LEADERSHIP TRAINING SEMINAR- VISION
instructor: Barr. James Essien
This blog is inspired by the holy spirit.
A lot of people go on from institutions to institutions, places to places, nations to nations, to learn and understand leadership. but your leadership is actually within you, it is inside of you.and that is principally because of the way God works. the function of everything, the lord our God puts it in the thing.
for you to understand and find that leadership, one of the critical thing you need to understand is VISION.
So what is Vision?
'' vision is the unfolding of God's master-plan for a man"
"having a clear picture of a preferable future"
"vision is a foresight".
The word vision is predicated on 3 principles, when you talk about vision there are 3 things that comes to mind:
1. Hindsight(LOGOS)
2. The Insight (RHEMA)
3. The Foresight
If you have an understanding of the hindsight which gives you a development of the insight, it would be easy to have an understanding of the foresight. the hindsight talks about the past and that is why people study history. Daniel said: i understood by the books. Daniel 9:2 . that is hindsight. when you study the bible, what you get is an understanding by the books or the letters. it is not just the hindsight, it's what we call the LOGOS. Apostle Paul described it as the letters. he says: the letters killeth but the spirit giveth life. so if i memorize all the books in the bible, all i have taken in is LOGOS. As a minister, you must be have logos(the written word). that logos is meant to give you hindsight. whenever there is a prophecy, you test it with what is written in the logos. Jesus quoted from the logos when he preached in the synagogue from Isaiah 61
THE CONCEPT OF INSIGHT
insight talks about the revelation you get from the logos, it is called RHEMA.so when you study the logos,i.e hindsight at times rhema jumps out to you. If you have the logos, it is not sufficient to give the people the logos because it means death, so as a minister, you need to spend time with the lord to receive a rhema for the people. they rhema is a revelation coming out of the logos.
if a man has proper logos and spend time with he lord to access rhema, he will have words of knowledge, wisdom, and revelation of the things that are yet to come. the lord would be giving him foresight. as a minister or leader, you'll need this 3 concepts and have an understanding of the bible, but that letter is not sufficient. so what you need to go forward is RHEMA.As ministers of our God you need to move beyond the LOGOS.
That means you are compel to spend time in the presence God. there is a rhema for your life, which has to do with leadership. once you receive a mandate for your life start to run with it. that is why the lord input the function of a thing in it. your capabilities is in built in you,when a bird comes out of it's shells it starts to fly. when Messi gets the ball, he does something magical with it. you see, your leadership is within you. your hindsight actually weigh down your ability to be innovative. whatever you don't understand you tend to worship.
INSIGHT FROM SCRIPTURES
there is a different from what you learn, and the rhema you get from scriptures. God is expecting us as ministers to bring a revealed word from scriptures, a fresh word from his throne. faith comes by the revealed word of God. how do you want to be a minister, when you don't have rhema?
like in the life of Abraham, most things the lord reveals to his people in form of rhema and foresight may not be reasonable, it could be unthinkable, that why we can understand why Sarah laughed.
All they people want the rhema, because it is something you can hold unto for hope. as you study the word of God, listen for rhema, eyes that look are many but eyes that can see are few. ears that hear are many but ears that can see hear are few. living by the spirit is the most economic way to live. why would you buy a flight ticket to travel all the way to Lagos just for a meeting that wont hold, when the holy spirit could have foretold you the outcome of events. that is why we need to understand rhema as ministers.
The way you handle your VISION is backed by how you handle , your insight, hindsight and foresight. the hindsight gives you understanding. when the lord promises you a thing, and you have an understanding of it, you can certainly run with it.
what is the lord saying today(rhema). that is the word for the nations. there must be a revelation for today. we must become people of revelation. people that have insights to upcoming events. the word of prophecy is the foresight that the lord gives you and it comes to pass. In understanding your vision, you have the hindsight by books, which gives you an understanding of the insight the rhema and beyond the rhema we have the foresight. what you are seeing.
The eyes that look are many, but the eyes that see are few. pray for the lord to give you a clear VISION as a minister or leader. praise the Lord.
please kindly share your rhema, ideas by commenting below.
other events that took place includes
Barr. James Essien
praying for to-be-Barristers - Ubon Peters and Emmanuel Abasiubong as
they leave for Law School. The entire Seed Royal pray that the Lord
bless and keep you in Jesus' name... Thanks for your contributions to
Seed Royal Squad.
David welcoming the First Times on Friday, 9/11/'12. Good to have them...
THE LETTER KILLETH , IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT GIVETH LIFE
