This was a question I began to ponder yesterday afternoon, into the evening, and the early hours of the morning, until finally I turned my computer off. What started out quite simple began to go in numerous directions, and I felt it was too important not to get it right, so I stepped away. I am back now with what I hope is clarity, but I also know that I am just touching the surface with this. The Lord has spoken much since yesterday, and I expect to hear lots more, so I will be taking notes!
What I am asking is just this, “Where is your vision in regards to it becoming a reality?” Can you put a name on it, has it begun to take shape, is it recognizable to what you would expect to see, and from here do you see a direction emerging?
The fact is simply this, God keeps the vision alive and at the appropriate time it will become more than something we like to imagine. The Holy Spirit puts within our hearts what He would have us pray, and we then stay firmly in agreement with it, knowing that the Lord will bring it to fruition. We know that He is true to His promises, so He will not start something that He is not prepared to finish. Sometimes what we believe on can seem daunting, but as we stay the course we will find that we have been transformed into what is required to fulfill what is coming. It is all a process.
There is no timing that we can put on this for ourselves, but as we seek to know and understand, the Lord is faithful to keep us steadily moving forward. Many of us can get stuck on the moving forward part, myself included, when we really don’t see that we are any further along than we were months, and sometimes years ago. We might even feel cause to question the validity of the vision. When this occurs I go back. Back to when I examined the evidence in my life, what I saw the Lord doing, how He was speaking through situations and people, and how He was giving me confidence to pursue what I needed to be doing then. It is in looking at all of those pieces, and more, that gives me the strength to continue. I want what the Lord has for me with all my heart, so I have consistently sought, inquired, and stood firm in my belief that He will use me for something bigger than I can see.
An important point here is that even if that forward movement is not what we would like, it is still motion. The momentum then begins to become visibly obvious when we, sometimes suddenly, realize we have been brought along from that place of believing for it, to something tangible. When I specifically heard, “Believing Women in Conversation,” I knew that a name had emerged to give shape and direction to what was previously shapeless, but very much alive in my heart. What the Lord did was take all those years of pressing into Him for answers, and He brought forward a vehicle for accomplishing what He has spoken to me.
What you believe on is personal to you, is driven by your desire to be all that you can be, to accomplish all that God has put into your heart, and is birthed out of your relationship with Him, where you and God speak.
Habakkuk 2:3 ESV “For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end-it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay,”