How To Get Vision For Life

“How To Get Vision For Life”
By Pastor Rickey Hunt

Many times I have people ask me how they can know the will of God for their lives. I tell them they must get alone and spend time in prayer. Psalms 46:10 tells us to be still and know that I am God… Jesus was our example. Although he was very busy ministering to the people, often he would leave the crowds and go up to the mountain alone to pray. It was during these times that Jesus learned how to hear from the Father God. We also have to draw away from the busyness of life to be able to hear from God. How does God speak? It is usually in that still small voice. In a very quite way. That is why we have to get alone and get still and listen. Prayer is not just giving God all of our petitions, but it is also us being quiet to hear what he might say to us.
Sometimes that still small voice is not heard, but we might begin to see what he is saying. With words we can paint a picture. If I describe the day as being a bright sun shiny day with the wind blowing through the leaves and the leaves are beginning to fall, you not only heard my words, but you began to see these things in your mind. Jesus is an artist painting pictures on the canvas of your heart with that still small voice. One day in 1984, when I was a new Christian, I was praying and I began to get on myself because I thought I had lost my focus and began to daydream. But, I noticed that this so called daydream was the same thoughts that had come to my mind for the last several days when I was praying. At that point I began to learn when God begins to speak to us while praying that it is often seen and not just heard. This is how we get vision for life. Even Jesus said in John 5:19 that he does what he seeth the Father do… It is through prayer that we begin to see and have vision for life.