ENLARGE YOUR COAST

23rd December 2012 

Beloved,

FOCUS: Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited (Isaiah 54:2-3).

I want to start today by thanking God for the grace to do this. In the late nineties God spoke to me from Jeremiah 30:2 to write down what he teaches me. To him be all glory because he does teach me a lot! I did not obey. A few years later I was in a meeting and joined a line for prayer, and when the man of God laid hands on me he asked God for grace to start to write. I did not tell him anything. Other witnesses have written to me on this. It took quite a while to obey. I have repented now. So for the grace to have gone over the past two years or so, I want to praise God. If you have been reading them, I trust they have been blessing you. I am persuaded that we are just warming up, because our path only shines brighter (Proverbs 4:18). God alone be praised.

The Word for you today is that you should enlarge the place of your tent. Lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes. What do these mean? It means plan big. Be expansive! Remove the limits in your thoughts and actions. Develop increase and enlargement mentality. This refers to every aspect of your life; spiritually, financially, family, business and so on. David saw that the head of Goliath was already cut off, even when he had no sword in his hand (1 Samuel 17:46). He did not just think it; he told Goliath what was going to happen to him. Are you unemployed, prepare for a good job; get some clothes and plan what you shall do every day after you have come back from work. You need children? Give them names, and display the names where people will see it. Start calling your spouse for example John’s Dad or John’s Mum. This might look unrealistic to folks around, but that is the wisdom of God.

Abram did not get this when God told him that his children shall be like stars. God had to basically force him to change his name (Genesis 17:5-6). It is time to plan for the breakthrough. Are you attacked by sickness? An elderly lady was being carried to a meeting. She so much believed that she shall be healed that she told her children, “please get me my foot wear. I don’t want to put my feet on the cold floor when I am healed”. Hallelujah! And she got her healing. Plan for the time after the present condition. I mean put in place plans of what you shall be doing when the healing has manifested. Friend, the time has come to prepare for greatness. God is saying “spare not”; don’t be cautious.

How do I plan big? The starting point is the Word of God. That is the eternal seed for everything (Luke 8:11). Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (2 Peter 1:4). Putting this in my own word; use the great promises that God has given us to live like God here. Hallelujah! I want to tell you this: that was what Jesus did. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written (Luke4:17). Jesus opened where it was written. He opened the exceeding great and precious promises. When Jesus has done reading what was written, he made another startling statement: This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears (Luke 4:21). This means the scripture was fulfilled that day because Jesus found it, believed it and declared it. Hallelujah! Read Matthew 12:20  A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. Did you notice the word “till”. That was a conditional word. This means that that until Jesus declared what he found and believed, he could not enter into his ministry. This was why he told them, “this scripture is fulfilled as you hear me say it”. Friend, find your enlargement in the scripture, believe it and declareand then get busy. Amen.

The other action you need to see is to see yourself in your enlarged position. This is called imagination. This was what God told Abraham in Genesis 13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever. God did not take him up on a high mountain to see as wide as possible. He was to see it in his mind’s eyes. This is what you need to do. Enlarge your coast; dwell in your mind in your enlarged place based on the word of God. When you see well in our minds eyes, God’s word is fulfilled faster (Jeremiah 1:12). Nothing will be withheld from them which they have imagined to do (Genesis 11:6).

Therefore get busy in the next couple of days. Enlarge your coast. You are entering your season of greatness.

Shalom

Brother Dr.Godwin Enwere

Elder at Temple of Praise Geneva