WRITE THE
VISION DOWN :
some
thoughts on bringing a vision into reality
by Grace Wiebe, July 2007-
** All Scriptures from NIV unless otherwise stated **
INTRO: A COUPLE REASONS WHY MANY VISIONS DON'T DEVELOP
Over the years, the more I network and assist in resourcing people into helping them (especially musicians and artists) to move in the direction of their visions and into carrying them out, the more I find that although many artists (perhaps most artists) tend to have a lot of vision, many of them are frustrated and do not seem to be able to get many of their ideas past the idea stage and into the implementation stage.
I believe there are various reasons for this. The following is far from a comprehensive article about this and merely touches on a few points which I trust will prove helpful for you.
One of the reasons vision often does not get carried out is due to the following:
VISIONARIES & IMPLEMENTERS - 3 types generally
My observation over time has been that there seem to be 3 types of people, generally.
1. Visionaries,
2. implementers who help to bring the visionary's visions into reality; and
3. visionaries who are also administrative enough to bring their own visions
into reality.
If you see yourself in a particular category, that may be helpful for you in that you may realize that if you are, for example, a visionary who does not have very strong implementation gifts as a part of your gift-mix, you may want to ask God to provide someone who shares the vision on your heart to team up with you as a complimentary implementer to help bring the vision into being.
Or if the vision is too large for just you, even if you're a visionary/implementer mix, you may want to ask the Lord to raise up a team of people that share the vision who will work with you to bring it into reality.
There are various levels of vision, as alluded to above, and so you would do well to inquire of the Lord to find out what type of vision it is that He is putting on your heart. If He wants you to have assistance, He will let you know as you go, and lead you in the directions He wants you to take in seeing Him raise up a person or group of people to work with you to share in carrying out the vision with you.
Having said that, I believe that one of the main reasons for visions not coming into reality is much simpler than that, and one which can be quite easily resolved. Again, this is just one of the various reasons why a vision may not have come into being, but I do believe it is a major one.
That is the whole practice of writing the vision down.
We see an example of this in Habakkuk 2:2,3"Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets SO THAT a herald may run with it. 3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay..."
(Amplified version) " 2And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision and engrave it so plainly upon tablets that everyone who passes may [be able to] read [it easily and quickly] as he hastens by. 3For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end [fulfillment]; it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait [earnestly] for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day…"
How many of you get ideas and visions in your heads / hearts which you feel are great ideas or which you feel are inspired? You may be sleeping, driving car, be 'presently indisposed', or doing something else which also demands your time and attention, and you think that it is such a good or inspired idea that you won't forget it and so you plan to write it down when you can get to it.
Like me, if you have experienced this, likely you have also learned that if you don't get up to write it down or make the efforts to write it down wherever you are or in the midst of whatever you're doing, you will most likely lose the thought - in many cases, for good!
So I would like to encourage you to WRITE IT DOWN as soon as possible.
Some
of the helpful aspects of writing it down are:
+ the idea / vision is reinforced as your brain has to think about how to
word it when you write it down;
+ it is reinforced as your whole body works together to make efforts to write
it down;
+ the actual act of writing it down helps to reinforce it through action and
then enables you to also visualize it - you may even find yourself saying
it in your head or out loud as you're writing it down - more reinforcement;
+ once it's written down it is no longer clogging your brain or causing you
undue stress as you try to remember it since you can now go to your IDEA place
and find your ideas on paper or on a computer file in order to take them to
future steps of development.
Let's look again at the Habakkuk passage to find out WHY he was told to 'write the vision down'.
Habakkuk 2:2,3"Then the LORD replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets…. SO THAT…. a herald may run with it. 3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay..."
(Amplified version)
" 2And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision and engrave it
so plainly upon tablets that everyone who passes may [be able to] read [it
easily and quickly] as he hastens by. 3For the vision is yet for an appointed
time and it hastens to the end [fulfillment]; it will not deceive or disappoint.
Though it tarry, wait [earnestly] for it, because it will surely come; it
will not be behindhand on its appointed day…"
You will note that in the first instance it says "so a herald may run with it", and in the second version it says "that everyone who passes may be able to read it quickly and easily as he hastens by".
This brings to mind remembrances of the tablets of rock onto which God wrote the Ten Commandments…
This thought of a herald running with the vision can be worked out in contemporary society and in our lives, as well, in numerous other ways. As the initial ideas or vision are written down, because they are not lost by being forgotten, they can indeed be developed further.
Ideas
can then be developed into:
+ simple to complex visions,
+ proposals,
+ announcements,
+ promotions,
+ marketing,
+ blueprints,
+ drama or movie scripts,
+ all manner of art works,
+ sermons,
+ scientific discoveries,
+ inventions,
Etc.
HOW DOES WRITING THE VISION / IDEAS DOWN HELP TO DEVELOP AND HELP IMPLEMENT THE VISION?
An example of how writing down the initial idea / vision helps one to develop and implement the larger vision is that of the use of a blueprint in architecture.
The idea of an initial type of building at a specific location, perhaps, comes to someone's mind. They write it down and as more ideas of what they want in the building or what its uses will be come to mind, they write that down. They then 'run with the written down vision' to a 'herald' - either a project planner/manager or architect, etc. The initial ideas are then shared among a team of people and once they share the vision, the vision is further developed into a blueprint - without which the building could never be developed / implemented! But this blueprint would have never come into being if the initial idea wasn't written down and passed along.
Once the blueprint is ready, the project manager communicates to the team knows what needs to be done and what is expected and they are able to get to work to fulfill the vision!
I believe that it is because many people have not written down the initial ideas / visions, that they were never able to get to the blueprint stage, and therefore the vision was never able to be implemented! This is a crucial aspect in seeing our visions coming into reality, from my perspective.
SOME WAYS THAT YOUR LIFE MAY EXPRESS YOUR VISIONARY / IMPLEMENTING GIFTS
Personally, by God's grace He has given me the benefit of being both a visionary and an implementer. Therefore I am able to come alongside others to help implement their visions, as well as implement some of the visions on my heart. Or I may see God raise up a team to implement larger visions that I can't do on my own but which He wants me to lead or facilitate where we share the vision.
I have found, over the past nearly 30 years, that writing the vision, dream or ideas down, helps to give me a starting point. It also helps to free up my mind to be able to more easily receive more of the vision than if I don't write it down and instead try to remember it on my own. Trying to remember seems to cause unnecessary stress and is usually unsuccessful and frustrating, anyway.
However, even if it is inconvenient to wake up in the middle of the night in order to write the vision down, then I can sleep the rest of the night and focus on praying further about the idea or vision at some later time.
I also find that writing it down seems to be almost like an initial mini step of faith expressing that I'm willing to look into the idea or vision further and willing to potentially take steps in that direction, depending on how the Holy Spirit may lead as I ask Him further about that. It shows some level of commitment to cooperate with Him on something He may be doing, in a way which goes beyond an excited response to the initial thought or vision which is not written down.
I find, personally, that once I write down the idea or vision, it is often not long after that (sometimes hours or even minutes, though it can be days, months or years, too!) that much more of the vision or further ideas are almost 'downloaded' or 'dictated' to me, or I am shown them and it is just a matter of writing them down as they come.
Often the order of how things should move forward becomes clear as I keep writing things down as they come to me, and then I'm able to discern which my next steps are to be to get me going in the right direction. As the process continues and as I continue to take steps of faith and obedience, the next steps continue to be revealed as needed.
I have learned that the time of writing down what is coming to your mind / heart is not the time to evaluate the ideas but just to write then down. After the writing stops, I can prayerfully evaluate them later on and run them by godly counselors when the time is right and once I've had a chance for the thoughts to become clear enough to be able to communicate them somewhat coherently to others.
Sometimes, the initial idea or vision will come to mind, and the rest will start coming to mind almost as soon as I write down the idea / vision - as mentioned above.
Other times, the idea may be on my idea file on paper or on a computer file for a long time, seemingly doing nothing, until all of a sudden something may happen to bring it up again and take it to another step. This is not always the case, but how it sometimes happens - suddenly the Holy Spirit will remind me of the initial idea or vision and will add some thoughts / ideas / vision to it. This may happen many times, and may happen over a few or many years, regarding the same idea / vision!
I have found that although some of the visions on my heart have come into being quite quickly - ie. a year or two, most of them seem to take 7-10 or more years before they get to the place where they are ready to be 'launched' (though there is usually some level of background foundation-laying going on to some degree for some years before the initial 'launch')…some I'm still waiting for I've waited for for over 20 or 30 years!
It seems like most of my adult life has been spent laying foundations for various visions, dreams, ministries, businesses, etc.
At the same time, much foundation-laying has also happened at a time when some of the other visions were being launched, growing or being moved forward by others.
Graciously, God has also enabled me to see many of the visions of my heart coming into being over the years - though usually not in my pre-conceived sense of timing of when I thought it would happen. They usually take a lot longer to come into being than I had anticipated, and that is another reason why the Hab. passage, above, has been such an encouragement to me many times over the years!
It is clear that we must WAIT for His timing! (We are familiar with the passage about His days being like a thousand years??!! - well, sometimes it sure seems like it!! - 2 Peter 3:8) Waiting is a theme in Scripture, and waiting for His timing for visions to come into being is a major part of His training and character-building for us, and an amazing way for us to come to know Him more deeply.
Some of the visions that have been on my heart for years, too, sometimes came into being through others that I had shared the vision with many years earlier. Although I had hoped to be a part of seeing the vision coming into being, that is not always God's way.
Sometimes it seems He uses me to be a catalyst to see some things begin, but doesn't allow me to be a part of seeing it coming into being after the initial stage - for whatever His reasons may be.
Sometimes He allows me to develop visions to a point and then brings someone else in to continue to run with it, and sometimes He enables me to do the whole thing from beginning to end (though not often, it seems)! I never know, at the beginning, which it will be, though sometimes I get a sense of that. It all depends what God is up to with that particular situation.
Although it can be painful to have to watch others 'birth' the visions on my heart, or to see them 'grow the babies I have birthed', over time I have come to increasingly realize that it doesn't really matter who moves it forward or implements it, as long as it is done His way, by those whom He has raised up for such a time, and done for His glory. Whatever the situation is, I need to be willing to let God do it HIS way. It is His prerogative to do it as He wishes. I should not let myself get so attached to the vision that I'm not willing to let it go if He asks me to do so, otherwise it has become an idol.
Even if I did all the foundation-laying and invested and sacrificed for it, that doesn't give me the 'right' to keep hanging onto if God is asking me to let it go so He can have someone else run it and move me onto something else.
We are told in Scripture that in evangelism and discipleship it is some that plant, some that water, etc. I believe it is the same kind of thing with vision and bringing visions to fulfillment…God may use some to get it started, others to develop it, etc.
God can do it however He thinks best - for the sake of everyone involved. He knows the big picture and what He intends to see happening through the vision and those He wants to be a part of it.
We don't know His reasons for doing it differently than we had thought He would do it, but it certainly forces us to the place where we come to discover whether it is all about Him or about us. These processes often move us to see how much our identities are wrapped up in what we DO rather than in who we ARE in Him.
Although some aspects of how the vision comes are alluded to above, and although there are undoubtedly other ways this happens, here are a few things which you may find happens to you or which it might encourage you to recognize:
+ I believe a big part of getting creative ideas and visions from the Lord is to ask Him to reveal His vision, ideas, creativity, etc. to your heart for His glory, and to let Him know that you are willing to show Him that you will take it seriously and begin by writing down the initial thoughts, ideas, visions, etc. and trust Him to lead you as you continue to ask Him for direction step by step.
+ generally we seem to get more ideas or visions, etc. when our hearts / minds are at rest - (Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God;..") Our redeemed imagination / the 'eyes of our hearts' / God-given creativity is most ready to receive revelation from God when our hearts are quieted before Him or when we aren't focused on other things - like during showers, driving, .
(Ephesians 1:17, 18, 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints…")
+ Take note of this
very interesting phrase below: "…will WATCH to SEE what He will
SAY within me…" Does this make sense? See what He will SAY??
Habakkuk 2 : 1"[OH,
I know, I have been rash to talk out plainly this way to God!] I will [in
my thinking] stand upon my post of observation and station myself on the tower
or fortress, and will watch to see what He will say within me and what answer
I will make [as His mouthpiece] to the perplexities of my complaint against
Him…."
But that is what it
says, and I believe it also says this elsewhere. The idea, though, in this
passage is that he is receiving input / revelation /
vision from the Lord and the 'eyes of his heart' are obviously engaged. So
we need to be tuned to what God is wanting to reveal to us through the eyes
of our hearts.
+ Write the vision down
+ Keep praying about further detail as the Holy Spirit leads you and write down what He says - be alert to Him putting more thoughts and ideas on your heart at any time….be prepared by having a paper and pen handy if possible
+ Be prepared to wait for further detail, instruction, timing, potential connections, strategies, fulfillment, etc. -
Recognize that big, tall buildings need deeper and stronger foundations and therefore longer 'building time' than short or small ones… larger visions will require longer waiting / foundation-laying times than smaller visions
Many times when the vision first comes to us, it feels like it is imminent and so we start working to see it come into being because it feels like it's to happen NOW.
However, it usually doesn't come into being for a long time…and unless we understand the process, we can go through times of feeling very disillusioned and devastated if things go extremely differently than we had anticipated.
In the beginning, we can get a very romantic and unrealistic view of the vision…we can get so excited about it and it can almost feel like being 'in love', that we can find ourselves thinking about it all the time as we tend to do when we are infatuated.
I think it's the grace of God that at this initial point we don't seem to have a realistic view of the vision, otherwise we'd undoubtedly not be interested and instead run in the other direction! But since we initially feel as enamored as we often tend to about the vision, we are interested, excited and perhaps open to seeing God lead us in those directions…it helps us through the waiting periods and the various processes that are a part of the journey.
As when God told Abraham to 'go' to a land even though he had no specific directions at that point, we are expected to follow God and WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT, and take one step at a time and learn to follow Jesus, THE WAY.
As we go, reality starts to sink in, but when we realize that Jesus is walking with us each step of the way as we trust in Him, the realities and impossibilities seem to add to the adventure instead of pushing us the other direction.
The waiting process includes things like:
Knowing God - we are told to "grow in the grace and knowledge of God" (2 Peter 3:18)?and 2 Peter 1:3?"…His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." This is a huge priority that God wants to further develop in our lives in our waiting processes. The more we truly KNOW HIM as The Way, The Truth and The Life, etc., the more He will be able to do through us because through our intimate knowledge of Him we have EVERYTHING WE NEED for life and godliness and to see the visions He's put on our hearts accomplished!
Submitting to God - this a major thing that God seems to do with us during the time that He first gives us a vision to when it is launched, etc. It includes purifying our motivations and further developing His godly character in us. He has to prepare, train, equip us and make us ready to handle the vision in ways which will bring honor to Him.
Are we willing to lay down the vision if He asks us to? Are we willing to lay down our pride or how others might praise us for what we've accomplished? etc. - our gold nuggets, etc. (see Job 22 below)? This can (even visions and ideas from God) can EASILY become an idol in our lives.
Are we doing this for our own enjoyment and fulfillment, for His glory? To help others? As a step of faith and obedience to Him? All of the above, some of the above?
Are our lives bearing the fruit of the Spirit in our lives? Is His humility, gentleness and patience flowing out of us? Or are we trying to make a name for ourselves and willing to step on others to get to where we want to be? Are we willing to wait for God's timing and resources or are we trying to manipulate people or criticize them to get what we want?
He will likely be addressing these and many other things in the process, so it is good to also know the amazing promises He gives us, to bring encouragement along the journey.
I have found that He tends to bring a good mix of encouragement, hope, blessing, comfort, training and equipping and all sorts of other good things alongside the tougher aspects!
A passage which He has given me often through the years in parts of these waiting processes is Job 22: 21 "Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you. 22 Accept instruction from his mouth - and lay up his words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored: If you remove wickedness far from your tent 24 and assign your nuggets to the dust, your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines, 25 then the Almighty will be your gold, the choicest silver for you. 26 Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty and will lift up your face to God. 27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows. 28 What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways. 29 When men are brought low and you say, 'Lift them up!' then he will save the downcast. 30 He will deliver even one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."
Some other things He will likely address in the waiting process:
Learning to wait on God in deeper ways - which will include learning to TRUST HIM more deeply, and learning NOT to lean on your own understanding (Prov. 3:5,6). This will also include learning to become more obedient to Him and to follow HIS lead and not do our own thing in moving forward with the vision.
Learning to discern God's timing
Another part of that is learning more about His timing, which the Bible has a lot to say about - Some Thoughts on Understanding the Importance of God's Timing in Your Life.
Learning to exchange our weakness for His strength
Other parts of the waiting process include learning the wonder and freedom of experiencing GOD'S STRENGTH in the midst of our weaknesses (helpful Scriptures on weakness) and learning to deeper experience HIM as our competence, instead of relying on our own competence. (2 Corinthians 3:5 "Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God." Hebrews 4:16 "Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.")
Learning to become increasingly dependent on Him
Along with that is the continuous learning curve of becoming increasingly dependent on Him - not only personally but for the vision to come to fulfillment. In fact, the more impossible the vision seems or is, the more God will be glorified in and through us as we depend on Him and see HIM bring it to pass, instead of seeing us attempt to bring it about in our own strivings.
The kernel of wheat must fall into the ground and die before it can bear much fruit
There will likely be times in the waiting process when He asks you whether you would be willing to lay down the vision if He asked you to. Sometimes that seems to be a time where He just wants to know whether you WOULD be willing to lay it down, but He may not in fact ask you to do so.
There are, however, other times when He does indeed ask us to lay it down and let it die….and sometimes this is just before it would have been launched, or after it has been moving forward and functioning.
These can indeed be very painful times and I have gone through both kinds numerous times. Knowing about these kinds of times, beforehand, may be of some encouragement while going through them, but it won't take away the pain.
Although I have never born physical children, I imagine that some of these experiences of having gone through the pregnancy stages of a birth of a vision, or even bringing it into being past the delivery stage, only to have to let it die or see it die, must include some very similar feelings to going through a miscarriage or to having delivered a stillborn child. There is certainly some grief that we need to walk through as we seek God's healing at these times.
I have also gone through various church planting situations which we as the churches felt were to end before the vision was anywhere near fulfillment. For these churches and especially the leaders, it was difficult to deal with and many tended to feel like failures.
Often we seem to think that anything that ends before we think it should, is a failure, but that is not always the case! God has stopped things at times when they looked like total failures - but then ended up bringing greater glory to Himself by resurrecting people and visions, etc. from the dead! His life also looked like it was a failure and that the vision was aborted - but that was not God's perspective! Lazarus was raised back to life after he had been dead for 4 days - it was a waaay better story that way!
If God asks us to shut down a vision before we think its time, may we find comfort in His perspective. For me, there has been comfort in the midst of this type of heart-wrenching pain through some of the following Scriptures:
John 12: 24 "I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds."
And even more encouraging is the following:
1 Cor. 15: 36 "…What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body."
Several years ago a good friend and long-time ministry co-worker and I felt directed to start a business focused on being part of advancing the Kingdom of God through reaching out into the marketplace through the arts.
For 3 years or so we both invested time, money, resources, prayer, etc. into laying the foundations - both of us focusing on starting a branch in a different country.
Just at about the time when this one felt like it was about to be launched shortly, and while the one she had started was moving forward, we both felt that God was asking us whether we would be willing to lay it down… As He confirmed that this is what He was asking us to do, we said 'yes' we were willing to lay it down if He asked us to do so. He proceeded to ask us to lay it down.
At first we weren't sure that it meant to let it die completely or just be put on hold or what, but it became apparent that He was asking us to let it die completely. It was very hard for both of us. I remember well the pain and the tears.
However, we were both encouraged in the midst of it by His reminders that even though we were asked to put our 'seed' into the ground to die, it would come up again - though it wouldn't look at all like we have envisioned it! It became clear that He wanted to do something even greater - but we had to be willing to let go of what we currently had in our hands and all of the history of getting it to where it had gotten to, and letting all of our resources go into the ground and die without having seen any investment into it at that point, and we needed to trust God with that!
We are looking forward to seeing that seed again, but in the future, in the form that God intended all along, and not just in the seed form which we had to bury in the ground…and we believe it will bear fruit, which it could not do as a seed!
Are you willing to pay the price to see the vision on your heart coming into being?
As seen above, as well, another aspect of the waiting process is that of God seeing whether we are really willing to invest and sacrifice our own personal time, resources, prayer, etc. to seeing the visions we feel He's put on our hearts come into being.
Some people have visions but seem to feel that they aren't able to start moving in any direction with what's on their hearts until they find someone or some people to fund them or do the work for them.
If you're one that feels you can't move forward unless there are already others there to resource and back you, I would encourage you to ask the Lord about it. If you're following His lead step by step, He will likely also lead you to sacrifice personally to see how serious you are about the vision He's putting on your heart. Then if He wants to bring others to work with you or resource you in the future, you will be more prepared for that in your heart, as well, on many fronts.
It WILL cost you to see your vision fulfilled, even done in God's timing and God's ways, but it will be worth it and the process of sacrificing will teach you things and develop things in your life which you may not have had to learn any other way.
Be praying for 'divine appointments' and divine resources
I believe that we can potentially save ourselves a lot of time and effort which would normally be spent 'spinning our wheels' trying to track down potential contacts / 'divine appointments/connections re the vision God has put on our hearts.
How can we spare ourselves this unnecessary effort?
Something I have learned to pray when God puts a new vision on my heart, is to pray for HIM to stir the hearts of those that HE has already chosen to be a part of this vision for His own reasons, and to prepare, equip, resource and train them for whatever His role for them is, so that in His timing, He will have us connect, and that He will confirm to their heart and mine that we're to work together as He leads.
Then, over time, as I keep praying, He often gives me names of people to pray about for specific roles, or in general as someone He may be raising up to be a part of the vision. As I keep praying, it is often amazing how He finally connects us - sometimes years after I first felt to start praying for them about this…and then to see how He quickly brings confirmation to our hearts about working together as the Holy Spirit leads. Again, things may work out differently than I / we had originally envisioned, but it often develops into even more than what was first envisioned.
The same thing has happened with regard to praying for specific needed resources at key times… Rather than pounding the pavement to track down what's needed, if we recognize that God already knows that the vision requires before the vision comes into being, so if we're asking Him to raise up the resources and resourcers in His timing, and to bring them to our attention when they're needed, it can be absolutely exhilarating to see Him work and this continues to encourage us in the vision and His ability to carry it out, too!
Testing what you've written with the Word, godly counselors, and receiving confirmations
The process of testing what you've written at many stages of the vision's development is very necessary and helpful, as well as often very encouraging.
The Bible talks about every matter being established between 2 or 3 witnesses, and I have found this to also be a helpful principle in testing steps I sense I'm to take regarding developing vision, etc.
Having a teachable, humble and obedient heart and a heart that desires to be a blessing to the Lord puts you into a place where God can easily lead you and do through you what He desires - "Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart."
Believing God can do the impossible
Luke 1: 37For nothing is impossible with God." 38"I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May it be to me as you have said." Then the angel left her….45Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!"
Trusting in God's promises, walking by faith & not by sight, and calling into being those things which are not as though they were…
2 Corinthians 1:20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God.
Romans 4:17 As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed-the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were."
And we are to walk as Jesus did! - 1 John 2:6 "Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did."
WHAT ARE SOME OTHER THINGS THE BIBLE SAYS WHICH REITERATE THE IMPORTANCE OF WRITING THINGS DOWN:
Exodus 17:14 Then the
LORD said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered
and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the
memory of Amalek from under heaven."
Exodus 34:1 The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like
the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first
tablets, which you broke.
Exodus 34:27 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for
in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
Deuteronomy 6:9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 17:18 When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write
for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priests,
who are Levites.
Deuteronomy 27:3 Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed
over to enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with
milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
Deuteronomy 27:8 And you shall write very clearly all the words of this law
on these stones you have set up."
Deuteronomy 31:19 "Now write down for yourselves this song and teach
it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for
me against them.
Joshua 18:4 Appoint three men from each tribe. I will send them out to make
a survey of the land and to write a description of it, according to the inheritance
of each. Then they will return to me.
Psalm 45:1 [ For the director of music. To the tune of "Lilies."
Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil. A wedding song. ] My heart is stirred by a
noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a
skillful writer
Psalm 87:6 The LORD will write in the register of the peoples: "This
one was born in Zion." Selah
Proverbs 3:3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your
neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.?
Isaiah 10:19 And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a
child could write them down.?
Isaiah 30:8 Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll,
that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.?
Isaiah 44:5 One will say, 'I belong to the LORD ';another will call himself
by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand, 'The LORD's,'
and will take the name Israel.?Isaiah 44:4-6 (in Context) Isaiah 44 (Whole
Chapter)
Jeremiah 30:2 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Write
in a book all the words I have spoken to you.
Ezekiel 43:11 ...and if they are ashamed of all they have done, make known
to them the design of the temple-its arrangement, its exits and entrances-its
whole design and all its regulations and laws. Write these down before them
so that they may be faithful to its design and follow all its regulations."
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