- Dr Cindy Trimm on “Extraordinary Works” at KICC’s IGOC 2021
How you see your life unfolding, how you see things unfolding is exactly how it is going to unfold. God wants to give you the advantage and it’s about vantage points. God wants to give you His vantage point. As human beings we have five vantage points.
- You Look Back – In this season, if you look back, you don’t look back with regret, you look back for understanding, wisdom,, instructions and to connect the dots so you can learn.
- You look at – You look at for strategy.
- You look around – you look around for your assignment, you look for opportunities
- You look beyond – you look beyond for destiny
- You look up – you look up for divine perspective.
John looked up for divine revelation, Habakkuk looked beyond , Nehemiah looked around to access the wall. Nehemiah did in 52 days what a nation could not do in 70 years , he looked around and he found his assignment.
- I declare and decree that what will take you a year, you are going to do it in a month. What will take you a month, you are going to do it in a week and what will take you a week you are going to do it in a day.
Looking back is what we do when we take communion, we look back and connect the dots.
When we talk about vantage points and how you see, it is how you look back, how you look at, how you look beyond, how you look around and how you look up. God wants to change how you see. As human beings we have five kinds of sight.
- Natural Sight
- Insight/Understanding
- Perspective (Vantage Point)
- Vision
- Dreams /Prophetic Revelations
Vision gives you spiritual advantage.
When God wants to change seasons in your life, the proof that a season changed is that God brings a new voice into your life. Church Gist. The problem with most people is that we don’t know what to do with new relationships. So we bring the old strategy into new relationship, so those relationships are sabotaged because we don’t see what that person is carrying.
Habakkuk 2:2-4
When Habakkuk complained to God, God said you need a vision in other words you need a change of perspective.
Another principle that you should note from that scripture is the principle of documentation. Until you write your vision you have no legal right to see it’s fulfillment. Church Gist. When you write it, it is a contract between heaven and Earth and heaven is committed to bring the resources for its fulfillment.
Another principle is the principle of specification. You don’t just need to write your vision, you need to be specific. To write your vision, you need clarifications just to avoid being wishy-washy. Know what exactly you want to achieve.
I write my vision in 20 year periods and then I shorten it to three year periods and then I take a slice for a one year period. Church Gist. If you have no vision you are basically wasting your time on the earth and things are always going to be the same and you will never live that extraordinary life that is promised in the Bible.
The shortest distance between where you are and where you want to go is in the relationship of a mentor. You see this in the life of Joshua, Joshua was mentored by Moses for 40 years. A mentor is able to take you to a place in yourself where you cannot go by yourself.
Most of the miracles that we are looking for outside of us is actually inside of us. You have got to find out what you are passionate about and focus your energy and fully commit to bringing that thing to pass. How you convert your energy determines what you end up with. Bill Gates uses his energy for $300 per second. It not that they have more talent , gifts and skills than you, it’s about where they channel their energy. You have got to rechannel your energy.
A comfort zone is a place where your dreams and vision go to die. Jesus asked the man at the pouch of Bethesda to walk because he had the potential to walk. He was just sitting with his potential. He was not lame, he was lazy.
All of us can think bigger. His thoughts were restricted by the pouch. I want you to get rid of your small Thinking and start learning possibility thinking.
Lord let me think larger than my community, God let me think beyond my present circumstances.
An average mindset is the most terrible mindset to accept because it accepts whatever culture dictates.
Your future is filled with unlimited potentiality.
John 5:6
The Bible says you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Not just the truth about God, not just the Holy Spirit, Not just the truth of the Bible but the truth about who you are.
Stop lying that you are not good enough, every you need was given to you at conception. You lie when you misrepresent your potential. Every time you fail to rise and take your place among the great, you are lying. Church Gist. A lot of us think it is arrogant to say who we are. How arrogant was Jesus to say he was the King of Kings while he was the son of carpenter.
- In this season God is going to restore your confidence.
Mathew 7:7
The right questions are clue to desire. Questions reveal our need to grow and know. The reward of information is discovery, clarity and progress. Church Gist. If we are going to see change we don’t just need the right answers but also the right questions.
The nature of your questions determine what you value. The desire to know is the precursor to truth.
John 8:32
Your feet will never take you where your mind has not taken you to.
Here are the twelve important questions we must ask ourselves
- Where do I come from (Heritage)
- What was I born into (Inheritance)
- Who am I? (Identity)
- Why am I here? (Purpose)
- Where am I going? (Destiny)
- How do I get there (Vision)
- What will I do when I get there (Assignment)
- How do I get it done (Strategy)
- When should I do it? (Timing)
- Who should I do it with? (Relationship)
- With what should I do it? (Resources)
- How should the next generation know that I did it? (Legacy).
Jesus knew all of the answers to these questions.
When you ask the right questions, it would lead you to make the right decisions.
What are the ten most important decisions that you will ever make in your life?
- Who you will serve
- How you will leave
- What your non-negotiable are
- Where you will go
- Decision about your life strategy
- Decision about who you surround yourself with
- Decision about your core values.
- Decision of your focus
- What you feed on
- What you do with your time and talents, gifts and opportunities.
What is stopping you from living the life of your dream?
How well do you know your God?
- Something good is about to happen to you and any ordinary day turn into an extraordinary moment.
- I decree this is a season – a season of the extraordinary.
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