This document discusses the importance and power of vision. It argues that without vision, people will lack purpose and direction and their lives will become mundane. The document encourages seeking God for visions through prayer and outlines how many biblical figures like Noah, Abraham, Joseph, and Moses were given visions that shaped their destinies. It provides Nehemiah as an example of someone who was given a vision, took action to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem, faced opposition but was determined and completed the vision with God's help.

1. The Power of
Vision

3. Acts 2:17
…I will pour out of
my Spirit upon all
flesh:

4.  sons and daughters shall
prophesy,
 young men shall see
visions,
 old men shall dream
dreams:

5.  Pro 29:18
Where there is no vision,
the people perish:

6. Lack of vision…

7. Leads to maintenance only
1. Boredom
2. Humdrum living
3. Status quo
4. Everyday the same

8. Rev. 3:17
Because thou sayest,
I am rich, and
increased with
goods….that thou
art …blind,
and naked:

9. ASK!
 Mat 7:7
Ask, and it shall be
given you;
 seek, and ye shall find;
 knock, and it shall be
opened unto you:

10.  What visions?
 For what purpose?
 For whom?

11.  Calling
 Direction
 Plan
 Timing

12. Vision brings
 Focus
 Direction
 Clarity
 Priority

13. A Need To be met

14. A Reason
 Mission
 Task
 Significance
 Passion

15.  You are a dream away from
destiny
 You are a divine thought
from the greatest part of
your life.
 You are a vision away from
what God’s plan for you

16.  Noah… Ark
 Abraham… Promised Land
 Joseph… Sheaves
 Moses… Let my People go!
 Joshua… Taking the Land
 David… Worship
 Solomon… Wisdom

17.  Esther… for such a time as this!
 John baptist… prepare the way
 Matthew… prove from OT
 John… Jesus is God
 Peter… go to the Jews
 Paul… go to the Gentiles
 Apollos… Convince

19. Do I have a vision for my church?
Do I have a vision for my village?
Do I have a vision for my ministry?
Do I have a vision for my people?

20. Do I have a vision for my wife
(husband)?
Do I have a vision for my children?

22. One encounter creates
 A ministry
 A business
 An orphanage
 A book
 A family
 A future
 A meaningful life

23.  If I do not have a
vision, then who
has?
 If I do not look to
God, then who will?
 If I do not have a
vision for my
ministry, then who
does?

24.  6,000,000,000
 How many?
 Very few
 You!

25. Responsibility
 My relationships
 My family
 My job
 My church
 My pastor
 My leaders
 My ministry

26. What has God put on your heart?
 Family
 Children
 Teens
 Youth
 Music
 Writing
 Cooking
 Sewing
 Husbandry

27.  Children’s
ministry
 Dance
 Technology
 Mass media
 Teaching
 Evangelism
 Art
 Carpentry

28. How? Many ways!
 See in sleep
 Awake
 Opportunity
 Touched
 Moved
 Understand
 Care
 Giftedness
 Rainbow of ways!

29. In the year that king
Uzziah died
I saw the Lord
high and lifted up….

30. When?
 Noah
 Abraham
 Isaiah
 Elijah
 The disciples
 The apostle Paul
 Jesus Himself!

31. A man with a vision
Nehemiah
How he gives us
an example of
vision
The Wall Builder!

32. Neh 1:2
ThatHanani, one of my
brethren, came,
He heard!

33.  Neh 1:4
And it came to pass, when I
heard these words,
 that I sat down
 and wept,
 and mourned certain days,
 and fasted,

34.  Neh 1:4
and prayed
before the God
of heaven,

35.  A man deeply moved
 Affected
 Challenged

36.  Understanding
 Feeling
 Sense of responsibility
 Anger

37. Vision needs

39. Action

40. Every journey of
1,000 miles
Begin somewhere
Start the ball rolling
Without action the
vision becomes weak

41. To be considered…
 How to proceed
 What to do
 Where to go
 Who to see
 Where to begin

42. Anyone would hear the cries and weeping of the
men and women who were storming heaven

43. 
yet will I gather them
from thence, and will
bring them unto the
place that I have
chosen
to set my name there.

44. I will bring you back
 To your first love
 To fulfill the call
 The dream
 The passion
 The joy
 The peace
 The place

46.  James 1:7
For let not that man think that he shall
receive any thing of the Lord.

47. Rev 22:17
 And the Spirit and
the bride say, Come.
 And let him that
heareth say, Come.
 And let him that is
athirst come.
 And whosoever will,
let him take the
water of life freely.

49. Placed in a position for a purpose..
 Joseph
 Daniel
 Esther
 Luke

50. Est 4:14
and who knoweth whether thou art come
to the kingdom for such a time as this?

51.  James 1:6
But let him ask in
faith…For he that
wavereth is
…driven with the
wind and tossed.

52.  3 to 4 months!
Nehemiah…

53. Preparation
Plannning

55.  Abide your time
 Await an opportunity
 Be ready when that
time comes
 Timing is important
when approaching
people

56. Opposition

57. Determination
Focus

58. Leadership

59. Motivation

60. 
and fight for your
brethren,

your sons, and your
daughters
 your wives, and your
houses.

61. Protection

62.  Neh 6:1
Now it came to pass, ...that I had
builded the wall, and that there was no
breach left therein;

63. The Hand of God

64. Celebration !!!
Completed Vision