(THE
4TH DEFINITION OF VISION - ON THE JOURNEY OF EMPOWERED VISION)
Vision
is the art of recognizing opportunities. Daniel records in Daniel 10:7 "And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for
the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon
them, so that they fled to hide themselves". The people around Daniel
never saw what Daniel was seeing. The vision Daniel saw, made him superior to
others. The people around Daniel became inferior to Daniel because of the Great
Vision Daniel received.
One surest way to lead and
remain different in any given stance/field is to have a superior Vision. Vision is one thing that God
gives you that makes you superior.
It is
my prayer that you alone will see that vision that will make you the reference
point in your sector. This year you will see what your competition and
colleagues will not see.
Like
Daniel, you will see/conceive the vision that will make you stand out where
ever you are or where ever you go in Jesus name (Amen). Vision takes you into the future before
others get there.
Vision makes you
stand 'head above shoulder': Your vision can make you stand head above your
mates.
Vision
helps you recognize growth & opportunities others wouldn’t see.
Anyone who has ever invented something has had the privilege of seeing
what others were not seeing. They've had the benefit of doing what others
haven't done; that's the power of vision.
You are one information away from your next level of success or your
next breakthrough. The difference between failures and success is information
- MIKE MURDOCK.
When God said He would do much more than we could ever ask or imagine
(Ephesians 3:20), i believe He was also referring to releasing the power of
vision.
The Encarta Dictionary defines Invincible as:-
1. UNBEATABLE (too strong or skillful to ever be defeated) -Your vision makes you unbeatable.
2. TOO DIFFICULT TO OVERCOME (so great or difficult as to be impossible to overcome)-Your vision makes it difficult for you to be easily overcome. Have you noticed that “men and women of vision rarely die easily?
3. DEEP ROOTED (too deep-rooted or ingrained to be altered) – when you see anyone who is into his or her vision, they are not easily manipulated or convinced to ‘chicken-out’.
Anyone given to vision stays
the course/cause even when others have long given up. Vision makes you deep
rooted.
I recently read a
story of a female African entrepreneur producing African-crop cereals to
feed African infants, her name is Marie Diongoye Konaté of Mali. Her nickname
is “L'insubmersible.” The Unsinkable.
Born in Mali,
this West African lioness founded her multi-million dollar baby cereal company,
Protein Kissèe-La (PKL), in 1995 with only 600 Euros in capital.
She used her
own money to set up her small food processing operation, which became known as
“an African miracle,” because big banks wouldn’t give loans to new small
businesses such as hers, and she wanted to show it was possible.
Inspired to
create a nutritious infant porridge that parents could feed their infants
quickly and affordably, Konaté first bought a used milling machine, and then
rented a stand in a market in Abidjan, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire.
Her aim was to
set up a local business, using local crop inputs, to produce highly nutritious
fortified infant food, affordable to the poorest of the poor.
Konaté thought
it made no sense at all that in Africa “We export what we produce and import
what we eat!” even though Africa has the second fastest growing population on
earth, doubling in size to 1 billion in the past 27 years. It is projected that
this could almost double again by 2050! (Remember, high growth means high
opportunity. Young people are an important emerging market within emerging
markets! Think about it).
She first asked
herself the question - "why must African parents feed their infants
imported infant cereal when ingredients are produced locally?"
Konaté’s vision
identified both a need and an opportunity to provide local homegrown
(non-imported!) infant food as answers to widespread child malnutrition
problems especially when giant multinationals like Nestlé and Danone were
feeding imports to Africa’s children, while local farmers were growing many of
the same nutritious crops, to be fed only to animals . . .
So, she
resigned her salaried job and embarked into her own business, taking on some of
the largest companies on earth, who remain her fiercest market competition! In Ivory Coast, PKL moved up to second
in the powdered milk market, that has Nestlé and Danone.
Konaté has
faced several challenges in the past 20 years – huge international competitors,
post-election civil war, and economic turbulence, among others.
One of the
biggest crises that nearly sunk PKL about 10 years ago years was toxic waste
dumped by a ship, right near her baby food factory. This is may be one reason
why they call Konaté unsinkable! (cue from (Strive
Masiyiwa #AfricanLionessRoar
- @StriveMasiyiwa))
Marie Diongoye
Konate’s vision made her compete with the giants of agribusiness in Africa.
Your own vision will bring you before kings and nations in Jesus’ Name.
Marie Diongoye Konate’s vision made her unbeatable, deep rooted and difficult to be kicked aside.
Vision makes you
relevant and immovable force in your sector/industry.
Often, it is not money that is
the problem but the lack of a deep rooted vision. The problem is not the
lack of money but the absence of vision.
Vision will help you to be
strong-willed, dogged. You need to believe in your vision and be strong-willed
about it. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams!
This week pick up your vision
and take a 2nd look at
it and ask yourself if it's worth dying or living for? Is it worth taking a
risk for? Ask yourself what you can do for your vision.
If you are not convinced about
your vision or if you are in doubt, I’ll suggest you go to God in prayers and
ask Him to help you give clarity & better understanding to your vision so
that you can go all out for your vision.
When you connect yourself to
God then you connect yourself to unlimited resources.
NEVER EVER GIVE UP ON YOUR
VISION BECAUSE YOUR VISION CAN MAKE YOU UNBEATABLE, YOU BECOME DIFFICULT TO BE KICKED ASIDE
& DEEP-ROOTED TO BE ALTERED.
May the Lord favor you this
week.
Vision makes you outstandingly different.
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David
Adeleye
(Team
& Performance Motivator)
