Provision For Your Vision? Plant A Vineyard!

You may be in a position where you are really looking for provision for your vision. You have a message that you know God has implanted in your heart and you are ready to step up to the plate to deliver it.

You have a message, and to keep that message going forward you need money.

But…you experience the same thing: No phone rings asking you to speak, your bank account remains the same (empty), you seem stuck in the same place, or you have stacks of books, cd, and/or products stacked in your garage waiting to be sold.

What do you do for provision for your vision?

Plant A Vineyard–Tend Your Flock

Plant a vineyard.

“Say what?”

What I have to share is a simple plan you can put into action today.

It’s based on 1 Corinthians 9 where God has been speaking volumes to me lately. The more I camp out on that Chapter the more God speaks to me about helping others harness the power of the internet for profits.That’s one of my passions. I desire to see you FREE spiritually, physically, and financially to go in the direction of your God given destiny.

So back to 1 Corinthians Chapter 9. Check out verse 7:

“Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?”

Look at those key words…”goes to war”, “plants”, “tends”.

They involve you (and me) going forward in action. They involve work.

This is what God spoke to me.

He gives us the plan, the vision, the desire that is behind our destiny.

No matter what it is, if it involves you impacting others for Christ, you can count that as being at war! Our adversary the devil would like nothing more than to keep you bound by depression, lack, and procrastination.

But we overcome him by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony….

It says in 2 Corinthians 10:2-3: “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds…”

He is a squirm bug meant to be under our feet. Don’t believe his lies that you will never see real provision for your vision!

So I encourage you to rise up and stick it hard to this slimy opponent!

How?

Make your dream, your vision…make it your vineyard, or your flock.

And work it!

When it comes to the internet, you will have to rise up and learn some new skills or invest in Kingdom training. Use your time and free tools available to learn, to write, to move forward.

Are you waiting for someone to ask you to preach at church?

Start your own video ministry and start preaching into your web cam, on Blog Talk Radio, or at Ustream.

You’d love to write a book?

Make an outline. Write the book. Start writing on a blog….Transcribe your videos…

I think you are getting the ideas here.

Finding a plan for provision for your vision is as simple as you moving forward with the wisdom, anointing, and skills God has given you!

You plant, you tend…..and watch how God can provide the resources.

The glue to hold this vineyard together is found in John Chapter 15. Jesus says He is the vine we are the branches.

““I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away;[a] and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”

Cling to the vine, Jesus. Trust Him for the wisdom, the time, and the favor.

Start today.

Why wait for the resources when you have something already in your hand, or in your house. (1 Kings 4:1-7

You have gifts and anointing. You have skills and abilities. You have wisdom and revelation.

Begin sharing now. Make it your vineyard. Plant…go to work….and watch God provide for you to continue to have provision for the vision

by Reverend Harriet Bradley (check out here website here!)

Every one that knows me whether for a long time or just a day find out very quickly that I love Jesus Christ with all of my heart. But people soon find out that I am also an avid sports fan! Whenever I watch something that is sports related whether it is a game or some sports news on ESPN, I always seems to find the spiritual significance! That happened the other day.

There is a quarterback, Brett Favre, that retired from football two years ago and then came back to play last year with the New York Jets. He retired AGAIN last season but has unretired again as is playing with the Minnesota Vikings. All summer there was talk on ESPN if Brett was going to stay retired. He had surgery and was trying to determine he was in good enough condition to play another season. Three weeks ago, Brett Favre told the Minnesota Vikings that he was going to stay retired! End of story…well not so fast.

After the Minnesota Vikings had their first pre-season football game, the coach of the team called Brett and gave Brett Favre another opportunity to come play for the team this year. This time Brett said yes!

During the press conference that Brett Favre held explaining why it took him so long to make up his mind to return to play football this year, he told a story about his 10 year old daughter, Breleigh. Brett shared that during the decision process, Breleigh pretty much remained neutral. Brett asked her, “What do you want Daddy to do?” She replied “Whatever you want to do Daddy.” But Brett asked her “But what do YOU want me to do.” Still Breleigh kept her position in neutral. Breleigh didn’t remove herself from that neutral position until after the story started breaking that her father would be returning to play football with the Minnesota Vikings.

Brett and his family live on a farm in Mississippi. After the story broke, Brett and his daughter were sitting on their back porch. Breleigh had tears streaming down her face. Brett’s heart was touched my his baby girls’ tears. Breleigh told him in her tears, “Daddy, I wanted you to go back and win one more Super Bowl.” Brett breathed a sigh of relief and asked her why she didn’t tell him that before. She replied “I didn’t want to make that decision for you.”

Before Brett boarded a private plane that would take him to Minnesota, he dropped his daughter off at school. With tears welling up in his eyes, his daugther said to him, “Daddy, it is going to be fine. You do what you have to do and we will be up there soon enough!”

Oh, the wisdom of a child. Comforting her father and reassuring him that they would be ok even if they had to be apart for a short time!

Jesus Christ does the same thing with us. He gives us all the information that we need and stands by sometimes when it seems like He is silent giving us an opportunity to make decisions believing that we will make the right one. Jesus put situations and information before us to help us make the right decisions. Breleigh wasn’t satisfied to see her Dad just go back to play football but to win the ultimate prize in football, the Super Bowl. The Lord is always believing that for us. He just doesn’t want us to settle for the medicore but go for the very best!

Whatever decision that you are contemplating, the Lord is with you and believing that you will make the decisions that will bring blessing and life to you! Each decision can take you to your own Super Bowl!

Deuteronomy 30:19 (King James Version)
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Breleigh Favre with her Dad Brett and sister Brittany last year

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