WHEN YOU ARE NOT LIVING LIFE TO CHANCE, YOU CAN NOT DISAPPEAR BY CHANCE.
-Pastor Paul Enenche at Dunamis International Gospel Centre on ‘VISION AND REVELATION FOR PRESERVATION’ at Power Communion Midweek Service, Glory Dome.
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VISION AND REVELATION FOR PRESERVATION.
Proverbs 29:18.
I welcome everyone here today to this Destiny Preservation Service.
Our objective is to understand the preservation power of vision and revelation.
Vision and revelation are two key weapons for the preservation of lives and destinies.
WHAT IS VISION ALL ABOUT?
- Vision refers to insight into God’s purpose for a person’s existence. Church Gist. You have an idea of the purpose of God for your existence.
- Vision refers to the mental picture of discovered or desirable future. Church Gist. When a man knows why he is alive, that is a man of vision. Church Gist. When there is a mental picture of a future you have discovered or of a future you desire and it is right there on your mind, it is called vision. Church Gist. That vision has the capacity to preserve life, it can prolong life. That’s when you have a picture into God’s purpose for your life and you know you are alive not as an experiment. When the picture of where you are going is in your head/mind, that vision preserves/prolongs life. That is why people of vision are durable on earth.
You go through examples of people of vision in Scriptures, they were durable people.
SCRIPTURAL EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE OF VISION:
- Abraham: Genesis 13:14-17.
Abraham was a man of vision and Abraham was durable on the earth. Genesis 25:7-8 - Joseph:
Genesis 37:5 -7,9. Genesis 50:26. Church Gist. He was not destructible because there was a vision before him. He passed through the pit, he couldn’t be killed. He was sold into slavery yet he couldn’t be killed. He went to Potiphar’s house, Potiphar’s wife tried to snare him yet he couldn’t be killed. Church Gist. Then they put him in prison, yet he couldn’t be killed because there was a vision that gave him durability.
I prophesy to every man, every woman of vision today, it doesn’t matter what the witches and wizards are doing about your case, it doesn’t matter what the occult world are doing about your life, you are not destructible.
The meaning of that is your vision is the guarantee of your destination. Church Gist. Your end-point in life is determined by your vision.
- Jacob: Genesis 30:37, Genesis 47:28.
When you are not living life to chance, you can not disappear by chance.
It’s not possible to go suddenly, if you are not living life to chance but living life by vision and living life by purpose. - Job: Job 14:14.
If the man has seen the future, you can’t bury him in the present.
Everyone who sees the ultimate overcomes the immediate.
One of the best things anybody could do for his neighbor was what Joseph did for his brethren in Egypt. Church Gist. Joseph knew the power of vision. Vision kept him alive until he could fulfil his days and no vagabond could excuse him out of this world.
Genesis 50:24-25, Exodus 13:19.
If you have a reason to live, no devil will deprive you of that life.
I heard a story of a man whose father left him a lot of money, riches, including a private jet or something. Church Gist. And he was working again as a worker somewhere else. And somebody said, “you have so much money, what are you working for again”?
He said,” no, I need to have a reason to wake up every day”.
When the reason to be alive ends, life expires.
When the heart is empty of purpose, very soon the earth will be empty of the person.
WHAT DOES VISION DO? (HOW VISION PRESERVES LIFE?)
- Vision gives reason for living. Church Gist. That is, it fuels hope and hope is the oxygen of life. Ecclesiastes 9:4.
- Vision strengthens faith. Church Gist. Because when you can see there, your heart is full of the fire to get there.
Hebrews 11:27.
Anywhere people can see the invisible, they will dare the incredible and do the impossible.
Habakkuk 2:4 - Vision transforms or rejuvenates the system. Vision makes a man younger; it just changes you inside – out.
Genesis 30:37.
People of vision are young at heart and young in body. - Vision is a Spiritual communication means between man and God. God hears and answers the thoughts and visions of a man’s heart.
Ephesians 3:20. Isaiah 65:24.
That is why, when the heart is empty, God is hearing nothing from you.
Joel 2:28. - Vision activates the forces of Divine life. Proverbs 29:18.
Where there is no vision people perish, so where there is vision, people flourish.
There is a Supernatural flow of the Life of God where vision is around because God is a God of vision. Church Gist. And you know, the purpose of life is the life of purpose.
So, when you live the life of vision (purpose), you are living the purpose of life. The heart of the matter is the matter of the heart. The heart of the issue is the issue of the heart.
Proverbs 4:23.
WHAT IS REVELATION ALL ABOUT?
- Revelation refers to light or illumination from the Word of God or from the Spirit of God.
- Revelation is the unveiling of truth or reality either from the Word or from the Spirit.
People of revelation in Scripture are also durable people. Church Gist. Those who hear from the Word, see from the Word or hear from the Spirit and see from the Spirit, they also last.
SCRIPTURAL EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE OF REVELATION.
- Moses: Moses had the revelation of the Word. That was how he wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Church Gist. And Moses had the revelation of the Spirit.
Exodus 33:11, Deuteronomy 34:7.
I met a man over 20 years ago in Sokoto, he was over 70 years at that time. We went to Ilorin Crusade, he came and met us in the hotel, he is around between 95 years to 96 years.
My wife said, “let’s go and meet the old man downstairs”. I said, ‘wait first”. Before you can say praise the Lord, he climbed up to the room where we were. By the time we finished talking, let’s escort him, she was running after him. I said, ” sir, how long do you intend to live? He said, “as God wants” - David.
Psalm 89:19-22.
I Chronicles 29:26-28,
1 Samuel 23:10-13.
Many of us have followed assumption and not just end in frustration but destruction. Assumption can be doorway to frustration and gateway to destruction.
Somebody you helped can arrange for your destruction. Church Gist. You don’t follow assumption, you follow revelation.
I have learnt many times that you can help people and they will look at you and say, “when?”.
It takes God for man to know man. There are people you think you know them but you don’t know them.
That was why it was by revelation that David came to know the men of Keilah and what they would have done to him.
3.Paul the Apostle.
Paul the Apostle was a man of deep revelation of the Word. Then, he was a man of deep revelation in the Spirit.
2 Peter 3:15.
Acts 27:22-25.
Around my life, around my destiny, there shall be No Loss.
HOW DOES REVELATION AFFECT PRESERVATION?
- Revelation is Spiritual light that dissolves the forces of darkness.
John 1:1-5. God will show you something from the Word or show you something from the Spirit that will kill the fear of death and will kill the death you fear.
The day I saw a mighty Angel in a revelation. That Angel’s height is up to the roof top. He was standing beside me and his shoulders were high up and he had a short knife in his hand. If he moves his hand in any direction, a thousand people may die. Who is this? He said, that was a war Angel that moved with an ancient Apostle who was very brutal in judgemental. You think I wake up in the morning and I will be afraid of any bastard? - Revelation is the food and fuel of faith.
Romans 10:17.
Revelation fuels faith. Church Gist. It gives food to faith.
When Moses heard God and saw the burning bush, he could face Pharaoh.
And faith is a shield of life. Ephesians 6:17. - Revelation transmits the power of God. Church Gist. Every time you receive fresh light, it comes with fresh power.
Psalm 29:4 - Revelation, especially the revelation of the Word of God transmits the Life of God.
John 6:63.
When you connect to the revelation, especially from the Word there is instant injection of the Life of God and that Life is indestructible. - Revelation terminates oppression and afflictions.
Whether God showed it to you by vision or whether God showed it to you from His Word
Isaiah 30:31.
God will give you something that will beat your beater, that will oppress your oppressors, that will bury your fighter.
He will give you a revelation that will cause you to beat what was beating you.
God will just show you something from the Word that will decapitate the devil.
HOW DO WE ACCESS VISIONS AND REVELATIONS?
- Walk in the fear of God. Psalm 25:14.
Fear God means hate evil and hate compromise; don’t take God and His mercy for granted.
- Walk in love and passion for God.
1Corinthians 2:9-10 - Possess passion for the Will and Purpose of God for your life.
Proverbs 3:5-6 - Walk in spiritual sensitivity and watchfulness.
Habakkuk 2:1-3 - Walk in the mode of enquiry.
Jeremiah 6:16 - Live in the realm of fasting and prayer.
Isaiah 58:6,8 - Live in the Word.
Isaiah 30:20-21. Ephesians 5:26, Psalm 29:3-4.
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