It's important that you know that before you can change your present situation, you've got to look ahead to where you want to be. You can't focus all of your attention on your present circumstances. In other words, you need to know where you're going so you can set your goals for getting there.
"... Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it" (Hab. 2:2).
Write the vision. I don't believe God put that in the Bible for us to over look. The only way to know where you're going is to keep the vision before you.
Anytime the adversary says it will never come to pass, you can pull it out and say, "It is written!" If you're in a leadership role, then everybody involved in what you're doing needs to know the vision. This goes for the head of the family as well. Everybody in that house needs to know the vision. You need to spell it out. "Here's what we're believing God for."
If you don't know where you're headed, then you'll probably wind up somewhere else. Hebrews 11 says that God is an Architect and a Builder. Architects and builders have plans. God didn't just decide one day, "Well, Jerry Savelle is going to be a preacher," and not have a plan. God's had a plan all along. Noah had a plan for the Ark. Moses had a plan for the tabernacle. Solomon had a plan for the temple. And God has a plan for your life.
Every time you read the vision that God has put in your heart, it enables you to run with it. It keeps you focused. It motivates you. It propels you forward. What has God told you to do? What causes you to be motivated, to look forward to rising up each and every day? What puts a dance in your step and a smile on your face? If you haven't had anything like that in years, then it's time to get away with God. You've got to shut yourself away at times, find a place in your house that produces the greatest peace in your life and allow that place to become your prayer closet. Find a place in your house where there's tranquility, and make that "your spot".
Tranquility will keep you creative. In other words, you'll hear the plan of God. Just like Noah, Moses, and Solomon, you'll have a plan.
Once you get it then write it down and run with it. Don't ever give up until it becomes a reality.
Excerpt permission granted by Jerry Savelle Ministries International
Dr. Jerry Savelle was an average, blue-collar man who was struggling and needed God's help. While he considered himself a "nobody," when he became a believer God told him not to worry about it because He was a master at making champions out of nobodies. God has since taken Dr. Savelle from being a constant quitter to a man who knows how to stand on the Word of God until victory is experienced. Because of the life-changing combination of God's faithfulness and Dr. Savelle's "no quit" attitude, his life is totally different than it was thirty-eight years ago.
