Catch The Vision!

  I heard a woman say, recently in her frustration, that she could not find her way back to the way God had used her in ministry, years prior.  As I sat and listened to the cry of her heart, and her sincere pleas for help, I heard the Lord speak to my heart that she needed to stop trying.  I was struck
... by the words that I know the Holy Spirit began to speak, as in a whisper to me, about this.

  All of God's paths lead forward, and never in reverse.  She would not be able to find 'her way back' because the Lord was leading her onward and she could not see waht was before her for always looking back to how things 'used to be'.  She was looking through an old anointing.

  The Spirit of God wants to impart fresh vision to His people today.  Fresh vision opens the door for fresh dreams, fresh goals and a fresh anointing.  The new wine will not be poured into and through our lives until we have endured and completed those tests and trials allowed by the Lord, that strip off the old wineskin of our lives.  We cannot contain the infilling of the newness of God's anointing and power for the leaks through the cracks in our vessels.  Cooperating with God positions us to receive from HIm.  We need to catch the fresh vision of God's plan and purpose for the season in which we stand now and get out from being stuck.

  Move on with your calling.  Start where you are today, and seek the Lord for His vision for your future, and how He might work through you to transform the lives of hurting people.  God wants to use you in His plans and purpose, but you must have fresh insight from the Holy Ghost, to succeed.  Catch the fresh vision of God.  Set your mind and heart to be rightly aligned, and purposely positioned to receive from Him.  We need healing in this area of our lives.

  Have you wondered where you might be in the Lord today, if we did not fall for this sort of stalling detour?  The enemy desires to see us ineffective, or at the very least, to believe we are being ineffective.  "Lift your eyes and look from the place in which you stand, north, south, east and west.  For all in which you see, I will give to you and to your posterity forever" (Genesis 13: 14, 15).  Look forward, no matter what direction you face; not behind.  Get your eyes off of what's behind, and look at what He has in store before you.  The goodness of God surrounds you, and you are about to be ministered to by the Holy Spirit, the vision of God!  It's a good day for a fresh, sharp, crisp vision.  Catch it!