{"id":10273,"date":"2026-02-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=10273"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:00:39","slug":"without-certain-changes-lives-wont-able-receive-gods-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/without-certain-changes-lives-wont-able-receive-gods-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Without certain changes in our lives we won\u2019t be able to receive God\u2019s vision"},"content":{"rendered":"Peace to you, dear friends!\r\n\r\nToday we will continue to study lessons of faith from the life of Abram.\r\nYesterday we said that faith means cooperating with God. Without faith nothing of what God has promised to us will come to pass.\r\nEarlier we read the story of God\u2019s covenant with Abram in Genesis 12.\u00a0 We also talked about the time when Abram started doubting whether God was able to fulfil His promises, since for some time Abram had remained childless. God convinced him and Abram believed.\r\nToday I would like us to look at another important principle of how faith works or manifests itself.\r\n
\r\n\u201eThen He brought him outside and said, \u201cLook now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.\u201d And He said to him, \u201cSo shall your descendants be.\u201d And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.\u201d (Genesis 15:5-6).<\/h6>\r\nIn order to settle the doubts and cast out fear, God gave Abram a vision about his future descendants. It is very important for us to realize that faith is connected to vision. It says in 2nd Corinthians (5:7):\r\n
\u00a0\u00abFor we walk by faith, not by sight. \u00bb<\/h6>\r\nFaith and vision are always interrelated. We get what we see. For this reason God helped Abram by giving him the vision. The greatness of your faith will equal the greatness of your vision. There is no faith without vision. Vision – just like faith – is an ability to see what God sees and to pursue it. You start to put forth effort in order to carry the vision out if you first see what needs to be done.\r\nFor God to give Abram a vision, Abram needed to change in the process himself. It is very important for us to understand that without certain changes in our lives we won\u2019t be able to receive God\u2019s vision, like it happened to Abram.\r\nSo what exactly did Abram do to receive the vision of God? No doubt it is important for us to realize what needs to be done in order to get God\u2019s vision.\r\nThe first thing God did to Abram was that\u00a0He took him out of the tent, out of his comfort zone.<\/strong>\u00a0While we stay within our comfort zone where we feel at ease, where we do not need to make an effort, where everything goes according to the habitual scenario, we are not able to see what God wants to show us. For this reason God often desires us to get out of our comfort zone, out of our routine lifestyle, and to put forth some effort to expand our knowledge of the will of God for our life.\r\nThis might require of you to part ways with certain people in your life or limit the time of your fellowship with them.\r\nIf we read\u00a0Genesis<\/strong>\u00a0(13:14-17)<\/strong>, we will see that Abram needed to part ways with Lot so that he could see the land God had promised him.\r\n
\r\n\u201cAnd the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: \u201cLift your eyes now and look from the place where you are \u2013 northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. \u201cArise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.\u201c<\/h6>\r\nHere we see that Abram separated from Lot. And right after that God told Abram: \u201cLift\u00a0your\u00a0eyes\u00a0now\u00a0and\u00a0look…\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> When Abram was with Lot, he wasn\u2019t able to see what God had prepared for him.\r\nDear friend! God wants to tell you today that your vision must be clear and precise, because it is a component of your faith. But for this to happen, you first need to get out of your comfort zone and also separate from people that do not have a vision or a desire to move forward in their lives.\r\nThe time has come for you to analyze your life and see the things that make you blind and unable to see what God wants to show you. As soon as you do that you will have to make certain changes in your life.\r\nMay God bless you as you do it-in the name of Jesus Christ!\r\n\r\nGodspeed!\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboy","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first thing God did to Abram was that He took him out of the tent, out of his comfort zone. While we stay within our comfort zone where we feel at ease, where we do not need to make an effort, where everything goes according to the habitual scenario, we are not able to see what God wants to show us. For this reason God often desires us to get out of our comfort zone, out of our routine lifestyle and for us to put forth some effort to expand our knowledge of the will of God for our life. ","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/unsplash-image-FRf4S6iVTIs-1024x682.jpg",1024,682,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/author-en\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40579,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10273\/revisions\/40579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}