Understanding Vision & Destiny

You may have discovered your Divine Gift, but may or may not have discovered a Vision for such a gift to be utilized on the highest possible spiritual level. This has to do with your ultimate Destination or Destiny.

Vision is unlimited sight. It shows you your destination. God is committed to the Vision he put in your life. So whether other people help you or not, God will be your helper.

The key to achieving your vision is discipline. Where there is no vision the people perish.

People who’ve discovered vision live longer and healthier. There’s no stress. Stress comes from not knowing what to do.

Everything that you do is supposed to be motivated by your vision. Vision is supposed to be the source of your human motivation. It simplifies your life.

When someone says god spoke to me all they mean is I had an idea that wouldn’t go away. Your vision is the thoughts that won’t leave you, the dream that keeps coming back, your deepest desire.

Preliminary questions you should answer for your Vision:

1. What is it you’d like to do to write your part of history? (this does not need to be anything massive, but should be significant)
2. What makes you angry? Whatever makes you angry you were born to solve.
3. What do you feel is the solution to what makes you angry?

You will never become what you could be until you become angry with what you are. Anger brings change. Discontent is the seed of change. You can never change what you tolerate.

Vision must be Clear and simple. The key to achieving your vision is discipline. The key to your life is finding a vision that imposes self discipline on you. Discipline comes from vision. When a man or woman has a vision, their lives become very narrow and tight.

If you’re going to write your vision you have to first capture it. And you capture it by getting positioned in a certain way, where you can hear what God has been saying all these years. Your vision is not outside of you. God hid it where you can’t miss it.

Vision comes in phases. What you’re doing right now, you may not be doing in 10 years.

Destiny

There is such a thing as being “set for life,” but this is contingent on your own activities and choices. God has a chosen destiny for you. You have to choose what he chose. Your destiny is established but not guaranteed. You have to choose your chosen destiny. It is impossible for you to fail in getting to your destination, because you are always the one headed towards wherever you are going. To get to your Divine destination, you must take control of your habits and behaviors. Our habits determine our future.

When you capture a vision it simplifies everything, because vision controls all of your choices after that. Once you know where you’re going, you automatically know what roads won’t take you there.

• Vision will choose your Future
• Vision will choose your Friends
• Vision will choose your Library
• Vision will choose your Use of time
• Vision will choose your Energy
• Vision will choose your Friends
• Vision will choose your Movies
• Vision will choose your Hobbies
• Vision will choose your Games
• Vision will choose your Diet
• Vision will choose How you invest your money
• Vision will choose your To Do List
• Vision will choose your Lifestyle
• Vision will choose your Life plan
• Vision will choose your Values

Exercises:

1. What is it you’d like to do to write your part of history? (this does not need to be anything massive, but should be significant)
2. What is a reoccurring problem you experience that makes you angry? (Whatever makes you angry you were born to solve.)
3. What do you feel is the solution to what makes you angry?
4. Write down all your desires. Before die.
5. After writing all your desires, if you have 8 or 9 pages, which possibly equate to 8 or 9 main ideas, simplify those ideas into 8 or 9 concise statements.
6. Then document. Try and get your entire life’s purpose in one sentence. Reduce your life to one sentence. You have to somehow identify your gifts and talents, and summarize them in one sentence to the point where you know this is who and what I am. This is what I bring to the world, this is what I offer my generation. This is me, and this is what they need from me. Put it in a brochure and a plaque. Talk to others about it.
7. Make a plan based on that sentence that is your strategy.
8. Revise your vision. Keep going back to check to see if you’re on course.
9. Evaluate your vision. Keep judging yourself to make sure you’re doing what you came to do.