"Jubilee Cards" about Vision
Minute-a-day stretching exercises
that combine the Vision Declaration
with verses and prayers
Jubilee Cards put SYNC content at your fingertips in a form you can use for a quick exercise routine. If you print a copy, you can do the exercise to set the tone for your day before you even pick up your phone in the morning.
Or do them on your phone whenever you can seize a window of opportunity--at the breakfast table, in personal devotions, in a one-minute pause before you get in your car, or in many other settings alone or with friends.
Set a visionary, hopeful tone for your day
The cards help you exercise your right to declare what kind of a day you are going to have instead of letting your circumstances impose it on you. They SYNC you with each seasonal theme as you go through the year.
Seven of the fifty Jubilee Cards go with Vision Season. Let these cards remind you who you are--a trailer for a movie about a future world of peace.
How to foresee the future
Seeing the dawn is not the same as seeing the sun, but it's close. When we read what the Bible says about Jesus returning to reign over the whole world as its flawless Messiah, it is like seeing the dawn.
Lots of good things happen when we get the return of Christ on our minds, and that's what the Jubilee Cards do for us--they remind us how the story of the world will turn out.
Knowing that God's campaign ends in victory--a world connected, healed, and blessed--we live each day fully motivated for our campaign assignments. Our actions are small signals of a big change coming.
Pleasurable exercise
Using a Jubilee Card to set the tone for your day is like humming an old favorite song, moving with its rhythm. Then you go out to face your day with confidence instead of being depressed by today's news and anxious about tomorrow's.
Remember that the cards are not describing a utopia you are supposed to bring into being, and you are not beating yourself up all day saying, "I've got to be much closer to perfect than I am."
The cards are declaring something that God will bring about by his power at his set time. Meanwhile he is giving previews. He takes our lives, however messed up they may have been, and he shows what happens as his Spirit connects, heals, and blesses us.
You can't overdose on the medicine these cards give you, so repeat this one-minute exercise as often as needed each day.
Improve your sleep
The benefits of physical exercise for sleep are well documented. These vision-building exercises have the same effect, and you may want to repeat them at bedtime. It's a great time to thank Jesus that he is coming back, and that we can already see signs of his light coming into the world.
As worthy people, we are clued in to the vision that drives God's global campaign. The Jubilee Cards sign us up to become part of his strategy to make the vision a reality.
Our place in his strategy is non-violent. We get to accentuate the positive--his work of connecting, healing, and blessing. We don't have to conquer any terriotory, kill anyone, oppress anyone, or even force anyone to see things our way in order to make this vision a reality. No worries about any of that.
Exercise instructions
Each card helps us shine with his dawning light by giving us a declaration, a verse, and a prayer
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The Vision Declaration (same every day) sets the tone for our day, linking us to the return of Jesus as ruling Messiah and to our role as trailers for a movie about the future
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Each verse (different each day) tells us something about the biblical vision of the future under Jesus's rule
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Each prayer relates to the verse
SYNC with these seven Jubilee Cards and discover how to live with one foot in a glorious future.
Seven Bible verses that stretch and strengthen our vision of a future ruled by Jesus
The first of the seven Jubilee Cards about Vision contains the essence of what we call the "Gift of Vision" from the Bible. It is a prophetic announcement of the most important day in the future of our planet, the day when everything changes.
"The kingdom of the world is now the Kingdom of our God and his Messiah! He will rule forever and ever!" Revelation 11.15
The last book in the Bible, Revelation, is an incredibly long detailed vision about the persecution of Jesus's followers and, at the end, Jesus's complete triumph over the persecutors.
The first Vision Verse is the beginning of one small section of that story (Revelation 11.15-19). It describes Jesus Christ taking power on earth when the seventh and last trumpet of judgment sounds.
When the proclamation in Revelation 11.15 is pronounced, it will mean "Game over" for all the enemies of the Messiah. God's campaign to connect, heal, and bless will be over, too. All the changes he was campaigning to bring about will be realities as plain as day.
There is no work left for the campaign team. We get to go to the victory party (the wedding feast of the Lamb) and enjoy the kingdom that the Messiah set up.
The other six Jubilee Verses about Vision are snippets from all over the Bible, mini-glimpses of the vision of the victory of God's campaign. Jesus, the Messiah appointed by God, will rule a perfect world of peace and justice. It is indescribable, but these verses help us start to see how victory is already partly here, how it will look at the end, and why it can't fail.
Let's get this party started!
No wonder we are in a mood to celebrate Christmas and New Year's! The future is bright when it has a blazingly bright Jesus in the middle of it!
Unfortunately much of our world does not see him in the future. They only see him in the the past, in the manger of Bethlehem, a baby who will grow up to teach peace and love.
Some recognize him as the sacrifice for our sins, but that also is in the past, and not to be repeated. They see the cross as the thing that secures their personal future with God, but it doesn't have much to do with their outlook on the future of this world. They don't think much about Christ's return to earth, and when they do, they think more of him demolishing it than ruling it.
Of course, there is plenty that we do not understand yet about Christ's return, but we know one thing for sure from the New Testament--it should loom very large in our thinking. Does it?
If it does, we will be thrilled about learning to dance to God's Vision Rhythm, even though learning it is a little tricky. The good news is that even before we master the Vision Rhythm we can move with the parts we understand, trusting God one step at a time. The Jubilee Cards get us into motion.
Print cards from the list below or from the Word file at the bottom of this page. The Word version includes graphics and is formatted to print on 8 1/2 x 11 business card stock or ordinary paper.
FAQs
Why do these cards work? Where do the cards get their power to influence us?
These tools work for us because they keep turning our attention from our own situation to Christ's return. They give us the ultimate, "Heads up!" To See Yourself iN Christ (SYNC) means that you see yourself as part of the amazing future world he will bring about!
Each time we read a card, it refreshes our memories. It puts this compelling picture of Christ in all his blazing glory in front of our eyes again, and we are inspired to live the vision right now as he enables us by his Spirit.
How could we be pessimistic about the future? The Spirit is transforming us now and Jesus is on his way back to complete the makeover with his personal touch!
Sunday
Jubilee Card 43
The Vision Declaration
I see myself as a trailer for the movie about the coming world of peace. I see this day as a day to look forward to Christ’s glorious return and to live like it matters.
God's Word
"The kingdom of the world is now the Kingdom of our God and his Messiah! He will rule forever and ever!"
Revelation 11.15
The Message
Our Response
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for giving us a vision that goes beyond all wars and all politics. Let us never look at any war or any politician as “the answer.”
Monday
Jubilee Card 44
The Vision Declaration
I see myself as a trailer for the movie about the coming world of peace. I see this day as a day to look forward to Christ’s glorious return and to live like it matters.
God's Word
"Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to all those he favors!"
Luke 2.14
The Message
Our Response
Let us shout today like the angels at Bethlehem, “Glory to God and peace on earth!” Jesus is here.
Tuesday
Jubilee Card 45
The Vision Declaration
I see myself as a trailer for the movie about the coming world of peace. I see this day as a day to look forward to Christ’s glorious return and to live like it matters.
God's Word
"Rise and shine! My glory has risen for you."
Isaiah 60.1
The Message
Our Response
Thank you that your glory has risen and we can start to see it. Let us shine with it today.
Wednesday
Jubilee Card 46
The Vision Declaration
I see myself as a trailer for the movie about the coming world of peace. I see this day as a day to look forward to Christ’s glorious return and to live like it matters.
God's Word
"I live in you. That's how you know you will share in my glory."
Colossians 1.27
The Message
Our Response
Thank you for living in us, giving us a glimpse of your coming glory. Let others "see the light" in us today.
Thursday
Jubilee Card 47
The Vision Declaration
I see myself as a trailer for the movie about the coming world of peace. I see this day as a day to look forward to Christ’s glorious return and to live like it matters.
God's Word
"I will be given power to rule—all the glory of royalty. Everyone—every race, color, and creed—will serve me."
Daniel 7.14
The Message
Our Response
Burn that picture into our minds, Lord—all races at peace—and let us not do anything against it today.
Friday
Jubilee Card 48
The Vision Declaration
I see myself as a trailer for the movie about the coming world of peace. I see this day as a day to look forward to Christ’s glorious return and to live like it matters.
God's Word
"Done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end."
Revelation 21.6
The Message
Our Response
Thank you, Alpha and Omega. Let us live today certain that you have everything covered.
Saturday
Jubilee Card 49
The Vision Declaration
I see myself as a trailer for the movie about the coming world of peace. I see this day as a day to look forward to Christ’s glorious return and to live like it matters.
God's Word
"I gave you my word, and I’ll say it again, “I’m on my way! I’ll be there soon!” Start the celebration!"
Revelation 11.15
The Message
Our Response
Yes, come, King Jesus, and the sooner the better. Today would be a great time for it!