Advancing Encouragement By:
Bishop James Jr. Hairston

Habakkuk: 2:3: For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

There is a vision that is pondering on your heart and in your mind that God wants you to seriously pray about, write it down, share it with the right people then execute it! Here in this text is a powerful message to those of faith in the one and only true living God that has a burning desire on their hearts to do something great for God or to the glory of God. Whatever that something is in order to hear from God on how to execute that something it has to be dedicated to His Glory, it must bring Him glory! I believe within this text is something for every believer in Christ Jesus, not only for Habakkuk. In Chapter one Habakkuk had two complaints and evidently those complaints brought God glory by looking at God’s response to those complaints. Basically those complaints were towards Gods judgment on the ungodly and Habakkuk wanted something done about it and he wanted God to preserve the righteous in the mist of it all (read the first chapter). When you see a problem in the land that is ungodly and its something that needs to be corrected you have a legitimate complaint towards God that will bring Him glory. This Land of yours could be your home, your job, your Church, your neighborhood, your town, city or the whole country. Whatever it is, it is something that needs changed, cleansed, eradicated or fixed, renewed, converted or transformed? Your legitimate complaint will bring God glory and He will lead you to the solution or a breakthrough in a vision of how your complaint will be solved, fixed, bringing change and transformation in that situation or problem to the glory of God. Vision in this text is a mental sight, a revelation that you received and contemplated on or a dream that was so vividly clear to you it is able to be written down for the purpose of bringing it to past giving God Glory. Your vision is for a fixed time or season is what appointed time means in this text so do not try to rush it getting ahead of God. It will come to past because at the end it shall speak, it will be revealed for the whole world to see. What is it that you want to see changed, fixed, solved, torn-down and rebuilt to the Glory of God? What is it that you want to see transformed, renewed, cleansed or washed and made whole? What is it that you want to see improved, enhanced, enriched, empowered or uplifted to the Glory of God? There is a legitimate Complaint that you have right now for God to change or fix. God will give you the vision to write down and at the right time share it with the right people to execute it, verse 2. You must be patient in waiting on the results and success of the God given vision because it will surely come; it will not tarry when it is bringing God Glory… Today my friends, write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads’ it, verse 2. Reads it in the text mean, it will be preached, proclaimed, pronounced, and published is what will happen for your vision by all of those who will take hold of it and run with it and watch God bring it to Past in Jesus Name…

James Jr. Hairston