Vision Wisdom
A couple days ago, I had a conversation with my dear friend, and Northern Ireland worship pastor, Andi Oakes. Don’t hold being Irish against him! ☺ He is an amazing man of God.
One of the concepts that we talked about was vision and God’s will for the vision He gives us. The stuff he was saying ended up being really good, so I ended up taking some notes on his thoughts. I decided to post them for you to see and comment on. So, here we go:
“Having an eye on the end goal we miss what’s in the moment. If we do something, we need to do it because we love it. Not because we are looking to do anything else, but to be in the moment and do that one thing we love well.”
“We are slightly obsessed with creating organizations. If we look at Jesus, He didn’t advertise for His disciples. He did what He did and everything He did He was wholly involved in it, and so the people followed.”
“Jesus called himself I Am. It’s not just a name of God. It’s a statement of what God is calling us to be. In the, I Am, he is completely in the present moment in the now. So he’s neither captured by the past, nor is he distracted about his future.”
“The I Am statement means that He doesn’t need anything else. When we understand what it means to live in Jesus ( the I Am) we are saying we don’t need anything else. Everything we have is already here. It’s not I will be, or I was, but I am (supplied for).”
“The power of faith is to rest in the vision that God has given us. When we simply can be because we are in the I Am. And because we know what the vision is, it is the reality, because the I Am supplies for the vision. Reality is actually not reality when we live in the I Am.”
All I can say is “Amen brothers.” Keep on testifying for God.
wow…I was thinking along these lines, and I came to your post. That is some really powerful things your friend was saying. I’ve been learning the same thing about God’s vision. We want so much to follow God’s vision that we get so caught up with the end goal, and not the now (I know I do). But, vision with no heart is no vision at all. I think truly walking in His vision means surrendering to Him daily, and continually following where the Spirit leads..not the other way around.
Well, I’d like to say something, but this is so deep it still hasnt digested!
thanks jonathan. i agree with you 100%!