The Son Who Brought No Souvenir, Only Vision ... English

What proves you climbed higher: the rock you carry home, or the future you can already see? We share a mountain parable about three sons—two returning with trophies, one with nothing but perspective—and explore why the father chooses the visionary. That single choice reframes success, leadership, and faith: not as a display of souvenirs, but as the courage to see past the summit into rivers, fruitful land, and people waiting beyond our borders.

We unpack the quiet mechanics of vision—how long-range sight forms in waiting, how it moves teams from celebrating past wins to pursuing new purpose, and why it often looks “late” until it becomes indispensable. Along the way, we connect that sight to spiritual renewal: the stirring that comes from walking strange streets, worshiping with new faces, and sensing that your current peak is not your final post. If you’ve ever felt torn between proving progress and pursuing calling, this conversation offers language and tools to choose trajectory over trophies.

Expect practical takeaways: how to describe your horizon with clear words, test bold ideas through small experiments, measure what truly matters, and build teams that protect space for deep seeing. Most of all, expect a challenge—do not return the same. Let the view reshape your priorities, lift your eyes beyond the ridge, and send you toward people and places that need what you carry. If this resonates, subscribe, share this episode with a friend who leads, and leave a review to tell us what you see past your current mountain.

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Chapters

• 1:34 The Brothers Return
• 2:30 The Visionary Arrives Late
• 3:37 Choosing Vision Over Trophies
• 3:57 Seeing Beyond the Mountain
• 5:09 Stirred for Revival and Change
• 5:48 You Will Never Be the Same

Transcript

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His father was pleased and said, You've done well, son. But a few hours later, the second son showed up and he brought a beautiful rock from the many that he had found at the height that he had reached and the level he was able to climb. He was much more excited because this beautiful rock represented the level that he had reached of the mountain that was much higher than that first brother. And his father was pleased. He said, You've done well, my son. But as they waited and waited for this last son, and they began to worry and they began to ask themselves, where could he be? One day goes by, a second day goes by, a few days go by until he finally showed up. And as they see him walking from a distance, they're wanting to see from afar what is it that he brings as his memorial or his souvenir of where he had been able to reach and climb to. But as he was close to his father's bed, he said, Father, I haven't brought anything physical that I could show you, or something that everybody could see. But I did want to mention and express to you what I saw from the height that I was able to climb. He said, I saw from a distance, and I could see the rivers that are after this mountain. I saw rivers flowing, I saw a fruitful land, I saw smoke of villages and multitudes that we could conquer that are over this mountain. The Father, in the presence of his entire family, said, I choose you, my son, because there is nothing more valuable than someone with a vision. God is interested in visionaries. God is interested in people that can see beyond the mountain that they are climbing, that can see past the process that they're currently in. People of God, people of God who have accomplished so much in the kingdom now, but that aren't satisfied, that are not content or conform with where they have reached and the heights they're able to be successful in. But people who are ready for revival beyond borders. Some of you have already experienced it being here walking the streets, visiting uh sightseeing places, even last night's service. Some of us have already been stirred, have already been moved. Some of us are experiencing that experience and that impact and what God is doing in us while we're serving the kingdom to do for others. You will never be the same after this trip. You will never go back the same after today. Your ministry will never be the same. Your ministry will never somebody worship God for a moment. You will never be the same.