{"id":100116,"date":"2019-01-17T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/how-to-turn-education-into-success\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:39:48","slug":"how-to-turn-education-into-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/?p=100116","title":{"rendered":"How to Distinguish Vision from Strategies, Plans, and Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Vision comes from God and has to do with <em>purpose<\/em>.\u00a0 It is greater than what you do or how you are to do something.\u00a0 Vision is the announcement of <em>why<\/em> you live; it portrays your destiny in life.\u00a0 Vision is a passion that does not pale.\u00a0 Strategies, plans, and methods come and go; vision is indelible.\u00a0 Vision is like a craftsman, and the strategies, plans, and methods are just the tools in his hand.\u00a0 The craftsman\u2019s tools wear out and are replaced.\u00a0 A strategy, plan, or method without vision is like a borrowed tool; it does not make you a craftsman.<\/h6>\n<h6>Strategies, plans, and methods are rarely anointed outside of God-given vision.\u00a0 By themselves, they are no more effective than your recording of a $500 deposit into your checkbook without actually making the deposit.\u00a0 It just generates confusion.<\/h6>\n<h6>On the other hand, if someone just rambles on about a so-called vision but never accomplishes anything, he is either deceived or lazy.\u00a0 God never awards vision without adequate strategy and passion to accomplish it.<\/h6>\n<h6>\u00a0 Vision is personal and subject to the will of God.\u00a0 God\u2019s will always has a proper time, place, and person and cannot be delegated; on the other hand, strategies are always impersonal and can be delegated.\u00a0 Vision is like the horizon, ever in front of you, but never reached; strategy is like the vehicle that carries you toward the horizon.\u00a0 If you can fulfill your vision within your lifetime, then it is not your vision; it is simply a task (step) within your vision.<\/h6>\n<h6>\u00a0<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Vision comes from God and has to do with purpose.\u00a0 It is greater than what you do or how you are to do something.\u00a0 Vision is the announcement of why you live; it portrays your destiny in life.\u00a0 Vision is a passion that does not pale.\u00a0 Strategies, plans, and methods come and go; vision is [&hellip;]<\/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-100116","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\/100116","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=100116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100467,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100116\/revisions\/100467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtischoolofministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}