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BY PRINCE UFFORD.
HEBREWS 12:2. Looking unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith: who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
HABAKKUK 2:1-3. I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I reproved. And the Lord answered me, and said write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 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.
*Know your vision or purpose.
*Write the vision, purpose down
*Move with your vision, purpose.
*Run with the vision, purpose based on your knowledge.
*Understand the vision, purpose.
*The appointed time- meaning the season for manifestation.
*Wait through faith, believe to see the glory.
*PAIN IS THE PRINCIPLE CHARACTER OF
VISION.
*NO vision without hard road.
*no vision without moment of discouragement.
*no vision without making mistakes sometimes from the start.
*no vision without the question why
*no vision without sad moments of fear and failure.
*no greatness without pain. You will face strong opposition which is to challenge your faith and believe.
*no vision without storms to sink the boat.
*in every dream, vision, idea you have, the presence of darkness is there.
PROVERBS 24:10. IF YOU FAINT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY, THY STRENGTH IS SMALL.
*Vision places order on you, vision will discipline you. Pain reveals the true character. For gold to be gold it must first go through fire of refining process to bring out its real beauty.
*WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM WENT THROUGH THE PAIN. THE LORD SAID TO ME THERE IS NO VISION WITHOUT PAIN.
*HEBREWS 5:8-9. Though He was a SON, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered: And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him.
*PHILIPPIANS2:5-8. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God :But made Himself ofno reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
*ROMANS 8:18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
*no vision without persecution and disappointment. If people who are successful today will be honest to tell you truely the pain, shame, moments of sorrows, you will be happy to go through the pain.
*He SAW THE GLORY A HEAD.HE DECIDED TO GO THROUGH IT. Somebody said be faithful at the training class. The friend you are expecting to help you with ten naira will disappoint you, he must have promised to assist you with some money to start the business. You feel the pain ofdisappointment,discouragemen t.The statement will be I am sorry. Moments like this will always come.
*Ifyou faint in the time of disappointment, it is because men are your source. One time, the Lord said unto me do not feel bad when you (I am) are disappointed, they are helping me to look up to Him. One thing we must understand here is God might show a vision to you which is His plan for your Life. It might not be for today, the vision will come to pass in ten years time,but you have started running with it now. In every vision,or business, the first requirement is Spiritual and Natural preparation. Study the vision, understand the vision.
*In Genesis 15:13-14. And He said unto Abram, know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them: and they shall afflict them four hundred years: and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: AFTERWARD SHALLTHEY COME OUT WITH GREAT SUBSTANCE. God said they will go through pain first, there after comes the blessings. Before you start building, foundation comes first. Foundation is your time of preparation for success. No vision without pain.
*2CORIN4:8. WE ARE TROUBLE ON EVERY SIDE. If you experience pain in the course of the vision it is normal, its common.
*WHAT IS THE REWARD OF PAIN?
* you are made strong inwardly with new strength daily to keep you on naturally. The pain of discouragement can make you give up the vision.
*IN 1KINGS 19:3-8. And when He saw that, he arose, and when for his Life, and came to Berrsheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under juniper tree :and requested for himself that he might die:and said, it is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life: for I am not better than my fathers. And as he lay and sleep under a juniper tree, behold then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. And he looked, and behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head, and he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him and said, Arise and eat :because the journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty night unto Horeb the mountain of God.
*Discouragement made him to requst for death which God refused to grant him. He was discouraged, long journey, he was hungry. Instead of him to ask for food, he asked for death . God knew he was weak, heaven made food available to him.
*Through this food he received restoration of strength to continue with the assignment which God gave to him. Elijah ran away leaving the servant behind. God met with him, and asked him what he was doing there? By the time he finished telling his story He just told him to returned to where he left to continue with the work. Elijah felt the pain of frustration on Him, he was lonely with nobody to encourage Him. David encouraged himself in the Lord. He boldly told God I am not better than my Fathers kill me. God showed mercy on him.
* Don’t ask God to take away your Life because He will not, your Life belongs to Him. When you are weak as the case may be, ask Him to give you strength. Elijah, I will not kill you because you have not finished your assignment, it is not yet time, Elijah had no choice but to obey the Lord.
*You look successful today in the eyes of men and women, please be kind enough to share with them how you fail, how you were discouraged, how you ran away from your duty post, those sad moment somebody is interested to hear. Late PAPA KENNETH E. HAGIN, LATE ARCHBISHOP BENSON IDAHOSA, I KNOW THEIR STORY,
*Ifyou read their books, the dark moments are written for us to learn. God Almighty had said you will go through fire of refinment, you will pass through rivers but you need strength to swim.To climb a mountain is not cheap, to have children is not cheap.To make money is not cheap. Confession for salvation may be cheap but to remain born again is not cheap.
*Matt 27:46. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? Jesus said Father why you have forsaken me.
*Sometimes when things are not working as it is suppose to according to your expectation, THE QUESTION What is going onpops up. FOLLOWED by I don’t understand. This is not what I saw.
Glory and pain are two friends. Jesus did not become king of salvation through jokes. He actually went through pain as a man. What He saw kept Him going, yet He focused on the glory. He went through pain.
*HEBREWS 2:9. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that He by grace of God should taste death for every man.
In every vision, dream, purpose, idea there is glory.
*HEBREWS 6:12.That ye be not slotful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Jesus at the garden of Gethsemane cried out to the Father, this is your will, not my will. Why have you forsaken. moments like this will come to every one living on earth.
WHAT IS THE REWARD OF PAIN?
*start your Success process through faith because you have understanding of your vision. Humble yourself to go through the pain, learn through the pain. All these play a vital role in your vision, development and preparation for success.
CONSIDER HIM WHO WENT THROUGH SUCH MOMENT OF PAIN, LESS YOU BECOME DISCOURAGED AND FAINT IN YOUR HEART. CONSIDER! CONSIDER!! CONSIDER!!!.