The Development stages of a Vision

The Development stages of a Vision

The Vision within us

Daniel Deladem

Write down the vision; for it is for an appointed time, as simple as these words sound, we find that is not really easy to put our visions together and manage them to the stage of accomplishment, mainly due to the lack of understanding of how a vision or a dream given by God evolve.

Sandra and I had decided to spend some time waiting on the Lord God to find out the way forward. During the wait, as we made ourselves available to God, He began to teach and prepare us for a new assignment; which is to teach the nations about the need for humanity to call on the Lord, for a revelation of the will of God, which translates into a divine destiny in Jesus Christ.

Day after day as the Spirit of God continued to teach and expose this powerful topic to us, I became disturbed about how to package, prepare and release the mountain of information He was releasing to us.

Even though I was not confused, I must admit, the feeling was like being in a maze not knowing how to start, how to proceed, and as a result made some mistakes, notable amongst them, was to begin sharing the vision thinking that people would accept and embrace the message immediately because I said it was from God.

Then one day I went to the chapel of a local church to be still before the Lord. As I started praying in the spirit, I began asking God how the commission, which has become a vision for me to accomplish, was going to be possible without funds and other logistics, the fact that I was not an orator like Moses, and several other factors, including the big question; “how soon, are we there yet?”

God was asking me to pitch tent for the vision several thousand kilometers from where we were located at that time, and therefore the need to plan to relocate to the mission field.

Even though the Lord kept on assuring me "You came back from your own foreign travels with a small staff, now I am sensing you to do a work for me and you will go with a multitude, where I am sending you, even if you have cattle take them with you"

So as I sat in that empty uncompleted church building that morning just praying in the Spirit, immediately God began to speak to me, I could feel the words pouring into my spirit as He taught me about how a vision develops and why you have to write it down and wait for the vision to be birthed in at the appointed time, the fullness of time.

Pregnancy Stage:

Every vision if it is of God is released into our Spirit man by the Holy Spirit, in the same manner as the Spirit came upon Mary and She conceived our Lord Jesus Christ in Luke 1:35, "And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come on you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you. Therefore also that Holy One which will be born of you shall be called Son of God."

Reading the experience of Zacharias and Elizabeth, you will find the same pattern recorded in Luke 1:15, "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall neither drink neither wine nor strong drink. And he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb."  Even though John the Baptist was not of a virgin birth, one fact stands out, that he and Jesus were conceived by the power and infilling of the Holy Ghost.

People have all kinds of visions to do all sorts of things, but one thing we need to understand is this, apart from waking up with a dream to do what God has placed in your spirit, and you seeking directions from the Most High to bring that dream to life, there is also the other group of people who also wake up with a dream and then move ahead to do it without God, but by looking at how other people did it.

Here you must quickly understand that, such a dream definitely will end up glorifying flesh, because it is minus God.

For there is always the moments when you get filled up with an idea that you think God is asking you to do for Him. Check up if it is of God through prayer, and then let the vision be directed by God like a producer directs a movie, and it will ultimately glorify God.

Acknowledgment of the Vision.

This is the point to accept and acknowledge that you have received a vision within you. This consciousness is very necessary. The ignorance of the existence of a vision will jeopardize the pregnancy of a vision.

If it is a vision from God deposited within you it is similar to the situation of a woman who was barren and suddenly got pregnant. You definitely will feel a change and you will feel the vision stirring up within you, just as it happened to Zerubbabel in Haggai 1:14, "And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God." 

No one misses this stage of the feeling that you have a vision swelling up within you and if you do not acknowledge the vision and write it down, it means you do not care about it.

Unlike physical pregnancy which may end up in miscarriage, what the Lord God has deposited within you would not abort; it will remain within you and surely go down to the grave, if you do nothing about it.

Understanding the vision

If you do acknowledge that a vision or a dream is stirring up within you, this brings an understanding of what you are carrying within you, then you will understand and treasure it as Elizabeth and Mary both did, they were filled with joy And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior," Luke 1:46-47.

Quickly they set out to understand the vision, And after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived and hid herself five months, saying,  Luke 1:24, and Mary did the same thing in Luke 1:56 "And Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her own house."

We have to pray to understand the vision, for it is dangerous to be ignorant about what God wants us to do for Him. As simply as it may sound, it is good to know that, if we do not understand and appreciate the vision we are carrying, a simple advice from a third person may cause you to abandon or reshape your vision if you are not careful.

In the formative days, years and months, it is prudent to 'hush' to keep quiet, being still before the Lord. It is like waiting to have the first scan of a fetus. Beware, there is someone roaming about like a lion looking for a vision to destroy, a vision to steal and a vision to kill.

Prayerfully ask God to unfold the whole vision, the package to you so that you will know if it is a boy, girl or a set of twins, so that you can understand how you are supposed to proceed.

This is the restless stage but if you make it beyond this stage, then you are in good shape, because at this point, you have a fair understanding of what God has deposited within you, you have remained connected and made a download without no biases, so you are very prepared.

Many stop at this stage, confused and possibly place the vision on the back burner, like one time we were praying for an elderly lady in her late fifties and suddenly Sandra saw a vision of a bowl of cooked beans, and immediately the Spirit of the Lord gave me the meaning.

This lady had the vision to be a minister of God but was sluggish about it and through that vision God was telling her to hurry on with the vision or her message will become cold like a cold plate of beans. Just like being offered a cold plate of beans and being offered a hot plate of beans, which of the two is palatable?

Protecting the Vision

Now that you understand what is swelling up within you, it must be protected for someone is roaming about like a lion watching and seeking a vision to destroy.

At this stage just like a women who is pregnant you will begin to show certain physical signs, especially by mouth you will begin to say a word here or there as an evidence of what God has deposited within you and you must understand that from this period till the delivery of the vision is going to be the most difficult one, because many will tongue lash you and despise you.

Let me encourage you to remain in sound mind for that is what you need being in tune with God at all time, just like David said in Psalm 121:1, "I look up to the hills."

Watch out for being despised, because at this point the devil knows that you have accepted, understood and purposed to run with the vision, to do what you wrote down, so many distraction will rise against you.

He knows you have also purposed to protect the vision from him so he is surely going to come against you like he did to Joseph. The young boy went through all that difficult phase because he knew there was something within him waiting to explode.

The rage of the arch enemy of the God given destiny of mankind, through the brothers of Joseph created a detour which took him through the house of the Egyptian official, on the way to the Prime Ministership position in Egypt.

If Joseph was not protecting the vision he would have bowed to the advances of Potiphera, it is evident  and clear that Joseph acknowledged and understood the vision, he accepted it and positioned himself to protect the vision, so that only the will and the mind of God for him will be accomplished in his life.

To be Continued

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