Principles in Setting the Priorities of Your Vision
a. If you want to be successful, you must set priorities for yourself in relation to your vision.
b. Understanding priorities will help you accomplish your dream because priorities are the key to effective decision-making.
c. You can tell the kind of life you are going to have in the future by the decisions you are making today.
d. Yes and no are the most powerful words you will ever say. God wants you to be able to say them with precision because they will determine your destiny.
e. When people don't succeed in their visions, it is often because they don't understand that prioritizing creates useful limits on their choices.
f. You have to determine what is beneficial, and you have to define what is beneficial based on the needs of your vision.
g. The only things that should master you are the things that will take you to your goal.
h. Once you are certain of where you are meant to go in life and have truly committed to it; then many extraneous things in your life will fall away on their own.
i. Your vision itself decides what is good for you. You don't just do good things. You do things that are good for your vision.
j. Your greatest challenge is not in choosing between good or bad but between good and what's best.
k. We end up where we don't really want to be when we take our eyes off the mark.
l. Your vision protects you from trying to do everything.
m. When you see your destination it helps you to discipline your life in ways that train, prepare and provide for your vision.
n. You will never be disciplined in your life until you have a real vision.
Please note: Your life is the sum total of the decisions you make every day.
Constitutional Scriptures:
I Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment.
Luke 10:38-42 Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. 39) And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. 40) But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.” 41) And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. 42) But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
Please note: Don't just do good things; concentrate on what is the best thing.
Please note: There is only one thing: that is Christ and His message of the Kingdom.
Please note: You must find your calling, and never deviate from it.
Focus Point: The Lord doesn't want us to start anything, without first including Him. This includes doing good works for Him until we first consult Him. If you haven't noticed, we have churches almost on every corner and definitely on every block. I have personally seen eighteen to twenty-eight churches in a one mile radius!
Constitutional Scriptures:
II Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
Luke 9:62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”
Matthew 11:30 "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Know what you were born to do.
Constitutional Scriptures:
I Timothy 2:7 for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am speaking the truth in Christ and not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
Romans 1:15 So as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint: but happy is he who keeps the law.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
Please note: Your enemies will attempt to keep you from fulfilling your vision; but they are your stepping stones, not your stumbling blocks.
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-2 Now it happened when Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there were no breaks left in it (though at that time I had not hung the doors in the gates), 2) that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together among the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they thought to do me harm.
b. Understanding priorities will help you accomplish your dream because priorities are the key to effective decision-making.
c. You can tell the kind of life you are going to have in the future by the decisions you are making today.
d. Yes and no are the most powerful words you will ever say. God wants you to be able to say them with precision because they will determine your destiny.
e. When people don't succeed in their visions, it is often because they don't understand that prioritizing creates useful limits on their choices.
f. You have to determine what is beneficial, and you have to define what is beneficial based on the needs of your vision.
g. The only things that should master you are the things that will take you to your goal.
h. Once you are certain of where you are meant to go in life and have truly committed to it; then many extraneous things in your life will fall away on their own.
i. Your vision itself decides what is good for you. You don't just do good things. You do things that are good for your vision.
j. Your greatest challenge is not in choosing between good or bad but between good and what's best.
k. We end up where we don't really want to be when we take our eyes off the mark.
l. Your vision protects you from trying to do everything.
m. When you see your destination it helps you to discipline your life in ways that train, prepare and provide for your vision.
n. You will never be disciplined in your life until you have a real vision.
Please note: Your life is the sum total of the decisions you make every day.
Constitutional Scriptures:
I Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment.
Luke 10:38-42 Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. 39) And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. 40) But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.” 41) And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. 42) But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
Please note: Don't just do good things; concentrate on what is the best thing.
Please note: There is only one thing: that is Christ and His message of the Kingdom.
Please note: You must find your calling, and never deviate from it.
Focus Point: The Lord doesn't want us to start anything, without first including Him. This includes doing good works for Him until we first consult Him. If you haven't noticed, we have churches almost on every corner and definitely on every block. I have personally seen eighteen to twenty-eight churches in a one mile radius!
Constitutional Scriptures:
II Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
Luke 9:62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”
Matthew 11:30 "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Know what you were born to do.
Constitutional Scriptures:
I Timothy 2:7 for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am speaking the truth in Christ and not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
Romans 1:15 So as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint: but happy is he who keeps the law.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
Please note: Your enemies will attempt to keep you from fulfilling your vision; but they are your stepping stones, not your stumbling blocks.
Constitutional Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-2 Now it happened when Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there were no breaks left in it (though at that time I had not hung the doors in the gates), 2) that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together among the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they thought to do me harm.
