Stretch out

Stretch out.

Isaiah 54

We have to stretchout in the knowledge of the word

God's love is sufficient.

Stretch out in love

Stretch out in your business
Use what you have and the Lord will bless you, He will not jet you be humiliated.

Worry, or not worry the Lord will provide, so why worry ?

The Lord will provide.

We need to stretch out as family too, as a family, you can do something out of the ordinary, for example, go preach the good news to the community.

The prayer of a righteous person avails much, let's stretch out in our prayer life too.

Don't be driven by fear, buy by the love if God. He calls you to trust Him.

Galatians 4:1

Once you are a child of God, you are a partaker of His belongings.

Embrace the Vision (Stretch out, don't hold back)

1. The vision is for an individual
2. The vision is for our families
3. The vision is for the church 

Isaiah 54:1~ Sing oh childless woman. Sing oh you barren person.

Zachariah 9:12 God renders you double, he has heard your affliction, he has heard your cry.

God is permitting you to have many children.

A woman abandoned by her husband cannot bear children. God had abandoned Israel, but He still called Israel His own.

If you want to shutout God's blessing, then don't prepare. You don't want to be taken by surprise

Examples of how barrenness was handled.

1. Abraham Genesis. The blessing is in blessing others. "I will bless those who bless you" At the Lord's word, Abraham moved. 
2. Sunamite Woman ~ 2 Kings 4:9... Speak your situation to the Lord ad He will bless you.
3. Hannah  ~ 1 Samuel 1... Prninah used to mock Hannah. Hannah would be reduced to tears each time until one day Hannah said enough is enough and she started groaning unto the Lord, the priest thought she was actually drunk. 

This is your time, don't let God pass you buy, God remembered Hannah and she delivered Samuel.

Enlarge your house. God is commanding you to enlarge your house. 

Stretching out of the comfort zone

2Kings 13
Getting out of the comfort zones
The fruitfulness that comes with spiritual fruitfulness comes with process.
Lk. 13 a man with a vineyard planted a fig tree 3 years with no fruit.
Matt. 25 a man with the talent that yielded nothing was under a comfort zone
Mark. 11 Jesus finds a tree full of leaves but no fruit, he curses it.  How then that he was expecting fruit of this tree?
John. 16 there is fruit that lasts and also fruit that is fruit so a true should never be ever green but ever fruitful.
Is it possible to produce fruit that lasts, yes it is a matter to stretching
The life of Jesus is a matter of stretching from the time he came from heaven when he left his glory.

PLACES JESUS WENT
Jesus grew up in a town called GALILEE a form of comfort, a place we find identity, no challenges, there's no time to stretch.

GETHSEMANE is that place that will pull you out of the comfort zone. This was a place of betrayal, all his disciples ran away from him but Jesus was only moved by knowing the will of God for His life- the salvation of mind-kind, the fruit that lasts that motivated him. what happens when we get to Gethsemane. John.19-1 Many people think the zone of discomfort has many displeasing things but Ps. 23 tells us those are shadows. God says he is with us. Jesus came out with a crown of thorns and a purple robe. The spirit world was seeing a king unlike the world. He received the robe from Herod and this was symbolic of a King.
There are good things in a place of discomfort, you have to wait for them. 

Within the midst of the discomfort there is a robe, there is a crown

He went to GOLGOTHA
here he was confirmed as the King of suffering but will come again a glorious King

The GRAVE to glory
1Cor. 15 speaks to us of the victory he won in the grave

Even Jesus began to say, father can this cup be take from me.

for all of us to be fruitful especially of fruit that lasts, we must sow seed

Matt:4 Jesus was tempted but in all this He made reference to His Father and what was written, this is the seed that we must sow to bear lasting fruit.

It is necessary to move into discomfort zones, we must also know that these zones will not consume us but make us strong

Are we ready to move into these zones of discomfort, shall we stretch ourselves?