Brother
A discouraged, depressed and desperate woman with no children, no hope and no future was addressed in a passage of scripture from Isaiah 54:1-4. In the midst of her despair and pain, the prophet said “Get up in faith! Start moving into the destiny you can only see in faith! Get ready, here it comes!” The prophet said she must INCREASE HER CAPACITY for a miracle!
What is your capacity? God is not concerned with how large our bank account is, the size of our church, or the number of letters after our names from our education—He wants us to have a LARGE IMPACT in culture!
IMPACT IS ABOUT ‘CAPACITY’...
“Begin to sing!” the Lord tells us today from this ancient text—“You’re about to give birth, and you’ll have more children than anyone else! Enlarge your place!”
FAITH sings about the coming blessings of God! Faith believes. Faith has HOPE. Faith enlarges its space—shows evidence of expectation! Faith listens to the Word! Faith expects God to act. “Expectation is the atmosphere for miracles.”
God changed Abram, “the father of many,” to Abraham, “the father of nations”—even though he was not yet the father of “many” or “any”! God said, “Abraham, your prosperity is on the way, now start to call yourself by that name!”—Every time Abraham said his name he spoke faith over his life, though he had not seen it yet!
ARE YOU DARING AND RADICAL ENOUGH TO CALL YOURSELF WHAT YOU SEE YOUR DESTINY AS? “WORLDCHANGER”—“HISTORYMAKER”—“A MAN OF IMPACT”
Jesus told the disciples go to Jerusalem and do not leave “until you have the Promise.” They were to be ‘filled’ with power from the Holy Spirit...Filled—not immersed, covered, shrouded with—FILLED!
SOLOMON asked for wisdom...GOD GAVE HIM WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGEAND LARGENESS OF HEART—God said in essence, “Solomon, to do what I need you to do, you must get larger, bigger...”
Being “filled” is directly related to our capacity...OUR CAPACITY MUST INCREASE TO FULFILL OUR DESTINY.
LARGER PEOPLE...LARGER IMPACT!
Two ways stretch the size of our capacity:
INTIMACY—Time with the Father: practicing His presence, prayer, Word, time with the brethren, worship, meditation on the Word.
ADVERSITY—James said, ‘Count it all joy’ when we encounter problems (James 1) because he knew the result of adversity would increase strength, largeness of heart, capacity in the inner man.
We cannot allow little voices of doubt, nagging defeat from the past, inferiority (measuring ourselves by others), comments from unbelievers or anything else stop us. God said it would not be by our own strength and human spirit, but that it would be “NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER—BUT, BY MY SPIRIT SAYS THE LORD!” (Zech 4)
Stretching is not easy, but it doesn’t break us. We become malleable and easily molded into Christlikeness through our intimacy with him. We are shaped and our characters are formed as we step out of our prayer closet and overcome adversity.
Let’s not resist being stretched—let’s get large as men who are sent into the world to make IMPACT!
INCREASED CAPACITY, INCREASED IMPACT!
Grace/peace
Paul L. Cole
PresidentCMN Worldwide
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