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

Isaiah 7:1-9

Today is a special day to the Catholic youth who are celebrating “World Youth Day.” Pope John Paul II initiated this occasion 23 years ago as a way of reaching young people with the message of the Gospel. Since that first World Youth Day, millions of young people have been touched and transformed by the love of God and the power of the Holy Spirit through this event.

Reading about this today made me think of this point.

The young people of our day are under attack by a vicious enemy that looks to warp their minds and steal their souls. If you are a parent, one of the main battle grounds of the enemy is his precarious plot to kill your seed.

Whether you have children or not, we all have those war zones where we feel the heat of the fire, from the enemy, by our own poor choices, and from the struggles that come with life.

But there is hope! The promises of God are yes and Amen. The Word will not fail us.

I took some notes from Isaiah 7:1-9 which strengthened my heart.

In this passage, King Ahaz is under attack by the Rezin, King of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. They wanted to to take over Judah to strengthen their own coalition against Assyria.

Because Ahaz, the ruler of the Davidic throne at this time, had no faith in God, the heart of the whole royal court shook–“moved with the wind.” (Isaiah 7:2)

Can you relate? I know I can. Many crushing issues from family to financial matters, have made me fearful resulting in my faith being paralyzed.

Back to this Scripture:

So God sent the prophet Isaiah to Ahaz with a powerful word to strengthen their faith. (Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God).

I believe this word is for the young people of our day, for parents who see the warped attack for their children’s hearts, and for anyone facing terrible circumstances which seem to never end.

Check out the words God gave to Isaiah to speak in verse 4 of Isaiah 7:

“Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria…..

The instructions are clear:

Take Heed – Be careful, be calm no matter what your senses see or feel.

Be quiet – The power of life and death is in your tongue as Proverbs says. Don’t just talk about the problems, have a plan of action and DO something.

Do not fear – Nothing kills faith quicker than fear.

Two Smoldering Stubs – The two enemies appeared to be like firebrands (something that can be used to start a fire that destroys). But these firebrands were merely smoking, about to die out completely.

Yes, the plan to walk through these shaking times are clear. So are God’s promises.

In this passage God has HIS Word on the line as He had foretold that Judah was HIS Remnant which would always be faithful to Him, and secure God’s Messianic promises to Abraham.

The final word from Isaiah to King Ahaz concerning the attack from these two enemy forces is the same word for you. Whether you are fighting attacks on your children, your family, your finances, your healing, or any insurmountable problem:

“Thus says the Lord God: It shall not stand, Nor shall it come to pass.

That has got to make you SHOUT! (Or at least run around the house a few times).

So look beyond what you see, even if your “senses give you no assurance.”

Continue to dream and believe that the Youth of today will be won to the Lord, that you will have your healing in your body or family, that you will get out of debt, that you will——(you fill in the blank).

Keep dreaming and walking to what God has ordained for you.

“To dream is not the phantoms of our brain but the outline of our divine destiny.”
–Jesse Duplantis, JDM Ministries–