Vision

A couple of Fisherman hired a Sea Plane to drop them by a remote lake, then return in seven days to pick them up. On the sixth day the fisherman caught a monster fish. At the appointed time, the pilot arrived and loaded the Fishers and their gear in the plane. "Wait a minute," said the first fisherman. "What about our fish?" "Sorry," said the pilot. "We're at maximum weight already."

"But our pilot last year loaded our fish, and he had the same size plane as this one."

"Really?" asked the pilot, not wanting to be outdone. "Well, I guess we could give it a try."

With that he strapped a giant fish across the wings. They sputtered to the end of the lake to get the longest possible takeoff. He shoved the throttle forward; they began to move, and finally, they lifted off the lake, just skimming the trees. But the pilot was right. They were seriously overloaded, and crashed just minutes into the flight.

Both fishermen were knocked unconscious, but came to at about the same time. The first fisherman looked around at the mess, fish and plane parts everywhere.

"Where are we?" he asked his partner.

"About 50 yards from where we crashed last year."

Doing things the way we've always done them insures that we'll continue to get the results we've always gotten. Successful people are willing to change with the times. People who cannot or will not change, run the risk of extinction.

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible"

Jonathan Swift

•The enemy will try to bring complacency

• The enemy will try to bring calamity

• The enemy will try to bring criticism

• The enemy will try to bring confusion

• The enemy will try to bring cockiness

2 Corinthians 10

3-6The world is unprincipled. It's dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn't fight fair. But we don't live or fight our battles that way—never have and never will. The tools of our trade aren't for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity.

The men of Issachar were an important component of David's team. They possessed three exceptional and essential qualities. They "understood the times" - they were men of accurate perception and penetrating analysis.

They "knew what Israel should do" - they were gifted with vision, and shaped their vision into a coherent strategy.

If you have to describe the mission of Jesus in one word what would you say?

A wealthy philanthropist once offered to telegraph one of the founder of the Salvation Army William Booth’s sermon worldwide. Booth excitedly accepted the offer. There’s one stipulation. The philanthropist cautioned “Your sermon can only be one word long” General booth was quick to comply. Here is the master piece one word sermon of Booth “Others” What a fantastic message. William Booth took Paul’s words to Philippians seriously.

Philippians 2:4-11

“Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”