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From Eyesight to Insight: Why Vision Precedes Revival ... English

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What if the only thing standing between you and breakthrough isn’t resources or location—but how you see? We walk through a vivid journey from eyesight to insight, showing why vision always comes before movement and how God trains perception before He entrusts revelation. Starting with Proverbs 29:18 and moving through Mark 8, we unpack the disciples’ fixation on “little fishes” and “wilderness” and turn it into a practical framework: compassion engages the need, command activates faith, and thanksgiving aligns the heart with God’s provision. That simple pattern reframes limitations without pretending they don’t exist.

We also tackle the quiet saboteur of vision: pride. Jesus’ warning about the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod isn’t abstract; it’s a reminder that a little self-focus fogs the whole lens. From there, we trace a two-part formula in Revelation—training the ear before lifting the eyes—because God’s voice forms God’s view. Healing the blind man becomes a living parable of how sight develops step by step until the central question emerges: “Who do you say that I am?” Peter’s confession shows what Spirit-born revelation looks like when sight finally aligns with truth.

Then we scale the lens. Some of us are thinking towns and cities while God is aiming at regions and even continents. Paul’s redirection to Macedonia wasn’t a detour; it was an upgrade in scope. We talk about refusing comparison, embracing humility, and practicing exposure—joining missions or overseas work once or twice a year—not as a trophy but as training to expand imagination and reset normal. Along the way we honor spiritual authority, insisting that true vision won’t pull against your pastor’s direction. By the end, we commission you to receive fresh vision—so what you see leads you to what you must do. If you’re ready to move from scarcity lenses to Kingdom optics, hit play, subscribe, and share this with a friend who needs a higher view. Then tell us: what is God asking you to see next?

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Very familiar. Proverbs 29:18. Where there is no vision, the people perish. Where there is no vision, the people are out of control. Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint. Where there is no vision, the people decay. There is no kingdom movement without first a kingdom vision. There is no kingdom advancement without a kingdom vision. And God said, You are here this morning. You are here now, and it's time to visit the optometrist this morning so that your eyes will see the kingdom beast. Emphasized the necessity of a vision. And just because you have eyes does not mean you have a vision. Just because you have eyes doesn't mean you have vision. Because it was his disciples that could not see past their concerns and their conditions in Mark chapter 8. Mark chapter 8 wasn't just about the multiplication of the bread and the little fishes that they had, but Mark chapter 8 is about vision. He wants them to open their spiritual eyes, he wants them to reach understanding, he wants them to see beyond concerns and conditions. That's our concern. We have little fishes, not just any fish, but little fishes. And uh, this is our concern. What was their condition? How are we supposed to feed this multitude in a wilderness? Concerns of resources, conditions of wilderness. These are the conditions and concerns that God wants to move your vision past, and he says the key to the miraculous, the key to seeing multiplication is seeing beyond the limited resources and the conditions of your environment. But Jesus' answer was uh he's moved by compassion, number one, and number two, he said he commanded them to sit on the grass, and then he took up what was there and he gave thanks. If you want three keys to unlocking the miraculous, number one, you need to be compassionate about the multitude. Number two, you cannot ask what the will of God is. You gotta command the miraculous, the healing. You're not there to doubt or hesitate or flinch. You command it in the name of Jesus, and then you thank God for what He's done.

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You thank God for the miracle, you thank God for the multiplication. Somebody thank God right now.

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They then said, Show us a sign because they wanted to see, they were seeking a sign, something that would show them. But he said, Blessed are those in another portion of scripture that believe without seeing. Show us a sign. They wanted to see a sign, and he said, You won't get a sign that you can see. And he later rebuked them by saying, But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. Biblically, the work of leaven has always been considered an illustration of the work of pride and sin. The Pharisees' pride and the sinful nature of Herod. He said, You gotta be careful because a little leaven leaveneth the whole love. In other words, a little pride or a little sin can corrupt this whole operation. Malabashata Namashata. All it takes is one individual that thinks of himself, that thinks about himself, that can't see be beyond and past himself. God don't just want you to see past your mountain, he wants you to be delivered of yourself, he wants to deliver you from yourself and your mind. Having ears do you not hear? The formula for revelation is to hear what the Spirit of the Lord saith unto the church, and to see the kingdom vision, the vision of the Almighty God for his kingdom to be established. It's a two-part formula. You gotta have the right hearing, you gotta have the right sight. He's gotta train your hearing, and then he'll train your sight. That's what he told the apostle John in chapter two and three of Revelations over and over again at every church. He said, Here, if you have an ear, hear what the Spirit says unto the church. Why? Because he's training his ear for those two chapters. But in chapter four, the first verse says, Come up hither, and I will show you the things that are you gotta go up a little higher if you want to see the kingdom vision.

SPEAKER_01:

You can't see it from your level, you can't see it from your situation, you can't see it from your condition or your concern. You gotta come up here, lift your hands, lift your hands, lift your hands, higher, higher, higher.

SPEAKER_00:

If you're still doubting or in disbelief, I'm still on Mark chapter eight. He confirmed it by healing a blind man in Beth Seda. That's the next thing he did. He healed a blind man so that during this healing and during this miracle, they'd understand what Jesus is trying to do is train our vision, and then came the question, Brother Raymond Who do you say that I am? Been talking all about vision this entire chapter, and finally we get to the moment of truth, even after seeing the miraculous and the healing, he now wants to ask the question, the main idea, the center point of it all. Who do you say that I am? Matthew 16 refers to this same scenario and captures Jesus' specific response. When Peter said, Thou art the Christ, he said, Flesh and blood has not revealed this death. That's right, we arrived at revelation because your eyes have already been trained. Now you're ready for revelation. He said, Revelation has come upon you because we've been dealing about your eyesight and what you're looking at and what you're seeing. Now you're ready for the revelation, and God is interested in what we're seeing because He wants to lead us to revelation. Revelation isn't that what we were trying to do in Angola last month, Brother Robinette. It was a work, and brother Duncan, it was a work that we could not do, we could only instigate and promote and help and preaching and showing so that the revelation of the truth would come upon them. God is looking for people that would preach, not for the like and shares and the hearts and the subscribes, but people that will preach not for a tweetable moment or a tweetable phrase, but people that will preach for revelation. Visionary men and women that flesh and blood had not revealed this to you, that hasn't shown you didn't copy this, uh you didn't get it on Spark Notes or on Chat GBT, but that you were in locked in with the master and you fasted and you prayed, like uh like the old timer, the elder Billy Cole said, Don't say the Lord said, if the Lord didn't say to you, but if you have a revelation, it's because you've been with the master, and so he ends this chapter with the verse saying, When he cometh in glory, in the glory of his father with the holy angels. Matthew 16 also ends it the same way, he described it in a different way. He said, So they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. You can't have glory, you can't have his kingdom until you have revelation. But you can't have revelation, you can't have the understanding and enlightenment until you get a vision. God's fixing to touch your eyes this morning. God's fixing to touch your eyes, just like he touched the blind eyes yesterday, just like he unstopped the deaf ears yesterday. You know, it's just a confirmation of what needs to happen to you. You've got both of your eyes working perfectly fine, but God said, I need to impart vision into those eyes. So that the fulfillment of scripture would come upon that eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared. You won't be able to relate to some of your peers or people around you because what God has prepared for you, you can't put a standard on it with everybody around you, because what God has prepared for you is on a higher level, on another mountain, higher, a higher mountain, a higher elevation, a different perspective. And what he's saying is, I don't want you to go to your peers to try and uh see how you can uh there you go. I don't want you to compare and contrast with those around because what I'm preparing for you, I have not seen. That's why nobody gets you, that's why nobody understands you, because nobody has seen, nobody has heard. What God is giving you is something that He has prepared and has not come from men.

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Oh God, thank you, Jesus.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm convinced that if you have a calling to ministry and you feel strongly to do something great for the kingdom of God, God has given you a vision. Disclaimer, even though we're all adults here, disclaimer your vision will never go against your pastor's vision. Don't get it twisted. I know we're all adults, but I just had to kind of throw that in there just in case. But if you want to do something great for the kingdom of God, it all starts with a vision. Your vision, the vision that God gave you. We could preach on this all day, but I'll close it out right here in Acts chapter 16, because the book of Acts was a revival of visions, it was visions of revival. That's uh that's what that's the topic or the subject of my of my sermon this morning is visions of revival, and how all through the book of Acts it was visions of revival. And in Acts chapter 16, when Paul wanted to go to Ephesus and make his way to this important city, to this great city where he knew from there we could pace out of and we could have greater revival. Yet the Spirit of God directed this work, and Paul uh, brothers and sisters, was directed not to Ephesus, but he had a vision of a Macedonian man. Come through Macedonia, help us. This morning, this morning, God showed me many of you have already been experiencing visions of your ministry, the next level of your ministry, visions for your churches, visions of revival for your cities. And some of you hear me, hear me this moment. The Lord said, You're not called to a city. I have called you to a region, but because you keep continually looking at your concerns and your conditions around you, you're not escalating the mountain, you're not climbing the mountain to see beyond the mountain and beyond your city. God has anointed you for a region, don't limit yourself to a town or a city. Paul's mind, the apostle Paul, great Paul. What more can we say about Paul? But Paul's mind was he wanted to reach a few cities, but in God's mind, right? Y'all know Isaiah, his ways, not our ways, his thoughts, not our thoughts. What God was thinking is, I don't want to reach a few cities, I want to reach a brand new continent. I want you to preach the word for the first time in Europe. I want you to go on the other side and get your mind off of cities. I know we got the next town and the next city and the next village. I feel we need to we need to expand and extend our tents, we need to expand the enlarge our territories and beyond towns and cities. We need to start thinking about regions, we need to think about revival beyond borders. Would you lift your hands? Here's what the Lord spoke to me early this morning. Lift your hands. Doctors, optometrists, they recommend you visit the eye doctor once or twice a year. The Lord said to tell each and every one of you here if you have a calling to ministry and you want to impact the world in the kingdom of God, you need to be a part of a crusade or a missions trip or of some sort of overseas work once or twice a year so that God would enlarge your vision, would open up your mind so that revival beyond borders overseas, you bring that back home. God is saying, once or twice a year, you need to jump on, whether it's global harvest who's impacting the world or some sort of missionary work. You cannot get a vision of the kingdom in your city alone.

SPEAKER_01:

You gotta connect to something greater than you, you gotta be exposed to something greater than you, you gotta be a part of something that is greater. Lift your hands right now, touch your eyes, put your hands on your eyes. You ready by the authority of the word of God, by the power in the name Jesus, I command you to receive fresh vision right now, that your eyes will be opened, that vision comes to the Bible will take you over.

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