Catalyst Track: Chazown // Day 2 - Finding Your Chazown

This track comes from Craig Groeschel’s book, Chazown.

The word vision comes from the Hebrew word chazown (pronounced khaw-ZONE). Not to be confused with calzones, which is Spanish for underwear.

Cha-ZOWN.

Where there is no Chazown—no dream, no revelation, no vision, no sense of our created purpose—we perish.

Where there is no vision that you were created to have a growing, life-long, and personal relationship with your Creator, your inner being withers and dies. 

Where there is no vision that you have been placed on earth to matter deeply to other people and reveal God's love and power to them, you live in loneliness, and your relationships perish.

But you and I were made for so much more.

In this 3-day track, Craig invites leaders to start the adventure of not only discovering vision but taking the next steps to see that vision come to life!

Maybe God has given you a vision, but you've stalled. Or maybe you’re seeking God to find out what His vision for you might be. Wherever you are in the process, use this track to take the next step forward. When you complete the reflections/challenges at the end of each day, you’ll be entered in to receive a free copy of Chazown. 

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DAY 2 – Finding your Chazown

 

A lot of people have narrow ideas about the way God conveys vision. Some expect to see writing—really big writing—on some wall somewhere. Maybe on a billboard beside the road.

 

God gave Joseph his Chazown by means of a dream. The next day, Joseph told his brothers what he dreamed: “We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it” (Genesis 37:7). Joseph had a vision or a dream that God’s plan was to make him a great leader. And God did.

 

Moses, on the other hand, received his vision from God’s audible voice, coming from a burning bush (see Exodus 3). As Moses bowed in the presence of God, the Lord revealed his life’s purpose: to rescue the Israelites from Egypt, to lead them, and to convey God’s word to mankind. And Moses did.

 

How did Nehemiah receive a Chazown from God? At the end of Israel's seventy years of exile, he got permission to return to Jerusalem. He discovered his vision when he looked at the destroyed city walls, and he wondered, Why won’t someone do something about these walls? (See Nehemiah 2:11–17.) His vision came from a burden, something that bothered him, something that wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. And Nehemiah devoted his life to solving the problem.

 

Each of these men perceived God’s plan in his own unique way. And each one followed God’s Chazown. That’s why their lives made such an enormous difference.

 

Is something missing from your life? Are you aware that God has more for you?
Seek Him. Just like Joseph, Moses, Nehemiah, and Dr. Dunham, He will give you a Chazown. And not just any, but one that is tailored specifically for you.

 

Then you will know how you can impact the world.

 

REFLECT:

 

Spend some time thinking about your experiences, the kinds of news stories you read, what things you find both fascinating and unsettling to learn about. Where in those areas is a problem you feel compelled to help solve?