WE CELEBRATE JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR EVERYDAY -- 1 CORINTHIANS 10:31
Post date: May 21, 2012 7:09:00 AM
Everyone has a vision but not everyone is a success. Everyone has a dream but not everyone is able to implement them. Everyone with a dream and a vision must have a plan, but not everyone is able to push through their plans based on their visions and dreams. Everyone is trying but not everyone is out of the woods of despair, fear and confusion. But despite all this things, God is still willing and able to do those things we cannot do if we keep ourselves and our minds from being polluted by the everyday impossibilities we experience, despite the greatness of our dreams and visions. A failure is definitely not someone who fails while trying to implement a plan, but someone who fails to carry out his or her plans for fear of failing. If you have failed trying, congratulations, do not count yourself out yet, your failures of yesterday does not mean the failure of your tomorrow, today’s obedience can make a huge difference.
When God gives a dream or a vision, it is left for us to do the rest while keeping ourselves in accord with His words and His plans for us. Every dream and visions from God will be tested by the devil and by men in various ways. While the devil will be trying to confuse you, men will be trying to frustrate and discourage you. But in all types of attempts and attacks, who and what you give your mind to and where you keep your mind can make the difference. Besides, if your dreams are yet to be tested, be very careful they may not be from God.
The mind of a person is the first contact point of success and failure, depending on which you choose. The mind is the final place of decision before the hands are sets in motion to fulfill the dreams and vision.
The success of prophet Nehemiah was not in his vision or assistance from the king, but it was in his willingness and that of the people to commit their mind in finishing the walls despite the words from the opposing camp. “-- For the people had a mind to work” Nehemiah 4:6
Pushing through your dreams and vision will involve some cogent and practical steps on your side. When you are committed to your success in every vision or dream, some colleagues, friends and foes will be angry including the devil. The only reason being, no one wants to see you ahead of them, no one wants to see you making a name while they remain the same. All they want is that you continue in the same way and circle you were yesterday; let me declare to you today, your God is against your stagnation and such plans and thoughts for your life; that is why He gave you the vision and dreams to advance you beyond what you are right now.
“But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, what do these feeble Jews? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. -- Then they were very wroth, and conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. Nehemiah 4:1-3, 7-9
What you give your minds to affects your thoughts, words, strength, actions and productivity. God saw that you needed a change before giving you the grace to dream. Put your mind on your success not on your distractors and their words. Put you mind on your God. You are able to push through.