We all need the revelation of God’s word. When we know and understand it, things can change for us and that is our goal to be better and grow in the Lord.
Isaiah 54:2-3 says to enlarge the place of your tent and stretch out the curtains of your dwelling. Do not skimp, lengthen your rope and strengthen your stakes because you will spread out to the right and to the left and your descendants will inherit the nations.
Enlarge the place of your tent. This is where you live, our home. Our home is our Spirit so we enlarge or enlarge our Spirit by not limiting it. We can quench the Spirit by not allowing it to move freely. We can keep you bound by our traditions.
And spread the curtains of his dwelling. He (they) is the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. These fruits will keep us in line with the word of God, making it easier for us to expand. Each fruit is like a curtain in our dwelling, which is our Spirit, and it will stretch or open so that we can receive more from the Lord.
Don’t skimp. This means not falling into disbelief. Unbelief stops the flow of the fruit of the Spirit. Our minds can try to tell us that we will not receive from the Lord except the word said in 2 Corinthians 10:5, tearing down arguments and all haughtiness that stands against the knowledge of God, taking captive every thought to obedience to Christ. When our thoughts don’t line up with God’s word, we’re supposed to tear them down. Knocking down doubts gives the Holy Spirit free will because we don’t stop him; we are open to Him allowing Him to do mighty works through us. Forgiving means going back or saving, but when we allow the Holy Spirit to move freely, we are not forgiving.
Lengthen your rope and strengthen your stakes: lengthen our rope means lengthen our faith. Faith is like a rope, and a rope is something that will hold us up or bind us so that we are held up by our faith. Length is distance, so we give distance to our faith by not quenching the Holy Spirit.
Strengthen your stakes: the stake is what is in the ground. It is the foundation on which all things rest. What is at stake will be the word of God. Therefore, we must wrap our rope or faith around the word of God and settle or establish ourselves in what he says; this will be to be strengthened. When our faith is only in the word of God, we will be strengthened.
Because you will expand to the right and to the left: this is the conclusion. When we enlarge or make our home bigger, we allow the fruit of the Spirit to have free will within us, we do not go back or save, we give distance to our Spirit by taking it out of a box and strengthening ourselves in the word of God, He will expand us, that is, we will obtain more than we have ever had. We will have more than enough for us. He will allow our descendants to inherit the Nations by being the head. They will be part of the productivity in other nations making them richer than us.
Considering what has been said about enlarging our tents, extending the curtains of our dwelling, not skimping, lengthening our ropes and strengthening the stakes, can we believe that God can bless us a thousand times, a million times, or a billion? Well, He can and will if we can believe. Consider This God planted a seed, Jesus Christ. He gave his only begotten Son so that he could receive more sons and daughters. Since the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus there have been countless born again believers and we are one of them. We are sons and daughters of the Most High God and we can from that seed sown. For that seed sown, God has recovered innumerable Children because what is sown will return in the same way.
Now everything the Father has belongs to us. We are in his likeness so that we can do what He can do, so we cannot get a thousand times more return on what we give. We can if we widen our tents, spare not, lengthen our rope, and strengthen our stake.
Jesus said in John 10:10 I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. If someone gives me a hundred dollars, I will certainly appreciate it, but if my electric bill is a hundred and twenty dollars, that is not abundance because it takes twenty more dollars to pay the bill, but Jesus gives abundantly without missing anything or breaking anything. Therefore, our faith needs to be lengthened and broadened so that we can live in the more abundant realm of the Spirit.
By Lizzie Ducking