BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

When you asked Jesus into your heart, you were telling Him, "God, I am available. Lord, take my life and do something with it." The enemy tries to come in and tell you how ugly you are. Then you start abandoning yourself and adopting someone else who's not you. That is a really dangerous place to be. God has a plan for you, and nothing can change that plan, but you. The enemy will try to stop God's plan by getting in your ear and telling you all the lies, but it's your choice to yield to him or not. If you yield to him, that's when you start abandoning yourself and adopting someone else's identity. How that ties in with vision is you have to be confi dent in who you are in Christ. You have to get to a place where the enemy can come, the storms can come, but your fi rm foundation, your identity, is in God and not yourself. Galatians 6:4, New Living Translation, says, "Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won't need to compare yourself to anyone else." My second point is this: Spend Time With God. You can have so much of the world to the point Two thoughts went through my mind: First, it was a confi rmation that she has been listening to her family's faith-fi lled teachings; and second, she was talking about vision! I was quite encouraged to realize that the future is in good hands! Allow me to take you "inside the vision of the next generation" as I share with you Eiley's devotion, entitled, "Your Vision." I want to touch on a few points. By the time you reach the end of this devotion they will all come together. My fi rst point is: Your Identity. I'm going to quote some preachers that I have heard and what has stuck out to me. "It's not about me, it's about God in me." I was thinking about that because it really stuck out to me. It's a hard thing to hear sometimes, but it's not about me. The world does not revolve around me. I don't get the credit. It's God in me who made a way. It's God in me who works things out in my life for good. God isn't looking for my ability. He's looking for my availability. That should encourage you because that's saying God isn't looking at what you can or can't do. He's looking for your permission to do what only He can do through you. My pastor says, "God is going to do what He does. What changes is how much we are willing to allow Him to do it." When you asked Jesus into your heart, you were telling Him, "God, I am available. Lord, take my life and do something with it." The enemy you have to be confi dent in who you are in Christ. You have to get to a place where the W I T H "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it." Habakkuk 2:2, (New King James Version) When you asked Jesus into your heart, B V O V : 9 GOD WILL TAKE YOU FURTHER THAN YOU COULD EVER GO ON YOUR OWN. Recently, my 14-year-old granddaughter, Eiley, (Kenneth and Gloria's great-granddaughter) was assigned to write a devotion at school. Before presenting it, she called and asked if she could read it to me. I was stunned as she began reading. Eiley and her great-grandfather

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