Pursuing Your Purpose | Proverbs 29:18 - Where there is no vision, the people perish

[Music] sitting in this building are a lot of people who've got dreams and desires and aspirations and goals but you've never done anything about it I know you want to say men but if you all say Amen together nobody will know that God has held everybody hostage just so I could preach to you this one message about how you can achieve goals I want to ask you a question and that is what is in your life's blueprint this is the most important and crucial period of your lives for what you do now and what you decide now at this age may well determine which way your life shall go what I want to do today is tell you that in order for for me to achieve the things in my life that I've been able to achieve and in order for you to achieve the things in your life that God wants you to achieve you got to have vision you are sitting in the building that didn't happen by osmosis there had to be some plans and there had to be some action proverbs chapter 29 in verse 18 speaks to this verse eighteen of proverbs 29 says this it says is where there is no revelation the people cast off restraint that's the new King James Version I like the King James Version better let me tell you what that says where there is no vision the people perish that's the King James Version I like that better that's how I learned that verse where there is no vision the people perish that's one more to talk to you about today because moving forward requires vision whenever building is constructed you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint and that blueprint serves as the pattern as the guy as the model for those who are to build the building and a building is not well erected without a good sound and solid blueprint now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives and the question is whether you have a proper a solid and a sound blueprint and I want to suggest some of the things that should be in your life's blueprint so I want to take the word vision because I don't want you to continue to perish I don't want you to continue to go nowhere those who are in that situation I'm tired of hearing about your finances are jacked up and they're not getting any better tired of hearing that your marriage is still messed up and you haven't done anything to try to make it get any better Tod and you've been having all this stuff logged up inside of you that you want to do but you ain't done nothing about it going and teaching preach pastor my assignment is to try to knock you upside the head with the two-by-four and make you recognize that the call of God upon your life is for you to do something with all the stuff that he has deposited in you that he means for you to do something where there is no vision vis IO n the people perish vision V stands for visualize you got a visualize there's I'm walking down kids and I'm giving you acronym provision V means visualize you got to be able to see the picture in your mind of what it is and here's the deal I believe that God will plant a seed in your heart of what it is he wants you to do and you got to start beginning to see yourself doing it you got to visualize and I don't get me wrong let me draw a clear distinction I'm not telling you that if you visualize something and if you think hard enough it'll happen I talk about that that's a cultish ain't tell you to anything you dream up in your head it's gonna happen no what I'm saying is when God has something for you excuse me there's a distinction between when you come up with something and when God gives you something that he wants you to do when God puts something inside of you start seeing yourself doing it when I was a young man learning how to preach I never dreamed I would be doing what I'm doing but I started visualizing that maybe God should do something with my life maybe I can see myself preaching to thousands of number one and your life's blueprint you must have as a basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor you're going to be deciding as the days and the years unfold what you will do in life what your life's work will be once you discover what it will be set out to do it and to do it well and I say to you my young friends at doors of opportunity opening to each of you that were not open to your mother's and to your father's and the great challenge facing you is to be ready to enter these doors as they open now here's the deal God wants to move us forward forward in so many areas of our life remove us forward relationally spiritually emotionally financially maritally destiny wise future ministry business whatever gosta size to move us forward but but but but here's what the text says let me let me read it to you again imagine that world and we can have it because people we're the ones we've always been the ones that we've been waiting if the New King James says where there's no revelation the people cast off restraint King James says where there's no vision the people perish here's what it ultimately means is that where there is no sense of vision where there is no sense of a word or revelation from God where there is no message no no no no ability to visualize with God's trying to take you what he's trying to do you you cast off restraints and here's what it means it means that when you have no vision of life when you have no revelation from God of what he wants to do in your life your life just goes anywhere there's no sense of direction no sense of course none of the things that you're doing have any sense of purpose or direction or connectivity you're just all over the place because you have no sense of where God wants you to go Ralph Waldo Emerson the great se has said in a lecture back in 1871 that if the man can write a better book a preacher better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor even if he builds his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door so I would urge you to study hard to burn the midnight oil I would say to you don't drop out of school and I understand a lot of the sociological reason why we often drop out of school but I hurt you in spite of your economic plight in spite of the situation that you are forced to live so often with intolerable conditions stay in school and when you discover what your gonna be in life set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do and just don't set out to do a good job don't set out to be just a good doctor good lawyer good schoolteacher good beautician skill labor or if you set out to do that you have already flunked your matriculation exam for entrance into the university of integration central to do a good job and do that job so-called at the living but dad alone more couldn't do it any better followed your lot to be a streetsweeper sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures sweep streets like Beethoven footfalls music sweep streets like Liam teen pricings before the Metropolitan Opera sweep streets like Shakespeare or poetry sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job where got a visualizer whatever it is wherever you trying to go God will give you a dream you'll plant a seed God is planting season some of you have dismissed it you're throwing it off you never saw yourself in that mode you never believed that you could do it you never saw yourself going in that direction but the reality is God planted the seed in you he's trying to give you a vision he's trying to help you to visualize where it is he can take you and here's what I learned about God if you can picture that you can do it then it's not God but if it's something that's beyond your capacity to do it just might be God on the top of the hill buspar up in the valley but be the best little scrub on the side of the real be a bush if you can't be a tree if you can't be a highway just be a trail if you can't be the Sun be a star what isn't my size that you win are you fail be the best of whatever you are somebody say see yourself see see see you tell your neighbors see yourself put that perception in your mind visualize ah the next word the letter I stands for internalize internalize incorporate embrace it accept see see make it make it you make it personal embrace it as your own don't just imagine the plane taking off and landing but see yourself actually in the cockpit landing the plane see yourself running the business visualize yourself doing everything whatever it is internalize them one of the practices of scriptures when you memorize scripture Isetta when you memorize it instead of saying you and they say me and I internalize it make it applicable to you that's one of the ways you begin to apply scripture to your life that you see yourself in the scripture can I get an amen right there internalize it internal and embrace it and accept it and see yourself in that situation here's a letter s strategize somebody say strategize this is an important point because most folks never go nowhere because they never learn how to do an issue they don't learn how to strategize they just they just think somehow it's gonna happen by osmosis but you gotta strategize you got to come up with a plan you got to have a plan nothing happens without a plan nothing how many of y'all saved me and nothing happens without a plan nothing happens without a plan we already have some noble examples who demonstrated to us that human nature cannot be Catalog new and blazing stars of inspiration from a poverty-stricken area Maren Anderson rolls up to be the world's greatest contralto so that a Toscanini could say that a force like this comes on to once in a century and sibelius of Finland could say my roof is too low for such a horse from the Red Hills of Gordon County Georgia and the harms of a mother who can neither read nor write eat stuff in red Rolin Hayes rolls up to be one of the world's great singers and carried his melodious voice into the palaces and mansions of kings and queens from crippling circumstances there came a George Washington Carver to carve for himself an imperishable niche in the annals of science complexion cannot forfeit nature's claim skin may differ but affection dwells in black and white the same the mind is a standard of the man the mistake that most folks make is you don't sit down and put the energy in to determine step by step by step what it is you need to do to get to where God wants you to be you're just not gonna stumble across it you just not gonna come across and just stumble into it you gotta strategize you got to come up with what steps do I need to take to get there and that's what you got to do matter of fact proverbs 14 says is 14 15 let me read it to you the simple believes every word but the prudent considers well his steps the prudent considers well that stuff the prudent person gives considerations to what steps he needs to take this is what keeps most people from achieving what God wants them to achieve because they don't take the time to do what's necessary to determine what steps you need to take that's a very important thing so I want to challenge you today to come up with a strategy there are things in your life that God wants you to accomplish but you haven't strategize about them I need you to begin to think about what are the things that God has placed in my heart what visions has he given me and what steps do I need to take in order to make it happen amen see you just want stuff to be given to you you want stuff to just happen but I didn't how it happens Amy y'all get out of that welfare mentality of people giving you anything get out of that mentality and get them mentality and get a mindset that God is giving me a mind and gotta giving me hands and God giving me feet and God is giving me a brain and God is giving me the ability to do some things I can do this I don't have to wait for somebody to give me anything I can do this thing strategize the Bible is full of people who came up with strategy Moses had to come up with a strategy to lead the people out of Israel Joshua had to come up with a strategy to conquer the land Nehemiah in rebuilding the wall had to have a strategy you and I need strategies everything that I've done in my life that's worthwhile I had to plan it everything that I had that I've done in my life that's worth anything I had to plan it letter I the junket the V what was that got the eye now that that's another obviously if you're paying attention initiate stop waiting on somebody else to do it proverbs 12:24 says the hand of the diligent will rule the hand of the diligent the person who takes it upon themselves to do what they need to do will rule people always come up to meet about that's the somebody ought to do so and so you do it again stop waiting on somebody else to do what it is God has put in your heart to do take the initiative we don't like taking initiatives we want everybody else to make this make the plan and then do something about it take the initiative stop waiting or somebody else to do it you do it in your life's blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity your own Worth and your own somebody knows don't allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody always feel that you count always feel that you have Worth and always feel that your life has ultimate significance you know there Sunhwa ashamed of themselves don't be ashamed of your color don't be ashamed of your biological features somehow you must be able to say in your own lives and really believe it I am beautiful now in your life's blueprint be sure that you have there a principle of somebody's you gotta initiate some things the hand of the diligent rules there's some things you got to do yourself I know back home coming offer you a job you got to apply for the job take the initiatives take the lead God told Noah God said no it's gonna rain and I want you to build an ark and God gave to Noah the plans for the mark no one could have said it's gonna rain I wonder who will build orange you could have walked around and see if he could have hired a contractor to build an ark or he could have done a lot of things but he gathered the wood and he built the ark that's the thing I'm trying to tell you there are some visions that God has placed inside of you and in order for the vision to be fulfilled there are some things you are going to have to do and you got to take the initiative to do it and he build on it took them 120 years some of y'all never get started because it's gonna take a long time to do it so what starts somewhere it might take a year might take five years but you gotta start somewhere you know what I discovered about God you take one step and he'll take to it can I get a Amen does anybody here know did if you make an effort God will come alongside you and you'll stop opening up doors and making provisions and leave money in the way in put people alongside you to help you you got to start somewhere take the initiative oh that's the next letter over come somebody say overcome what do you need wouldn't be passive this isn't anything that worth happened you all have to go through some stuffs you you are not going to achieve things in life without having some struggles anything worth having is going to cost you something together a man I got a wonderful wife wonderful marriage wonderful kids my marriage 32 years is wonderful but we didn't been through some stuff to get there a lot of Tears a lot of intense fellowship a lot of stuff but coming out on the other end up and it's been worth it all come on somebody's face made of sweet part of the lesson of learning how to fly is you got to learn how to deal with turbulence you gotta learn you can't be a good pilot if you can't handle turbines when the road gets bumpy learn how to bump with it I learned that the bumpiness de turpan is is ain't nothing but a pothole in the sky and I can go ahead and make it through the potholes in the sky and that's what you got to do you got to learn there whatever the issue is and whatever the vision is and wherever God's taking you there's gonna be some bumps and some challenges and some issues but keep on rolling baby keep on pushing keep on overcome overcome fitness ISM overcome being misunderstood overcome being talked about overcome being light on overcome overcome greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world it's a part of life it's a part of the journey it's a part of the journey learn to deal with it don't let a little challenge make you quit even if the plane just cut off you still have a ways to go to find a place to land you still got miles to go you can maybe get the plane back started again you will encounter obstacles and you got to overcome here's what I discovered if you are going along life and life is going so smooth and so great I mean and you just diss everything is just sweet and just fantastic you need to check out which direction you hit you are probably on the wrong road do you hear what I'm saying to you today because I've discovered that the closer I get to the things that God has for me the closer you get to your destiny the bumpy of the road gets anybody here know that the closer you get to your destiny the more the devil tries to discourage you he's trying to throw everything at you to make you quit turn around go back to other way but I've learned that the more difficult the more challenging the more painful the more intense it gets it means I must be getting close to what God has for me and you know what I've learned to tell the devil you should have stopped me before I got this close to where I'm going you should have tried to make me quit way back then but I have come through too much I cried too many tears I played too much of a cost I'm not quitting man I'm moving this setback ain't gonna hold me back this is just a setback a setback is a setup for a comeback life for me ain't been no crystal stair dude sad tax in it poor drawn up places with no carpet on the floor bare eyes been a climb in all men reach-in landings and turnin corners and sometimes going in the dark but a bindle light so don't you stop now don't you set out on the steps cost you vines is kind of hard when I was still going I still apply and life for me him been no crystal stair well life for none of us has been a crystal stair we must keep moving we must keep going if you can't fly run if you can't run if you can't walk crawl but by all means keep moving [Applause] somebody came I'm coming back keep pushing over come on suppose when you have vision visualize internalizes strategizing initiate the plan you're going to have some obstacles overcome let it in necessitate what does that mean past I'm glad you asked the question here's what that means necessitate means that you have a burden you're doing it out of necessity whatever the vision is let me tell you let me tell you some of y'all don't have no you have no vision you have no purpose no assignment because you have no burden for anything here's how you tell what your vision for life is it will be associated with that which you feel is a burden you feel you feel that is necessary to do something that's where your vision is it is connected with what you have a burden about now let me be first Corinthians 9 16 - y'all and then imma let you go Paul says for I forgive I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of for necessity is laid upon me yes woe is me if I do not preach the gospel here's what Paul is saying Paul said I got a preach he says I've had this burning laid on me he said I can't take no pride I can't boast in doing it I have to I have a case of that I can't help but do it and when God gives you a vision for something you have a case up I can't help but do it because God gave you a vision to do it do you understand what I'm saying you got to have a burden for you got to have a vision the vision says God gives you a burden to do it everybody in here has a burden for something God has given you a passion for something he's giving you the Nasir's they laid on you the necessity to do something and the question is what is the necessity that God has laid on your heart if y'all jumped up and decided Pasadena's we don't want you to be our passing on where we find you I'm just gonna show up across the street with a big sign services would be at 8 10 and 12 under the dynamic leadership of pastor john cage aiken senior I have a burden for it I do it out of necessity I do it out of what's been laid on me I have a burden for it and you have a burden God has put a burden on something for you to do in life and it's your assignment to find out what is the vision that God has given you stop wandering around with no sense of direction no sense of purpose no sense of hope of what God wants you to do I'm tired of people who are it's frustrated with life but they're not doing anything with their life there's something that God wants you to do now you need to rise up and do something about it must be a commitment to the eternal principles of beauty love and justice not allow anybody to pull you so low as to make you hate them don't allow anybody to cause you to lose your self-respect however young you are you have a responsibility to seek to make your nation a better nation in which to live you have a responsibility to seek to make life better for everybody there are many constructive things that we all can do and that we all must do and we must not give ourselves to those things which will not solve our problem and so our slogan must not be burn baby burn it must be big old baby bill yes our slogan must be learn baby learn so that we can earn and baby earner and with a powerful commitment I believe that we can transform dark yesterday's of injustice and to bright tomorrow's of justice and humanity let us keep going toward the goal of selfhood for the realization of the dream of brotherhood I want y'all to get that in your heart I want you to start asking yourself the question what is the vision that God has given me what's the video that God has placed for you what if God visualized and internalized and what's the strategy you're gonna do to reset and what when are you gonna start taking initiative and are you gonna have an attitude before you even got started to overcome it you got it you have to start off center not let anything stop me this is a vision from God and I'm doing this out of the burden that God has placed on me finally let nobody stop us

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Published: Wed Oct 23 2019