Faith without vision would just implode and self-destruct ...but when faith catches vision, it will simply have to EXPLODE Sure it will explode; it will have no choice Ha... ha... ha... ...if we are talking about a kind of faith that is similar to that which God exercises ...and especially when we start talking and thinking in terms of the very faith of God Himself That faith of God generates God's energy, and God's limitless creative ability It is that very explosive element that very faith of God that I desire us to talk about and consider in this book together I want us to measure together, not merely our vision for ourselves and for our ministry ...but God's vision for our lives and for our ministry right here in 2014 and then in 2015 and beyond I thank God that we no longer need to allow ourselves to be intimidated by anything that the future holds for natural man ...because, we are not mere men Hallelujah We are so much more I thank God that we have the privilege to discover the vision of ourselves that God's Word inspires This book is part of the series: Helping the believer to fully appropriate truth

"Therefore strengthen the weak hands, and make strong the feeble knees, Say to those who are fearful hearted, 'Be strong, do not fear Enlarge the place of your tent, ...stretch out the curtains of your habitations. Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited. Do not fear for you will no longer be ashamed; nor be disgraced any more, for you will not be put to shame (You will not become weak and fail); For you will forget the shame of your youth (your immaturity), ...and will not remember that reproach anymore..." - Isaiah 35:3 & 4, and Isaiah 54:2-4

Righteousness is the most misunderstood subject in the Bible, and that confusion, because of inaccurate truth and incorrect assumptions and conclusions, is one of the biggest reasons why so many Christians are still in bondage. I grew up, like countless others, associating righteousness with good works, ...but did you know that not one of your good works could ever make you righteous? In John 14-17 Jesus was not talking about mansions in Heaven, but about Righteousness when He said: "I go to prepare a place for you."

Man's first experience, when he awoke in creation, was the overwhelming display of God's love ...God's very favor and adoration God is love ...and this love could only rest ...in an encounter ...with a being of the same kind and likeness God can only find His rest in a being of the same image and likeness as Himself ...a being with the same love as His ...a love of the same kind as His own. Love can only find its rest in love Love can only be satisfied by love Love desires someone else to love ...and love needs a response of the exact same kind and quality God, in His creation of mankind, designed a being with whom He could share equality In His creation of mankind, God desired and designed a being upon whom He could lavish His love He desired a response of the same quality and kind in that being, called man See, man alone can appreciate and respond to God's love on a level of worship. The desire in man to worship God was birthed by that first encounter and experience of God's adoration in the garden. To reflect back in love the adoration He gives is the only appropriate response to His love 1John 4:19, "We love Him because He first loved us."

"I give thanks, always, for you, because of the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus ...so that, in every way, you were enriched in Him ...with all speech and all knowledge ...even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed among you, and within you ...so that, you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of (...as you intertwine yourself with the revelation of) our Lord Jesus Christ, who will then also sustain you to the end, guiltless, in the day of (...in the light of; in the revelation truth of) our Lord Jesus Christ " Listen, God remains committed to you, because of what He knows to be the eternal truth about you Even if no one believes that truth as it is revealed in the Gospel, God believes it I say again, even if every single person on the face of the earth refuse to believe the implications of what God accomplished for them in Christ, in the work of redemption, God remains persuaded about it, He cannot deny Himself This book is part of the series: Helping the believer to fully appropriate truth