{"id":100105,"date":"2019-01-18T19:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T19:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/what-you-should-have-asked-your-teachers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:39:48","slug":"what-you-should-have-asked-your-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/?p=100105","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Get Vision<\/h2>\n

Habakkuk 2:2, “Then the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0answered me and said: \u201cWrite the\u00a0vision<\/b> <\/em>and make\u00a0it<\/i> plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.”<\/h6>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Vision<\/em> is the awareness of God\u2019s purpose<\/em> for your life ministry.\u00a0 God is a God of purpose (reason, cause, plan, and strategy).\u00a0 Nothing has or will ever be done by God without purpose.\u00a0 He made each of us on<\/em> purpose and for<\/em> a purpose.\u00a0 It is our individual responsibility to seek, and it is the Holy Spirit\u2019s job to inform us of, our God-assigned purpose for life.\u00a0 When someone is called into fivefold ministry, God reveals, confirms, and enacts within the person\u2019s spirit the vision He has for him and the person\u2019s service to Him (ministry).\u00a0 Like a child that never attends school, he may be very intelligent, but he lacks knowledge; so it is with our calling when we do not submit to its priority in our life (vision).\u00a0 Even Jesus had to grow in knowledge and wisdom because of His humanity; so we must be ready and willing to follow the vision God has planted in our heart and grow in its understanding.\u00a0 Those who feel aimless or fruitless in life are not lacking talent or opportunity; their destiny becomes frustrated by not recognizing their purpose (vision) in life.<\/h6>\n
The call upon your life is the \u201cofficial\u201d track upon which it will run its race.\u00a0 The vision must be discovered, just like the talent to play the piano.\u00a0 It must first be discovered and then practiced daily.\u00a0 Again, like playing a piano, you start with very simple tunes, and as you progress, your music becomes more intricate and involved.\u00a0 So it is with vision and ministry.\u00a0 To keep the analogy going, you would be wasting time to take a piano lesson and then practice all week long on a tuba; yet many that are called wind up doing just this.\u00a0 There are teachers who should be on the mission field, pastors who are called to be evangelists or prophets, those in the ministry who were never called, and many, many who are called but will not submit to it.<\/h6>\n
When I was called, I knew how to do nothing.\u00a0 The only thing I did know was that God had a purpose for my life, and I was relentless in trying to find it.\u00a0 Slowly, step by step, it became clear.\u00a0 I knew I was God\u2019s for Him to do with as He willed, and I was as determined as a Louisiana mosquito to find it and do it!\u00a0 The more I prayed and served, the clearer it became: I was to be full-time.\u00a0 I was to teach.\u00a0 I was to put in and keep in order the work of the ministry (my whole system reeked with order and government from my earliest memory and all through my military service prior to entering into the ministry).\u00a0 It turned out to be a long journey, and much of the territory I passed through was unfamiliar; but in His timing, I arrived at the home base of my calling: doing the work of an apostle.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a singer: He doesn\u2019t need an opera house to sing in; he sings in the shower, he sings on the street, he sings everywhere he goes.\u00a0 He just sings!<\/h6>\n
Now concerning you and your vision, you were called to fulfill your purpose in God.\u00a0 With the call comes the vision.\u00a0 What do you see yourself doing?\u00a0 What do you do best that is God-honoring?\u00a0 What do you like to do?\u00a0 What is the very burden of your heart?\u00a0 When you finally saw your wife, your personal life\u2019s destiny was fixed; so it is with your vision.<\/h6>\n
Then write your vision down.\u00a0 Seek confirmation of it through your<\/em> pastor.\u00a0 Stand by, for somewhere along the way the prophet will also bring clear confirmation.\u00a0 As you write it down, begin to make it clear and brief; it now becomes the slogan<\/em> for your life.\u00a0 It becomes a passion; it is all you see and want to talk about.\u00a0 Now it is time to let the Spirit of God give you the strategy (method) to make your dream<\/em> become reality.<\/h6>\n
Your vision<\/em> has arrived.\u00a0 You know who you are and what God\u2019s purpose is for your life.\u00a0 As Paul explained, we all have our specific lane on the track in the race of life; others are also running, but you are running the race that God has set before you.\u00a0 With this vision, you now have direction and are equipped to lead your ministry.<\/h6>\n
Just a word about what vision is not: Vision is more than a strategy or a method or even a plan.\u00a0 God anoints vision; it is through vision that the anointing comes upon the plan, strategy, or method.\u00a0 This is why you can go to a conference and learn about someone\u2019s successful strategy and hurry home to try this fantastic idea, only to find that it does not work.\u00a0 When you just copy someone else\u2019s plan, method, or strategy without having the vision, there is no anointing; it is like trying to bake a cake in a cold oven.\u00a0 It worked for him because it was his<\/em> vision that provided the anointing upon the strategy that gave him the blessed results.<\/h6>\n
There are no anointed strategies or methods outside of a God-given vision.\u00a0 Do not start your ministry based upon a popular strategy, but rather begin your ministry with God-given vision that is based upon your God-given purpose in life.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to Get Vision Habakkuk 2:2, “Then the\u00a0Lord\u00a0answered me and said: \u201cWrite the\u00a0vision and make\u00a0it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.” \u00a0Vision is the awareness of God\u2019s purpose for your life ministry.\u00a0 God is a God of purpose (reason, cause, plan, and strategy).\u00a0 Nothing has or will ever be done by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[20,21,22],"class_list":["post-100105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","tag-college","tag-diploma","tag-student"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100466,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100105\/revisions\/100466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}