  Having written a lot over the last couple of days about my early vision for a loan company (something I hadn't expected to write about so soon into this blog) I have pondered afresh on the first promise that God gave me concerning being a visionary. In early 1992 as I prepared to become the Minister of Emmanuel Holiness Church in Birkenhead - my first pastorate - God led me to Isaiah 42:5-9.
At my induction there and also at the induction of my second Pastorate at Carreg Llwyd Church, Oswestry in May 2000 I had this passage of Scripture read and am reproducing it below today This is what God the LORD says - he who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand.
I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness. I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols. See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you. " 
