“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.” (Isaiah 54:2-3)

I have come to the place in my life where I am constantly testing this word.  I am constantly stretching my physical and spiritual boundaries and God is continually spreading me right and left.

When I returned to Christ 8 years ago, the Lord said to me through His word that the blessings of Abraham were mine in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:13-14) and I believed Him.  I learned that the work of Christ destroys the curse in our lives so that the blessings of God in Deuteronomy 28 can flow into them.

When this revelation first came to me I had no job, I had no house, I was living with strangers, I was still addicted to cigarettes and alcohol.  But in my heart I knew by Holy Spirit in me the truth of this scripture.  I could see in my spirit the journey ahead was filled with multiplied blessings.  Everything I needed and desired were mine in Christ if I only heeded His voice.

Ever since I first received this word I have been accessing it and have indeed enlarged the place of my tents.  The Lord has restored to me the blessing of marriage, children, houses, jobs, wealth, ministry, and church.  He has blessed me with everything that I put my hand at to do.

I have been fruitful because my God makes me fruitful.  Even in seasons of drought I am looking for a harvest.  When the rest of the world is anxious about tough times I get excited because I know that the blessing is not limited in my life by the world’s economic situation or drought conditions.  The Lord is my provider during good times and during bad, and he is always generous.

This grace for blessing is not something that I earned but something that was my inheritance in Christ Jesus.

Last week I found myself wanting to get anxious about my finances.  I had invested in a number of ministry engagements resulting in a significant outlay of finances.  In the midst of it I started to laugh.  Holy Spirit said to me “If God is challenging you to put out that much money at one time, then the harvest must truly be plentiful.”

I sowed in laughter and I am reaping in laughter just one week later.  A lot of the money I sowed last week has already returned to me through sources I didn’t expect.  I was also asked to speak at four different churches since then.  In the natural this is crazy, but I am a spiritual man.

I didn’t stop sowing either.  Before any of the money came in and before the engagements to speak came, I had already invited two other speakers to come and told them I would pay their way.

You see, I am enlarging the place of my tents.  I believe the word of God and know that it is true.  I know it because I have tested it.  In the testing I have never been put to shame.  I have always been rewarded.

God wants to do the same thing in your life.  Will you believe Him for greater things today and trust His word despite what your circumstances say?  I can assure you He will be faithful to His word.