The Essence and Discipline of Vision
📌 True vision is the ability to "see farther than your eyes can look," allowing creativity and new things to come into existence by seeing what is currently absent.
🧘‍♀️ Corey ten Boom’s energy secret was: "Look down and be oppressed, look around and be depressed, look up and be at rest," emphasizing that living by sight leads to depression.
🎯 Vision helps in decision-making, as the greatest gift—the power of choice—is dangerous without it; the average person makes 7,000 to 10,000 decisions daily.
📜 The reality of life is that you are the "sum total of all the decisions you make every day," meaning decisions must align with ultimate desires.

Vision, Discipline, and Decision Making
📌 Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 6:12: "Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial," meaning life should be controlled by what is beneficial.
✅ Benefit is defined as anything that contributes to the fulfillment of your ultimate desire (e.g., achieving a specific weight loss goal).
🛑 Never enter a restaurant or start your day without a vision of your future outcome; "where there is no vision the food will perish in your system."
🛡️ Discipline is defined as "self-imposed standards and self-imposed restrictions... motivated by a desire that is greater than all the others" (or the alternatives).

Preparation and Manifestation
➡️ Preparation is proof of belief and the highest act of faith; one does not truly believe in a vision until they begin preparing for it (e.g., education, changing associations).
🦅 True visionaries are often seen as paradoxical or insane because their imaginary world is more real to them than current reality; they are the eagles who fly high alone.
✍️ Vision is an "internalized clear mental image of a preferable future" that is imparted by God through inspiration.
🚶‍♂️ The key to moving forward is to speak of a greater future; for example, stating, "there cometh a business after this one that is greater than the one I have."

Key Points & Insights
➡️ The poorest man in the world is not the one without money, but the one without vision (Proverbs 29:18 equivalent: Where there is no vision, the people perish).
➡️ Your vision determines your future; one student saw poverty in India and envisioned a shoe business opportunity, becoming a multimillionaire, while his companion only saw suffering.
➡️ Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen; pleasing God requires acting based on what others cannot yet see.
🎁 God rewards those who bring Him things no one else can see by doing "above and beyond, exceedingly above beyond all that you can ever ask or think or imagine" (Ephesians 3:20).

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