Vision | The Strategies of Heaven
I. Introduction
A. The importance of vision, and the start of a new series.
B. Battles and strategic moments.
C. The amazing thing is we serve a God who ___________ and gives us His strategy.
II. A look at the texts.
A. Acts 9:10-18
1. Jesus ___________ Himself to Saul.
2. Jesus appears to Ananias.
3. God reveals His ___________ for Saul.
B. Acts 10:1-6
1. Cornelius, a Roman army officer, has a vision, and an angel tells him to go and get ___________.
2. God ___________ Peter’s heart to go to a Gentile’s home.
3. God pours out His Spirit on ___________, as He did in Acts 2 on the 120 disciples of Jesus.
C. Acts 13:2-3
1. A church was started in Antioch that reached out to ___________.
2. Barnabas gets Saul to come and help in the work of God in Antioch.
3. The Holy Spirit calls them to go and establish ___________.
D. Acts 16:9-10
1. The Holy Spirit says no to Paul’s desire to go to Bithynia.
2. While in Troas, he has a ___________.
3. Paul goes to ___________.
4. This direction establishes Paul’s ministry for the rest of his ___________.
III. We see God as the master ___________.
A. He calls Saul, later known as Paul, to ___________ Gentiles.
B. He sends Peter to minister at a Gentile home, and the Gentiles are ___________ with the Holy Spirit.
C. A Gentile ___________ is started in Antioch, and, from there, Paul and Barnabas are sent out to establish churches that would be filled with Jews and Gentiles.
D. Paul is directed to Macedonia, which would ultimately lead him to start even more churches and have his greatest revival among Gentiles in ___________ that would touch all of Asia Minor with the gospel.
IV. God is speaking to us.
A. God has a vision and strategy for us. He ___________ us, has a ___________ for us, and in His ___________.
B. We are at ___________ and desperately need God’s strategy.
C. God has vision for us and strategies to bring about its fulfillment, but we must position ourselves to receive them.
1. Be like Cornelius, ___________, a ___________, a man who ___________.
2. Be like Ananias, who willingly ___________ God, even though he was afraid.
D. ___________ for God’s vision and strategy like Paul did because he desired to be in the center of God’s will.
E. Be ___________ to receive fresh vision and strategy.
1. Read God’s written ___________. It has God’s strategy for our life.
2. God can give you a ___________.
3. Be sensitive to the ___________ of the Holy Spirit.
4. Be open to ___________, and be in ___________.
5. God can lead through ___________.
6. He can lead us without our ___________ it.
F. Our current strategy to fulfill the vision of King’s.
1. Services.
2. Groups/Teams.
3. Leaders.