Write Your Vision

A few days ago, I was listening to a message from Pst. Joel Osteen titled Write Your Vision. His message made me reflect on the times I had written down a vision without knowing how I would achieve it. One thing I recall him saying was that one way you know your vision is from God when you have no clue how to go about it.

In July 2020, I had a vision to embark on an MBA. In a random conversation with my colleague at the time, Sikemi, and as I think about it, I have no idea how the topic of my MBA came up, she reminded me of Hab. 2:2-3. Thank God I listened! I didn’t have the funds and applied for student loans to the point that I remember one emailing me to say I should stop applying. As Joel Osteen said, when God gives you a vision He gives you the provision. Jan. 2022, I started the MBA, and all through, God provided the funds for my MBA without any student loan! Imagine if I hadn’t written it down, I would have given up after a while. But because I did, when my faith was re-ignited thanks to a message that told me to do it afraid (wrote a post about it here), I was able to read it and run with it.

As we are wont to do at the start of a year, we write down our goals. In Jan. 2022, before I started my MBA program, I wrote down that I’d finish my MBA with a distinction. There were times when it seemed like it wouldn’t happen, but because I had obeyed Hab. 2:2 and written down the vision, I could read it as I ran. In March 2023, my results came out and I finished with a distinction! Glory to God. No matter how impossible your vision may seem, I charge you to write it down! “God will do amazing things if you simply write the vision”- Joel Osteen. That way, you can refer back to it even when it seems to be moving farther away.

During service, my pastor reminded me of Ps. 18:29 (NKJV), a lovely verse that stuck with me from the moment I read it: “For by You I can run against a troop, by my God I can leap over a wall”. Another verse you can hold to heart is Zech. 4:7 (NKJV): Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”. Insert your name in place of Zerubbabel’s. God is faithful to His word, find a word and stand on it, till your vision becomes a reality (Is. 55:11, I Cor. 1:9 AMPC)! As Hab. 2:3 assures us, it will come to pass.

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Sage Onomsky’s Musings- The Edge of Breakthrough

One often gets something to reflect on when reading the Bible or a new revelation. So I thought I’d start sharing these thoughts with you in a series I call Sage Onomsky’s musings (cue the trumpets 😊). If you don’t know, I read a devotional titled “Walk through the bible” which does exactly that on a daily basis.

I’m currently in the book of Numbers, take it from me, it isn’t an easy book to read at first. The focus for Day 45 was Numbers 13 – 16, starting with when Moses sent the twelve spies to explore the land of Canaan (Num. 13:1 – 3). We all know the report ten of them came back with (Num. 13:25-29), and because of ten people, a nation of over 600,000 people failed at the edge of their breakthrough.

“Now turn around, and don’t go on toward the land where the Amalekites and Canaanites live. Tomorrow you must set out for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.” Numbers 14:25 NLT

The Israelites were at the edge of the promised land (Num. 13), but because of their unbelief, they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years (Num. 14:3, 11 & 34). Is your unbelief stopping you from entering the Promised Land? Take an audit of yourself to find out; if it is, ask God for forgiveness. Remember, to please God, you must live by faith (Heb. 11:6). That is the charge! God's word is reliable, trust in Him (Num. 23:19).