Is Our Vision From God?

How do you know if your vision is from God? This question was recently asked of pastor Perry Noble of Newspring Church in South Carolina. He answered the question from his blog at PerryNoble.com

Here was his response...I believe it is exactly applicable to The Journey in light of yesterday's post on the direction we are heading.

• If you feel confident that you can accomplish what is in front of you with no problem at all…then you didn’t hear from God.

• If no one is angry at you…then you didn’t hear from God.

• If you don’t have to ask anyone to sacrifice to make the vision come true…then you didn’t hear from God.

• If religious people are not steaming at you, blogging about you and/or leaving your church…then you didn’t hear from God.

• If you have the money in the bank to do what God has asked you church to do…then you didn’t hear from God.

• If every step is perfectly designed and nothing happens to totally throw you off along the way…then you didn’t hear from God.

• If someone doesn’t try to talk you out of what you are about to attempt…then you didn’t hear from God.

• If you don’t stay up at night thinking about the vision…then you didn’t hear from God.

• If your vision is in contradiction to God’s Word…then you didn’t hear from God. (And no, you didn’t get a “special revelation” that gave you permission to trump His Word!)

• If you know all of the answers…then you didn’t hear from God.