Phase 1: Principles Being Directed by a Clear Vision
a. You must have a clear guiding purpose for your life.
b. The key to life is not only knowing that you are, but also why you are.
c. Your true work is what you were born to do. Your job is what you are doing just until you are ready to fulfill your vision.
d. When God gives you a vision, it will bother you until you do it.
e. One of the most significant questions we must each answer for ourselves is "What is it you want?"
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 2:4-5a The king said to me, "What is it you want?" Then I prayed to the God of heaven, 5)and I answered the king,
f. Your vision should be something that lives on after you are gone.
g. Your vision is a clear conception of something that is not yet reality, but which can exist. It is a strong image of a preferable future.
h. A vision demands change by its very nature.
i. A vision is active even when times are good and things are in a positive state.
j. Vision doesn't try to recapture the good old days; rather, it desires to create days that have not yet existed.
k. When you keep company with God, you have to keep moving.
l. A clear vision gives you passion that keeps you continually moving forward in life.
Constitutional Scripture: Luke 2:49 And He said to them, "Why do you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?"
Constitutional Scripture: Proverbs 6:10-11 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep 11) So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, and your need like an armed man.
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 1:11 O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 1:4 So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days, I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Please note: Your true vision is what you were born to do.
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 2:12 Then I rose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.
Please note: Your true vision will bother you until you take action concerning it.
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 2:1-2 And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before. 2) Therefore the king said to me, "why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but sorrow of heart." So I became dreadfully afraid.
Please note: The question.....
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 2:4 Then the king said to me, "What do you request?" So I prayed to the God of heaven.
b. The key to life is not only knowing that you are, but also why you are.
c. Your true work is what you were born to do. Your job is what you are doing just until you are ready to fulfill your vision.
d. When God gives you a vision, it will bother you until you do it.
e. One of the most significant questions we must each answer for ourselves is "What is it you want?"
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 2:4-5a The king said to me, "What is it you want?" Then I prayed to the God of heaven, 5)and I answered the king,
f. Your vision should be something that lives on after you are gone.
g. Your vision is a clear conception of something that is not yet reality, but which can exist. It is a strong image of a preferable future.
h. A vision demands change by its very nature.
i. A vision is active even when times are good and things are in a positive state.
j. Vision doesn't try to recapture the good old days; rather, it desires to create days that have not yet existed.
k. When you keep company with God, you have to keep moving.
l. A clear vision gives you passion that keeps you continually moving forward in life.
Constitutional Scripture: Luke 2:49 And He said to them, "Why do you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?"
Constitutional Scripture: Proverbs 6:10-11 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep 11) So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, and your need like an armed man.
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 1:11 O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 1:4 So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days, I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Please note: Your true vision is what you were born to do.
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 2:12 Then I rose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.
Please note: Your true vision will bother you until you take action concerning it.
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 2:1-2 And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before. 2) Therefore the king said to me, "why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but sorrow of heart." So I became dreadfully afraid.
Please note: The question.....
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 2:4 Then the king said to me, "What do you request?" So I prayed to the God of heaven.