DO NOT let the vision slip...

Habakkuk 2:3  For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie:  though it tarry, wait for it;  because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

These words, vision slipping, dropped into my spirit late last night. I knew that they were not without purpose. 

Vision slipping can happen when:

• We do not prepare and/or plan 
• We feel the weightiness of the vision is too great
• We do not believe in our ability to execute the vision
• We procrastinate
• We take our eyes off the vision
• We do not position ourselves to launch the vision
• We run from the vision 
• We do not recognize that we need others to help with the vision 
• We are distracted 
• We spend an insurmountable time comparing ourselves to others or measuring our potential against someone else's.  (We shouldn't do this because we do not know how others arrived where they are or what they went through to get to where they are).

Like moving anything of large capacity, we must have a firm grip on our vision. We can not go about carrying it on our shoulders like a one strap backpack or allow it to drag the ground.  We can not handle the vision just any type of way.  We must understand it's dimensions, its details and what it will take to move it from conception to inception. 

It will take courage, strength, determination and poise. 

Do we have the courage to speak aloud the vision that God has given to us, even when naysayers speak contrary to the execution of it? I can do all things through him who strengthens me, Philippians 4:13.

Do we build ourselves up in our most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit and determine to walk by faith and not by sight? Even when we have doubt? 

Do we remain gritty and determined when doors that we thought were to open for us, do not? Will we stay the course despite what it looks like and feels like. Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God," Luke 9:62.

Do we stand upon the promises that God has made, even when things look as if they might crumble? (Read Matthew 7:24-27).

It's time to reset. It's time to straighten ourselves up.  It's time to believe that, if God thought enough to drop the vision into our spirits, He has surely equipped us to catch and carry the vision out.  It's time to stop playing.  It's time to stop looking at everyone else and look forward so that we can fulfill the tasks that are assigned to us.  It's time to be gritty and resilient and to stop riding the slippery slopes that bring distraction.  

Blessings,

PTM!