Led By Vision | New Horizon Church | Pastor Dwain Wolfe | Feb 22nd 2026

I just I'm all struck at how God is visionary.

Fact as I'm thinking the more I think about it,

is that this is one of his most important traits,

is that he's visionary. And because of that, and we're

made in his likeness. I think it's one of our

most important traits. One of the most important characteristics about

us is that we have the potential for vision. Now,

when we think about vision, we usually think about things future.

But vision is interrelated to imagination, It's interrelated to meditation, right,

and so God has continually been trying to capture our vision,

our imagination, our meditations with what he has in mind

for us, with the goodness that he's ordained, right with

the beauty he's created, with where he wants to take mankind.

And likewise, the enemy knows that this is this is

actually the strength of your love. The strength of your

love is actually your vision, your imagination. The strength of

your faith is actually your vision and your imagination, and

what you meditate on. It's the strength or it's the weakness.

Matthew six twenty two. Jesus said that the eye is

the gate, the lamp of the whole body. He didn't

say that the eye is the lamp to the soul.

That would be true, but he was trying to tell

us something. Is that that what we focus on, and

I think we have that verse to. We might have

that verse. I don't know if they if they kept

those things in the thing or not, but there might

be some verses I allude to that we don't have

because there were several that I didn't put in. So

I was responsible for loading some of those things, and

I failed greatly. But Matthew six twenty two says that

the eye is the lamp of the body. If your

eye is healthy, eyes are healthy. Now that's probably the NIV.

It's not carrying the full inference of maybe the text,

but the idea is that if what you focus on

is pure, is good, is noble, If what you focus

on is right and righteous, then your whole body we

will be full of light. If what you focus on

is negative, it's dark, it's unclean, it's perverse, distorted. If

it's off just a little bit, right, if your vision

is off just a little bit. So we see Satan

is trying to capture the heart and the mind of

us continually with something that will take us off course.

Remember with Eve.

Remember Satan said, doesn't the fruit look good.

To the eye?

Wow? He appealed to her vision. It's metaphoric. There's a

reason that the scripture describes it the way it does,

because he was appealing to what she would see, and

if she would see it in a particular way, she

could overcome obstruction of God's command because it looked good

to the eye. We get drawn away by that look

good to the eye, but that art of God. But

God has things that are good to the eye. Now

we have this crazy, beautiful privilege. The privilege we have

is the redemption of our imagination. The redemption of our

imagination is.

Is what I think.

It's one of the central things God was after in

Christ as he delivers us out of darkness, because in

Genesis sixty five it says that God repented that he

made man because their constant imaginations were darkened. So what happened,

and this is I want you to see what happened,

is in the fall we were drawn away by Satan,

pulling our vision into something that contradicted God's word in

God's vision. But then as Adam became aligned with the enemy,

then the constant imagination was toward destruction, toward violence, toward jealousy,

toward pride, toward arrogance, toward cornality, the things that were

of the cornal Man James in chapter three calls it

the wisdom from beneath envy, jealousy, bitterness, competition, negativity. The

imagination of man was given to this continuously. And this

is what God was after in Christ Jesus. God was

after your imagination. He wasn't just after getting you to heaven.

He was after your imagination. He was after your vision

what you ponder on. And vision is so important because

when we think about vision, we think about the future.

And God wants your imagination partnered with him for the future. Now,

there was no way he could do that. He couldn't

do that, He couldn't harness your imagination for the blessed

future that He ordained for every one of us, and

what he was working the earth toward until Christ came.

When Christ came, there was a piercing into the stony

heart and the removal of that stony heart, and the

replacing of that stony heart with a soft heart, soft

toward the spirit, so that we could hear him, partner

with him and begin to think his thoughts. God has

called us to think thoughts that are up here in heavenward.

So that's why Colossians three says Colossians two, delivered out

of darkness. Colossians three, Now that you have been delivered

out of darkness, set your mind on things above where

Christ is, where you are already seated Roman's eighty six.

The mindset on the carnal realm is resulting in death.

And it's not like you died today. It's just like

you're killing everything you touch. But the mindset on the

things of the spirit is life and peace. Where do

we set our minds? There's a great liberation that God

was bringing to our mind. Now God's been appealing to

God's been appealing to us through.

From the very beginning.

There's metaphor after metaphor after metaphor, story after story after

story where God appeals to us with regard to the future,

trying to show either Abraham or Israel or Joseph. What

was Joseph known for? What was he called? Joseph is

a picture of Christ? What was he called the dreamer?

Joseph is called a dreamer, He's the favored son, He's

got the coat of many colors. It's like the robe

of righteousness on him. He is literally the symbol of restoration.

Joseph goes down to Egypt and he's given the land

of Goshen, and it's even described that the land of

Goshen was as Eden. So Joseph the Favored Son enters

into the land of Eden to bring preservation to all

of Jacob, to all of Israel. And what's he known

as He's the Dreamer's trying to show us all the

way through that he wants to speak to us in

the language of dreams and visions, the language of dreams

and visions. He wants to capture our heart with the

language of dreams and visions that are heavenward, that are

out of heaven, that are out of victory, that are

out of grace, that are out of hope, that are

out of life, that are out of provision, that are

out of the fullness of heaven. Jesus said, pray this way,

Matthew six nine through eleven, Thy Kingdom come, I will

be done on earth as it is in heaven. That

can't be just a prayer. You have to see heaven first.

If you're praying what you can't see then your prayer

is worthless. It's an appeal to heaven. And maybe he'll

start to show you you felt what I'm saying, But

really you have to pray what you see. What do

you see about heaven? What do you see about heaven?

Abundant resources, health, redemption. God's sovereign plan is to redeem us,

redeem man, restore men, then restore the earth. Do you

see that when he says, pray that Heaven comes to earth,

he's calling us to see what heaven is, and that

Heaven is now accessible for us, not in the sweet

by and by, but accessible for us to begin to

agree with and begin to walk in and begin to

see it grow in the earth, in our lives and

in the earth. And I think this is a good

definition of sovereignty if we understood the sovereignty of God

is that God has a vision, and his vision is

to restore Heaven on earth, and he's going to win

by the way he's.

Going to win.

God's vision is to restore heaven on the earth and

to completely banish Satan and principalities and powers and completely

put them under the feet of the righteous that delivered

the sons of the Second atom. He has that vision,

and sovereignty is him working that vision out in history,

bringing forth a restored people, bringing forth a restored earth.

He's going to work that out in history. And that

is the sovereignty of God in action. And the how

is Jesus. Every vision needs a how, and Jesus is

the how. Jesus is the one thrust into history to

bend it toward God's will. Now, God's invited us into

God's invited us into this new realm of imagination. And

why I say that this could be the most powerful

redemptive thing about you vision, Your vision could be the

most powerful thing about you in redemption because of all

the things God promised to restore first, because your vision

has to be restored first. You can't love beyond what

you can see loving. You can't accomplish what you cannot

see accomplishing. You cannot give what you cannot see yourself giving.

You cannot serve beyond what you can see yourself serving.

You cannot perform, you cannot build, you cannot do it.

So it's crazy.

It's interesting that when the Bible talks about pouring out

the spirit, not on the Jews only, No, not on

err and only no, not on Levi.

Only when the.

Bible talks about pouring out the spirit on the gentiles,

on all flesh globally. When the Bible talks about it, Joel,

Chapter two, verse twenty eight. When the Bible talks about it,

you know what to say us. There's going to be

a restoration of dreams and visions. Gentile people, Gentile people

whose minds have been darkened, who are aliens from the

Promise and the covenants. Gentile people are going to be

delivered out of darkness, and their imaginations are going to

be resuscitated. Their ability to visioneer with God, their ability

to see what God's up to, is going to be

resuscitated by the Holy Spirit. And they're going to receive

the potential to dream with God. They're going to receive

the potential to dream heavenward dreams, to see things they

could never see, and to partner with Holy Spirit. So

he says that, he says that this is like the

This is the hallmark, the hallmark, by the way, the

hallmark of the hallmark of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

This is the.

Hallmark of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It's not

speaking in tongues. Wow, in Pentecostal churches, we've made the

hallmark of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues.

That isn't the passage.

And when Peter talks about this passage in Acts chapter two,

in Acts chapter two, he says, they're not drunk like

you suppose. And by the way, the tongues that they're

talking on, the tongues that they're speaking on the day

of Pentecost, those tongues were the tongues of the one hundred

and any nations that were present in the auditorium, in

the audience, in the audience, there was somebody there from

every nation under the globe. Somebody was there, and they

heard people speaking in languages they had never learned, the

glory of God and the glory of Jesus, and the

glory of the resurrection and the glory of redemption in

their own tongue from people that had never learned their language.

That's so. Then you got some.

Demon led naysayers in the crowds saying, now they're just drunk.

Eh, heh, they're just drunk. And Peter stands out.

The read who became a rock stands up and says,

they're not drunk, you dingbats. It's only nine o'clock in

the morning. This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel.

As it shall come to and it shall come to

pass in the last days, Saith God, I got news

for you. By the way, got.

A mess with you. These are not the last days.

You're not living in the last days.

And if you're living in the last days, you keep

waiting for the Holy Spirit to be poured out, you

missed it. The Holy Spirit already got poured out. You're

not living in the last days. You're living in the

new days. This is the growing kingdom of heaven. Oh

boy Lord, help us. This is the growing kingdom of art.

Thank you for helping me. Growing Kingdom of Heaven, growing

Kingdom of Heaven. Right, the last days aren't over here

somewhere He was talking about the last days of the

Mosaic period. So if you had Joel two twenty eight only,

you wouldn't know that. Joel said, in the last days,

I'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and they

will prophesy. You know what prophesi is. Prophesy is the

word seer. Prophets were called seers. He says I'm gonna

pour out my spirit up lesh, and everybody's gonna be

a seer. A seer is the person who operates in visions.

Visions are how God announces the future. Satan wants you

to focus on the present and on the past. God

wants you to focus on the future. Your future is

bright and full of heaven. God wants you to focus

on all of your problems. I mean, Satan wants you

to focus on all your problems and all the things

that disqualify you for good things. But God is interrupting

that by Jesus. And God is interrupting you with vision,

and He's made you a seer.

Yeah, even the women poke.

God was disrupting everything by the Holy Spirit. Joel didn't

know when this was going to come to pass. He

just said, in the last days, Well, when are the

last days coming? Well, Daniel even thinking on this stuff

till the last days. Daniel said, you know, oh my goodness,

what am I going to do with all this? And

God said, you know, write it up because this is

you know, write it up and seal it because it's for.

The last days. What were the last days?

Well, the last days were the last days of the

Mosaic period. This was the end of a period of

being under the law. Jesus started a new period of

being under truth and grace. The law of God is

now written on our heart. We don't live according to

the Decalogue the Ten Commandments. We live according to the

spirit dwelling in us, which supersedes the law.

Our righteousness is.

Greater than that of the law because we don't just

judge ourselves according to our actions. We judge ourselves according

to the imagination of our heart. A good wow, So

he says, in the last days, I'll pour out my spirit.

So did that happen? Now there can be revival burps

along the way as God is fully restoring us to

the fullness of what of Christ.

Iph He's in four.

God is restoring us to the fullness of Christ because

Christ is the image of the new Man, and He

is the last Atom, and we're being restored into that image.

So there's going to be burps of revival along the way.

But you have to know, we are waiting for some

kind of outpouring of the spirit out here somewhere. The

Holy Spirit was poured out, and Peter said, to clear

up any confusion, this is what Joel prophesied of that

in the last days of Moses, before the Tabernacle was destroyed,

and right before the last sacrifice was ever made, God

poured out his spirit on all gentiles, on all flesh,

and he inserted into their hearts the seer anointing.

You have the seer anointing.

You talk about the most astounding privilege on the planet.

Believers in Jesus Christ, are you hearing me this morning?

You have the privilege, the grace, the power, the anointing

to be visioneers of heaven. You have the grace, the power,

and the anointing, the enablement to see things that nobody

else can see, to create what nobody else can create,

to build what nobody else can build, to develop what

nobody else can develop, To write what nobody else can write. Satan,

even right now, Satan is trying to grab your attention

with negativity, with fake book. Come on, come on, come on.

The most powerful thing you have is your ability to

envision the future and your ability to imagine your partnership

and the partnership of the Body of Christ with Heaven,

so that Heaven will grow.

But you have to harness this.

The Holy Spirit is so kind and gracious, he's not

going to come down and grab your brain, grab your mind,

grab your thoughts and force you to think happy thoughts.

You have the privilege to partner with him. You have

the privileged to visioneer with him. Oh my goodness, let's

go back to Matthew six twenty two, just for a moment.

Let's think about that for a moment. If your vision

is dark, here's some notes. I got A heaven sent

vision will will fuel I'm almost out of time. I

got to cut to the chase. A heaven sent vision

will fuel your life and passion. A heaven sent vision

is a compass. A heaven sent vision will cross examine

every behavior. A heaven sent vision will give life purpose.

Heaven's vision is the source of discipline when you're literally

partnering with because you have to. You have to understand

that you are. You are tethered to this. You are

tethered to this grace of an increasing kingdom of heaven.

You're tethered to it. But if you ignore it, you

can't partner with the grace that's available. But when you

partner with the grace that's available with the increasing kingdom,

it's like you you don't even need food to have energy.

Nobody needs to wake you up.

You don't need an alarm clock to wake you up

like you're waiting for the alarm clock.

Is that thing ever going to go off? I got it,

I got a date. It FULFILLM so good.

Now, what I want you to see is that you

your life is tethered to Zion. I want you to

see that your life is tethered Desion, and I want

you to see that this visionary thing of building the

Kingdom of Heaven, because you're a partner in that, is

because your life is tethered to Zion, the House of

the Lord, and it's out of Zion. It's out of

Zion that we are sent as arrows in the culture.

It's out of Zion. This is home, and this is

the house. This is the house God has built. It's

the pre eminent house. It's not that these other houses

aren't important. No, we're anointed here to go as apostolic

arrows into these mountains. We're anointed and we're sent like

flaming arrows into the mountain of family. That's psychology, that's psychiatry,

that's medicine, that's everything to do with family. We're anointed

like Aros and sent into that. And as we go,

we go building this vision. We see that this is

the vision God is building. He's poured out his spirit

upon us. We are full of grace and power. We

go and we partner with him, and he's building the

kingdom in family, in arts and entertainment, in the economy,

in the government mountain, in the education mountain, in the

media mountain, and he's reclaiming these and they become, they become,

and they begun to come back. So others they begin

to come, and they're fed out of Zion, and all

of us are fed out of Zion. And this is

the vision he wants us to have. They come and

they're fed out of Zion, and then they go back,

and we go back and forth. As the mountain of

the Lord becomes the chief mountain. The mountain of the

Lord becomes the chief mountain. And that's part of why

what we do here is so important. It's not important

because this is the only mountain. It's important because this

is the chief mountain, and it's out of the House

of the Lord, the mountain of God's presence, the mountain

of God's glory, the mountain of God's instruction, the mountain

of God's wisdom, that we are said, like flaming arrows

into every sphere of culture, to bring transformation, to bring reformation,

to bring the life of God and the power of

God and the wisdom of Heaven into those spheres, those

mountains of culture. I got two minutes, maybe three if

I cheat. I think Dennis went long saw chee this morning. Okay,

but Frank, are you handy? Are you close? Where's Frank?

Where's Frank? That's your Frank, that's your Frank. Okay, listen

to this Isaiah too. It's in Micah four as well.

It's Isaiah too. It's Micah four. I want you to

hear this. This is what Isaiah saw concerning Jerusalem and Judea.

And this is about the last days. And we just

talked about the last days, and this began to happen.

It's not finished in its accomplishment, but it began to happen.

In the last days. The Mountain of the Lord's People,

or the mountain of the House of the Lord, will

be established as the highest of the mountains. It will

be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream

to it. Now, he's delineating and MiCT for Isaiah to

He's separating and delineating this out from the Tabernacle of Moses.

It's not the Tabernacle of Moses. He's talking about the

Mountain of Zion. Galatians, we don't have time. Galatians four

twenty six, Hebrews twelve twenty two. Believers in Jesus do

not see earthly Jerusalem as our headquarters. Earthly Jerusalem is

not the headquarters of believers in Jesus. It is Mount Zion.

It is the Zion from above. It is the Zion

of God. It is David's House and David's Tabernacle. We

are the restored David's House in David's Tabernacle, Acts, chapter fifteen.

Look it up and read that as well. Okay, so

I want you to see this. He says, in the

last days, the mountain of the Lord's Temple, the mountain

of the House of the Lord, will be established as

the highest of the mountains. It will be exalted above

the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many

will come and say, let us go to the Mountain

of the Lord, to the temple of the God of

Jacob He will teach us his ways that we may

walk in his paths. For the law will go forth

from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He

will judge between the nations and settle dispuse for many people.

Now they will beat their swords into plowshares and their

spears into puny hooks. Nations will not take up sword

against nation anymore, nor will they train for war anymore.

This is the growing kingdom that's functioning out of the

headquarters as we The ligaments and the lively stones are

connected to the Zion from above. Okay, one more and

we're done. This is a very short cheat. I'm not

cheating very long.

You ready ready? Really?

Isaiah sixty one as a sixty one is the passage

that Jesus stood up in his first sermon. Looked for Matthew,

for it's his first sermon. He says, hand me the

book they hand him Isaiah. He opens it up to

chapter sixty one. They didn't have chapters, but he opened

it up to the spirit of the Sovereign. Lord's u bond.

Because the Lord's annoying me to proclaim the good news

to the poor, sent me to bind up the broken heart,

to proclaim freedom to the captives, release the darkness, released

for the from darkness, for the prisoners, who proclaim the

year of the Lord's favor, the day of vengeance in

our regard, comfort all who are more than preside those

who grieve in Zion, to bestow on them a beauty,

crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy

instead of morning, a garment of praise instead of a

spirit of the spare.

They will be called.

This is why I want I was going fast because

I wanted to go slow. They will be called oaks

rye nighteousness. The planting of this is now, this is you.

You're a dweller of Zion. Zion is the mountain of

the Lord. Zion is the house of God. Yes, they

will be called. You will be called oaks of righteousness,

the planting of the Lord. They you will rebuild ancient

ruins and restore the places long devastated, like school districts,

like cinematography, like technology, like the family. No more divorce,

no more broken families, no more brokenness, no more orphaned

that children, no more orphaned that children. Let's rebuild things devastated.

They will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated,

like Seattle, like New York. Strangers will shepherd your flocks.

Foreigners will work your fields and vineyards. And you will

all be called the priest of the Lord. Why because

you're connected Desion, and you will all be ministers of

our God. Why because every one of us are connected Desion,

and this is our home, and we are sent ones

from Zion, and we're all ministers.

And we build the House of God, and we.

Tether our vision to this growing kingdom, to this increasing kingdom.

And as we do, we're filled with life, strength, power, energy.

Come on, somebody past, Frank, come and kick me off

the platform. Let's stand for a moment while he's coming

to kick me off the platform. Stand quickly, stand quickly,

stand quickly say this with me, Holy Spirit, I receive

from you the grace to harness my imagination to be

a visioneer of heaven, to see what you see, to

see this growing kingdom of Heaven, to see the expansion

of it, the grace of it for me, for my family,

for our church, for the Church, for the Kingdom, for

every believer, and for the world. In Jesus' name, Give

the Lord a shout give the lord a shout,