~Open in prayer~
Icebreakers
• Share with the group why you joined a lifegroup
• Why do you believe community is important?
• Share your favorite activity to do in a group setting.
Message Review
Write the vision down and make it plain. We’re going to start off with Habakkuk 2 again. It says, 1 “I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected. 2 Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.” Like we have already gone over, it’s the vision inside of you that must have two things come to it. It must have resources and people. If you don’t have resources and great people, you will die with your dreams still in you. It has to have those two things that come to it. A God given vision already by this scripture has preordained people to enter my life at certain times to help the needle of the vision of my life to move forward. There are people that will be a part of your life permanently which is a small number. There will be many people that come seasonally. They enter your life gracefully and exit your life gracefully. Most people exit our life painfully. There are people that are designed by God to be temporary and not permanent.
Why is it that when people exit, we have to be enemies? It doesn’t make sense. But the permanent people in your life will be few. So, some of you that feel like you’re losing people, you’re not actually losing people. He’s revealing that those temporary people are a part of the permanent vision of your life. God will never tie you to the people that left. He’ll only tie you to the people that stayed. These people are not mobilized until you’ve become clear. When the vision is clarified in you, that’s when the resources and the money start coming. You don’t have to chase it down, it comes to you. Because clarity of the vision mobilizes the people that have already been ordained to be a part of it.
Let’s Talk About It!
Habakkuk 2:3
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.”
The Bible says through Habakkuk that when you have a vision you have to clarify it. People begin to run with it and then he says you have to employ patience. When he says wait, that doesn’t mean idle, slumber, or sluggish. That doesn’t mean go to sleep on the vision. When he says wait, in Hebrew it means wait as in ambush. People that are waiting are ready and in attack mode. They’re waiting and still but are prepared for the moment so when it comes, they can seize that moment. So, as you wait for the vision you are ready to ambush which means when the opportunity comes, it will be too late to prepare. Downtime is prep time. When you feel like nothing is going on that is God’s grace giving you the ability to prepare. If the vision comes and you are not prepared, you will miss the blessing that God has brought your way.
Zacchaeus was small in stature and heard that Jesus was coming. So, he went ahead of Jesus and climbed a tree to make himself visible. At that time, it was crazy to go into a town and climb a tree, but he was the only one that went home with Jesus that day. There was one person that prepared themselves for the coming of Jesus which was the vision that was ahead. Jesus went and ran with the person that had prepared himself. Once Jesus is in the city, it is too late to climb the tree. Therefore, he says though the vision may tarry, wait for it. But wait for as an ambush, wait as a person that is ready to seize a moment when the moment comes.
Proverbs 6: 6 -11
6 “Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise,” 7 “Which, having no captain, Overseer or ruler, 8 Provides her supplies in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. 9 How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep— 11 So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.”
We have a generation of people that do nothing, and they wait for their big ship to come in. That may be America, but it’s not Kingdom! The Kingdom says do not despise small beginnings. The Kingdom also says, once you have become faithful over little, you will become faithful over much. God is testing you in the small to qualify you for the big. We have people who do nothing with the small and despise the small because they think they’re only worthy of the big. God will test you with the little thing and will see if you can do it diligently with all your might and power. Because we don’t do things for people, we do it for God and He sees everything we do. How are you going to prepare for your vision so that you can be ready to seize the moment when it’s time for you to receive your blessing?
Application
1. This week pray and seek God on what He wants you to do during the waiting. When He shows you, write it down! Document it…write it down and make it plain to remind yourself to use wisdom and prepare for your vision and blessing!
2. Take a moment to look at your relationships, are they pushing you towards your vision? Or pulling you away?
Prayer Focus and Requests
Ask your members if they have any prayer requests or praise reports. Encourage one another to stir up your faith and pray BIG prayers this week and expect God to blow your mind with His answers.