There are three visions, three perspectives you need to have if you want to work for God: a vision of God, of the world and of what God can do through you. Most of you are younger than me, so I want to talk to you as a father, grandfather! I want to show you what vision can do in your life. If you do not have a clear vision and purpose, you will achieve nothing for God. I want to give you a clear vision for your future, of what God wants to do, and I want you to live with this vision for the rest of your life!

Original Air Date 13 March 2015. God sees your potential, what you can be when He touches you. God is always seeing the future. When you were lost in sin God saw something in you He wanted; He knows your value, He bought you at a high price, you are precious to Him. If only you knew what God sees in you, if you could see yourself as He sees you, not as you see yourself or how others see you; what a difference it would make in your life if you would recognise your potential with God!

'The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.' (Psalm 103:8-12, NKJV.)

'Mercy' used by kind permission of Vinesong

God is today saying to the Church EXACTLY what He was saying here to Israel through the prophet Haggai! I want to challenge you, every one of you – who is there still here in Britain (or wherever you are) who saw the Glory of God in this land, who saw the Power of God in the churches, who saw the repentance, who saw the demonstration of the Holy Spirit? I would say to you, what do you see now? Desolation. You don’t hear a call to repentance, you don’t see the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. I would say to you – the Glory has gone. And God is saying in this Scripture in Haggai, the Glory has departed from the House of God! WE are the House of God. And the Glory has gone! We have got to bring back the Glory and the Power into the House of God!

In Proverbs 29.18 we read, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ We need a strong vision – or the churches, the believers – and the rest of the world – will perish.

When Moses sent out twelve spies to view the Promised Land they all saw the same thing, a land flowing with milk and honey, with corn and grapes. They also all saw the walled cities and the giants. The difference was in the reaction. For ten, their fear of the giants and walled cities dimmed their vision. We cannot do it, it is impossible, we will be overcome. Only two, seeing the same thing, recognised the power and authority of God so that their vision of God’s power blotted out their fear. In His Name and by His power nothing is impossible, we shall overcome. It is just the same today. If we really knew our God and had a vision of Him, we would attempt the impossible and take the land! It is only this kind of vision which obeys in faith that will win the unbelieving nations and people, today.