GLORY DOME VISION WAS BIRTHED AFTER GOVERNMENT SAID THEY WON’T BE LEASING OUT NATIONAL STADIUM TO CHURCHES ANY LONGER
THE MOST REASONABLE WAY TO BEGIN ANYTHING IS TO BEGIN IT WITH GOD
WHAT YOU CAN DEFINE DETERMINES WHAT YOU CAN FIND. WHAT YOU CANNOT DEFINE, YOU CANNOT DISCOVER
THE ROAD YOU CHOOSE DETERMINES THE PLACE YOU END
WHAT MAN SEES DETERMINES WHAT GOD GIVES
IT IS PREFERABLE IN THE JOURNEY OF VISION TO START FROM THE SPIRITUAL TO THE MATERIAL
BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO BECOME IN THE WORLD, IDENTIFY WHAT YOU WANT TO BECOME WITH GOD
NOBODY IS TOO YOUNG OR TOO OLD TO HAVE A VISION
DON’T JUST IDENTIFY WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO DO OR WHAT YOU DESIRE TO DO, POSSESS THE VISION!
WHERE THERE’S NO VISION, THE PEOPLE PERISH
DODIE OSTEEN WAS GIVEN SIX WEEKS TO LIVE AFTER SHE WAS DIAGNOSED OF LIVER CANCER AND 40 YEARS LATER, SHE’S STILL LIVING
PASTOR PAUL ENENCHE NARRATES HOW DODIE OSTEEN, MOTHER OF JOEL OSTEEN GOT HER HEALING
I BEGAN TO TRUST GOD TO MINISTER TO MASSIVE CROWDS AFTER SEEING REINHARD BONNKE’S CRUSADES
BREAK DOWN YOUR VISIONS INTO ACHIEVABLE BITS AND SIZES
WHEN YOU SUCCEED DAILY, CONSISTENTLY, YOU SUCCEED ANNUALLY, EVENTUALLY
‘UNKNOWN’ PARTIES WILL WIN ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA THIS YEAR
WHEN YOU REVISIT THE VISION, YOU REIGNITE YOUR PASSION
THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WHEN THEY WRITE DOWN THEIR VISION FOR THE YEAR THE NEXT TIME THEY WILL EVER LOOK IT IS AT THE END OF THE YEAR
UNTIL SOMEBODY IS SERIOUS, NOTHING BECOMES GLORIOUS
THE FACT THAT A PARTICULAR APPROACH HAS FAILED DOES NOT MEAN THE VISION HAS FAILED
– Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche on “THE WAY OF VISION” || Combined Sunday Service || Glory Dome – Abuja.
I welcome everyone here this morning, I welcome everyone who came in from all the various countries of the world to just be here this morning for what
Habakkuk 2:3-4. The Lord bless His Word in Jesus’ precious name. This morning very quickly I want to speak on the subject, “The way of Vision”. The objective of this teaching is to understand what it takes to move from vision to fulfillment. Church Gist. By way of introduction, the most reasonable way to begin anything, like to begin a year, is to begin it with God. “In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth”. The most reasonable way, the most critical way, the most important way and the most vital way to begin anything is to begin it with God, like a year. The next most important thing, the most important necessity for any beginning, like the beginning of a year is called Vision. Church Gist. Why is that so? Why is Vision so necessary?
1. What you define determines what you can discover. What you can define determines what you can find. What you cannot define, you cannot discover. Church Gist. The meaning of it is, if you don’t know what you want, you won’t know when you see it. You won’t be able to see it neither will you know when you see it.
2. The road you choose determines the place you end. You cannot choose the wrong road and end at the right place neither can you choose the right road and end at the wrong place. Church Gist. The road you choose determines the place you end. There are those in prison because of the road they chose, there are those in asylum because of drug today, because of the road they chose. There are people in hell fire today because of the road they chose. The road you choose determines the place you end.
3. The life that is left to chance has no chance. When you live your life and just leave it to chance, you haven’t defined what you want and where you are going, you haven’t defined what the year holds, it has no chance.
4. Divine function happens at the frequency of human vision. What man sees determines what God gives. Genesis 13:15. Church Gist. If God will give it, man must see it. If God will do it, man must see it.
5. The vision of today is the reality of tomorrow. To begin with vision is to end with reality. In the year of 2007, we were at the national stadium, Abuja in the month of July. Church Gist. We held an all night meeting in that stadium, the crowd was massive, 2007 was like 16 years ago. July, 2007, then we held it again in August and another in September, the last Friday of the month. By August and September, the rain drizzled a bit. Then the government said by that time that they won’t give the stadium for use again for Church. At that time, we paid 5 million for use and 5 million for caution deposit. Church Gist. Then, I told the people, they said we will not use the place again and then the rain fell on us in one of the nights. So, I told the Church, “they said we will not use this stadium, we are going to build ourselves a stadium that rain will not beat us”. That was the vision. Then I called the architects of the Church, about 7,8 or 9 of them, (I told them) to design a structure that is bigger than like two stadiums without a pillar in the middle that has a roof. Church Gist. Then, I gave them the picture and I said the people should be able to face one direction and that everybody should be under one cover at the same time. In a short time, they brought about 6 designs, one of the designs was coca-cola dome in America, several other designs and I pointed out this one (Glory Dome) and I said, “this is the design”, that is where we are today. It was once a vision, it became a reality. Church Gist. This was the program that pushed us into this vision.
– beloved brothers and sisters, I announce to you today, in the name of Jesus, the vision you’re having today shall find reality before the end of the year!
– say after me, “in the name of Jesus, I am moving from the realm of vision to the realm of reality and nothing can stop me”.
So we are going to take a journey today. I’m not sure that we will be able to finish this journey today in this service but we are going to start it today. Church Gist. So, the question is, what is the way of Vision? How do I move from vision to realization? It’s all outlined in that passage.
1. Identify the vision.
1a. Identify God’s plan, desire and purpose for your life for the season. What is God’s purpose? What is God’s plan and desire for your life for this season and year? Habakkuk 2:1. What is God saying to me? What does God want me to do? Where does God want me to reach? What does He want me to do, for example, in His Kingdom? How many souls am I going to win? Church Gist. How many Churches am I going to facilitate in planting? What does God want from me? Habakkuk 2:1. So, you will identify that.
1b. What result or outcome do you desire to accomplish in this season? What desire, what outcome, what is it that is burning in your heart to accomplish or to realize in this season? We are in a new year now, you can say, for example, “my life, I haven’t done so much for the Kingdom of God, this year I will trust the Lord at least 5 souls a week or a month and by the end of the year, I should be able to have at least a 100 souls that I can say that I led to Christ. I want to be able that by the time this year has ended, there will be a Church building that God used me to build, at least one and I’m trusting God for the finances to get that done. Church Gist. I am trusting God that by the end of the year that there will be at least 5 orphans that I paid their school fees, 5 widows that I empowered financially or 5 indigent people”. What kind of outcome do you desire?
I want to crave our indulgence, it is preferable in the journey of vision to start from the spiritual to the material. Church Gist. Before you can say, “I want to build a house” ask yourself, what do you want to do for the Kingdom first. Matthew 6:33. Before you begin to talk about what you want to become in the world, the first thing is what do you want to become with God, what do you want to do with God, what do you want God to do with you? When you seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, then every other physical, material thing can become a walkover. Church Gist. So, by the time you are identifying your vision for 2023, you are going to begin with the spiritual because that is what really follows us. That is what will follow us from this earth to eternity. Nobody is going to carry a car or a house to Heaven, but the souls you won, Churches you built, lives you touched, those things are going to be recorded and wait for you at the other side by the time you leave this world. Church Gist. So, what outcome do you desire to realize? First, for the Kingdom, and then next for yourself.
1c. Identify the destination or direction you desire for your life to face. What direction or destination do you think God desires for your life? That is the first thing in the journey of vision. This must be identified. What does God want me to do? What is God saying to me? What outcome in this year do I desire to realize? Church Gist. What result am I trusting God to realize? I can tell that nobody is too young or too old to have a vision. Abraham was at the age of 75 when God called him. He was already at the age of 100 before he gave birth to his son. Moses was 80 years old when God gave him the vision of going to take the children of Israel out of captivity. Church Gist. Caleb was 85 years old when he drove out the Anakims from mount Hebron. I can go on and on.
2. Possess the vision. Don’t just identify what God wants you to do or what you desire to do. Possess the vision, own the vision and I will explain what I mean. First of all, the meaning is, become united with the vision. Church Gist. The vision becomes a part and parcel of you. Secondly, it means possess the vision and let the vision possess you. You see, it is what drives you that determines how far you move in life. Possess the vision, let the vision possess you. There are people, what they call a vision is just a wish. A real vision is that objective you’re not willing to live without; what you have made up your mind, it has no option than to come to pass. Church Gist. A real vision is not a suggestion, it’s almost a determination plus a decision, once you have received it. There’s something they call a magnificent obsession, it drives you.
2c. it means let the vision become the reason for living. That is when the vision is permitted to come to pass because vision is life. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”. Where there’s no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18. Let the vision become the reason why you’re alive. 1 Corinthians 9:16. Church Gist. Preaching the gospel is the reason why I live, it’s my vision, I don’t have a life outside of preaching, that is what Paul the Apostle was saying.
All those things that you must do with your life is called Vision. There are people eating and getting energy to achieve nothing. There are people sleeping and resting at night from achieving nothing. This is where real vision is, it is the reason why. One man, his father left him a big inheritance, he left all of that and was still working as an airline staff. Church Gist. Somebody said to him, “you already have big inheritance, why are you still waking up in the morning and going to work and doing these things?” He said to them, “if I don’t have any reason to live, I may begin to die”.
Now, I want you to give yourself something stronger than ordinary survival, a stronger reason than ordinary survival, a more important reason to live than merely surviving and waking up in the morning to dress up. Church Gist. Give yourself a stronger reason to be alive and let God give it to you. A real vision becomes the reason why you’re alive, the reason why you sleep, the reason you need to rest to pursue something, the reason why you need to eat.
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3f. Writing gives rise to the possibility of progress measurement. When you say, “I’m going to go there”, you can measure the progress based on what you have written. “I’m going to plant a Church a month for the year of 2023 or something. I’m going to do this or that by God’s help and mercy”, you can measure it. Church Gist. So, you write the vision. One day, many years ago, in our area one church, I realized that there was something very important that I was meant to do that day that wasn’t done. So I asked myself, “why? Why wasn’t it done?” Until I checked my list for the day and realized that I wrote everything down but I forgot to write that one. So, I couldn’t blame anybody but the fact that what was not written may have no right to come to pass. Martin Luther said, “the faintest ink is more powerful than the most powerful memory”. Church Gist. Once you have written it down, it’s a fixed deposit. Once it is in your mind, it has the possibility of flying away.
– somebody say Amen.
– in the name that is above every other name, Jesus Christ the resurrected Lord, I decree what you’re getting today will produce for you drastic positive results in Jesus’ name.
4. Simplify the vision. Make it plain. Habakkuk 2:2. What is the meaning of ‘make it plain’?
4a. Make it easy to understand, make it clear. ‘My vision for 2023 is to become highly spiritual’, that is not clear. That is a vision but it is not clear. It’s not concrete, it’s not measurable. Church Gist. ‘I want to be highly spiritual’, congratulations. Tell us about the highness of the spirituality. Number 1; I have to wake up everyday, at least take 1-2 hours between the midnight and morning season. No. 2; I have to pray at least 90 minutes everyday or 2 hours everyday before I go out. No. 3; I have to study 3-4 chapters of the Bible everyday. No.4, I have to fast at least twice every week, going forward. No.5; I need to at least get 5 souls won to Christ every week, and so on. It is clearer now, isn’t it? ‘I want to become very spiritual’ is too wide. Church Gist. Simplify, don’t complicate life. There’s power in simplicity, make it plain, make it clear.
4b. Break it down into achievable bits and sizes. For example, “I am trusting God to invest a 120 million in 2023 into the Kingdom”, that’s a vision right? For Evangelism, for crusades and for Church planting. Church Gist. I took that amount because it is easy to break down. So, if I’m trusting God for this in a year, how much does that translate to every month? 10 million. How much does that translate to every week? 2.5 million. How much does that translate to every day? It’s broken down. Church Gist. “This home Church, this house fellowship, we want to trust God for this one house fellowship to become 24 house fellowships by the end of 2023”. What does that translate into? It means, every month, 2 home cells. “I want to win 120 souls to Jesus this year”. What’s the meaning of that? 10 souls a month, 2 and half souls a week (laughs). Is it not easy that way? That big goal that looks so big, I have now broken it down and so my target now is my weekly target. Listen to this, when you succeed daily, consistently, you succeed annually, eventually. Church Gist. If you can be sure that your day to day success is in place, that is the reason why the goal and the vision must be simplified and broken down. This is because daily success will end with weekly success, weekly success will become monthly success and monthly success will become yearly success and yearly success becomes a lifetime of success. Church Gist. You come to the end of your life and there’s no regret. You come to the end of your life and realize that you have not wasted your life.
4c. Focus on daily victories which now translates into weekly victories. There are those who calculate what they will make in an hour and then focus on such.
4d. Turning the vision into a picture. What God wants to do in your life, how does it look like? Seeing the pictures of the vision. You know that a picture they say, is worth a thousand words. When you look at a picture, you can hear many things and see many things at once that if you were to write down, it would take such a long time. Genesis 30:37-38. When God wanted to change Abraham’s mind from a barren man, He brought him and said, “look at the stars, I want to change your mentality and your picture. Church Gist. Look at the stars and the sands on the seashore, so shall your offsprings be, you can’t be barren”. He gave him the picture.
Dodie Osteen, the wife of John Osteen, the mother of Joel Osteen had metastatic adenocarcinoma of the liver in the year of 1983. Church Gist. She was given 6 weeks to live. The Giants of the faith prayed for her, Oral Roberts, T. L. Osborne, Kenneth Hagin, all of them. Cancer of the liver was ravaging her body. Then, she put her wedding picture on the wall everywhere, put her picture of youthfulness, healthy life picture. She said to the picture and herself, “this is me (the picture), this is not me, I can’t have cancer. This is how I am looking (the picture), this is how I will look, this is not me”. She kept on me looking at that pictures until 6 weeks passed and she didn’t pass, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years. Church Gist. Today, 40 years have come, 6 weeks have not come because the vision is the seed of reality. Turn it to pictures.
When I began to trust God to minister to massive crowds of people, I saw one man that was ministering to very massive crowds around the world, that was Reinhard Bonnke. Church Gist. I carried Reinhard Bonnke’s crusade pictures, pasted it on my office board, pasted it everywhere and I was looking at the pictures internalizing, “I’m seeing this is a possibility, this is how it should be, this is the kind of crowd that went around Jesus Christ, innumerable and great multitudes everywhere”. After a while, crowd began to grow everywhere. Area 1 Church, we ran six services, crowds, everywhere outside. Church Gist. Now, this is what I want to tell you, we had a crusade, I think a Jalingo crusade and after that Jalingo crusade, I sent the clip to Reinhard Bonnke’s crusade director who is still alive and he sent me back a message, he said that the only thing that this reminds him of is Reinhard Bonnke’s crusade. He said to me, “even though Bonnke has died, yet the spirit of mass Evangelism has not left Africa”. Church Gist. So serious that about 3 weeks ago, I was standing here ministering because I couldn’t get a flight to go to the village in Owukpa, Benue State for the crusade. Crowd already gathered. I was standing here ministering and they were hearing me there, interpreting there, healings and deliverances took place and I gave altar call from here (and crowd gathered). What you don’t see coming will never come. Church Gist. What you don’t perceive, you will never possess. What is not a reality inside you can never become a reality in your life. Even though it tarries, He says, “wait for it”. Atimes, it may appear slow in coming, wait for it, it’ll surely come to pass. God used the power of the picture and it worked and it will work for you.
– lift your hand and say, “in the name of Jesus, the vision is for an appointed time and it shall come to pass”. Say, “the visions of my heart and my life in 2023 shall come to pass”.
– you believe that, shout the loudest Amen.
5. Review the Vision. Habakkuk 2:2. Periodic reviews, depending on what the vision is. Maybe on a daily basis, weekly basis or monthly basis. What is the purpose and the benefit of reviewing a vision?
5a. To review the Vision is to refire the passion. Church Gist. There’s a passion that visioners have, when you review the Vision, you refire the passion. Habakkuk 2:2b
5b. To review the Vision is to run with the vision. When you revisit the vision, you reignite your passion. Maybe you discover that you’re too slow or too slack in this thing that must be done. You got up in the morning and you looked at it and realized, “no, I’m not fast enough”. Church Gist. There are people when they write the vision for this year down, the next time they will ever look at that book is after this year has ended. Until somebody is serious, nothing becomes glorious. When we begin to talk later, you will understand that there’s a discipline dimension to vision. Church Gist. When you write a vision, it reignites the passion.
5c. Vision review activates ideas, wisdom and inspiration for realization and actualization. Mark 6:22. While you’re looking through, “what do I do? How do I get at this? Church Gist. This must be realized, I’m trusting God for this and that”, bam! Ideas begin to flow. Vision reviews activates wisdom, ideas and inspiration for realization and actualization.
5d. To review the Vision is to revise the approach. Church Gist. This is the meaning; vision is a constant, approach is a variable. The constant thing is that “I want to win the lust”, what is variable is “how do I win this lust? What is my approach?” Hear me, don’t take the failure of approach to become the failure of vision. The fact that a particular approach has failed does not mean the vision has failed. You can revise the approach and still realize the vision. Church Gist. When God called Moses, Moses attempted to deliver Israel by his own power, that approach failed, he killed a man and buried him. How many people will he kill one by one to deliver Israel? For 40 years, he abandoned his vision until God came to him again and the approach changed. He got the rod and that approach brought this vision to pass. Church Gist. What is constant is that Israel must be delivered, what can change is how they are delivered. The Shunammite woman’s son died, the vision is, ‘raise the boy’. Approach number one, “Gehazi, take rod”, Gehazi went, dropped the rod and the child did not wake up because Gehazi was a bad boy, rod could not work in his hand. Church Gist. Did Elisha abandon the vision? No. This boy must still be raised, so he changed the approach, went and laid on the body and then he comes back alive. Vision is constant, approach is variable. The approach may fail but the vision can succeed with a change of approach. Church Gist. Don’t say that you failed or that a vision failed, no, it’s not the vision that failed. The approach may fail but the vision can still succeed if there’s a change of approach.
What is most important is not how you get there but the fact that you got there. I’m not talking of crooked ways to get there, correct ways. Church Gist. It may vary but the endpoint is constant.
– look at your neighbour, say, “you’re not a failure, the vision is not a failure because the approach failed. If one approach fails, you can change approach and succeed still”. Somebody say a loud Amen!
– give the Lord a big shout of praise.
– I don’t know who it is but God has just spoken to somebody here. The devil has tried to make you discouraged and feel bad but I am here to announce to you that that devil is a liar.
One man in our Church was trying to contest an election, he came to me and the party where he was very loyal and committed decided to dubiously give his ticket to another person and he said he has found another party that is not known and that party has never won election in the state. Church Gist. So, I prayed for him and I said, “go and succeed”. He went and demolished everybody there and that was the only seat that party won in the state. If you don’t have shoe polish to polish your shoe, what is anointing oil waiting for? The most important thing is for the shoe to shine. Church Gist. All that is important is for you to be sure that this vision is of God. That assurance is all that is needed. If the vision is confirmed to be of God and your heart is in it, if one approach fails, try the other. Cleared everybody hands down to go to the federal house of representatives. Many of those things will happen in our nation this year. Church Gist. Until traditional people who think that they own the country are shamed. His vision is to go to the national assembly and somebody says, “we will determine who should go”, he said, “okay” and steps on another unknown platform that has never won anything in the state and only (that) one seat was won and no more. What is backing you determines what you can face.
– somebody say Amen!
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