Vision | Open Our Eyes
Vision
“Open Our Eyes”
II Kings 6:13-17
Pastor Daniel Bracken
January 30, 2022
I. Introduction
A. Repetition and training.
B. Elisha sabotages the King of Aram’s plan.
C. The city of Dothan was surrounded for the purpose of capturing Elisha.
1. Elisha’s servant responds with ________.
2. Elisha’s response is one of ________
because he had ________.II. What is vision?
A. A ________
vision.B. A ________
vision.III. Vision is the beginning of the miracle.
A. God gives vision before He brings about the miracle.
1. Abraham.
2. Joseph.
3. ________.
B. Why does God do things this way?
1. It is His nature to do so: God ________,
God acts, God speaks again.a. Each step is a further disclosure of who God is and His ways: Vision is ________.
b. It is God’s way of saying we are ________
to Him: We are a part of the process.c. By God giving us vision, He is testing us to see if we will ________
Him or not.2. Vision ________
us when times get difficult.3. When the vision is fulfilled, God gets the ________,
not us.4. Vision has been the key to understanding this ministry.
IV. How does vision come?
A. Keep in mind that getting vision is a ________
because satan wants to rob you of vision.B. God gives us vision in four ways.
1. Through a ________:
seeing a need.2. Through a ________.
3. Through a ________ word.
4. Through an ________,
either personally or vicariously.V. True vision is a work of ________ ________, and we must keep vision burning brightly.
A. By seeking the Lord through ________
and prayer.B. By having ________
pray for us.C. By writing it down and speaking it forth.
D. By acting by the vision you have.