Visionaries make normal people very uncomfortable. They make people uncomfortable because they are doing something with their life that others believe is a waste of time, energy and resources. Visionaries are not normal people, and do not want to be classified as normal. There is something different about a someone with a vision that makes ordinary people squirm. If you are a visionary you know what I am talking about. You have been raised to believe that you can become anything you want, but yet are told, “That won’t work, or I wouldn’t try that if I were you.”

Three quick qualities of visionaries  that we all can do right now about vision.

First of all, we have got to be willing to stop the vision stealers.

Every time you have a vision, you are going to have a vision killer. David had a vision killer. It was his oldest brother, Eliab.

1 Samuel, 17:28, “Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.’”

Don’t Sit Around Waiting

God always puts what we need for our vision, right before us. If we hear our vision and see our vision from God, we can discern the resources.

Look at 1 Samuel 17:38-39, Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail, and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off.

Visionaries Celebrate

Vision is contagious, because once you get a vision like David did, there is no telling where the vision will go. Check out David, 1 Samuel 17:52, “And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron.”

When Saul and the Israelites looked at that battle situation, they saw everything from the external. They saw what they could do and what they couldn’t do. They saw Goliath, this undefeated warrior. David didn’t see that. David saw the unseen because David was a man of vision. That’s the kind of person that God wants us to be as well.