truth #1
WITHOUT A CLEAR AND COMPELLING VISION WE CAN NOT BE AN EFFECTIVE LEADER.
(Vision is what causes a leader to rise up to the top. Vision is what separates mediocre leaders from great ones.)
RESETTING VISION AND GOALS
IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS
- Reset: to set again, to put back into proper order, priority and position. To recommit to, to readjust in order to get desired results, regenerate (recreate, revive, restore to a favorable state, to be born again Spiritually.)
- Vision: mental picture (the ability to see in your mind the way things ought to be), dream (an aspiration-a desire or objective strongly desired), Revelation (this when we get a spiritual down load from the Holy Spirit of God’s desired future for our lives.)
- Note: We need to pray that God will give us vision and reveal what aspirations and dreams we should have and pursue and show us how to achieve it.
- Perfect Picture: is when we know how it ought to be and know how to achieve it.
4 TRUTHS ABOUT VISION
A. THE PEOPLE COULD ONLY SEE BURNED DOWN WALLS BUT NEHEMIAH THE LEADER SAW NEW WALLS.
Nehemiah 2:17 (NKJV) 17 Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.”
B. VISIONARY LEADERS SEE AND SPEAK BEYOND HOW THINGS ARE. (This is a Godly attribute.)
Romans 4:17 (ESV) 17 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. (“calls those things which are not, as though they were. -NMB)
truth #2
A LEADER WITHOUT A VISION WILL PERISH.
Proverbs 29:18 (BRG) Where there is no vision, the people perish: …
Perish (Para) go backwards, are barren, are zeros, become naked.
Note: Without a mental picture, aim and clear picture on how things ought to be we will go backwards, amount to nothing, be embarrassed.
Quote: “Show me a man who is perfectly satisfied and I’ll show you a failure.” (Thomas Edison)
Quote: “ Show me a church and business that is going backward and I’ll show you a leader with no vision.”
The real problem was that their widows were not getting the food.
B. THE APOSTLES SAID THE PROBLEM IS “US” - WE ARE MAJORING IN THE MINORS.
truth #3
WHAT WE CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE WE CAN ACHIEVE.
(This is not just a bunch of positive mumbo jumbo it is bible.)
Mark 9:23 (CSB) Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’? Everything is possible for the one who believes.”
Matthew 21:22 (TLB) You can get anything—anything you ask for in prayer—if you believe.”
- A. IF WE BELIEVE WE WILL RECEIVE.
Matthew 21:22 (TLB) You can get anything—anything you ask for in prayer—if you believe.”
truth #4
WE WILL BE A WE CAN VISIONARY LEADER OR WE CAN’T VISIONARY LEADER.
Numbers 13:30-31 (NLT) 30 But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!” 31 But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed.
“We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!”
Numbers 13:32 (NLT) 32 So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge.14:1-2 Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night. 2 Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained.… 31 “‘You said your children would be carried off as plunder. Well, I will bring them safely into the land, and they will enjoy what you have despised. 32 But as for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness.
“We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!”
- A. THE PEOPLE WILL TAKE ON OUR MINDSET (Good or bad. The I can see vision come to pas, the I can’ts will also see their vision come to pass.)
Numbers 13:32 (NLT) 32 So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge.14:1-2 Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night. 2 Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained.… 31 “‘You said your children would be carried off as plunder. Well, I will bring them safely into the land, and they will enjoy what you have despised. 32 But as for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness.
SAYINGS OF THOSE WHO HAD NO VISION
Quote: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” (Charles H Duel-commissioner of the U.S patent office 1899)
Quote: “Flying machines heavier than air.” (Lord Kelvin)
Illustration: When Walt Disney was alive he had a vision of Disney World. But he died before it became a reality. At the Grand opening his surviving wife was an honored guest on the platform. The M.C said to her I just wish Walt could have seen it. She replied two words: “He did”. He was the first man to ever see Disney World before anyone lifted a finger.
OUR GOAL
1728 D.G’s
500 New Volunteers for Easter.
Every leader set a 90 day goal to launch a D.G. And do a reset meeting with their leaders.