WHEN GEHAZI BECAME A STORY TELLER!

(CONSEQUENCE OF A FRACTURED VISION)

These two (2) things I find touching and true about VISION:

1.      The blessedness of VISION is that it becomes clearer with time.

For now it may appear incomprehensive, but never assume that for an obstacle. When it is time, it unfolds.

“The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come...” (Habakkuk 2:3).

For as long as the devil has no power over time; he can neither slow nor fast-forward time; he has no power over the timing of your vision. When it is time, those things that seemed not to have been clear will naturally become clear.

2.      And then the undoing of VISION is that a VISION can grow dim and fade away with time.

This was what happened to the vision of Eli and Isaac; their eyes (visions) became dim with time (Gen. 48:10; 1 Sam. 3:2; 4:15).

But this was never the case with Moses; “And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated” (Deut. 34:7).

This is the reason you find many vibrant and strong men whose strength and vision collapsed with time and became history. Many who had great visions to accomplish many years ago have had their visions swallowed up in the tides of time, locked up somewhere, or replaced with something else.

Many visions are in prisons, where prisons stand for marriages, careers, relationships, etc. This is why you find many people talking about what they used to do (in the past) and not what they are doing at the moment. Rather than end up as impact makers they have become story tellers in their generation. Dear friend, what has swallowed up those beautiful visions you had years ago?

I remember Gehazi; a man that would have succeeded Elisha and made a generational mark in his time and time to come. He lost it; he lost the word; he missed his destiny. Gehazi became a story teller in his generation:

“And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. And it came to pass as he was telling the king... ” (2 Kings 8:4, 5a).

Gehazi, instead of becoming a prophet telling the king what God says, he became a story teller employed by the king to tell him what he (the king) wants to hear. This is what many ministers have become today...they tell people stories and things their ears are itching to hear rather than the message of God.

Friend, perhaps you have to go back and rebuild the tabernacles of broken visions in your life. There may be a need to dream again. It may be necessary to come out of some things that have imprisoned your visions. May you not become like Gehazi...may you not become a story teller in your generation. May your vision not be fractured in Jesus’ name.

#Run with your vision; the time remaining is short.

I wish you all a beautiful week.

@treasuredhouse