A Vision Bigger Than You
Where there is no vision, the people perish.. Proverbs 29:18 KJV
A great commitment to the great commandment and the great commission will grow a great Christian!
The Great Commandment:
“..which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:36-40 NIV
The Great Commission
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. Matthew 28:19-20 NIV
1. You were put on the earth to love and be loved by God.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Matthew 22:37 NIV
2. You were also placed on this earth to love others, pointing them toward Christ.
Love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39 NIV
go and make disciples of all nations.. Matthew 28:19 NIV
Mission Statement: To take as many people to Heaven as we can, before we die. Period.
3. Set goals based upon what God has put on your heart to do for Him.
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 ESV
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. 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. Habakkuk 2:2-3 ESV
4. Deep satisfaction comes in knowing you are living out your purpose.
If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. John 15:10-11 NIV
5. Purpose has the ability to override problems like nothing else.
The issue in today’s world is not mental health; it’s a lack of purpose.
“..one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13b-14 NIV
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
“Those who have a ‘why’ to live can bear with almost any ‘how’.” - Viktor Frankl, Psychologist, Holocaust Survivor.
Message Notes: The Holy Bible, New International Version, King James Version, 1900, English Standard Version. The Purpose-Driven Church, and The Purpose-Driven Life, both by Rick Warren. Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, by Daniel Amen, MD.