Enlarging Your Tent

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Enlarging your Tent Pastor Charles Omofomah

As we count down to the New Year, God

place of your dwelling. What does enlarge

left” (Isaiah 54:3). The Living Bible puts it

wants to remind us of some truths that will

mean? To enlarge means to make larger, to

this way, “For you will soon be bursting at the

prepare us to walk in the abundance and

grow larger, to give greater scope of, to set

seams” (Isaiah 54:3 TLB). God is set to bless

victory that God has stored up for us in the

free.

you until there is no room to contain it

coming year.

anymore. Prepare before the time so that God does not just want you to enlarge your

you can receive the blessing. Do not let it

In this article, I want to share three of them

tent, He wants you to strengthen the cords,

take you unawares.

with you.

make them Virm so that when your blessing comes there will be a strong and Virm place

Enlarge Your Habitation 1“Sing, O barren, you who have not borne!

Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not laboured with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.

2“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.”

Isaiah 54:1-3

God wants to bless you in every way possible; He does not want to hold back and that is why He is telling you to enlarge the

to receive it. God is telling us to get ready for expansion.

The Bible says, “Sing, O barren, you who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not laboured with child!

Give Generously 1”Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will Vind it after many days.

2 Give a serving to seven, and also to eight, for you do not know what evil will be on the earth.”

Ecclesiastes 11:1-2

For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman, says the Lord” (Isaiah 54:1). Is there anything you have been trusting God for? Then, get ready

The peculiar feature of a piece of bread that is put into a Vluid like water is that the piece

for the inVlow of God’s blessing. Rejoice

of bread increases in size. When you cast

greatly because God is set to Vill up your tent,

your bread upon the waters, it swells up or

which you have enlarged and strengthened.

increases in size, and the waves bring it

Are you trusting God for increase in your

back to you. When it is brought back, it is

Vinances? Then, break forth into singing. God

bigger than what it used to be before.

will bless you so much that you will be a

The Bible says, “Give a serving to seven, and

blessing to others because the Bible says,

also to eight, for you do not know what evil

“For you shall expand to the right and to the

will be on the earth” (Ecclesiastes 11:2).

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GOG - 18 - 247 - Enlarging Your Tent God is saying that you have to be generous

a thousand times more blessings to you. He

a misery if He blesses you a thousand times

with your giving. If you are used to casting

wants to bless you a thousand times more

more and you are not healthy enough to enjoy

your bread upon the waters, you will not

than you have ever received. Most times we do

it. “Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;

be bothered about the economic situation or

not understand the depth of God’s desire to

and thy paths drop fatness” (Psalm 65:11 KJV).

circumstances around you because in the

bless us. If God is taking the time to tell you to

God will give you all round blessing and you

midst of the lack, you shall reap abundance.

prepare, part of that preparation is for you to enlarge your mind, so that you will be able to

3“If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.

4 He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.”

Ecclesiastes 11:3-4

comprehend in your heart and conVidently say to yourself that if it was possible for the Old Testament saints to be blessed a thousand times, then it will be possible for you, a New Testament saint, to be blessed a thousand times more.

will be healthy, wealthy and prosperous.

Enlarge your tent; strengthen your cords because God is set to exceed your wildest imagination in the coming year. He wants to do it for you, not just to prove that He can do it, but so that you can be blessed. Get ready for all kinds of miracles and blessings from your

When you give generously and you cast your

heavenly Father.

bread upon the waters, what you are really doing is putting water in the cloud. In spite of the

You must realise that God blesses

uncertainties that may lie ahead,

us so that we can forget our

whether there be risk or not, “If

times of sorrows and remember

the clouds are full of rain, they

only the blessings. As you follow

empty themselves upon the

these truths, God will lead you,

earth…” (Ecclesiastes 11:3).

step by step, into every blessing He has prepared for you in the

T h e re fo re , yo u r s o u rc e o f

New Year and beyond. So, get

sustenance and abundance does

ready for increase; enlarge your

not depend on the economic

tent, lengthen your cords and

situation or the government.

strengthen them, be ready to

Continue to Vill up the clouds and

burst forth to the right and to the

in the fullness of time, when everybody is

Do you think that it is impossible for God to

running helter-skelter and complaining that

bless you like He said He would? If you think

the economy is rough and tough, the clouds

so, then you must realise that those things

will release the rains for you. When the cloud

which seem impossible for men are very

Even if you do not see it yet, relax and realise

releases the rains, vegetation occurs. When

possible with God (Luke 18:27). You must also

that you can only access it by faith and by your

this happens, you prepare to bring in your

realise that the blessing won’t even come to

confession. Open your mouth by faith and call

you until your mind begins to expect and

forth those blessings that are already yours.

accept it. Enlarge the place of your habitation,

Claim them by faith. God wants to unleash to

enlarge your mind, and get ready for miracles

you blessings and miracles a thousand times

which are a thousand times more than what

more than you have ever experienced.

harvest, and when you reap the harvest, you are going to bring it into the place of your habitation. Therefore, you need to enlarge your tent.

God Is Set To Bless You 11”May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!”

Deuteronomy 1:11

God wants to release not just a hundred-fold blessing to you this time, He wants to release

left.

you can ask for, think or imagine (Ephesians 3:20). Begin to say to yourself, “I am ready for a thousand times more blessings and miracles.”

The best way to eat the fruit of your labour is to be in good health. The Lord will give you a thousand times more health than what you are enjoying presently because it is going to be

Happy New Year!!

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