Foolproof Vision [Part 3]

Alan White, pastor, Bible teacher and author of his latest book, the power to bless the call. Therefore, the Christian is not the drudgery of Ohio by Ove, but rather it is vision vision vision in Revelation Revelation that's Pastor Alan welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life in a whole new light.

I will print excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series proof is presented and rebuild the church in North Carolina. If you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program. I will make sure you know how to get our special resource. Right now it can be yours for your donation this month to Alan Wright Ministries as you listen to today's message go deeper if are happy to send you today's special offer. Just contact us at pastoralan.org that's Pastor Alan.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860 will have more on this special offer later in the program but now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright. Eventually after sitting there for some time. My niece Anna Catherine bravely got out and her shorts and bare feeds that I'm going out to explore and see a sedan come out and shoot is still lighting in the area and that it has subsided somewhat. She she got out there and start waiting see how deep I would've done it but I had long pants on so I can through my niece to the wolves out there and and she goes in sin, wades in a row is a stuffed knee-deep signs as a flood of light and then she's gone. She turns kind of slow parking lot of right next to come back.

She says I think I found a way out. What she said well I think you can get. Turn right into the school parking lot and the water is not as deep right here to get into the parking lot and what you in the parking lot. It is pretty dry and there's a place where you come to a concrete barrier before you start getting out to the marina and there's a little opening where you can drive up to the left up to slip it onto a grassy area and I think you can drive across the grassy area and it will bring you out to the road just beyond where the flood is, and we said well you will become the she suggest we could certainly draw there and check it out.

We said okay will take that as a revelation.

And sure enough we turn back in there and we went up hill. The grassy thing we can get stuck on it would pull right out and then other people thought we were doing it. They also are doing and we all got out of the flood and and and I was getting out help the man who stuck in the in the flood, but I had long pants on and a fireman was coming a fire truck was there a fire truck was there and Andy had rubber boots.

So anyway we all got out, so think about how silly would it be right if we had a revelation about how we can get out of this situation in a way that we can move forward beyond the flood.

How silly it would be about that. What nobody will tell me what to do I just drive around the water available to Bob to sit right here. Tell me what to do.

Put a restraint on me like I got a turn right into a parking lot go up on some grass all feel like going up on me grass right now that's just stupid. I mean wouldn't do that.

Why because you get a revelation of something so what happens when you get a revelation when you get a word about something that is is information that was transcendent that you did not know before him it now.

You do know you just outline your life to that right is so blessed is the one who turned right in the parking lot goes up the grassy area gets out, and then we went got Domino's Pizza. You see, that's what the picture is pleasant if you keep the law.

Bless the one who gets a prophetic revelation and then lets her whole life be aligned to that. That's the way that it works. That's the nature of God's word to us. That's the way it's we God's desire for a vision for our life works is give you meaningless stuff but just what to do to be obedient because your slave instead is your father, and he knows the direction for you. It's a fusion that energizes us to actually move in the direction that we need to move. I have uses example before I can give about on Julia Mancuso was Olympic gold medalist. She does she wondered giant slalom and 2006 Winter Olympics. Also, silver medalist and two events in 2010 and and a and a bronze medal is an event in 2014 when she was a little girl Julia drew a a crayon picture of herself skiing down a hill winning a gold medal. Minerals just as I symbol six or seven, eight-year-old girl and she put it up on her bedroom wall.

She had a vision of herself winning a gold medal and and so what is that mean for her when she had that vision that mean that she sat on the couch and eat potato chips until semi came and handed her a gold medal.

Of course not what it meant.

Was it energized her to hit the slopes everyday lift weights train and do everything she could to align herself towards that vision was a resident of vision. If you get a vision from God for your life. It doesn't it doesn't invite you to just sort of sit there and dissuade on God. It energizes you to be essentially obedient to that vision for a revelation is by its very nature a gift to us because it unveils to us what would have otherwise been very been mailed. If you open up a present semi wrapped in the in your beautiful red you open up the wrapping when you open it up and you open the box you look in it revealed what the gift is when you opened it you didn't create the gift you just had a revelation of the gift that was there. This is the nature of God. He is the gift giver and spiritual growth. So much of it is having an increasing prophetic revelation of the gift of God in Jesus Christ. The changes you changed everything in your life the hard work isn't so hard when you have a vision for why you're working so hard Habakkuk to write the vision make it plain on tablet, so he may run who reads it for. Still, the vision awaits its appointed time it hastens to the end, it will not lie the scene slow wait for it will surely come, it will not delay the invitation of the Scripture is not run. I had a run behind God, but to wait upon his vision because otherwise we'll just live exhausted lives trying to discover it ourselves. Even the use will grow faint and weary, and young men will fall exhausted but those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. Mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not be weary in their walk and not faint you ever had some kind of work to do in your life in which you didn't know why you're doing it and so just like drudgery. I remember the first time this happened to me I was I was a teenager I was working that summer I took a job with the Greensboro city Parks and Recreation Department and I was assigned to work at the Spencer love tennis courts at part of the JC Park in Greensboro and we are employees of the city. Later, I would work directly for that tennis center at some as a kid, but this summer with my for my first jobs and I work for the Parks and Recreation and they had several of us and that we had too many of us at the tennis courts.

There was not enough for us to do what you sweep the soft courts accomplish in court.

You do they specific, but there there's one that much to be done. They didn't trust us with the cash register checking in people, or even taking reservations so weird is doing, grunt work, and there was going to be a big job that summer. They were going to be resurfacing the composition courts.

The soft courts that have this kind of green like sand over it and we are going to be part of the ones of the kind of been helping do that. So weird, labor for that.

But before we are ready for that, and before the time of the of the actual resurfacing one.

They were just sitting there. The four of us guys and they were just as clearly as nothing for us to do our supervisor came he signatures what we need to do days it would take this big mount huge amount of composition material is currently the screen sand that we got to be in it to get here. We need to move it over here, necessarily, but why are we gonna move this amount to about 20 feet because I know what can happen is it later when we resurface these courts winter all the stuff in them to be gone. The courts now, but what we did was we got our shovels and wheelbarrows and we spent the entire day moving a mound of sand about 20 feet for no reason and I was quickly there's no reason to know how hard it is to make yourself move sand for no reason is just drudgery and then I remember that within hours I was thing about this last week at the beach another one of her annual customs is to do some sand sculptures at the beach and so we would we dig a big a big mound of of sand and we construct these huge pyramids. How if I got I got a picture of or not we dine the striped short-circuits. He didn't do all the manual labor in a surly but anyway I got strong nephews now your help dig but I did. I did a lot of the digging for it and and the enemy and it helps when my nephew is a structural engineer but we got tools and trapped and the reason we do this is because some years ago, about 15 years. There were walking down the beach and was also my abilities big pyramids that was so cool again and was and how did you do that and he explained it to its explained how the angles were really important and and how to start and how to get going as tools of use. The five and so we got a vision for it and so at the beat. You couldn't pay me to dig a hole at home for no reason.

But now the beads are down there digging your back to and so I think why because you got a vision of something they are going to bill one is talking about the power of the vision that energizes you how much more so if you get a vision of your life. It focuses you, this is Mrs. so much would it focuses you when you get revelation from God about your life. It focuses you so powerfully challenge right will have more teaching from today's important series like something is holding you back if you lack an important scene that could change everything.

Is there someone you love to sing stack to help them out what's missing blessing on the vision spoken over you can learn how to embrace the biblical practice of blessing to Pastor Alan writes new book, it's a blast, which quickly became an Amazon number one bestseller after 370s until now the hardcover book has only been available through retail sales this month right ministries once to send you the I thank you for your demo send this not only receive the best-selling that also receive a free session video place in which Pastor Alan teaches how to blast and covers content not video course includes a detailed study guide perfect for personal growth or small group discussion. Make your gift today and discovered the power to blast the gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I banks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor out and got work in today's teaching now continues here once again is professional golfer Jason David's interesting thing before he gets golf shot. He stands behind the ball. He looks down the fairway for a long time and then he closed his eyes and close his eyes was sometimes seems like a pretty long time, long moments with his eyes closed and then he steps up to go hit the ball and he explains that what he's doing is that he is closing his eyes and actually envisioning the actual shot he envisions the height of the balls and travels of the air, the curve weathers drawing to the left were fading back to the right.

He envisions exactly where it was EEE and sees it landing on the fairway gets a vision of the golf shot, and these are the most important thing for him to do it though right before he hits it, because what is the one that happened.

He wants his entire body to be focus on that one thing he wants his legs. His arms, his mind, his eyes every one of his senses. He wants it all focused on that one thing, because right now the whole vision is this one golf shot, sing other other other things, it might be interesting or important for them to do with his legs.

It might be that even you know another occasion would wander over to a Bush and look at a beautiful butterfly.

It might be another time that he would be using his his eyes to read a good book. It might be that that times that he should be having a conversation with somebody and using his mouth but but for this moment. Everything is focus on this one thing a vision of a golf shot. So do you see in other words, he restrains himself from every other type of movement in order to be focus on this vision. That's what vision does it brings a profound focus to you and many other reasonable choices that we might have in life. But what happens when you get a vision from God as it brings this incredible focus for the Christian there is such extraordinary good news if this proverb is to have deep meaning for us. There such good news for us because if where there is prophetic revelation then we don't cast off restraint, but we find ourselves restrained and focus towards that and we find ourselves blessed in keeping obedience to that vision. If that's the case, which is that we are most blessed because God in Jesus Christ has come to reveal fully who he is and show you who you are and more than that he is, so that through his sacrifice, he would take the penalty it was due to you so that you could be put in right standing with God so that he could justly not only redeem you but make you his air and prove it to you by depositing his own life inside of you.

The Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ lives inside the heart of every believer and Jesus said he is the spirit of truth and he'll guide you into all truth I'm saying is that for the Christian we have an incredible incredible promise that we are just sheep and he is a shepherd and he's always leading us and he's given us his word and set every promise is yes and amen in Jesus Christ, so what this means, therefore, is in our life is simplified. Hebrews chapter 12 verse one makes it plain.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

In other words, look to Jesus. He is the revelation of God and so when you read the Scripture look for Jesus look to Jesus when you're when you're meditating when you're thinking all your life you look to Jesus is author and the finisher of your faith you you see Jesus. Faith is born see that this is what I the Scripture say this what God's revelation is what causes faith. The spring forth.

Faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of God. Jesus is the living word of God.

When you look to Jesus and you see what Jesus is done for you. You see your life. You see the value of your life. You see the call on your life with Zach ES met Jesus.

This tax collector despised in their culture was a fraud and a thief is a problem with the tax collectors he saw Jesus. It is suspended. They were Jesus and using the name tell him anything to do. The key is to spontaneously said, Lord, I'm to give half of my goods to the poor, and if ever defrauded anybody, make it up to fourfold ply present a vision of Jesus everything to start aligning to that when the apostle Paul who was originally called Saul was on the road to Damascus, a blinding light came in a voice came as it's also why do you persecute me as a doing things that is Jesus, and had a revelation vision of Jesus and everything in his life changed so so that it never ever ever departed from that and when it suited telling when he was meeting with King Agrippa and he described his whole testimony about what happened to another voice and come and sit Saul, Saul, why you persecute me and he came to verse 19. Acts 26 and he said, therefore, O King Agrippa.

Therefore, a King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision towards a vision of Jesus change everything in his life. This is what happens, you are energized you empowered, you are strengthened in your whole life starts getting aligned to this which means I can leave you with several piece of practical good news first is this the call. Therefore, the Christian is not the drudgery of obey, obey, obey, but rather it is vision vision vision, revelation, revelation, revelation, if you don't have willpower or discipline, you're not alone and that God's plan is not for you to try to live the obedient life out of your own willpower, but out of a vision of Christ and out of a vision for your life and it is to say this, secondly, that you are no longer under an old covenant, in which profits would speak from time to time but you are under a new covenant, in which every single person in Christ is given the Holy Spirit. Remember what happened at Pentecost when Peter recognized it to people or prophesying people are speaking in unknown languages. People are being filled the spirit they remember what was prophesied by Joel that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh all the people will start having encounters with God.

People all kinds of people, not just the official profit will start having visions from God and dreams from God and in hearing from God is the nature of the Christian life as it is it's it's it's we have God speaking to us, and what this means for us also is that you can help others receive vision for their lives, because all of us have a ministry of encouragement to one another and we can bless one another the same way we bless our kids we speak positive godly biblical vision over their lives. And that's encouragement. That's that is that is a part of the prophetic revelation that we bring towards one another in the body of Christ as we bless one another into the positive future that God has for them were actually helping people so you can see people flourish… Is this is what is means to us. So Abby have been born in two weeks later, I'm writing down at least part of the vision I had for her life as I wanted to vision and identity to go into her soul and then everything else will aligned to. I didn't follow her along all through her life and say don't date the wrong kind of boys don't don't become promiscuous. Don't become infatuated with boys and all have good intentions. I didn't follow anything ever said that to her and Henry said this encounter what you do is use or speak in a destiny about who you are and then what times it just becomes part of the person as you make your own decisions that align with that. In other words, she restrains herself. If you are holy you will restrain yourself from all the ton holy, but if you don't have a vision your life you that restraint and I know this is the case, I noticed that she was paying attention to the recent Royal wedding and she looked at me with all seriousness, and she said you know daddy know marrying a princess still on the table and I realize her vision has now exceeded my where there is no prophetic revelation. People are lost trapped in a flood. I just do anything that feels right but where there's a vision from God is a rich blessing that comes because you just automatically align yourself to that vision. Blessed is he who keeps the vision God and in today's teaching foolproof vision. It's in our series, also titled foolproof and Alan is back with us in the studio as he shares his parting good news thought for the day in just a moment feel like something is holding you back as if you lack an important scene that could change everything. Is there someone you love to sing stack to help them out what's missing. Blessing on faith filled vision spoken over, I learned you can learn how to embrace the biblical practice of blessing to pastor and writes new book, it's a blast, which quickly became an Amazon number one bestseller after 370s until now the hardcover book has only been available through retail sales this month right ministries once to send you the I thank you for your demo send this not only receive the best-selling book also receive a free session video place in which Pastor Alan teaches how to blast and covers content not found in the video course includes a detailed study guide perfect for personal growth or small group discussion. Make your gift today and discovered the power to blast the gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support.

When you get today.

We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website. Pastor our and data work out of her back here without parting good news thought for the day inputting a bookmark here at the end of the foolproof vision. This remove continuing in the scissors of his love that wisdom here right in the wisdom that comes from God and how blessed we are that we have it. Part of the wisdom of God that we see in the Proverbs is rooted in this God has vision for your life is what I want to leave listeners with today. Daniel don't settle for a vision for your life. That's less than the highest and best that God has bought for you in Jesus Christ. Your life is infinitely valuable and laden with purpose in Christ. Don't settle for anything less than it it doesn't mean your name will be in light doesn't mean to be rich and famous of the middle of the means it has a very high vision and there's a tendency settle for something less. No trust in him. Let that vision energize every aspect of today's good news message is a listener supported production of Alan Wright Ministries