Purpose and Vision – Part III

• Purpose is predetermined and fixed, vision is incremental and progressive.
• Vision is sight, birthed from insight, with the benefit of hindsight (progressive).

Example:  Abraham

Abraham’s Purpose was fixed:

• God visits a 75yr. old man and tells him his purpose.
• The Lord was going to start a family through Abraham and through this family; ALL the families of the earth would be blessed.
• Blessed TO BE a Blessing!
• From the time Abraham received his purpose, to the time he died, the purpose never changed and he was continually in pursuit of it.

Abraham needed vision (insight) in order to accomplish the purpose:

• When Abraham couldn’t SEE it, the Lord had him look up to the stars and look down to the dust.  Just like the number of stars and the grains of dust cannot be counted, that’s how many children would be in his lineage.
• Abraham had to SEE IT before he could BE IT.
• The Lord needed Abraham to SEE IT on the inside.

Don’t be afraid of using your imagination:

• Vision is birthed from anointed imagination.
• Free yourself to allow God to show you your future.
• Walk around in your future, see the people you are going to impact, shake their hands, touch them, see the change, and then come back and get ready to go there.
• Abraham received it ON THE INSIDE well before he ever saw it ON THE OUTSIDE.

A few nuggets in closing:

• Purpose will give birth to vision.
• If you allow yourself to imagine, with God involved in the process, He can show you your future.  Your job then is to come back to the present and make plans to get there.
• Your plans will not experience Godly success unless they line up with God’s purpose.
• When God gives you vision for your future He is also confirming what He has already implanted IN you – He will never tell you to do something you can’t do!  The goal then is the outworking of the internal.