Have Vision For Everything You Do As A Person

Prov 29:18 tells us that "where there is no vision, people perish". This includes people with purpose, passion, callings, divine assignments, people who desire to get married, people who desperately need a job, people who want business breakthrough, people who desire children, and even people who desire academic breakthrough. I've come to discover that what many Christians define as vision is actually a calling or an assignment from God. Vision is the ability to see into the future of a thing in order to advance it. Vision is a must if progress must be recorded.

Though God is the Author of purposes and callings, but you'll need the mind of a visionary to succeed in any of them. Vision is not something you wait for God to show you; rather, it's a tool you engage until your calling or purpose begins to show. The Bible talks about people who "having sights, but they cannot see". God gave us eyes for sighting, but created vision for seeing. Your eyes may sight what is within, but it is vision that sees what is beyond. God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, more than we can ever ask or think.

But the fact that He's able doesn't mean He'd do it without our interest. Many people know what they lack, but they don't know what they need. And this is why they suffer endlessly. Many graduates lack a good job; and they consciously pray for one. They've endured for so long in a low salary job - with the same prayer point, "Lord, change my job". If you're in that category, then it's time to stop sighting and start seeing. While seeing visions may be a general virtue, those who have a relationship with God would always have a divine advantage.

Because with God, they'd be directed, and would also see farther than a natural man would see. Those who serve God enjoy multiplied abilities. We saw how God added wisdom and understanding to Daniel and those 3 Hebrew boys; and at the end, they were ten times better than their peers. People who serve God enjoy guided, directed, and amplified visions. God asked Jeremiah "what do you see?", and what he saw wasn't something he could sight naturally. God directed Abraham to look towards the North, South, East, and West, and that whatever he saw would be for him.

I also believe that God was simply showing Abraham the power of having a vision for the future. Though God had promised him that he would be the Father of many nations, but he still had to see himself fathering many nations. At the long run, it's not you’re calling or purpose that determines what will happen, it's your vision. God may give you a big purpose or calling, but if your vision is not big, your big calling or purpose may not even afford you enough profit to buy beans. The Bible says that eyes have not seen the blessings that God has reserved for them that love Him.

You just can't depend on your eyes to see the fullness of God's blessing for you; you need to engage the power of vision. With the eyes alone, Moses could only disarm one Egyptian soldier and still ran away. But with vision, he disarmed thousands of them and still took their goods. Just as you use your eyes to sight anything, you can also use vision to see beyond anything. Vision is a projection; it's something you see or set, and begin to work towards. After writing for many years, I needed a notable progress. So, I told God that I would love to be the official writer of one of my revered mentors.

It was a daily prayer point for me until God finally told me that "eyes have not seen, nor ears heard, neither has it entered the heart of man, the things which He has prepared for me". He continued by saying "if being the writer of that great man has crossed your heart, then it means I have something better for you". Honestly, I wondered for months, "who or what would be greater than this man?". Just a few months back, I was meditating on how the Timely Notes Devotional began.

God ordained it; He said He will be the Author, while I will be the privileged writer. That was when it occurred to me that I'm God's writer. No wonder I write so many things in one day, because the Author always has something to say. Just imagine, I was already writing for God, while I was busy praying to be writing for a man. My meditation didn't stop at that discovery. I continued by asking God, "if I'm your privileged writer, am I not entitled to a pay?".

That was just a question, but it led to a major breakthrough in my life. People started sowing seeds into my life, I started getting more jobs, more speaking and writing engagements. In summary, I started enjoying more favour. All these discoveries came because I saw a vision of the future. From my experience and many other people, it is clear that true visionaries are people who ask definite questions. Bishop David Oyedepo has often shared a story of an experience he had with God after God called him.

He sat down one day and asked God, "now that you've called me, who pays me?". And God showed him from scriptures that he is on a divine appointment, and a labourer is worthy of his wages. Most of the breakthroughs he has recorded today were birth from visionary questions. "Why, what, where" should be regular words for people who walk in purpose or people who are on an assignment. This is because, the moment you ask these questions, you start seeing ahead.

And that's what vision is about, seeing ahead so that you can move ahead. While purpose and callings may be given by God, vision is required for their progression.