Vision Revisioned

Vision Revisioned

Recently I heard a message on a subject that I thought I had a fair handle on; I even thought I had a fair line on the passage.  But things might have changed just a little.

The upshot of my crisis of understanding was that this blog may take an entirely different approach.  Firstly while much of what I have been writing up to now has been somewhat impromptu and relying upon the Master to move my fingers.  In future I may be introducing an element of research to follow the Father even closer in fact I will be using the word even as a guide before I start,

As an indication of how this may word, I have a collection of verses on vision awaiting my perusal. So I shall return a lot inspired.  See ya soon

In the New Testament the sauce of a vision is the province of Father himself.  There is the rewrite of the Joel 2:8 passage in Acts 2:17 where a reference to the last days the Spirit would be poured out and young men would have visions and the old men would dream dreams.  Of 19 references in the New Testament only that one says anything about the difference between dreams and visions; all the others are this person had a vision and responded to it.

I take from these verses that there is only one source of vision and that is Father.  They are for a specific recipient, for his or her response.  Admittedly vision is not for that person only, but in every case they are to forward the Masters plan.

Consider the plight of Zacharias who was in the temple performing the highest of priestly duties when he received his message regarding the fact that his wife and Mary’s cousin was pregnant.  For his doubt he was unable to speak for the duration of the pregnancy and when people wanted to name John in the style of the family naming at which time Zacharias answered his name is John.

If you have ever had a vision you know that it is a major moment in your life.  God revealing Himself to you is a high emotion moment that makes us feel either wow or the last moment when Dad contacted me directly we argued the toss because I didn’t feel capable of doing this before because I rarely had been able to string together more than a short 250 words or so.  But the beauty of it is that with the Spirit of God I am capable of writing to the glory of God our Father.

There are two different types of vision one that inspires personal action and the other is one that inspires action by others too.  Peters inspired speech when 3000 chose to believe is an example of the second type while in Acts 10 when he had the vision of the unclean foods was as much a person vision while he was thinking about the meaning of that vision along came the servants of Cornelius a soldier in Caesarea who also had had a vision of Peter in Joppa who could help his understanding.

A vision is God in action to move people in the direction that will achieve His purposes and bring about a God result in the lives of His people.  They also give us the evidence that God is involved intimately in the lives of His people.