Hello Everyone,
First let’s look at The Definition of Vision.
From the Hebrew, chazon, which has 3 meanings:

• Open Revelation. People perish if there is no open revelation. Aren't you glad you have the full, open revelation of God in your hands?

• Dream. Not like a dream you have in your sleep, but as in, an aspiration. Your 'dream home' is what you would have if money were no object. A young man talks about his dream girl...she's the one he would pick if, well, you know, if he didn't look like he did!

If people don't find something to live for that's bigger than them, some aspirations, they are going to perish!
• Mental picture. The ability to see in your mind's eye the way things ought to be. Not where am I at now, but where do I want and need to be.

Merge the 3 together and you need God to give you revelations, and reveal to you what aspirations and dreams you should have, and give you the eyes / vision to see it, and show you how to make it reality.

It is the perfect picture.

What does perish mean?
This is the Hebrew para, which also has 3 meanings: to become naked, zero or barren, to go backwards.

So, putting . Prov. 29:18 all together now we see that if you have no mental picture, you will go backwards, and amount to nothing!

We must have goals, visions, and dreams!

It all starts between the ears. We need the mind of Christ. That will give us the perfect picture.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Right behavior is preceded by right thinking. You've got a brain, use it! And the opposite is just as true. Wrong behavior doesn't just happen; it is always preceded by wrong thinking.

It all starts in the mind with a mental picture of where we need to be...not our own brain's desires, but with the mind of Christ, the vision of God!

What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve!

Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: (KJV)
Let's be like Nehemiah. Let's get a clear mental picture of what God wants for you, your family, your church, your life!

Oh How He Loves Us!

Pastor Phil