpose. 2.Yah created everything and everyone with a purpose. 3.Yah has placed His eternal purpose in your heart. 4.You were given a burden or “responsible urge” to complete your purpose. 5.You were born at the right time to fulfill your purpose. 6.Your purpose is already completed in Yah. 7.Yah completed you before He created you. 8.The fact that you were started is proof that you are completed. 9.You were designed to perfectly accomplish your purpose. 10.When you know and understand what you were born to accomplish, that is purpose. When you can see it in your mind by faith, that is vision. 11.Vision is foresight with insight based on hindsight. 12.Vision isn’t about us. It’s about Yah and His purposes. 13.You already know your vision. It is as close as your most persistent thoughts and deepest desires. 14.To have vision is to have more than a mere interest in something; it is to have a real desire and passion for it. 15.Vision persists, no matter what the odds. 16.Vision is unselfish. 17.Vision is the only thing that brings true fulfillment. 18.Vision requires a vital connection with Yah. 19.Personal vision will always be found within a larger corporate vision. 20.Those who are in the same corporate vision must work together harmoniously to achieve it. 21.The leader of corporate vision “draws out” the personal visions of those in the group by helping them to activate their passions, dreams, gifts, and talents. 22.Vision generates vision.