Guest speaker Joy Gascoigne from Grimethorpe Pentecostal Church spoke tonight from Exodus 34:24 on God enlarging our territory. God’s plan from the beginning has always been for people to live well under His blessing. The Garden of Eden was a wonderful place of blessings, but we see that even after the Fall, God’s plan has been to bless mankind and to work with people.
Isaiah 54:2 urges us to ‘enlarge your tent.’ If we want to be enlarged, we must live in line with God’s desires, living within the principles of God. If we live honourably and with high standards, not allowing the past to define us, then God has promised to bless us. God is greater than our past and we do not have to live with the labels other people have given us.
We are enlarged ultimately when we obey God. Ps 18:21 speaks of the deliverance from enemies which God brings because David ‘kept the ways of the Lord.’ Prov 11:24 tells us ‘One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.’ Generosity is a pathway to blessing.
Ultimately we are enlarged because of God’s faithfulness to us and because of the largeness of the Spirit of God within us. Our God is indeed a great big God!