Some Times I Cry

Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

Sometimes lately when I'm alone I cry because I'm on my own. The tears I cry are bitter and warm they flow with life but take no form. I cry because my heart is torn no this no that with vision for love. A place, a race, that is difficult,welcome the gift to two carry on. If I had an ear to confide in , I would cry among my treasured friends but who do you know that stops that long ah, I know God! Sometimes I forget when the world moves fast and I think I would rather let it pass. You know to stop and see what makes you cry reminds why he died for our sins. It's painful and sad and sometimes I cry, "no one on this Earth even cares".

Have you ever been part of a team that didn't seem to make any progress? Maybe the group had plenty of talent, resources, and opportunities, and team members got along, but the group just never went anywhere. There's a strong possibility that the situation was caused by lack of vision.
Great vision precedes great achievement. Every team needs a compelling vision to give it direction. A team without vision is at worst, purposeless. At best, it is subject to the personal-and sometimes selfish-agendas of various teammates.
Author Ezra Earl Jones points out: "Leaders do not have to be the greatest visionaries themselves. The vision may come from anyone. The leaders do have to state the vision, however. Leaders also have to keep the vision before the people and remind them of the progress that is being made to achieve the vision. Otherwise, the people might assume that they are failing and give up."
If you lead your team, then you are responsible for identifying a worthy and compelling vision and articulating it to your team members.

God’s desire is to supply His people with every necessity. Even when it seems impossible. Even if our personal situation is parched as a barren desert, it will be supplied with water. As Isaiah 35:7 says, “The parched ground shall become a pool.” Isaiah uses such graphic terms to paint a picture of what God’s workmanship will mean in the lives of His repentant obedient people. It will mean more that physical provision. It means spiritual refreshing, growth and fruitfulness. When God causes the impossible with His creative power, it will be clear that He blesses His people. Then those who truly behold these wondrous events will understand and learn the lesson that He alone is the God who is active and able. He is a God who delivers His people.

The Lord has sufficient power, and is not confined to the order of nature, which He can easily change, whenever He thinks fit. For He says that he will make life-giving waters to flow on the tops of mountains, and fountains in valleys, and pools in deserts.
Listen to this poem and take hope that He is working in your difficult needy circumstances.

Sometimes life seems hard to bear,
Full of sorrow, trouble and woe
It’s then I need to remember
That it’s in the valleys I grow.

If I always stayed on the mountain top And never experienced pain,
I would never appreciate God’s love
And would be living in vain.

I have so much to learn
And my growth is very slow,
Sometimes I need the mountain tops,
But it’s in the valleys I grow.

I do not always understand
Why things happen as they do,
But I am very sure of one thing.
My Lord will see me through.

My little valleys are nothing
When I picture Christ on the cross
He went through the valley of death;
His victory was Satan’s loss.

Forgive me Lord, for complaining
When I’m feeling so very low.
Just give me a gentle reminder
That it’s in the valleys I grow.

Continue to strengthen me, Lord
And use my life each day
To share your love with others
And help them find their way.

Thank you for valleys, Lord
For this one thing I know
The mountain tops are glorious
But it’s in the valleys I grow!

Let’s apply these words to God’s working within us. God gives us a promise from His word which He transforms into His vision for us as we meditate upon it. Generally there is gap between the promise and its reality. When we begin to long for the fulfillment of that promise, we are not yet ready for it. Instead of the promise being immediately fulfilled in us, we need to entered into a valley of humiliation and preparation. It is during this time that Satan comes to us with his temptations, and we are inclined to think that there is no point in even trying to continue.

Then as surely as God is God, and you are you, you will turn out as an exact likeness of the vision. But don’t lose heart in the process.[If you have ever had a vision from God, you may try as you will to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never allow it. God’s saving work in His people is His testimony to the world that He is real and able. His wondrous blessings are kept for the poor in spirit, who long for Divine enlightening, pardon, empowerment, and holiness. God will pour forth His refreshing power into their barren souls and make them fruitful by the grace of His Spirit, that all who behold and consider it may know of His reality.

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