PRESERVATION THROUGH VISION AND DIVINE DIRECTION || Pastor Dr. Paul Enenche at Midweek Power Communion Service || Dunamis International Gospel Centre || The Glory Dome, Abuja.

AS FAR AS YOU CAN SEE THE FUTURE, YOU CAN’T EXPIRE IN THE PRESENT

VISION IS FOCUSING ON THE FUTURE WHILE EXISTING IN THE PRESENT

DON’T FOCUS ON THE MOMENT, FOCUS ON THE ULTIMATE AND YOU CAN SURVIVE ANYTHING IN THE MOMENT

IF YOU LIVE BY VISION, NO devil CAN K!LL YOU BY CHANCE.

YOUR VISION IS A POTENT FORCE FOR YOUR FUTURE.

IF THE VISION REMAINS IN PLACE, NO FORCE ON HELL CAN TAKE YOUR FUTURE OUT OF YOUR HANDS.

HOW A WOMAN CONCEIVED AND DELIVERED A SET OF TRIPLETS AFTER SEVERAL MISCARRIAGES.

MANY ARE SUFFERING TODAY BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO SEEK DIVINE DIRECTION.

GOD IS MOVED INTO ACTION WHENEVER HE SEES FAITH.

• Pastor Dr. Paul Enenche on “PRESERVATION THROUGH VISION AND DIVINE DIRECTION” || Midweek Power Communion Service || Dunamis International Gospel Centre || The Glory Dome, Abuja.

I welcome everyone again to this very very highly impactful service of preservation. And if there’s any time we need preservation, it is now. Church Gist. So, I’m speaking on “PRESERVATION THROUGH VISION AND DIVINE DIRECTION”. We have three objectives.

1. To understand the preservation power of vision.
2. To understand the preservation of divine direction.
3. Understanding practical action steps for preservation during vision and divine direction.

Proverbs 29:18. Where there’s no vision, the people perish, which means, where there’s vision, the people flourish, the people survive. Church Gist. Now, throughout Scriptures, it is well known that vision is a preserver of life and destiny. It is well known that divine direction is a preservative of life and destiny. We are going to look at four examples of vision preserving the lives of people. Church Gist. And by simple definition, vision is seeing the future in the present. Focusing on the future while existing in the present. My first example will be the example of Joseph

1. Joseph.
   The vision of Joseph preserved his life. In Genesis 37, if you read from verse 18, how Joseph would have died. Genesis 37:18-29. Joseph was meant to be killed, the plan to kill him had been concluded. Church Gist. To make it cheap, the person who was meant to deliver them from killing him was away, Reuben. For one reason or the other, Reuben wasn’t there, so killing him was easy but there was another voice that arose even when Reuben was not there, that was called Judah. Judah said, “let’s not kill him. Lest not our hands be upon our brother”. Church Gist. What was working for Joseph was the power of the covenant and the power of vision. Joseph had dreamt dreams that had not come to pass, so nobody could kill him. As far as you can see the future, you can’t expire in the present. Genesis 37:5-9. He kept seeing the future and for as long as he kept seeing the future, he could not be expired in the present. Church Gist. Don’t focus on the moment, focus on the ultimate and you can survive anything in the moment.
2. The vision of the Children of Israel.
   That vision was still tied to Joseph. See what was happening to the Children of Israel. Church Gist. They wanted to finish them. Exodus 1:8-12. I’m sure you remember at a point, they said, any of the women of Israel, the Jewish women, if they delivered a female, they should preserve them alive, if they delivered a male, they should kill them. Church Gist. The aim was to eliminate that generation completely so that when all the males are gone, there’s no reproduction anymore and then naturally, that generation would just be cleaned out. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied. What kept them going? One, the covenant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that God swore when He said they will be in the land of captivity 400 years and they will bring them out but there was something and that was the vision that Joseph placed in the front of Israel. That was Genesis 50:24-25. Church Gist. You know Joseph was a man of vision, so he liked to put vision in front of people. Genesis 50:24. “No matter how tired you are, people, don’t forget that God will surely visit you. And then, let me give you an assignment. When God visits you..” Genesis 50:24 “when you’re going out, just ensure that you carry my bones. I don’t want my remains to be left in Egypt”. Church Gist. So, from generation to generation, they handed it over to themselves. “We swore with our brother, Joseph, our leader, that God will visit us and we are to carry his bones. Please, we thought that in our generation that visitation will happen but it has not happened, don’t forget Joseph’s bones”. A generation is about 75 years, they lasted for about 400 years, that may be like 3 or 4 generations. Church Gist. And from one generation to another, whatever could have finished them could not wipe them out because there was a vision of an exodus that is to be accompanied by the carriage of a man’s bones. If the bones of a man can keep people alive and awake, if the vision of carrying a dead man’s bones is vision enough for people to hold on to as a basis for survival, how much more the vision to live? How much more the vision to fulfill your days? Church Gist. How much more the vision to fulfill your destiny? That leads me to example number three, that was what Job did.
3. Job
   Job 14:14. When the affliction of Job got too much, Job made a determination. He said: “If a man dies, shall he live again? No!” Do I have another opportunity to live the earthly life? The natural life? No! So I’m not dying. I will be in eternity forever so I’m not in a hurry to get there. “So all the days of my appointed time, the day that Jehovah has appointed to me on the Earth, I will wait until my change comes.” That was a vision placed in front of Job. The vision for change. Wife had left him. Wife said: “Curse God and die.” Church Gist. All property had finished. Children are all gone! Dead! “But change is coming! And I must witness the change!” That vision kept Job alive and (did) the change come or not? Job 42:10. They didn’t know him before, everybody ran away from him, he was smelling to everybody. Job 42:10-15. Men should learn from this. Job 42:17. Do you understand what I’m talking about? Your vision is a potent force for your future. If the vision is in place, the future cannot be out of place. If the vision remains in place, no force on hell can take your future out of your hands.

-I don’t know who God sent me to here this evening but I’m here to announce to somebody in the name of Jesus: “Change is coming!”
-I announce to you, your change is coming! Church Gist. God will visit you! God will visit our land! God will visit our nation! God will visit your family! You believe that say a loud Amen!

4. Simeon
   Look at what Simeon did. Luke 2:25-30. Simeon had a vision. “What I saw in revelation and saw in vision I am now seeing it in practicalization so it is now okay to go.” Somebody say Amen! There are things you see that will prevent untimely death. There are things you see with the eyes of your vision that will prevent being cut off before time. It’s like Job saying: “I don’t agree to go until my change comes.” There are many people that I place vision before (them) at the point of terminal points – on oxygen, this and that. This is the diagnosis that the doctor gave.” All I did was paint… I just painted pictures. “See three or four of your children have not yet married, won’t you like to see them get married? Won’t you like to see their children?” Vividly! “Yes! I will!” Oxygen was off under 24 hours. Church Gist. All those people are married now, all those people have children now. Those children that need to marry have married. Those children that need to have children, they have (children). Do you understand what I’m saying? By the power of vision. At several times. If you live by vision, no devil can k!ll you by chance. Vision is stronger than chance. The power of vision is stronger than the power of chance. Don’t forget that! Stray bullets wasted somebody, that is by chance. They put charm for somebody else, he didn’t know he drank it and died. That is chance! That is, he died a mistake death, the death wasn’t for him. It was for somebody else. Vision makes you escape even the power of chance occurrence. The power of mistake exit!

-Somebody (who) got something here, say Amen!

Let me give you 4 reasons or 4 powers of vision to preserve. Why is vision that powerful to preserve?

1. Vision connects or transports man to the envisioned end.
   It connects, it transports a person to an envisioned end. This is where you are and this is where you are envisioning. Your vision transports you there. Habakkuk 2:2-3. So ‘here’ you are, standing and ‘there’ is where your vision has carried you. Church Gist. Your vision becomes a vehicle, making all things to be orchestrated together to ensure that you are transported to; from your position to the destination of your vision. It happens! So when you lack vision, you’re literally lacking a transportation modality from your possession to your destination. Consider vision as a vehicle! Consider vision as a transport media or medium.
2. Vision is a spiritual language of communication that God hears and responds to.
   The vision of your heart is something God hears and sees and He responds to. “I am going to see this and this in my lifetime before I go.” God hears it, God responds to them. Ephesians 3:20. That word: “Think” is the word “imagine”. Imagine is also vision. All that we ask or envision, God hears. While you are seeing things and picturing things, God is receiving it as a communication. You are talking to Him. He sees it like you are talking to Him. You are telling Him what you want Him to do for you. Isaiah 65:24. It’s a communication! Church Gist. While Joseph was dreaming those dreams God was hearing where that young man must reach in life. It’s a language of communication. That’s how vision works. When I told that woman that was going to the Far East in China somewhere. “See you when you come back.” I gave her a vision; because the devil planned death for her and it was revealed during the Healing and Deliverance Service in Area One. “Somebody is travelling to the Far East this week and I need to pray for you so that you can go and come back safely.” So I prayed for her, I said: “See you when you come back!” So she had that picture of: “See you when you come back.” So when the aircraft dropped like 25,000 feet within a few minutes and everybody was screaming. She stood up and said: “My pastor said: ‘See you when you come back’ and I must see him because I shall get back.” It’s a communication and that communication brought its manifestation!
3. Vision is a faith operation and God is moved into action whenever He sees faith. It’s a faith operation because you are not yet there but you see yourself there, you picture yourself there. The result is not in your hands but it is in your mind. Hebrew 11:27…so he was seeing the invisible – that is vision and the Bible calls it faith. Seeing the invisible – what you are not handling in your hand yet. They said HIV positive but you are seeing the medical report, HIV negative. Church Gist. Maybe one of these days, somebody should just go and see if he can get some empty lab report sheet and just fill it with the lab report that is your desire and just paste it somewhere. They said, you are hypertensive – you put the normal blood pressure. They said, you are whatever it is, you just paste it.

The other day, a woman placed triplets (we read it during the Commanding The Day)…she placed the picture of triplets by her bedside. After she had done all manner, the devil attacked them with secondary infertility – looking for children I think after 9 years or so – miscarriage, miscarriage! She placed triplets and she conceived triplets and she delivered triplets. Church Gist. I knew of someone who placed a picture and when that picture manifested physically…that’s the picture that she placed on the wall (referring to the picture on the screen), the one she was watching. Look at the triplets up there. While she was pregnant, she placed the pictures up there. Now this is the children delivered. All of them preserved by the blood of Jesus in Jesus name!

• Lift your right hand and say; in the name of Jesus, I shall reach my destination by the power of vision!

Everytime God sees faith…God sees the man of vision as a man of faith. Other people are thinking, waiting for things to happen. He is happening them in his mind. Church Gist. So God sees the man as a man of faith and wherever God sees faith, He moves. Hebrews 11:6. So without faith, it is impossible to please God and to move God.

4. Vision triggers the release of the force of life. Proverbs 29:18…so where there is vision, people flourish. It triggers the release of the force of life. I practiced briefly as a medical doctor and then passed through Medical School and I am acquainted with some of the things about vision. I came to discover in medical practice that most times when a person does not know what is their diagnosis, they are strong and healthy. Church Gist. They are normal. Somebody could live with HIV in the blood for 10 years without a symptom (without feeling nothing). Only for one day, they said, it’s HIV positive and the only thing that person begins to see is the picture of death and the grave. I mean that was in those days when there was nothing like antiretroviral drugs. I have seen people under 4 weeks dilapidated. This person dried up and shrank, began to stool uncontrollably.

How many of you know that there is something we call neurogenic diarrhea and neurogenic symptoms? The kind of thing that makes you to go and urinate many times during exams? (Laughs) Like the mathematics man or that makes you to go to the toilet. These are things that happen. Church Gist. By the time the man becomes so afraid of death, he begins to go to toilet plenty times – okay, HIV symptoms have come. With the stress and with the tension, just go ‘baam’. Why? He lost the vision to live because of a diagnosis and then he begins to die.

I have seen, I saw somebody…I read a book many many years ago, Lion Wheel. A woman went to the hospital in the UK and they said that she had cancer and they gave her (is it 5 or 6 weeks to die?) She said, “I am not dying.” She looked at the doctor in the face, I am not dying. Church Gist. Who will take care of my husband and children? I am not dying. As at the time, the person wrote about that woman, it was 10 years gone and there was no trace of death in her body. Ten years gone.

So the force of life is released. I told you the experiment that I came across from Zig Ziglar where they put rabbits inside a container that they covered and they put rabbits inside the container that is opened. Church Gist. The ones that were seeing light lived. The ones that were in total darkness, saw nothing; they died rapidly because there is no hope and there is no vision which is the oxygen of the soul. They died rapidly. If only you can wake up everyday with something you are looking forward to, If only you can sleep every night with something that is weighing in your heart that you will do for God in your lifestyle, you will do for your generation in your generation and that remains…I can tell you, you can crush anything.

Did you receive something tonight? I have just dealt with vision. Will you go and sink in this or you are ready to take direction? Church Gist. We can achieve another 15 more minutes. Alright, let’s move to divine direction.

Now, vision has to do with the picture of the future in the present. Vision has to do with the picture of the future in the present but direction is contact with the voice of God from day to day. That is, being in touch with the voice of God. Vision is like before I leave this World or in the next 5 years, I am going to buld up to 100 Churches that I built personally, that’s like a vision. Church Gist. Direction is “Lord, I am going to Lagos, should I go? Lord, I am about to enter a business, am I to enter this business? What are you saying? What is your mind?” I’m sure you get the difference right now. That’s direction. Vision is, “I am going to Maiduguri.” Direction is, “what is the route? How do I follow to go?”

Now direction is key to preservation of life. And we have seen in Scriptures how divine direction at various times preserved the life of David from disaster. 1 Samuel 23:10-13…that’s the power of direction. There are journeys we didn’t need to make but we make them because we didn’t ask. There are occasions you didn’t need to go. I was meant to attend an occasion some time ago. Somebody had volunteered and made an aircraft available to help us go for that event. Every single attempt to go, no peace at all. At the last moment…it was the kind of thing that people would say, I am not here? They will feel somehow. That kind of a thing. I am not going for this. You know what? I am not going. Please, flight arrangement canceled, everything canceled.

Not going was a salvation. The kind of thing that…“what brought me here? What am I doing here?” That’s direction! Many people suffered unnecessarily, faced unnecessary issues because direction was not sought. If we sought direction well, there were people around our lives that shouldn’t near us forever.

Many people suffered unnecessarily, faced unnecessary issues because direction was not sought. Church Gist. If we sought direction well, there were people around our lives that shouldn’t near us forever.

Very quickly, what is the power of direction?

1. Divine direction establishes divine presence and guarantees divine preservation. The reason is, God is always present where His voice is. The God who speaks also leads the one He speaks to. Church Gist. He goes with you. Psalm 23:1-2. “He leadeth me, so I’m following Him”. His direction, His leading includes His presence. Isaiah 45:1-2. So, He leads you, He goes before you and His presence is a preserving presence. Exodus 13:21. So, the Lord who leads goes with the led. And what is the value of the presence of God? Psalm 23:4. So, the voice of God with you is the presence of God with you and the presence of God with you is the preservation of God in your life. Church Gist m Psalm 91:1-2. So, the direction of God comes with the presence of God, that presence of God preserves.
2. Divine direction averts disaster (causes man to escape enemy traps and snares).
   “Don’t step out at this time, remain at home. Don’t step out of your office now, remain where you are”. Church Gist. That was what we saw in the case of David and the Keilaites. 1 Samuel 23:10. Divine direction averts disaster. Psalm 23:2. “He leadeth me beside still waters”, not beside troubled waters. God cannot lead you and lead you into calamity. His voice leads you away from disaster, leads you away from calamity, leads you away from crisis. Church Gist. Let me add this at this point, the voice of God prevents unnecessary battles. You’re delivered from unnecessary battles, battles you don’t need to fight. If David had remained there now and Saul came and they handed him over to Saul, even if he escaped, many of his men would have been lost. Church Gist. Or maybe he would escape with the skin of his teeth. But that voice of God delivered him from the confrontation.

• I prophesy to somebody here today, the voice of God shall rescue you from enemy confrontations and battles.

1. Divine direction instills faith and faith brings preservation.
   If you can hear God, you can dare anything. It instills faith, instills, installs. Roman 10:17. When you have heard God, you fear nothing. Moses was able to confront Pharaoh because he heard God. Pharaoh that he ran away from, he ran back to Pharaoh to face him because he heard God. Church Gist. When you have heard God, you dare anything. That was what happened to Peter in Matthew 14:25. They were afraid when there was the storm and they saw a man walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost, all of them were afraid. Matthew 14:26-27. That is, “I speak to you to k!ll this fear”. Matthew 14:28-29. The voice of God, it k!lls your fear. You can dare anything. Did I tell you the story before? We were going to my… And you see? Illustrations are very essential for instructions. Examples communicate principles.

We were going to Taraba State for crusade. Post COVID; COVID was still fresh. Number one, open air meetings where people up to fifty or more are gathering was cancelled by the government. Number two, there was a religious holiday that clashed – of the other religion, their celebration. (It) coincided exactly with the Crusade date and you are going to the North at such a time to hold a crusade. Uh! Number three, there was terrible… that is the terror!sm was at the peak. Three terrible things, meanwhile the Bible says in the mouth of two or three witnesses… Church Gist. When it was… Was it 24-48 hours to the meeting? My wife said to me: “Are we still going for the Crusade?” I said: “I am not sure.” For many reasons, number one: We don’t want to be seen as flouting a law, flouting the law that there should be no open-air gathering. Number two, we don’t want to appear confrontational that the people are having their celebration and we are coming to do crusade in their vicinity – That looks confrontational! I wasn’t afraid of the third one – The terror!sm one. So as I prayed, the summary of what I heard from God is: “I have gone ahead of you. I am waiting for you in Jalingo.” That’s what Jehovah told me, that’s what He told me: “I’m waiting for you there.” Ola! Ola!! Ola!!! Ola!!!! “You are waiting for me there at this time?” He said: “Yes!” He said He is the owner of the Earth, that He can hold His meeting anytime and anywhere He wants per time. When I heard Landlord talking “On da je” and He said: “I have gone ahead.”

I told my wife, I said: “I’ve just heard God, we are going.” She said: “Wow! Yeah! We’re going!” And once I said: “I heard God.” My wife is 100 percent. “Alright we are going!” And that was how we went (and) landed. When we landed we saw signs on the Land. People were dodging from the road. We asked the people: “What’s happening?” They said: “It’s the terror!sm.” They don’t know who is who. So when they see vehicles like this, they don’t know who is coming. Church Gist. That Crusade is still a landmark crusade till tomorrow. That’s it there (Showing pictures from the Crusade). They’ve been calling us since then. After we left the Crusade, the third day people who had travelled from 12 hours journey, they came when the Crusade had ended. They remained on the ground there. It’s only comparable to maybe the Kaduna Crusade of this year (in) March. Is God speaking to anybody here at all? That is the kind of God. Once you hear God, it instills faith, it k!lls fear and you are ready to dare the devil.

-I speak to somebody here today, the capacity to hear and obey is released upon you right now.

4. Divine direction imparts spiritual power and power enables the saints to keep the enemy in subjection.
   When you hear God you are empowered. Psalm 29:3-4. The voice of the Lord is power-full, it’s full of power. Church Gist. Voice of the Lord. Luke 10:19. So you connect His voice, you connect with power, you put the devil under control. You connect with power, you exist above the realm of hurt.

-Today! Even by the preaching you have heard, step in to the realm where the enemy is under your feet.

What Is Our Conclusion Action?

1. Ensure that your heart is filled, is permanently filled with positive vision of the future. Ensure your heart is filled. No matter what happens in our Nation, don’t lose hope either on the nation or on yourself. Church Gist. Permanently filled with a positive vision of the future. Proverbs 4:23. So guard your heart! Fill it up, stuff it up! Wake up in the morning with vision. Sleep at night with vision.
2. Ensure that you take steps and make moves by the help of divine direction. By the help of the voice of God, make moves take steps by the help of divine direction and the help of the voice of God. Isaiah 30:31. There are many people who have concluded that God does not talk to them. So there is no need to bother asking anything. Don’t do that. Church Gist. Keep asking. Jeremiah 6:16. Even if you didn’t hear anything, let it be on record that you have asked. “Lord, am I to do this business? Lord, am I to go on this journey? Lord, is this right woman man for me or the right man?”

If you feel peace, it may be green light. If you feel crisis, red light. If you feel nothing, yellow light – that is, wait. “Is this man the right person for me to marry?” As you finish praying, your heart is beating. “Danger dey, danger dey, danger dey.” Is there somebody here who heard that song in the 70s? (Laughs) Some young people here don’t know that song. “Danger dey, danger dey.” Then there is a counterpart of that song – “fire will burn you, fire will burn you.” These are songs that they are dancing in night club (in disco). “Danger dey, danger dey, danger dey – fire will burn you, fire will burn you.” (Laughs) Don’t let fire burn you o and now follow the path of danger.

“Lord, is this the right person for me?” And you are hearing the song in your heart not in the words but you are feeling it “don’t go.” You felt peace, give it a little time and trust God if it’s peaceful. If you don’t feel anything, wait. Wait does not mean it will not happen. It may mean that there is something God wants to handle before you move. It may mean that you are about to move before time. Church Gist. You know when you get yellow light at the junction, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t move, wait a bit. If you move now, you might collide with another vehicle. Just wait a bit and then when the light is totally green now, you can move, the road is free.

• I speak to somebody here, fresh grace for divine direction be released upon you!

1. Ensure that you take no direction, revelation or spiritual signal for granted. Don’t take them for granted. Matthew 26:41, Luke 21:36. So when you see and you hear, that was part of your watching. You dreamt a dream, you received a signal, everytime you come around a particular person, you lost your peace. Church Gist. Don’t force yourself on them and don’t force them on you. After you have watched like that and gotten the signals, move into prayers. “Lord, I don’t know the full implication of this dream but if it is negative, I crush it. Whatever it represents”…there are some dreams and signals that may move you to fast. Morning to 6, a 24 hour fast. You just move and there is something we call praying through. You pray until there is a note of victory in your spirit on that matter. Something inside you tells you the matter is handled. Then you proceed. It’s a new day for you!

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