The Program

THE PROGRAM

Genesis 30:25-43

25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away,

that I may go to my own place and to my country.

26  Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know

my service which I have done for you.”

27  And Laban said to him, “Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by

experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.”

28  Then he said, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.”

29  So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with

me.

30  For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the LORD has

blessed you since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?”

31  So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will

do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flocks:

32  Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted

sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the

goats; and these shall be my wages.

33  So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages

comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown

among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.”

34  And Laban said, “Oh, that it were according to your word!”

35  So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats

that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones

among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

36  Then he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s

flocks.

37  Now Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled

white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods.

38  And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering

troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink.

39  So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and

spotted.

40  Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the

brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with

Laban’s flock.

41  And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods

before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

42  But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the

stronger Jacob’s.

43  Thus the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks, female and male

servants, and camels and donkeys

I. WHAT IS VISION

“Foresight with insight based on hindsight”

"Seeing the invisible and making it visible"

"An informed bridge from the present to the future"

A clear mental image of a preferable future

II. THE BENEFITS OF VISION

1. It brings clarity

2. It provides direction and purpose

3. It brings an increase interest and commitment

4. It provides acceptable change

5. It allows you to reject opportunities

6. It brings openness

7. It causes encouragement

8. It inspires confidence

9. It promotes loyalty

10. It creates efficiency

11. It increases productivity

12. It makes you like God

Isaiah 46:9-10

9 Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and

there is none like Me,

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet

done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure,’

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