Fulfillment of

Your Vision!
 

Don't Give Up
        on
 Your Vision!

     Sometimes we can take for granted what it was like for Mary when she was informed by the angel Gabriel that she was going to have a baby and He would be the Savior, the Son of the Most High, Jesus.  How wonderful!  How exciting!

     But remember, Mary was existing in the real world.  She wasn’t transported to heaven to have this wonderful event happen.  She had to live on this earth and experience the hardships and misunderstandings that arose.

     Mary was engaged to the man Joseph and now all of a sudden she was pregnant.  So when he found out, he was going to annul the engagement.  But an angel appeared to him in a dream and said that the baby she was having was a fulfillment of the vision of God to save the people and reconcile them to Him through His Son.  So Joseph embraced that vision as his and he married her.

     Then Mary had to endure the days of being pregnant and uncomfortable.  When they had to travel to another city to register their household according to a law, she had to make that long arduous trip.

     All of this is very human stuff happening.  She wasn’t in a supernatural bubble where she didn’t feel the difficulties and hardships of life.  She had to deal with the days of drudgery just as we do when we’re waiting for our vision to be fulfilled.  But we have to do as Mary did.

     All that time, all those months, she didn’t give up on her vision.  As soon as she found out she was going to have Baby Jesus, she said to the angel, Be it done to me.  (Ref. Luke 1:38.)  She was saying, “This vision will be fulfilled for me!”  She was going to stay with it until it was complete.

     Then after she had Baby Jesus, she and Joseph took Him to the temple.  That very day, the Holy Spirit had prompted a man named Simeon to go to the temple because he was about to see his vision happen.  It had been revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Messiah come to earth.

     When he saw the parents bring in Jesus, he took Him up in his arms and praised and thanked God.  It was a tremendous day for that man.  But think of all the days up to that time.  The days when Simeon knew he had been promised he would see the Messiah before he died.  Yet time was passing.  He was getting older.  Still, the vision had not come to pass.  We know the feeling!

     But instead of existing in drudgery and giving up on his vision, Simeon kept it alive.  Because he did, he saw the fulfillment for which he had been waiting.  He actually held the Son of God in his arms and was able to bless Him and prophesy over Him.  (Ref. Luke 2.)

     Oh, when you keep your vision alive, even in the days of drudgery and hardship and misunderstanding, then you can experience the tremendous day of fulfillment.  It will come to pass just as you have been promised.  Just as Mary held the vision of her baby in her arms and Simeon held his vision of the Messiah in his arms, one day you will hold your fulfilled vision in your arms.

     The vision you have for your health, your family, your work, the vision you have for your talents and abilities, your spiritual development, the vision to see that issue resolved, that project complete, that position obtained, or to have a home, and to see the goodness of God.
     Until the day when you see it come to pass, nurture the vision.
     Feed yourself the Word of God.
     Pray in the Spirit.
     Speak about your vision.
     Watch for the day of fulfillment.

     It’s coming.  It may seem as if conditions are too bad.  Events are happening that make it seem as if your vision will die.  But you can keep it alive by your faith.  You know it’s true.  God spoke it to you, and you know that He will fulfill it.  Keep that uppermost in your mind and heart.  That will help energize you and give you a desire to go on until you see it completed.

     Allow God to take you out of the drudgery and refresh that vision in you.  You’re ready and energized for the fulfillment.  You recognize the importance of it for your life.  Some amazing things are going to happen.  God is going to bless you and bring it to pass.  So don’t give up on your vision.

 
A Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:

“MY VISION WILL BE FULFILLED!”

  Here is a powerful prayer
              to say out loud:                     

     God, I thank You that on the days that seem like drudgery and I don’t see my vision fulfilled, I still can have faith in Your promise.  You will fulfill all the visions You’ve given me for my life.  That’s because I believe in You.  I believe what You have spoken to my heart.  So one day I will hold that vision in my arms as I see it fulfilled.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen.