SPEAK VISION

Speak Vision!

Joel Osteen blessed my soul on Sunday speaking about Vision. Vision is defined as the state of being able to see. The question is what do we see? When you see a small child playing and using their imagination is that all you see or do you see a future inventor, sculptor or painter or do you simply see a child active at play? When you encounter a student that only gets D’s and F’s on their report card do you see someone without a future? Or do you see someone that has the possibility of becoming the next Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm X? Then what do you say based on what you see?

Now remember scripture tells us to call those things that be not as though they were. Scripture also tells us that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It is important that we speak vision into others that we come in contact with when we can. As Joel said sometimes we see things in people that they do not yet see in themselves.

He spoke of how his wife used to tell him well before his father’s passing that he would be a great pastor and a great speaker. At the time he thought his wife was out of her mind but she had vision and she spoke it into his life.

Joel also told a great story about an experiment done in a high school. The principal called 3 teachers in and told them they were the top teachers in the school and that the school was selecting the top students for them to teach advance level classes too. Once the semester was over, all the students had performed well in their classes, meeting and even exceeding the expectations placed on them. Shortly thereafter, the principal called the teachers in and told them it was an experiment, they didn’t have the top students in the school, the students had been randomly selected. The teachers began to pat themselves on the back, then the principal told them they weren’t the top teachers either, they’d been randomly selected as well. The lesson: People rise to the level of your expectation so set the bar as high as you can.

It’s amazing at what words can do to people. Words become planted in people’s hearts and take root. So why you think you are speaking truth based on what is, remember you should be speaking Yahweh’s truth declaring all is well. I think of the parents that say my child isn’t good at this or that, my child can’t do this or that and they say it in front of the child and to other people. Then they feel safe in saying see I knew it, no you said it, that was the vision you spoke, that was the prophecy you said over your child and that what is what continued to be fulfilled.

I remember a message by Joel where a parent had a wayward child but when she received a phone call asking about her child, she said all is well, my child is blessed and prospering. Now some may say the mother was lying but what the mother was doing was speaking into existence what she knew as in store for her child. See faith is in the right now. Faith is not later. We receive things in faith immediately all we wait on is the manifestation and in the meantime we believe.

It is time for us to see the vision and speak vision over our lives, our children, our family, our communities, friends, neighborhoods, city, state, nation, and the world. No matter how you feel about someone and their actions, speak vision. Speak Yahweh’s best into their lives, pray for them, uplift them, stand in the gap for them. Do it because you should and do it because someone somewhere did it for you.
Our challenge for this week, month, year and our lives: Think before we speak, only speak words of Faith and Life, believe in what we speak, do unto others as we would have them to do unto us.

Be a blessing and be blessed,
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