Without A ION

You may have read it two or three times. Your thinking it is a mistake or a typo. Without a ion? But it is no error but an attention grabber. There are actually 3 ion(s) you need:

1. Vision
2. Passion
3. Disposition

Why? Because without these our lives are very vanilla, maybe even mundane. You say, "I like vanilla.." I say who goes into Baskins Robbins and orders vanilla? Only a ice cream hater could do such a thing. My granddaughter and I have an ongoing battle over this. Jisele loves choclate and I always order vanilla when we go to the local soft serve place. Why? Because I am too cheap to pay the 4 bucks for the Heath Bar Blizzard I really want! Even at 6 years old she asks for a chocolate cone and then wants it dipped in multi-colored sprinkles with an added layer of crunch coat! That is the way life was meant to be lived! But most of us have suffered enough hurt, enough disappointment, enough discouragement that we are happy to take the vanilla and not reach beyond for anything else.

That is why VISION is so important. It is the revelation that my life was meant for something big--really big. Something God-sized that is beyond me and above me, but by standing on His shoulders I can do it! But life has a way of sucking that out of a person. We are made to feel small early and often on our way to 'adulthood'. Solomon said that, "without a vision, people perish..."(Pr.29:18) When a person loses there vision, when there revelation doesn't pull them UP to the next level, a man will always fall to a lower level of living. I don't think anyone makes plans to BE a loser. But the world is full of people who have suffered enough loss that they simply give up. The thought is that it is better to not reach at all than reach and be disappointed again.

Oh how we need a fresh revelation of just how big our God is and how big His plans for us are. This is not to say that BIG is the defining issue of life. It is how we define big. I know big ministries that are not making a big impact on there city. It has nothing to do with the churches size as much as the size of its' heart. I heard the story of a 13 years old girl who was essentially the only Christian in her schools after hours Youth For Christ group. She earnestly prayed for a revival at her school and God answered and through a providential work of God nearly 100 kids got born again before the end of the year. That is living big. God has something hidden in His heart FOR you! It is not hidden from you but for you. Pray and ask God for a fresh vision of what that is.

I personally believe that the only difference between success and failure in any persons life is VISION. It does not matter how many times you have been knocked down. That is part of the whole process. Getting knocked down does not call your vision into question and make it less viable-- it refines it! It re-fuels it, and rejuvenates it. If it wasn't worth fighting for, than it wan't worth living for. Then it certainly isn't worth dying for. A God-sized, God-birthed vision is something you will be willing to die for, and you may die a thousand deaths before it is completed, but NEVER give up on your dream. If Joseph's life teaches us anything it is that. His dream took many hits, many unexpected turns, even suffered at the hands of his jealous brothers. But God's plan could not, would not be left unfulfilled. Remember his words to his brothers? "You meant it for evil BUT God meant it for GOOD!" God's good trumps evil EVERY time!

When God breathes His plan, His vision for your life it lights you up on the inside. This is what we call passion. Passion is the fire that fuels your dreams. Passion will keep you going when everyone else stops. Passion will pick you up when you fall down. Passion will remind you to LOOK UP and not look out, to look to HIM and not within. Passion will motivate, stimulate, and insulate you from the coldness of this world. You cannot name one achievement on this planet that did not take passion to get done. The world is a wasteland of people who have lost there passion and zeal for life. They are punch drunk and have taken a dive into hopelessness and despair. For many the fire in them has died and the only flicker left is a memory of what used to be. But God is taking those smoking flax's and dipping them afresh in the oil of His anointing. Then He is rekindling that fire so the world can see a light that is freshly burning.

Please ask God to light you up with heaven's passion. Ask Him to send the fire and send it NOW!
You can't live without it! It goes hand in hand of vision. Where there is vision there is passion and where you see passion you will find a vision! The world is waiting.

Which brings me to my last point: DISPOSITION. Disposition is a MINDSET. So many lose it here. That is why we are told to renew our minds(RO.12:1-2) The total transformation of your mind puts you in a mindset where you will PROVE what God's will is. Because of passivity many accept just anything and everything as it comes along. But think! If you have a God-given vision, and a God-fired passion you have been removed from the status quo of this world. Thus the word dis-position. Dis means to be removed from. When God moves into your life with a vision and passion He is taking you away from your previous position where you lived and walked in harmony with the enemy of your soul and this world. You are no longer walking in earthly reality but a KINGDOM reality.

Your removal from one position places you in position with another. God's will is that we walk in a KINGDOM reality. Our mindset is to worship Jesus. This is our 'reasonable service' which is our worship. Now I am not talking about that one hour a week when you raise your hands and sing choruses to Jesus. That is important and is the will of God. But so is how you live the rest of your life the other 167 hours in a week. How we treat our families is an act of worship. How we conduct ourselves on the job, in our personal lives, and when no one else is looking--that is all worship. Without the right disposition we can undo EVERYTHING very quickly by simply letting our thoughts go aside.

Your DISPOSITION says everything about where you are but most importantly where you are GOING! Many of God's people are simply stuck--all because of there disposition. They are operating out a heart that loves the Lord but a mindset that cannot let go of present or past hurts or selfish pleasures that cut against the vision and purpose for there life. If your mindset is such that you are allowing compromise and excuses to comprise your life---STOP! The end of that is you will ultimately sell your eternal spiritual birthright like Esau for a momentary pleasure. When your heart is hard, and your vision is blurred it is easy to fall into a MINDLESS outward obedience, but inwardly you know you are just going through the motions. You are faking it and your MINDSET is such that you rationalize and justify your present position even though you know it is WRONG! You need a new disposition and it is really not hard to identify it and get victory over it--because that is a mindset too!

Listen beloved, when God plants a vision inside you know the enemy of your soul will do EVERYTHING he can to remove you from it. When God burns a fire in you the devil will do all he can to quench it. When you get a mindset to worship God in spirit and truth, ole slewfoot will try to distract you.

But in closing listen to these words of Paul, "For which cause we faint not; though our outward man persih, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. For our LIGHT affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding weight of glory; while we look NOT at the things which are seen; but at the things which are NOT seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" 2 Cor.4:16-18


There are three things essential to a fulfilled life: 1.Vision 2.Passion 3.Disposition. These are eternal! God BLESS!