Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Hebrews 10:32, “But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;”
In 1989 there was an earthquake in the San Francisco area during a World Series baseball game.
The 75,000 people in the stadium felt the shaking of the earthquake.
This had an immediate effect upon their excited feelings about the game.
The earthquake had the ability to automatically cause the fans and many of the baseball players to lose their sense of value for a baseball game.
Seemingly, nothing could subdue the excitement of a World Series game; but the earthquake had the ability to do it.
It had the effect of causing baseball not to seem so important after all.
That is what vision does.
It has an automatic ability to quickly sort out what is important in our lives in contrast to the fleeting and passing lusts of the world.
Vision brings with it an infused ability that directs and controls our daily life and carries us through all our trials and problems.
We may be struggling in our Christian life, going through many cycles of victory and defeat.
We are trying to live a crucified life, trying to overcome a besetting sin, trying to get deliverance from the power of lust that defeats us again and again.
We endeavor, but to no avail.
What is the problem?
Why this endless string of defeats?
It is because we are lacking a dimension in our lives that God intended every believer to have.
That dimension is vision.
We need vision!
Vision gives us the ability to drop so many things, and it brings victory where there was no victory.
Our problems are often due to having no vision.
We do not have revelation.
Nothing has attracted us.
Nothing has caused us to drop things.
It seems that nothing has the ability to effectively win our hearts and produce absolute consecration.
However, when you see something that attracts you, that thing or object has an ability and a power in it to control and direct you.
Vision in the Christian life will bring us through the hard times.
It will bring us through disappointments and all kinds of difficulties.
It has an ability.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
WEDNESDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
June Cronan
Lee Cronan
Darlene Thaxton
Darlene Wiggins
Amy Garner
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
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Charlene Palmer
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Dan Haines
David Burnette
David Harrison
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Doris Loyd
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Jillian Gray
Jim Mabe
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John Austin
John McClain
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Karen Slane
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lamar Knight
Larry Barker
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Linda Alexander
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
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Lonzo Christin
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Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Maureen Brown
Michael Stanley
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
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Scott Lanier
Terrell Loyd
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