Visioneering
Yo, yo, and hello everyone! I hope and pray everyone is having a great day today.
I have read the fourth chapter in Visioneering. It is about The God of How. At the start of this chapter Stanley talks about Chris, a guy who was in his Youth Group. He was a High School senior in Atlanta. He had a vision to share the gospel of Christ to every student at that school. Naturally he shared this with his Youth Minister (Stanley). They discussed several different things they could do, including writing everyone a note and sticking it in their lockers, or mailing them out, or any number of things. But none of them seemed right. So he decided to affect as many of his fellow students as he could. And that's what he did. He talked to everyone he could. And then there was Mark, a guy who transfered to his school from Miami. This guy hated the school, everyone, everything. After just a few minutes around him and you could tell why no one wanted to be around or talk to him. Everyone, that is except Chris. He introduced himself and showed him around the school. He even invited him to spend the night with him one weekend. It was then Mark talked with Chris about what was going on in his life. He told Chris about his drug addictions, how he was living with his mom, how she packed him up and sent him to Atlanta to live with his Dad, and other stuff. Then Chris told Mark about Jesus and Mark accepted Jesus him into his heart and quite drugs.
Chris graduated with out seeing his vision come true. Mark was still attending the school. Some time during Mark's senior year the school had a drugs awareness day before Spring Break. The school's officials knew Mark had been on drugs and had a radical turn-around in life. So they invited him to share his store after the keynote speaker. When his time came up, he told his fellow students about Chris meeting and befriending him and telling him about faith in Christ.
And that was it, everyone at the school had heard about Christ.
This store illustrates the principle: what always comes before how. We will know what God wants us to do before we will know how it will come about. We will know what long before how.
This is certainly Nehemiah's situation. He knew what God wanted him to do long before how God was going to do it. For four months nothing happened. Nothing seemed to be on the horizan either. But God had a plan. He was setting everything into action. Nehemiah talked to the king and he let him go.
We must remember a devine vision needs devine intervention. That brings us to the fith building block: What God originates, He orchestrates. How is never a problem for God. It is certanily a problem for us, but never for God.
We need to differentiate between good ideas and God ideas. If we try to act out on good ideas we have to depend on ourselves. We are limited and so are our resources. But if we depend on God to accomplish His ideas, we depend on One who has unlimited resources. We must always stay focused on the vision, not on how to get it done. God will help us get there. In the mean time we must prepare ourselves and be ready to act when the time comes.
How is God's specialty. He knows how to reach your unconverted spouse or child. He knows how to protect them when they're away. He knows how to help you get where you want to be and any number of things.
We can be preoccupied with the "how?" question, but we must focus on Phillipians4:13,"I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength". This verse says He will help us accomplish that which He wants us to do for Him.
We must wait for the right time to act on what He wills for us to do. We must stay in Him and rely on Him. In John 15:5 Jesus says, "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing".
This is a God thing! He doesn't need to depend on us, we need to depend on Him. We are players on His team.
God wants us to depend on Him to answer the "how?" questions.
There are along of things I want to accomplish in life. I need to depend on Him to answer my "how?" questions.
I guess that's all for now. God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack
I have read the fourth chapter in Visioneering. It is about The God of How. At the start of this chapter Stanley talks about Chris, a guy who was in his Youth Group. He was a High School senior in Atlanta. He had a vision to share the gospel of Christ to every student at that school. Naturally he shared this with his Youth Minister (Stanley). They discussed several different things they could do, including writing everyone a note and sticking it in their lockers, or mailing them out, or any number of things. But none of them seemed right. So he decided to affect as many of his fellow students as he could. And that's what he did. He talked to everyone he could. And then there was Mark, a guy who transfered to his school from Miami. This guy hated the school, everyone, everything. After just a few minutes around him and you could tell why no one wanted to be around or talk to him. Everyone, that is except Chris. He introduced himself and showed him around the school. He even invited him to spend the night with him one weekend. It was then Mark talked with Chris about what was going on in his life. He told Chris about his drug addictions, how he was living with his mom, how she packed him up and sent him to Atlanta to live with his Dad, and other stuff. Then Chris told Mark about Jesus and Mark accepted Jesus him into his heart and quite drugs.
Chris graduated with out seeing his vision come true. Mark was still attending the school. Some time during Mark's senior year the school had a drugs awareness day before Spring Break. The school's officials knew Mark had been on drugs and had a radical turn-around in life. So they invited him to share his store after the keynote speaker. When his time came up, he told his fellow students about Chris meeting and befriending him and telling him about faith in Christ.
And that was it, everyone at the school had heard about Christ.
This store illustrates the principle: what always comes before how. We will know what God wants us to do before we will know how it will come about. We will know what long before how.
This is certainly Nehemiah's situation. He knew what God wanted him to do long before how God was going to do it. For four months nothing happened. Nothing seemed to be on the horizan either. But God had a plan. He was setting everything into action. Nehemiah talked to the king and he let him go.
We must remember a devine vision needs devine intervention. That brings us to the fith building block: What God originates, He orchestrates. How is never a problem for God. It is certanily a problem for us, but never for God.
We need to differentiate between good ideas and God ideas. If we try to act out on good ideas we have to depend on ourselves. We are limited and so are our resources. But if we depend on God to accomplish His ideas, we depend on One who has unlimited resources. We must always stay focused on the vision, not on how to get it done. God will help us get there. In the mean time we must prepare ourselves and be ready to act when the time comes.
How is God's specialty. He knows how to reach your unconverted spouse or child. He knows how to protect them when they're away. He knows how to help you get where you want to be and any number of things.
We can be preoccupied with the "how?" question, but we must focus on Phillipians4:13,"I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength". This verse says He will help us accomplish that which He wants us to do for Him.
We must wait for the right time to act on what He wills for us to do. We must stay in Him and rely on Him. In John 15:5 Jesus says, "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing".
This is a God thing! He doesn't need to depend on us, we need to depend on Him. We are players on His team.
God wants us to depend on Him to answer the "how?" questions.
There are along of things I want to accomplish in life. I need to depend on Him to answer my "how?" questions.
I guess that's all for now. God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack
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