God is EAGER to Enlarge your life!

God REALLY wants to Enlarge your Life. Recently, God showed me in a vision that He is waiting and wanting to enlarge us and has an eager desire to do so. Tragically, we often view Him as indifferent, or stingy, or mysterious as to how He interacts with us. None of this is true.

We have His unconditional love and favor – that is biblical truth. He is determined to advance His kingdom and we are central to that plan. He has given us the Holy Spirit to assist us every step of the way and we have been given every spiritual blessing in Christ. We need to live, worship and work with a boldness – a confidence and determination, that we are fulfilling His calling in everything we do. As we do, God activates and enlarges His presence and power in our lives. When we love Him, serve Him, and obey Him; without reservation or the blockage of sin in our lives, we are participating with God in His divine nature. As a result, we will absolutely see the growth of His Kingdom in and through us.  

By living a yielded life and surrendering to the Holy Spirit, we participate with God in who He is and what He wants to accomplish. Our yielding causes Him to occupy our space and to permeate the atmosphere of our lives. And, where God is, there is life, blessing, favor and expansion. As a result, He will grow our hearts, minds; expand our gifts, talents, and abilities. New opportunities, creativity, opening of closed doors, and the revealing of new strategies simply unfold before us. Because we are connected to Him and cultivate our relationship with Him, we experience His anointing and see His power flow through our lives. His power and presence changes us and permeates the world around us. 

When God is enlarged in our lives, we are enlarged. God is eager and wanting this to happen. Because He is eager, we should be too! This is something to covet and cultivate. We can be absolutely assured that by cultivating time in God’s presence we will look like Him, act like Him, love what He loves and hate what He hates. He acts become our acts, and His passion becomes ours. Because of this, we see a powerful God doing powerful things through us and on our behalf. 

This is how our lives are enlarged, because it is God doing the enlarging.  Isaiah 54:2-3 - “Enlarge your house; build an addition. Spread out your home, and spare no expense! For you will soon be bursting at the seams.

2017 - The Year of Sea Change

It has been 5 years since my last contribution to this blog. That is a very long time. Too long; however, I had to embark upon an odyssey during that time which led me to understand some things before I could once again pick up the pen and continue. Now that I am back from my unpaid sabbatical, here is the first entry for this New Year of 2017.

God has shown me that this is the year of Sea Change. When God spoke this, I remember having heard the words 'sea change' before; however, I wasn't sure what it meant. I looked up the definition as quickly as I could and here is what it means: 'A profound or notable transformation.' Jesus made it very clear to me that this year will be one of profound changes on many levels. Things will unfold that will cause people to see things in a totally new light. There will be transformation, new innovation, with limits becoming seemingly limitless in many areas. 

It is important to understand this so we can prepare ourselves to see things in new ways.It will be a paradigm shift in the way we view many things in life. With spiritual insight God wants us to have spiritual vision in order to project from the prophetic realm what He is releasing so we can apprehend it and call it forth, as well as utilize it, and be a part of it. 2017 will be the year that will become known for the birthing of many important things in many areas of life, such as the economy, technology, science, and even politics. In many situations where it seemed that only problems existed with no hope of solutions, there will now come solutions. An oppression and glass ceiling is being lifted. There will be more creativity and an ease in accomplishing many things on many levels of society and in many sectors. It is all because of a release from heaven and the kingdom of God being enlarged upon the earth. 

What is happening in the spirit is a very significant shift in the spiritual realm.It is also a significant download of God's presence, power, and influence into our realm. It will require that we shift and align ourselves with what God is doing and has yet to do. Without aligning ourselves, there is a risk that we may miss these blessings for our personal lives. 

2016 was a very difficult and painful year in many ways. Just think about the news events and headlines over the last year. However, in 2017, God wants to heal, bless, restore and enlarge. He will move by His spirit through His people to accomplish His purposes, as He always has done. Yet, He will also bless and move through people who don't know or acknowledge Him. Through them God will accomplish many of His purposes and many of these same people will come to experience and know Him. These are people who may otherwise not encounter Him. 

On a personal level, God wants to bring you over the threshold from your current situation and experience to a new reality, a new invigorating experience - a 'Sea Change!' What will it look like? Answer: Well, that is something between you and God. However, I believe that it will involve a birthing of God's plans in your life. How can you posture yourself to receive this? Answer: By apprehending and spending time in the presence of God through the Holy Spirit. 

This is a time to spiritually romance the Holy Spirit and long after Him. "Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires" (Psalm 37:4 NLT). Begin to cultivate a deeper relationship with Him now so you can yield more of His presence, joy and power in your life and endeavors. Invite Him to have first consideration and place in your life so that you diminish and He increases, thereby allowing Him to move through you to: effect and change, bless, heal, grow, innovate, cultivate, enlarge, strengthen, create, and increase your life, relationships, work, and creative endeavors. 

Hope you have a wonderful and prosperous life during this year of 'Sea Change'.