PLAN, PURPOSE AND PURSUIT: ENVISION IN FAITH – BEFORE EMBARKING ON ANY MISSION!
God’s PLANS and INTENTS for us is always for the good and best anytime, anywhere, anyhow and anyway; but many times we’ve FAILED in our mission to excel and be established in life because our mission has not got CLEARANCE – a clear cut VISION – from the start and sometimes through the course of that mission we’ve embarked on. It’s wise to ENVISION – plan before launching out on any project.
Where there’s no envision PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT before a mission is embarked on, not only that PEOPLE PERISH, other resource in used for that mission, such as – MATERIAL, FINANCE, TIME and EFFORT are also wasted; consequently, the expected intent damaged, destroyed and probably the end or death of such project.
The horse, that is, RESOURCE for mission needs to be PREPARED with a clear cut vision before that mission is embarked upon in order to be FULFILLED and have an EXCELLENT result at the end of the day.
“The HORSE is PREPARED against the DAY of BATTLE: but SAFETY is of the Lord” (Proverbs 21:31).
This consciousness is APPLICABLE to any phase in life but not limited – for example:
** A Student needs to envision what course to study before sourcing the books to enhance such career, otherwise, the diligent effort of study on a course with wrong books will be a waste at the end of the day.
** A person that’s leaved the house to the shopping Centre AIMLESSLY, that is, with unplanned expending on the only amount of money that’s available for the needful – which supposedly for now, the needful is to buy groceries to prepare meal for the lovely kids. Such a person will only end up buying the item’s that’s not needed – such as clothing, shoes and such like; and upon returning home to meet hungry kids awaiting food on the table – but none. Such behaviour happens among people all the time – in business, relationship, governance, leadership, career and such like.
Therefore I say to you – ‘ENVISION BEFORE EMBARKING ON ANY MISSION’ – it saves one in not expending unwisely these three resources of doing life and living godly: TIME, MONEY and EFFORT.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“Moreover THE WORD of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, WHAT SEEST (ENVISION) THOU? And I said, I SEE (ENVISION) a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well SEEN (ENVISION): for I will hasten MY WORD to PERFORM it” Jeremiah 1:11-12 (Emphasis Mine).
“Where there is NO VISION, the people PERISH: but he that KEEPETH the law, HAPPY is he” (Proverbs 29:18).
“The HORSE is PREPARED against the day of battle: but SAFETY is of the Lord” (Proverbs 21:31).
“The PLANS and REFLECTIONS of the heart BELONG to man, But the [wise] ANSWER of the tongue is from the Lord. 2 All the ways of a man are clean and innocent in his own eyes [and he may see nothing wrong with his actions], But the Lord WEIGHS and EXAMINES the MOTIVES and INTENTS [of the heart and knows the truth]. 3 COMMIT your WORKS to the Lord [SUBMIT and TRUST them to Him], And your PLANS will SUCCEED [if you respond to His will and guidance] . . .9 A man’s mind PLANS his way [as he journeys through life], But the Lord DIRECTS his steps and ESTABLISHES them” Proverbs 16:1-3, 9 (Amplified).
“. . . How can one enter into a STRONG man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he FIRST BIND the strong man? and then he will SPOIL his house” (Matthew 12:29).
“And say to Archippus, TAKE HEED TO THE MINISTRY which thou hast RECEIVED in the Lord, that thou FULFIL it.” (Colossians 4:17).
“For I know the THOUGHTS that I think toward you, saith the Lord, THOUGHTS of peace, and not of evil, to GIVE you an EXPECTED end.” (Jeremiah 29:11).
REV CHUKIE MORSI
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