Principles of Employing the Provision of Vision
a. It is your job to understand, believe and write down your vision; while it is God's responsibility to accomplish them.
b. God often gives us dreams that initially confound us because He wants to make sure we don't attempt to fulfill them apart from Him.
c. God never gives you a vision without the provision for it.
d. The ability and resources are available for what you were born to do, yet your provision is usually hidden until you act on your vision.
e. God has already blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.
f. Prosperity doesn't mean that tomorrow's need is met today; it means that today's need is met today.
g. True prosperity means to be free from worry and fear. It reflects a state of contentedness that everything necessary is being taken care of.
h. God has designed every purpose with its own prosperity.
i. Sometimes, God doesn't give us all the resources we need to fulfill our vision because He has called other people to provide them for us.
j. Your obedience to your vision affects not only your life, but also the lives of those who will work with you.
k. When we go to heaven, most of us are going to be shocked at what was ours while we were on earth that we never asked for.
l. Five specific ways that God provides the resources to fulfill our vision are: 1) land and its inherent wealth 2) the ability to work 3) the ability to cultivate 4) the ability to preserve and reserve for the future, and 5) the ability to pass along wealth (generational wealth).
Focus Point: Whatever God's purpose, he provides for.
Constitutional Scriptures:
Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
Focus Point: The Lord has already prepared everything you would need before He created you so that you could do what you were born to do.
Worry is the greatest sign of doubt in the Lord.
The misconceptions of prosperity:
We think that prosperity means excess; this is why we worry when we don't already have the money in the bank to fund our visions.
Constitutional Scripture: read Luke 12:16-21 and James 5:1-5
Focus Point: People have the idea that prosperity means all our needs should be provided well ahead of time. Jesus addressed this misconception when He told His disciples in the Constitution:
(read Matthew 6:25, 31-33)
Focus Point: Prosperity doesn't mean that tomorrow's needs are met today; it means that today's need is met today.
The Nature of Real Prosperity
One of the Hebrew words that is translated "prosperity" in the Constitution is shalev--which means tranquil, being at ease, peaceable and quietness (for example: Psalm 30:6; Psalm 73:3)
6) Now in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
3) For I was envious of the boastful, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Another Hebrew word for prosperity is Shalom, which means peace, safe, well, happy and health. (for example: Psalm 35:27; Jeremiah 33:9)
27) Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor My righteous cause; and let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant."
9) Then is shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.
The Constitution is saying that prosperity is peace. Prosperity is also harmony. When things are in balance, we say they are peaceful.
Focus Point: Keep in mind, that true prosperity means to be free of worry and fear and reflects a state of contentedness that everything necessary is being taken care of.
Jesus used an analogy from nature to assist in explaining prosperity.
Constitutional Scriptures:
Matthew 6:26-27 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more value than they? 27) Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
II Peter 1:3 as His divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.
Again, knowing God's will and purpose for your life is the key to your prosperity.
Constitutional Scriptures to read:
Genesis 2:7-12 Genesis 12:1, 6-7 Genesis 26:2-4 Genesis 28:10-15 Exodus 3:7-,15-17
Genesis 25:29-34 Matthew 5:3-12
Focus Point: God wants you to have life. Notice the attitude in verse five: "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth". If you notice, Jesus said earth, not heaven. Christians always think in terms of heaven because that is where their focus lies. Yet God didn't create humanity for heaven; He created us to fulfill His purposes on earth.
By the way, meekness means discipline or self-control.
b. God often gives us dreams that initially confound us because He wants to make sure we don't attempt to fulfill them apart from Him.
c. God never gives you a vision without the provision for it.
d. The ability and resources are available for what you were born to do, yet your provision is usually hidden until you act on your vision.
e. God has already blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.
f. Prosperity doesn't mean that tomorrow's need is met today; it means that today's need is met today.
g. True prosperity means to be free from worry and fear. It reflects a state of contentedness that everything necessary is being taken care of.
h. God has designed every purpose with its own prosperity.
i. Sometimes, God doesn't give us all the resources we need to fulfill our vision because He has called other people to provide them for us.
j. Your obedience to your vision affects not only your life, but also the lives of those who will work with you.
k. When we go to heaven, most of us are going to be shocked at what was ours while we were on earth that we never asked for.
l. Five specific ways that God provides the resources to fulfill our vision are: 1) land and its inherent wealth 2) the ability to work 3) the ability to cultivate 4) the ability to preserve and reserve for the future, and 5) the ability to pass along wealth (generational wealth).
Focus Point: Whatever God's purpose, he provides for.
Constitutional Scriptures:
Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
Focus Point: The Lord has already prepared everything you would need before He created you so that you could do what you were born to do.
Worry is the greatest sign of doubt in the Lord.
The misconceptions of prosperity:
We think that prosperity means excess; this is why we worry when we don't already have the money in the bank to fund our visions.
Constitutional Scripture: read Luke 12:16-21 and James 5:1-5
Focus Point: People have the idea that prosperity means all our needs should be provided well ahead of time. Jesus addressed this misconception when He told His disciples in the Constitution:
(read Matthew 6:25, 31-33)
Focus Point: Prosperity doesn't mean that tomorrow's needs are met today; it means that today's need is met today.
The Nature of Real Prosperity
One of the Hebrew words that is translated "prosperity" in the Constitution is shalev--which means tranquil, being at ease, peaceable and quietness (for example: Psalm 30:6; Psalm 73:3)
6) Now in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
3) For I was envious of the boastful, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Another Hebrew word for prosperity is Shalom, which means peace, safe, well, happy and health. (for example: Psalm 35:27; Jeremiah 33:9)
27) Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor My righteous cause; and let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant."
9) Then is shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.
The Constitution is saying that prosperity is peace. Prosperity is also harmony. When things are in balance, we say they are peaceful.
Focus Point: Keep in mind, that true prosperity means to be free of worry and fear and reflects a state of contentedness that everything necessary is being taken care of.
Jesus used an analogy from nature to assist in explaining prosperity.
Constitutional Scriptures:
Matthew 6:26-27 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more value than they? 27) Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
II Peter 1:3 as His divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.
Again, knowing God's will and purpose for your life is the key to your prosperity.
Constitutional Scriptures to read:
Genesis 2:7-12 Genesis 12:1, 6-7 Genesis 26:2-4 Genesis 28:10-15 Exodus 3:7-,15-17
Genesis 25:29-34 Matthew 5:3-12
Focus Point: God wants you to have life. Notice the attitude in verse five: "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth". If you notice, Jesus said earth, not heaven. Christians always think in terms of heaven because that is where their focus lies. Yet God didn't create humanity for heaven; He created us to fulfill His purposes on earth.
By the way, meekness means discipline or self-control.