Did you ever have dreams for your life that you really want to occur, but they haven’t happened yet? On my recent trip to the Philippines, God impressed on my heart to speak about how there are visions or aspirations that we have forgotten, or we have given up on because they have not materialized yet.  He asked me to tell the people that in this season the vision will have its manifestation.  

Sometimes, believing that God has a promise (vision) for our lives is not the hard  part, but believing in His sense of timing is what’s really hard. People easily give up on the vision that He has given us because it hasn’t happened yet. When we think it is delayed or it’s not that easy, we try to make things happen by doing something else or doing something out of sync with His timing. I remember Abraham when he had Ishmael. He felt he had to force the manifestation of the promise of God in his life because he couldn’t trust that the Lord would do it, with him and his wife being old. So instead of waiting for Isaac, he felt he had to manufacture the manifestation in the form of Ishmael.

In John 5:1-9, we are told about a man that had been sick physically, believed to be paralytic for 38 years, who encountered Jesus. He had been waiting for the angel to stir up the water, as the first person to be in the pool when this happened was healed. Imagine, for 38 years he had the same condition and had waited for somebody to pick him up and bring him to the water, fast because there were a lot of people that needed healing. He said to Jesus, I have nobody to take me to the pool. This is a picture of us relying so much on another person to take us where we’re supposed to go or achieve what we have envisioned in our lives. That man had probably envisioned being the first in the pool when the angel stirred up the water, but for almost 4 decades nothing had happened. It only takes an encounter with Jesus to change our situation. We can’t look upon people to be our healer or savior, we need to seek Jesus.

The Lord impressed 2 specific situations on me based on that man’s story. There are visions in our lives that we have given up on or have already forgotten. The first type is the “it’s been too long “ kind of vision. This is the promise/vision of God in our lives that hasn’t happened yet, and we have been impatient and almost do not want to believe anymore. It could be a business that you’ve been wanting to start, or the restoration of your family. Whatever it is, we cannot just forget what the Lord has spoken over our lives. Just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean that God has no intention of fulfilling it. Maybe we have been looking at the pool instead of encountering Jesus in our lives.

The second situation is the “it’s been too hard“ kind of vision. The promise/vision from God for our lives that requires hard work or heavy sacrifices. It discouraged us, and we did not want to pursue or claim it anymore and tried to do something else that was easier. That guy at the pool had a very hard situation that would require a lot of work and help to get to his healing, and he sounded at a loss when he said nobody was available to take him to the pool.  He spoke as if it was already a lost cause for him to get healed.

There are things in our lives that push us to the limit, and we just want to do something else that is easier. Do not stop claiming and seeking your vision because your day, just may be today. Jesus will ask you face to face if you want your healing, blessings, and breakthrough. Jesus still caters to the needs of His people.

Let us not forget that there was a healing power from the stirring up of the water by the angel, but when Jesus walked into the area everything changed. He can heal you and change your situation and bring transformation. What changed first was the mindset of the guy. Jesus said “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”, and the man rose up, and picked up his bed and walked. He was discouraged for a long time and expressed that he needed to have somebody to take him to the pool, but when he encountered Jesus, he had a change of perspective and obeyed. I say if you want the dead vision in your life to have manifestation, Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!