Vision: You Carry The Next Move of God!

The Christian life in 2025 demands more than passive participation; it requires vision, defined as a mental picture of a future state that is forceful enough to mold the present. Without this vision, people perish, casting off restraints and boundaries. This vision, sourced from the prophetic revelation of the Holy Spirit, is essential for spiritual effectiveness, personal success, and participation in the “next move of God”.

The key to unlocking divine vision and fulfilling one’s life purpose lies in making seven critical separations, mirroring the progressive journey of Abraham, the father of faith.

1. The Core of Vision: Revelation and Purpose

Vision is not mere human aspiration but a divine gift necessary for escaping stagnation and fulfilling eternal purpose.

Vision Defined

Vision is a mental picture of your future state that is forceful enough to mold your present. The Bible warns that where there is no vision, the people perish (cast off restraint), meaning they lack direction and focus. This vision originates from a Hebrew word of revelation and is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

The Universal Impact of Vision

A person with vision changes the world. Vision is necessary for aligning with God’s design for one’s life, which is “larger than the one you’ve been living”. This spiritual guidance impacts every aspect of life, including financial, business, government, community, education, social services, and political spheres.

Those who live with a clear sense of purpose are generally healthier and happier, mitigating issues related to mental health. God has designed a plan for every life, and regardless of a person’s beginning—whether starting out as a teenager with a child out of wedlock in a trailer—what matters is where they end up.

The Danger of Perishing

The consequences of lacking vision and casting off restraints are severe. The sources provide modern examples of societal collapse, such as states allowing abortions up to nine months or sanctioning gender changes for young children without parental consent. Jesus warned that it is better for a millstone to be hung around one’s neck than to hurt a little child or be a stumbling block to one of these little ones. Complicity or silence on such issues is a serious offense to God.

2. The Pattern for Breakthrough: Separation Brings Revelation

Spiritual blindness is often caused by disobedience or carrying something/someone God commanded the believer to relinquish. The pattern for achieving revelation is simple yet radical: Separation always brings revelation.

The Abrahamic Principle: Lot’s Separation

Abraham’s full inheritance could not be revealed until Lot was separated from him. Lot, described as a “leech” and a symbol of disobedience, had attached himself to Abraham despite God’s clear instruction for Abraham to leave his kinfolk.

• The Veil: Lot’s actual name means “to wrap, to cover, to conceal, to veil”. As long as the “Lot” (disobedience, past attachments, hidden agenda) remains in a person’s life, they cannot see or possess the land God has promised.
• The Revelation-Worship Cycle: When a believer separates from the world and from things God has commanded them to leave, this separation brings revelation (a clarity of vision). This revelation, in turn, leads to worship, which brings exaltation, thus restarting the cycle.

The Seven Separations for Spiritual Sight

Abraham’s spiritual journey required seven critical decisions of separation before he reached the climax of commitment at Mount Moriah. These requirements are vital for preventing spiritual blindness today:

1. Separate from your Country (Culture): Leaving the pervasive influence of worldly culture (Genesis 12).
2. Separate from your Kindred (Family Dependence): God’s original command was to leave family associations that hindered obedience.
3. Separate from Egypt (The World): Rejecting the values and systems of the world.
4. Separate from Lot (Disobedience): Loosing the person or situation that God never sanctioned.
5. Separate from a Desire to Get Wealth: Avoiding the lust for material gain.
6. Separate from Ishmael (Human Expediency): Ishmael represents doing things in one’s own power to fulfill God’s promise, creating long-term problems [19, 20, Conversation History].
7. Separate from Isaac (Worship in its Purest Sense): This was the hardest test, requiring the surrender of the most precious thing, which leads to the ultimate test of worship [21, Conversation History].