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As you start, by the grace of God, to rebuild the walls, you must first of all see the ruin in which they lie. Vision is a reflection of what God wants to through us to impact the world. It is not about maintaining the status quo.
Living where we live, we can become comfortable. We can lose sight of the need. Do you see the needs that are around you? This is a hemorrhaging and hurting world.
There are broken hearts, fractured families or lives. Do you see the brokenness of humanity? People are looking for meaning and value and turn to heart-breaking things.
A VISIONARY PERSON SEES THE NEED AND FEEL THE NEED
Nehemiah 1: 4
There is no such thing as emotionless vision.
4 “ When I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.”
He mourned because the city that was meant to be a light to the nations had become an international joke (Isaiah 42:6-7; 49:6).
Nehemiah was so moved by the need that he refused to eat—at least on a regular basis.
Nehemiah knew how to weep with those who weep. He knew how to weep over the failures of the people of God.
It was one thing to know that state of affairs in a general way; it was quite another for Nehemiah to feel the pressure and burden of it in his own heart.
Visions are born in the soul of a man or a woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be. Anyone with vision will tell you this is not merely something that could be done. This is something that should be done. This is something that must happen!
What makes you pound the table – angry? What makes you weep?
Nehemiah was not the last to weep over Jerusalem—one day our Lord sat on the slopes of Mt. Olivet and wept over that city, and mourned and prayed and sacrificed His life for it. Life’s work for God has only begun when they have wept and mourned and fasted and prayed over the revelation of conditions as they really are.
You never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your heart and made you feel deep sorrow about the needs around you.
You have first to sit down and weep over the ruins in your soul, in your church, and in the Kingdom of God. Although nearly half the population says their faith was a CONTINUE PG