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Have you ever noticed that often times when God speaks we pay close attention to it at the time, but as time passes it is important to keep it in front of you and ask the Lord to reveal more. But more than that, it is important to act upon what He has spoken or revealed. We often have a role to play and need to align or in some cases realign ourselves up with what He has spoken.
Write down this vision.
Write it clearly on tablets, so that anyone who reads it may run (Habakkuk 2:2 The Voice).
Just ask Habakkuk was entrusted to write down what was being told to him, we need to do the same. When we seek God for a word for the year, or ask Him to speak to us about decisions we need to make or what’s to come, we need to record and write down what He says. But we need to go beyond just writing things out. We need to keep it in front of us and often times we need to take action based on what is released or revealed to us.
So, for the next several weeks, I am going to break down portions of the Prophetic Word for 2020 I released publicly, corporately, and posted here on the blog on January 2, 2020.
If you haven’t had the opportunity to read it, you can find it by clicking here. Or on the image below.
This is week #5 of “Digging Deeper” into what the Lord placed on my heart for 2020.
If you missed last week’s post you can read it by clicking the image below:
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Restore & Renew Your Vision
When electricity was first being introduced in a little Scottish village almost everybody in a particular church switched from propane lanterns to electricity just as soon as it could be hooked up. However, the oldest couple in the congregation couldn’t get their electricity because they were waiting for the poles to go up and the wires to be strung. They continued using the propane lanterns.
The day finally arrived for them to bring electricity to their home. Everyone came for the festive event. The man waited for it get extra dark and then told his wife to go turn on the switch. When she did, the light filled the room and everyone rejoiced.
The man grinned from ear to ear, picked up the propane lamp and said, “It sure makes lighting my lamps easier.” And with that he lit a lamp and his wife turned off the electricity.[1]
What?!?
While this story may give us a good laugh, the truth is, we sometimes are like this couple and do a similar thing. When God illuminates or sheds light on things in our own life, we have the choice to ignore it, or reject it and stay set in our ways. We may like things as they are and don’t see there is a need to change, fix, or do something new. But God is calling us to renew, restore, and fix them.
“Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19
A portion of the word for 2020 I released was this:
Voice and Vision
Clear vision and a strong voice are essential in this season. God is restoring and renewing vision this year. Vision to dream again. Vision to see the unseen, to see past the natural and current reality and into the spiritual which is the truth of Kingdom reality. This is the year of the voice! The time is now to begin boldly proclaiming the things God has been showing you. Sing O Barren One – Let your voice burst forth. Let your voice be heard in the Heavenlies as you call forth and declare the promises God has given you and what he is showing you. Dreams are awaking and Hope is Rising in this season.
Isaiah 43 finds the Israelites in captivity once again, but as they cried out, God heard them and was about to deliver them. Before He did however, He didn’t want them dwelling on the way He saved them in the past, or on the bad things that they (Israelites) always tended to focus on anyway. Because if they did, then they would miss what God was about to do. This was a new time, a new desert, a new exodus for His people.
The past miracles were nothing compared to what He wanted to do then and what He wants to do in the future. God was asking the Israelites to re-focus and renew their vision. And …
He’s asking the same thing of us today. The process of refocusing and renewing brings about a restoration process in our lives. It gives us the ability to dream again and hope for the possibilities of what’s to come. When we are filled with hope, it increases our faith to believe for things we cannot see in the natural.
The process of refocusing and renewing brings restoration in our lives. Click To Tweet
We also can get stuck in today or even the past by focusing on all that went wrong, or by focusing on how great it was. Reliving our “glory days” and all that went right is as much a trap as focusing on all the negative things. Whether good or bad, don’t miss what God wants to do today and, in the days, to come by dwelling on them.
In December of 2017 as I was pressing in to seek God for a word for 2018, I woke from a dream where I clearly heard the Lord say:
“The enemy is trying to rob My people of their vision in this season and what’s to come in their lives.” (You can read that word by clicking here)
The enemy doesn’t change his tactics, and he is trying to do the same thing today in 2020. Our spiritual vision is just as essential as our natural vision.
Our spiritual vision is just as essential as our natural vision. Click To Tweet
Vision in the dictionary means: the faculty or state of being able to see. The ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom.
Vision is all about seeing clearly – seeing far – seeing fully (20/20 vision) – no hindrances. Not just for ourselves, but for others.
Our vision is tied directly to our faith. The Bible says it is impossible to please God without faith. (Hebrews 11:6 ) And faith is believing in those things we can not see. (Hebrews 11:1)
If we are going to navigate all the future holds, and succeed in our spiritual walk with the Lord, we must understand this important truth:
We cannot live on yesterday’s faith and provision. We can’t even live on the feelings and provision of today. God wants to do a NEW THING!!!!
Can you see it?
Don’t allow the limitations of what you see in the natural to hinder you from receiving what God wants to do today and in the future.
Ask God to show you the Kingdom reality and truth and how it differs from what you see in the natural.
God renew, restore and refresh our vision today!
Prayer
Lord I don’t want to miss what You are doing in my life. I don’t want to live in the past or even yesterday. Holy Spirit breathe fresh on me and give me a new revelation – show me the areas in my life where I have been living on yesterday’s faith and provision. Refresh and Renew me. Refresh, restore, and renew my vision to see You and what You are doing. Show me Your Kingdom reality and adjust my eyes to see Your truth from this kingdom perspective and not what I see in the natural. Lord, open my eyes to see. Take me to a new level of faith – I receive the NEW THING you are doing in my life!
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Deb, what a word the Lord gave you for 2020. He desperately wants us to be Kingdom dwellers – because everything in the natural is so hard and bleak. I keep checking my spiritual eyes and ears – I don’t want to miss a thing this year. He is definitely doing a new thing – isn’t He?
It was indeed a huge word for 2020. I don’t want to miss a thing either, especially at this time and in this strange season we are in. He is for sure doing a new thing. Blessings
Debbie, I love the story you shared of the Scottish couple. It illustrates so well how hard it is to change!
I don’t want to miss any of the changes the Lord has in mind for me this season. He has certainly gotten my attention!
Thank you Jerralea! I thought the story was a good one. I don’t want to miss anything in this season either. Blessings
Great story. It really helped make the point!
Thank you! Blessings
Thank you for this reminder that God doesn’t speak to us so that we can say, “Oh, that was a good word!” and then move on with life as is. His Words to us must become a part of us, must transform us and we must diligently focus and feed on them as well as act and obey on them in order for that to happen.
You are most welcome Elizabeth. I too needed the reminder of that one too. Obedience is a top priority. I recently read a quote from Watchman Nee that said, followers of Christ shouldn’t be called believers we should instead me called obeyers. 🙂 Blessings