Vision Sunday (Novato) 2025
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Pastor Caleb Klinge
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January 19, 2025

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Vision Sunday 2025

January 19, 2025

Vision is Essential

Where there is no revelation (vision) the people cast off restraint; but happy is he who keeps the law. —Proverbs 29:18

If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed. —Proverbs 29:18 (The Message)

Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. —Hebrews 12:1b-2

  • Looking - to turn the eyes away from other things and them on something.

3 Priorities - Love God, Grow Together, Serve Others

  • Love God in and daily devotion.
  • Grow together in Life Groups.
  • Serve others through serve teams .

Presence, People, Purpose

  • Presence – My highest calling in life is the call into God’s presence. We are church that prioritizes God’s Presence.
  • People - We were for family, created for community.
  • Purpose - You were created for good works that God has pre-ordained for you to walk in.

  • Mission Statement: New Life is a Community of believers committed to the Great Commission through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Recap Vision 2024

Vision 2025

1. Increase and - The Valley of Eshcol.

Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. 24 The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there. —Numbers 13:23-24

  • Healthy vision focuses on what God is instead of fixating on what he isn’t doing.
  • Vision keeps you

    and causes you to thrive.

  • Numbers 13:30 - “We are well able to overcome.” The fact that he was talking about overcoming means there was something to overcome.

  • Numbers 14:9 - “Giants are bread for us.” Doesn’t mean it’s easy. Means it we’ll

    from the challenge and experience increase.

Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. —Isaiah 9:7

> “Enlarge the place of your tent,
> And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
> Do not spare;
> Lengthen your cords,


And strengthen your stakes.

> 3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
> And your descendants will inherit the nations,


And make the desolate cities inhabited.
4 “Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; —Isaiah 54:2-4

2. Key Passages/Pictures for 2025

a. Joshua 3 - Crossing the Jordan - Transition into the Promised Land

3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it. 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.” —Joshua 3:3-4

b. 2 Chronicles 20:17 -

Really Matters

17 You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.” —2 Chronicles 20:17

c. Be

- Luke 12:35 -  “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning;

“Be dressed and ready for active service, and keep your lamps continuously burning. —Luke 12:35 AMP

‘“Be prepared for action at a moment’s notice.” —Luke 12:35 TPT