THE KEY TO FULFILLING YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE

Jeremiah chapter 29







Today we are walking in: The Key to Fulfilling Your Life’s Purpose







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: The Key to Fulfilling Your Life’s Purpose




Yah has placed within each person a vision that is

designed to give purpose and meaning to life.




Years ago, during the Holiday season, my wife and I took our children to a large toy store. At the time, my son Chairo was about four years old, and his eyes lit up when he spotted a rocking horse. He climbed on, held tightly to the ears of the horse, and began to rock back and forth. After a few minutes, I tried to get him off, but he became angry. When we were about ready to leave, he was still having a wonderful time on that rocking horse, so we let him continue while we walked through the store one last time and told our daughter it was time to go. When we came back, Chairo was rocking even faster. By then, he had been going for about half an hour, and he was soaking wet with sweat. As I watched him, I felt as if Yah was saying to me, “That’s how most people live. They’re

working hard, sweating hard, but they’re making no real progress in life. They’re not going anywhere.”




Our world is filled with people who are busy but not ultimately effective or satisfied. They are doing much, expending time and energy, but getting little of value accomplished. Consequently, they spend their lives toiling away but never making any headway.




Where Are You Going in Life?




Consider these statistics of American employees:*

Nearly 50 percent of all U.S. workers feel overwhelmed by a growing number of job tasks and longer working hours.

—Families and Work Institute, 2001




Eighty-eight percent of employees say they have a hard time juggling work and life.

—Aon Consulting, 2000




Only 48 percent of workers aged 35–44 are satisfied with their jobs, down from nearly 61 percent in 1995. Older workers, aged 55–64, also express a low level of satisfaction. Only about 48 percent say they are satisfied.

—Conference Board, 2002




In all income areas, satisfaction levels have fallen since 1995.

—Conference Board, 2002




These statistics show that a number of people in the United States are struggling with job and life satisfaction issues. It’s disheartening to work hard and not receive satisfaction and fulfillment from your work. What about your own life? What are you using your precious energy on? What are you accomplishing? Do you get up every day with a sense of anticipation and meaning because you know you’re doing what you were born to do? Do you feel that your work is a match for your abilities and personality? Or are you pouring your life into your job without feeling fulfilled or having much to show for it?




Have you been spending your life helping to make someone else rich while you are left with little or nothing? Have you secretly thought you were meant to do something significant in life, but you don’t know what it is? One of the dilemmas of contemporary society seems to be a lack of meaningfulness and purpose in everyday life. Some people are acutely aware that they aren’t fulfilling their potential. They dread Mondays and live for the weekends because they hate their work. Their whole lives seem centered around the only two days they are free from the trapped feeling they experience at work.




They long to pursue their own interests and talents. In Waiting for the Weekend, author Witold Rybczynski wrote, For many people weekend free time has become not a chance to escape work but a chance to create work that is more meaningful—to work at recreation—in order to realize the personal satisfactions that the workplace no longer offers.*




Other people are fairly content with their lives, but they have a vague sense that there should be more significance to life than they are experiencing. Still others live on a surface level, pursuing a series of emotional highs that leave them empty and constantly searching for the next thrill that might satisfy them. Neither of these groups of people realizes that hidden within them is the key to living a more fulfilling life than they ever imagined.

Whether they are satisfied or dissatisfied with their lives, the eventual goal of most people is retirement. Yet were we born just to go through certain life rituals—find a job, get married, buy a house, raise children, change jobs or careers, retire—and then die? Or is there more to life?




No Reason for Living




If you ask people,“Why do you exist?” most cannot tell you. They can’t explain their purpose in the world. They have no vision for their lives. Do you have a sense of personal purpose? Do you know why you were born?

Does your purpose give you a passion for living? You may ask me, “Do I really need to have a reason for my existence?” My answer is, Absolutely! Life is intended to have meaning; you were not born just for the fun of it. If all you have to look forward to after working for years for other people is a gold watch and a pension, then your life is a tragedy in the making. You can know why you exist,

and you can experience a remarkable life in light of that knowledge. Life doesn’t have to be an aimless, repetitive exercise, because you were not designed to simply ride a rocking horse. You were meant to be going somewhere, to be headed toward a destination.




Living without a Dream




When I speak to groups of people about vision, whether it’s in the context of business, government, or the church, I always emphasize the following truth because I believe it is crucial for each one of us to understand: The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream. Maybe you’ve never known what you wanted to do with your life. Or maybe you had a dream once but lost sight of it through discouraging circumstances or the busyness of day-to-day living. No matter how much money you may have, if you don’t have a clear vision for your life, you are truly poor. It has been said that if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. What’s worse, you won’t even know when you have arrived. Unless you have a definite idea of where you want to go, the chances that you will get there are remote.




The problem is that most people have no vision beyond their current circumstances. Without a vision of the future, life loses its meaning. An absence of meaning then leads to a lack of hope. Whenever people are hopeless about

their life situations, they can become resentful of their jobs or families. They feel as if they are wasting their lives, and they start living with a vague but constant internal longing for something more. They may even stop participating in life in any significant way. No matter how much money a person may have, anyone who lives like this is poor. A visionless life is a poverty-stricken existence.




Yet if you can see beyond your present circumstances, if you can have hope for the future, you have true riches, no matter how much money you have in your bank account. That is why the Bible encourages us with these words: “‘I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord,‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” (Jeremiah 29:11). It doesn’t

matter what you currently have or don’t have, as long as you can see what you could have. This vision is the key to life because where there’s a dream, there’s hope, and where there’s hope, there’s faith—and faith is the substance, or fulfillment, of what you are hoping for. (See Hebrews 11:1.)




Living with Unfulfilled Dreams




Having a vision, or a dream, is inherent in being human. What is your dream? What do you imagine yourself doing? What do you want to accomplish? Are you doing what you really want to do with your life? Maybe you once had ideas of what you wanted to be and do, and you still

have those ideas. Do you see yourself becoming a lawyer and starting your own firm? Do you dream of owning a successful boutique where people are waiting in line to buy the fashions you designed? Do you think about owning a day-care center that has a first-class curriculum and services two hundred children? Do you want to write a novel? Do you imagine yourself owning a prosperous

business and being able to give more money to your church? Do you dream about going back to school and doing something with your education and academic abilities?




By the end of the work week, many of us are very tired. The question is, After exhausting ourselves, are we any closer to where we wanted to go? People have all kinds of ideas in their minds, but they rarely act on them. This is the pattern that often occurs: Five or ten years will go by, and they still haven’t done anything to help realize their dreams. Twenty years will pass, yet they haven’t become what they really wanted to be or accomplished what they wanted to build or create. While the poorest person in the world is a person without a dream, the most frustrated person in the world is someone who has a dream but doesn’t know how to bring it to pass. This is the person whose dream has become a nightmare of unfulfilled expectations. When people feel that they are just wandering through life and wasting their potential, their despair can spill over into other areas of their lives, including their relationships, causing additional heartache.




These people come to the end of their lives drained, rather than completed, because there’s no relationship between their jobs and their visions; there’s no relationship between their present circumstances and their dreams. It’s depressing and frustrating to have an idea for years that you haven’t yet seen come to pass. Are you weary of having high expectations that never work out? Maybe by now you have so many unfulfilled dreams that it hurts too much to dream anymore. Perhaps you started to pursue your vision, but you got

sidetracked or something went wrong, and you abandoned it—there wasn’t

enough money, it was too time-consuming, people were working against you, your day job became too demanding, or your family said it would never succeed.




Since continuing to pursue your dream was so difficult, you backed off, saying,“Forget it! I’m not going to try to be what I really want to be. I’m going to get a ‘regular’ job with a secure salary and settle down. I’m going to live as a normal person with normal friends in a normal house with a normal paycheck and be buried in a normal grave.”




Born to Be Distinct




You will never be satisfied living that way because you were not created to be “normal.” You were designed by Yah not to blend in, but to stand out. Think of the thousands of kinds of flowers in the world. They are all flowers, but each one is unique in its species. Think of a forest. At first glance, the trees all seem to blend together. When you get closer, however, you see that the shape of each tree is unique. Every type of tree has leaves with a distinct design. Why? Uniqueness is part of Yah’s creation.




Individual design is as true of humanity as it is of nature. Yah doesn’t want any one person to get lost in the midst of everyone else. There are over six billion people on the planet—and not one of them has your fingerprints. We can become complacent about this astonishing truth, yet it is something we must continually remind ourselves of since it is easy to feel lost in the crowd. Some people may consider you to be “just another person,” but they are wrong. Don’t ever allow anyone to cause you to think of yourself as ordinary. If anyone makes you feel less than you are, just look in the mirror and say,“You original thing, you.” You are one of a kind, irreplaceable, original. There is no one else like you on the earth. Yah made you that way because He wanted you to be perpetually

rare.




In economics, the value of something is determined by how rare it is. For example, real pearls are costly because they are found only in a small number of mollusks, and they must be searched for. When you buy a real diamond, it is expensive because no two diamonds in the world are alike. Gold is costly because it is difficult to find. It is the same way with oil; it does not (usually) just spring up in your backyard. Y ou generally have to dig deep to find it.




Similarly, Yah wanted you to be perpetually valuable, so He made you permanently rare. He created you as one of a kind. If you go to a sale at a discount store, you’ll notice that many of the dresses, sports coats, or ties on the

racks are just alike. You'll see twenty items of clothing with the same pattern and color. They’re inexpensive because they were mass produced. If you want an

original dress, however, you have to go to a designer.

You are not like mass-produced clothing; Yah has not placed you on a salerack. You are Designer-made.




Born with a Unique Vision




Yah not only created each person on earth with a distinct design, but He also placed in everyone a unique vision. No person can give you this vision. It is only Yah-given. You can go to as many seminars as possible and receive all kinds of wonderful instruction, but no one except Yah can give you the idea you were born to fulfill. The poor man, the rich man, the black man, the white man—every person has a dream in his heart. Y our vision may already be clear to you, or it may still be buried somewhere deep in your heart, waiting to be discovered. Fulfilling this dream is what gives purpose and meaning to life. In other words, the very substance of life is for you to find Yah’s purpose and fulfill it. Until you do that, you are not really living.




Yah has a dream and a vision for you that’s supposed to carry you right out into eternity because that’s what is pulling it. When you die, you’re meant to leave this earth not on a pension but on a purpose. You need to make sure you can say at the end of your life, as Yahusha did, “It is finished” (John 19:30) and not just, “I am retired,” for your dream is much bigger than mere retirement.

Yahusha said, “For this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth” (John 18:37).




You must have a clear reason for your life, as Yahusha did. I know what mine is. I was born to raise up leaders and to train them so they can impact their entire nations for generations to come. That is my reason for living. I was born to inspire and draw out the hidden leader in every

human being I meet. When you are around me, suddenly you are going to feel good about yourself. If you stay around me long enough, you’ll start being your true self. Why? I was born for that. I was wired for that. What has Yah wired you for?




Born to Be Known for Something




Every human being was created to accomplish something specific that no one else can accomplish. It is crucial for you to understand this truth: You were designed to be known for something special. You are meant to do something that will make you unforgettable. You were born to do something that the world will not be able to ignore.




The Bible is a great Book for recording the stories of people who did little things that the world can’t forget. One example is Rahab, the prostitute, who risked her life for people she didn’t even know. She was born to hide Joshua’s spies so that the Israelites could defeat Jericho. (See Joshua 2, 6.) Everyone who reads the Old Testament knows about her act of courage. In the New Testament, there is the story of the woman who took an alabaster jar of perfume and anointed Yahusha’ head with it. This woman was taking a chance by violating the accepted social code of the day and interrupting a group of men who had gathered for a meal. Y et she decided to pour out her life in gratitude to Yahusha, no matter what the consequences. Some of those present severely criticized her because she had “wasted” costly perfume on Yahusha when it could have been sold for charitable purposes. Yet Yahusha said to them, “Leave her alone....I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her” (Mark 14:6, 9).




No matter how small the act may be, if you put your whole life into it, it won’t be forgotten.




A Vision for Your Life




It is a deeply distressing fact that, while we all have been given unique visions, too many of us bury our dreams in a lesser existence, making ourselves a graveyard of Yah’s precious treasure. Perhaps you are eighteen years old. What have you done so far? Have you spent so much time trying to please your friends that you don’t know who you are or what your life is about? If so, you aren’t doing yourself any favors. You aren’t fulfilling your purpose. You may say you are just reacting to “peer pressure.” In reality, you are allowing others to rule your life. Maybe you are forty years old. What have you done so far that the world can’t forget? How long will you drift along without working toward your dream? Procrastination can become a full-time occupation. Some people are experts at it.




They know how to avoid the real issues of life with precision. They know how to do nothing all day, or they know how to do everything except what is really

important. It’s depressing to be around people who are just existing, but it’s exciting to be around people who know that they are doing what they were born

to do. Many people spend a lifetime wandering away from who Yah made them to be because they have never recognized who they are in the first place. For example, perhaps you have been a secretary for twenty years. You are at the same level as when you started, even though you dream of being an administrator. You should move from being a secretary to an executive secretary, from an executive secretary to an administrative assistant, and from an administrative assistant to an administrator. People don’t fulfill their visions because they have no sense of destiny. They say, “Well, I have a job. I just want

to keep it.” Merely holding on to a job is like treading water. Every job should put you on a track toward a goal that is bigger than the present one so that you can fulfill your vision.




We need to be like the apostles, who were known for their acts, not their talk.




The biblical book about them is called The Acts of the Apostles because they were doers. They had a destination, and they were busily working toward it. They weren’t on a rocking horse. Instead, they were changing systems. They were affecting government. They were

transforming the world. Nations were afraid of them, and towns became nervous when they showed up because they were said to have “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6 nkjv). How do people feel when you show up? Do they say, “Oh, here she comes again. She probably has another new idea”? Change will always upset people who are content to be stagnant, but that shouldn’t stop you. You should be known for your vision.




What Your Vision Will Give You




It has been said that there are three kinds of people in the world: First, there are those who never seem to be aware that things are happening around them. Second, there are those who ask, “What just happened?” Third, there are those who make things happen. I have observed firsthand the truth of this statement, paraphrased from John Stuart Mill: One person with vision is greater than the passive force of ninety-nine people who are merely interested in doing or becoming something. Most people have an interest in their destinies, but they have no passion or drive to fulfill them. They don’t really believe the dreams Yah has put in their hearts. If they do believe them, they don’t do the things that will take them in the direction of fulfilling them. Yet that is what separates the people who make an impact in the world and those who just exist on the planet.




Have you discovered what your vision is? Finding something you can put your whole self into will fill your life with new hope and purpose. It will give you a reason for living. My purpose has become my passion. It wakes me up in the morning, and it keeps me going when I’m tired. It is an antidote to depression. It causes me to have joy in the midst of great opposition because I know that what Yah has given me to accomplish cannot be stopped by anyone. When you discover your vision, it will give you energy and passion.




Ecclesiastes 9:10 says, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.” The vision in your heart is the spark that will enable you to pursue your dream because, unless you do so with all your enthusiasm and strength, it will not happen. I believe this Scripture expresses a truth that most people miss: You accomplish only what you fight for. Again, if you are merely interested in your

dream, it will never come to pass. However, if you are willing to put all your energy into it, then nobody can stop it from succeeding.




I believe this Scripture also implies that if you set your hands to do something, there will inevitably be resistance, opposition, and difficulties; therefore, you have to apply pressure in order to fulfill your dream. You must put

your whole might behind it. Hard work and diligence are essential ingredients to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is

vision.




Vision is the primary motivator of human action, and, therefore, everything we do should be because of the vision Yah has placed in our hearts. Vision influences the way you conduct your entire life, such as what you spend your time and money on and what your priorities are. Without vision, you have no values to guide your living. Life has no sense of direction. Activity has no

meaning. Time has no purpose. Resources have no application. Vision is the juice of life. It is the prerequisite for passion and the source of persistence. When you have vision, you know how to stay in the race and

complete it.




Your Gift Will Make a Way for You




How is the fulfillment of vision meant to work in practical terms? Proverbs 18:16 is a powerful statement that reveals the answer: “A man’s gift makes room for him” (nkjv). You were designed to be known for your gift. Yah has put a gift or talent into every person that the world will make room for. It is this gift that will enable you to fulfill your vision. It will make a way for you in life. It is in exercising this gift that you will find real fulfillment, purpose, and contentment in your work.




It is interesting to note that the Bible does not say that a man’s education makes room for him, but that his gift does. Somehow we have swallowed the idea that education is the key to success. Our families and society have reinforced this idea, but we will have to change our perspective if we are to be truly successful. Education is not the key to success. Don’t misunderstand me. I believe in education. I’ll talk more about the importance of education shortly.




However, if education were the key to success, then everyone who has a Ph.D. should be financially secure and happy. If you are intelligent but are not exercising your gift, you’re probably going to be poor. If you’re educated but have not developed your talent, you’re likely to be depressed, frustrated, and tired; you will hate going to work on Monday mornings. There are those who have degrees in finance who have a hard time making ends meet. Doesn’t it make you nervous when people who don’t have any money try to tell you how to make a million dollars?




Education, in itself, doesn’t guarantee anything; it is your gift that is the key to your success. The second part of Proverbs 18:16 says, “A man’s gift...brings him before great men” (nkjv). You don’t realize that the gift you’re sitting on is loaded. The world won’t move over for you just because you’re smart. Whenever you exercise your gift, however, the world will not only make room for you, but it will also pay you for it. Anyone—yourself included—who discovers his or her gift and develops it will become a commodity. If you’re a young person in high school or college who is planning your career, don’t do what people say will make you wealthy. Do what you were born to do, because that is where you will make your money. No matter how big the world is, there’s a place for you in it when you discover and manifest your gift.




Michelangelo poured his life into his art. That’s why we still remember him five hundred years after he lived. Beethoven and Bach put themselves wholly into their work, and their music lives forever. Alexander Graham Bell believed that sound could be converted into electrical impulses and transmitted by wire. No one remembers all the people who thought Bell was crazy; we remember only the man who had vision enough to create the telephone. Thomas Edison reportedly would spend eight or nine days straight locked up in a room working

on his experiments. He didn’t just happen to make a mistake and create a lightbulb; he had a dream. Although it took him a long time, he believed that we could harness energy and that it could produce light. Because he believed it, he stayed with it until he saw the fulfillment of his vision. That’s what makes him unforgettable.




If you do things in a halfway manner, you will probably always be able to find some sort of job, yet you are going to be simply a mediocre employee. It is when you decide that you’re going to find something that is truly yours that you will find your gift, fulfill your vision, and be remembered by others.




Stirring Up Your Gift




While the gift is in us, we have the responsibility to stir it up. The apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of Yah, which is in you” (2 Timothy 1:6). In the New King James V ersion, the verse is translated, “Stir up the gift of Yah.” The gift is not something we learn. It is something Yah gave us. It is something we need to discover and then stir up. No one else can activate your gift for you. Y ou have to do it yourself.




You stir up your gift by developing, refining, enhancing, and using it. That’s where education comes in. Education can’t give you your gift, but it can help you develop it so that it can be used to the maximum. Proverbs 17:8 says,

“A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth” (kjv). In other words, a gift is like a precious stone to the one who has it, and whenever he stirs it up, it turns into prosperity. If you use your gift, it will prosper you. Many people are working for money. That’s an inferior reason to work. We must work for the vision within us.




Moreover, you are not to mimic the gifts of others. Y ou are to stir up your own gift. Unfortunately, many people are jealous of other people’s gifts. Let me encourage you not to waste your time on jealousy. Jealousy is a gift robber. It is an energy drain that will always take away the passion of life from you. You should be so busy stirring up your gift that you don’t have time to be jealous of anyone else or to feel sorry for yourself.




I once read an article about Louis Armstrong, the jazz artist, who reportedly applied to go to music school when he was a young man. At his audition, he was given scales to sing, but he could sing only the first two notes properly, and he was told he didn’t have what it takes to be a musician. The story said that he cried at first because he had been rejected from the music program, but that he told his friends afterward, “I know there’s music in me, and they can’t keep it out.” He eventually became one of the most successful and beloved jazz musicians. He sold more records and made more money than scores of others who were more talented at singing. Now he is forever etched in the history of music.




What made the difference? Louis Armstrong put his life into the gift he knew he had, and this gift made room for him. He was an original, and he knew it. He wasn’t about to waste time feeling sorry for himself. Instead, he put his energies into developing the musical gift within him. Although we are all born as originals, most of us become imitators. I used to think about becoming like everyone else and joining the rat race. Yet I soon realized that if all the rats are in a race, and you win, you simply become the Big Rat. I recommend that you get out of the rat race, stop competing with the community, stop being in a contest with society, stop trying to keep up with the Joneses, stop trying to please everybody, and decide, “I’m not going to be a rat. I’m going to find my own niche. I’m going to make room for myself in the world by using my gift.”




Perhaps you are fifty-eight, sixty-five, seventy years old. You’re looking back over the last fifty years and asking, “What have I done with my life? What have I contributed to the human race? What have I really left for the next generation to know that I was here? I have left no footprint in the sands of history. ” Do you wish you had had a better understanding of vision when you were younger? Are. you thinking, “I’m too old now. I don’t have the energy or time to stir up a gift”? I am deeply sorry that many people in the world have worked very hard all

their lives and accomplished little. Yet if you believe you’re too old to use your gift, you’re believing a lie. We read in the Bible that Yah went to people who were already past retirement age, and He recharged them. They have become noteworthy in history because they started over when others (even they themselves) thought their lives were almost over. (See the stories of Abraham

and Sarah in Genesis 18:11–15; 21:1–8, and Elizabeth and Zechariah in Luke 1.)




Your gift will give you your youth back. Your gift will give you energy and strength. You'll be healthier. You’ll stop talking about dying and start talking about living.




Realizing Your Vision




If you have a dream, or if you want to discover your vision, remember this:




Yah loves dreamers. He gives visions, and He is attracted to people who love to dream big. Don’t forget that you are unique, special, and irreplaceable. You are

not meant to be like anyone else. When you decide to be part of the norm, your destiny is shortchanged. Yah wants you to stir up the gift He has given you and to develop it to the fullest. What is the difference between the dreamer who realizes his dream and the dreamer whose dream becomes a nightmare of unfulfilled hopes? The dreamer who succeeds is someone who has a clear vision and acts on it. As long as a person can hold on to his vision, then there is always a chance for him to move

out of his present circumstances and toward the fulfillment of his purpose.




If you feel trapped, underemployed, or underutilized in your job; if you own your own business and want it to grow; if you want to know how to pursue your goals in life; if you are the leader of an organization or group; if your children are grown or in school now, and you are considering reviving old interests; or wherever you are in life right now, The Principles and Power of Vision will

enable you to—understand vision and why it is essential to your success.

discover and live out your purpose in life. identify your vision’s goals and stay on course.




overcome obstacles to your vision.




learn the key principles necessary for fulfilling your life's dream.




develop a specific plan for achieving your vision.




live the life you were always meant to live.




My desire is that you will be inspired, motivated, and challenged to get back in the race toward your dream, to get back the passion for fulfilling your goal. I want you to achieve your greatest in Yah’s purpose for your life. I want you to get off the rocking horse and find a living stallion—your life’s vision.




To do this, you need to understand and practice principles that transcend current trends and even conventional wisdom. Your success will not depend on the state of the economy, what careers are currently in demand, or what the job market is like. You will not be hindered by your initial lack of resources or by what people think you can or cannot do. Instead, the time-tested principles of this series will enable you to fulfill your vision no matter who you are or what your background is.




You are the sum total of the choices and decisions you make every day. You can choose to stay where you are right now, or you can choose to move forward in life by pursuing your dream. I want to challenge you to stop making excuses for why you can’t accomplish what you were born to do. Take your life out of neutral. Yah has given you the power and the responsibility to achieve your life’s vision.




Most people do things because they have to. Wouldn’t you like to do things because you have decided to, based on your purpose? You must choose to be on the offensive rather than the defensive. I hope you will decide you have had enough of being “normal” and that you will declare your distinction. Remember, you were created to stand out, not to blend in. You were designed not only to be

special and unique, but also to specialize. You were created to accomplish something that no one else can accomplish.




Never expect anything less than the highest thing you can go after. Don’t let people tell you, “You shouldn’t have high expectations.” Always expect more than what you have, more than what you are currently doing. Dream big.

Somewhere inside you there is always the ability to dream. No matter how challenging it gets, don’t give up, because your vision is the key to fulfilling your life’s purpose.




Chapter Principles




1. The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream.




2. The most frustrated person in the world is someone who has a dream but doesn’t know how to make it come to pass.




3. Every person was created by Yah to be unique and distinct.




4. Yah has placed in every human being a unique vision and call that is designed to give purpose and meaning to life.




5. No person can give you your vision. It is Yah-given.







6. Every human being was created to accomplish something that no one else can accomplish.




7. Every person was created to be known for something special.




8. One person with vision is greater than the passive force of ninety-nine people who are merely interested in doing or becoming something.




9. Your gift will make a way for you in the world and enable you to fulfill your vision.




10. You are responsible for stirring up the gift within you.







11. Yah loves dreamers. He gives visions, and He is attracted to people who love to dream big.







12. As long as a person can hold on to his vision, then there is always a chance for him to move out of his present circumstances and toward the fulfillment of his purpose.