Speaker 1: There are actually three parts when God gives you a vision.
Speaker 1: There's the what, and there's the how, and there's the when.
Speaker 1: And how god fulfills the vision is never the way
Speaker 1: I thought. We have been in a time of great
Speaker 1: uncertainty for two years twenty twenty twenty. We want in
Speaker 1: many ways, we've been in limbo. You know. We just
Speaker 1: couldn't get on. We couldn't get out. Every time we
Speaker 1: thought it looks like the COVID's going down, we'd have
Speaker 1: another flare up and stuff like that. And a lot
Speaker 1: of pastors and a lot of ministry leaders have asked me, well,
Speaker 1: a lot of them have been discouraged. And I've talked
Speaker 1: so many pastors out of quitting in the last two
Speaker 1: years as a pastor to pastor, and they'll call me
Speaker 1: on this, and I said, you know what, some there
Speaker 1: is a time for vision, and there's a time to
Speaker 1: not have a vision. Wow. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes three,
Speaker 1: there's a time and purpose for everything, you know, time
Speaker 1: to time to dance and mourn, time to celebrate. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a time to share a vision and there's a
Speaker 1: time to not share vision. During the past two years,
Speaker 1: it has not been a time to share vision because
Speaker 1: you need to focus on the hurts of the people themselves.
Speaker 1: People right now are burnt out. If you have a
Speaker 1: car battery and you attach one light bulb to it,
Speaker 1: it'll last a long time. If you attach two light
Speaker 1: bulbs to it, it burn out in half the time.
Speaker 1: Four light bulbs dies in a quarter of the time.
Speaker 1: You don't have one light bulb draining you. You have
Speaker 1: multiple things in your life that are going on, and
Speaker 1: with chronic stress and chronic trauma, which this pandemic and
Speaker 1: all the other things related to it have happened. People
Speaker 1: don't realize that if they get up in the morning,
Speaker 1: they've had a good night's sleep, and two hours into
Speaker 1: the day they're going, man, I'm exhausted. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: human race. Wow, that's the way everybody feels right now.
Speaker 1: There is not a person listening to us on TB
Speaker 1: and right now that has the same amount of energy
Speaker 1: they had two years ago. Wow. That's just the nature
Speaker 1: of trauma. It's the nature of chronic stress and chronic change.
Speaker 1: People are up to here in change. Okay, So in
Speaker 1: a time of uncertainty, we are not in a time
Speaker 1: of stability. Things are changing rapidly all the time. First place,
Speaker 1: let me just say a word about vision. Vision is
Speaker 1: a responsibility of leader. The first rule. First job of
Speaker 1: a leader is to clarify and communicate the vision of
Speaker 1: the organization, the family, the ministry, the business, the church.
Speaker 1: That's the first job of leadership. Communicate and clarify the vision.
Speaker 1: But timing is as important a vision as having the vision.
Speaker 1: A prematurely shared vision will be stillborn. A premature vision
Speaker 1: can can die really quickly. I could give you examples
Speaker 1: from forty two years in my own life of where
Speaker 1: I shared something too soon, wow, and it died quickly
Speaker 1: the time. There are actually three parts when God gives
Speaker 1: you a vision. There's the what, and there's the how,
Speaker 1: and there's the when. Okay, all three parts. You have
Speaker 1: to wait for all three parts of the vision. So
Speaker 1: if someone's lifting listening right now and they're going, what's
Speaker 1: God's vision for my family, What's God's vision for my business,
Speaker 1: What's God's vision for my church? What's God's vision for
Speaker 1: my ministry? God always gives it in three parts. First,
Speaker 1: he tells you what he's going to do. Okay, and
Speaker 1: that's the fun part. You get the Oh, here's what
Speaker 1: I'm going to do in your life. Then we run
Speaker 1: out and try to accomplish it any way we think
Speaker 1: is best and we fall flat on our faces and
Speaker 1: we come back and we say, God, did I miss
Speaker 1: the vision? Because now I came it A was right.
Speaker 1: You just didn't wait for part two. And that's how
Speaker 1: I'm going to fulfill the vision. And how God fulfills
Speaker 1: the vision is never the way I thought. Wow, it's
Speaker 1: never ever the way that I thought he was going
Speaker 1: to do it. So God will give you a vision.
Speaker 1: You get a movie project and you think this is
Speaker 1: what God's vision is for. And then we go out
Speaker 1: and we try to do it, but God's going wait,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait for part two. I'm going to
Speaker 1: do it. How is the difference? And then finally you
Speaker 1: have to wait for the most important part, and that's
Speaker 1: the win, and that's the timing. God's timing is perfect.
Speaker 1: He's never too early, he's never too late. For the
Speaker 1: last two years twenty twenty twenty twenty one, we have
Speaker 1: been in God's waiting room. We've been the whole church
Speaker 1: and the whole world. It's almost like you know when
Speaker 1: your kids are younger and you say, okay, everybody's got
Speaker 1: a bad attitude. Go to your room. Everybody, take a
Speaker 1: time out. It's like God said, okay, world, your attitude sucks.
Speaker 1: Go to your room, take a time out, and take
Speaker 1: a time out. Now, when we come back together, when
Speaker 1: this thing goes down, and when the things actually God
Speaker 1: does not want us to simply resume the old ways
Speaker 1: we did it. This is a chance for a reset,
Speaker 1: got it. This is a chance for a reboot. God
Speaker 1: doesn't say, let's just go back to do it the
Speaker 1: way we used to do it. Every church would be
Speaker 1: should be saying, okay, what is it we used to
Speaker 1: do and then we stopped doing but we really shouldn't
Speaker 1: start back up again. Okay, we need to stop because
Speaker 1: God wants to do it. Behold, I do a new thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: as Isaiah says, no old wine in the new wine
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. You can't put new wine in old wine skits.
Speaker 1: And so there are new systems, there are new programs,
Speaker 1: there are new ministries. Studies have shown that about sixty
Speaker 1: percent of the people who got laid off don't want
Speaker 1: to go back to their old job. Fine, this is
Speaker 1: an opportunity for you to get a reset in your
Speaker 1: life in that way to get a new job, to
Speaker 1: get a new job exactly, and to go after a
Speaker 1: dream that you haven't you've been afraid to go after.
Speaker 1: And TBN our mission is to use every available means
Speaker 1: to reach as many individuals and families as possible with
Speaker 1: the life changing gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank you for
Speaker 1: helping make the Gospel of Grace go around the world.
Speaker 1: Without you, we couldn't do it. God bless you.