Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision

Our study will center around the life and vision of Nehemiah. Several things make his story particularly relevant to our modern-day situation. The one I find most encouraging is that there are no overt miracles associated with his story. This is a tale of hard work, prayer, and (behind the scenes) divine intervention. Nothing out of the ordinary he

Vision will prioritize your values. A clear vision has the power to bring what’s most important to the surface of your schedule and lifestyle. A clear vision makes it easy to weed out of your life those things that stand in the way of achieving what matters most. Vision empowers you to move purposefully in a predetermined direction. Once you have c

Just as you cannot rush the development of a child in the womb, so we cannot rush the development of a vision. God determines the schedule for both. Acting too quickly on a vision is like delivering a baby prematurely. They are always weak. And in some cases a preemie cannot survive the rigors of life outside the womb. So it is with a vision. Immat

A clear vision, along with the courage to follow through, dramatically increases your chances of coming to the end of your life, looking back with a deep abiding satisfaction, and thinking, I did it. I succeeded. I finished well. My life counted.

Building Block #4: God is using your circumstances to position and prepare you. Building Block #5: What God originates, he orchestrates. Building Block #6: Walk before you talk; investigate before you initiate. Building Block #7: Communicate your vision as a solution to a problem that must be addressed now. Building Block #8: Cast your vision to th

Building Block #10: Don’t confuse your plans with God’s vision. Building Block #11: Visions are refined—they don’t change; plans are revised—they rarely stay the same. Building Block #12: Respond to criticism with prayer, remembrance, and if necessary, a revision of the plan. Building Block #13: Visions thrive in an environment of unity; they die i

A vision begins as a concern.

Everybody ends up somewhere in life. A few people end up somewhere on purpose. Those are the ones with vision.

Building Block #16: There is divine potential in all you envision to do. Building Block #17: The end of a God-ordained vision is God. Building Block #18: Maintaining a vision requires adherence to a set of core beliefs and behaviors. Building Block #19: Visions require constant attention. Building Block #20: Maintaining a vision requires bold leade