Hello Everyone,

Victor Frankl was a holocaust survivor who used to travel and speak about how he survived the concentration camps. He would say, "You are the reason I am alive." They were baffled, because

they had never seen him before. "I have seen you a thousand times," he would say. He then went on to explain how he would dream of the day when he would stand before crowds and tell them how he survived. Day after day he would watch comrades lose their hope and the next day they would die. Truly, where there is no vision the people perish!

Warning! Don't be discouraged if not everyone sees or understands your dream. Some will not be able to see beyond here and now. Some are in such a survival mode they can't even listen to what you are saying.

In a Peanuts cartoon--Charlie Brown says, "Lucy, look at my hands. Think of the potential in these hands. Someday these hands may heal the sick, someday these hands may build mighty bridges, someday these hands may change the destiny of mankind!" Lucy responded, "Charlie, your hands, they have jelly on them."

You know what God has put in your heart and don't let anyone steal that from you. So we see the definition of vision: A Perfect Picture.

Vision is the vehicle that will take you places. It is the key that opens the door of opportunity.
Thomas Edison, "Show me a man who is perfectly satisfied and I'll show you a failure."

Let me show you some people who had no vision.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the US Patent Office, 1899
"Sensible, responsible women do not want to vote." President Grover Cleveland, 1905. Can you imagine saying that today?
ill.--one man said something like that to his wife, and she said, "How would you like it if you didn't see me for a few days." He said, "I'd like that just fine!" He later reported, "The first day I didn't see her, 2nd day, 3rd day, then on the 4th day I could see her just a little when the swelling in my left eye went down."

"There is no likelihood that man will ever tap the power of the atom." Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Robert Milligan, 1923


Lord Kelvin, 1855, "Flying machines heavier than air are an impossibility."

In contrast, when Walt Disney was alive he had the vision of Disney World. But he died before it became reality. At the grand opening his surviving wife was an honored guest on the platform. The M.C. said to her, I just wish Walt could have seen it. She replied two words: “He did”.
He was the first man ever to see Disney World, before anyone lifted the first finger.

Vision is the driving force that will take us where we need to be. Not where my life is, but where God wants my life. [Family / Marriage / Church / my ministry / business]

Vision is the key that starts it, and the spark that ignites it, and the gears that get things rolling! Vision is the vehicle which will drive you to your dreams! What is vision? Perfect Picture. Why is it so important? Provides Passion!



Oh How HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil