Holding on to the Heavenly Vision

AS WE ARE GETTING VERY CLOSE TO THE END OF THE ROAD

You have to remember that there is a reason and a plan and a purpose for everything that’s happening to you in life. It’s all planned‚ crafted, and allowed by Me, so that when you return to My realm, you will have gained valuable lessons, skills, and insight that you couldn’t have gotten any other way.

21. Keeping the heavenly vision is easy–it just takes faith! Feed your faith with the Word, and then take what the Word says at face value. Believe each of My promises to you, and know in your heart that everything I’ve said is the truth and is really going to happen.

When I ask you to “keep the heavenly vision,” I am in essence asking you to place My vision before you and to aim for and remind yourself of My goals and My ultimate plan. “Keeping the heavenly vision” means many things. Unlike looking through a telescope and seeing a magnified image of a vision far, far away, My heavenly vision is like stepping into a planetarium and looking up to see the colossal, limitless, magnified realities of outer space.
To keep the heavenly vision means to focus on Me above all. It means to put the things of the spirit before the things of the flesh. It means reminding yourself of My purpose for your life‚ why you were created, and why I sent you to Earth. It means reminding yourself why I took on human form and suffered and died for you so that I could redeem you, understand you, and forever forgive and heal and protect you.
It means putting the Word first in your life and believing and acting on its truth. It means stepping into the temple with Me for daily, quality focus and feeding. It means using My weapons and applying My promises no matter how you feel or what your physical surroundings are like.
It means looking to Me and refusing to give up. The best way to keep the heavenly vision, to keep My vision before your eyes‚ is to keep your eyes stayed on Me–to look to Me. That is the essence of keeping the heavenly vision–keeping your eyes focused on Me.

Jesus: The heavenly vision‚ as Paul put it, means “pressing toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God” (Phil.3:14). It means making My will–My high calling–your sole goal and purpose in life. It’s everything you live for. It’s everything you work toward. It’s what you’re pressing for, urgent for, eager for–fulfilling My will, to the point that you consider it the prize. Not just a prize, but the prize, everything you could ever want in life!

If you want to keep the heavenly vision in your race of life, then focus on Me, the Author and Finisher of your faith, of your life course. Keep the vision by staying focused on Me and making only those decisions that you know will lead you to a fuller life in Me.

That is why it is important to keep the heavenly vision–to realize that I am going to outsmart and outmaneuver and displace the Devil’s kingdom in My good time. In fact, I will smash it, and the “kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of Me, His Christ; and I shall reign for ever and ever” (Rev.11:15). That is fact. It is written and it shall come to pass; not one jot or one tittle of it shall fail.
That is why it is important to keep the heavenly vision–because the times are so intense now that it is easy to lose your focus on it and to get your eyes on the winds and the waves‚ as Peter did. He took his eyes off Me for a moment and–whoosh!–He began to sink. But then when he lifted his eyes to Me again and called out, I immediately reached My hand out and pulled him back up, and we two stayed above the waters then (Mat.14:25-32).
You must keep your eyes on Me rather than the winds and the waves, the fact that Satan is establishing his kingdom on Earth before your very eyes. You are “seeing the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.” But you must remember that “yet he passed away, and lo, he was not: yea, I sought him‚ but he could not be found” (Psa.37:35,36). That’s the long-term vision, the heavenly vision, to realize the truth of My Word, and that in the end I will take over the Earth, I will usher in the Millennium, and then I will‚ in time, create a New Heaven and a New Earth, and My Heavenly City, where I dwell, will come down and rest upon Earth.

Jesus: If you continue to keep your eyes fixed on Me, then all the things of this life will diminish. All the pressures that you feel, all the problems that surround you, all the attacks of the Enemy, things that the Devil tries to throw at you to hinder you will grow dim. And eventually they won’t even be an issue because you know you can look to Me for the answers. You can look to Me for the strength that you need, the courage, the patience, or whatever you need to overcome these different obstacles. It will all be right there for you, and you’ll know it. You won’t worry and feel under pressure, because you know that you can take those burdens and pressures to Me and I will sustain you and give you the strength that you need.
Even as My Father was proud of Me, so am I proud of you, My precious ones. I love you, and believe Me when I say that I understand. I too was tested and tempted, and I too felt weary and tired. But My Father gave Me strength to hang on‚ just as I give you strength, as you look to Me. It won’t be long now, My precious loves, before you are joined with Me in Heaven, never again to have to experience the severe testings of Earth. … I want you to know, My dear ones‚ how greatly I anticipate the day when we will be reunited in our Heavenly Home. I tell you this at this time so that you might keep your eyes on Heaven and let this be the driving force in your lives in the days ahead. For this truly was My key to victory–I had to keep My eyes on Heaven. I had to set My face like a flint and live with the vision of Heaven ever before Me, and this pulled Me through.
Therefore look up, dear ones, for the time is near when we will be reunited in our Heavenly Home! And oh‚ what a day that will be! How My love for you thrives! Therefore, draw on this love so that it may carry you through the days ahead‚ even as I‚ when I walked on the Earth, also learned to draw on My Father’s love and it carried Me through. It carried Me back Home to Heaven. My love will do the same for you‚ as you depend on Me to carry you through.

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“Think about the things that are difficult or hard for you and remember that soon they’ll all be gone‚ and in their place will be a reward for your courage. Think about what lasts in the world beyond, and whether what you’re doing today, or this week, is working toward something eternal that will still matter once you’re gone from this Earth. Think about the things you love or that matter to you right now–are they going to come with you into the world beyond? Or are they temporal things of this world that are going to pass away?”