Today’s Reading:
Isaiah 54
Isaiah 61
Isaiah 62
Increase is coming, so enlarge your tent and add extensions to your dwelling. Hold nothing back! Make the tent ropes longer and the pegs stronger. You will increase and spread out in every direction. Your sons and daughters will conquer nations and revitalize desolate cities. Do not fear, for your shame is no more. Do not be embarrassed, for you will not be disgraced. You will forget the inadequacy you felt in your youth and will no longer remember the shame of your widowhood. For your Maker is your husband; his name is Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies! Your Kinsman-Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel! He has the title Mighty God of All the Earth!
Isaiah 54:2-5 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Tremendous oversight. I have positioned you in a place of tremendous oversight. You are a steward of My property, of My future that I Am unfurling even now. I have appointed you and anointed you to steward it well, to lead with wisdom. I have given you the confidence of royalty to carry out My plans in the earth. Carry the assignment well. Guard and watch over, manage what I have given you well — with wisdom, discernment, diligence and faith. Have faith that I will be faithful to extend the boundaries of what I have called you to steward. Have faith that as you are faithful in managing what I have put under your care, I will add to it, and I will pour out more in abundance. This is the principle and the law of wise stewardship in the Kingdom of God. He who is faithful with little can be trusted with more, and more will be added to him.
Because you received a double dose of shame and dishonor, you will inherit a double portion of endless joy and everlasting bliss! “For I, Yahweh, love fairness and justice, and I hate stealing and sin. I will rightly repay them because of my faithfulness and enter into an everlasting covenant with them. Their seed will be famous among the nations, and their descendants the center of attention of the people. All who see them will recognize that they are the seed that Yahweh has blessed with favor!”
Isaiah 61:7-9 TPT
These are the days to watch your boundaries. Guard them well, because they will be extending. And as they extend, you will need new strategies to be able to guard over the greater expanse. The way you have guarded the smaller expanse will have to change to reach across the vastness of the place with expanded boundaries. Be willing to take a different approach. Lean into My Spirit, and I will teach you how to shift, what to change and how to adjust your watch to be effective in this new expanded territory. One strategy is that you must come up higher. What you could see, the distance you could see from where you were positioned before did not reach as far as this new expanded territory. Your position served you well for the place I had you. But to steward the expanded territory, you must come up higher. This up higher perch will give you the sight, the clarity and the vision that reaches to the extent of your new borders.
Jerusalem, I have stationed intercessors on your walls who will never be silent, day or night. You “reminders” of Yahweh, take no rest, and tirelessly give God no rest, until he firmly establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of all the earth! Yahweh swears an oath by the authority of his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will never again give your new grain as food for your enemies, nor will foreigners drink your new wine that you worked hard to produce. Instead, you who harvest it will eat it and offer your praise to Yahweh, and you who gather the grapes will drink the new wine in my holy courts.”
Isaiah 62:6-9 TPT
You must also call on help. You must appoint helpers and lookouts on the four sides of your new expanse. The four boundaries I have given you are Family, Finances, Spiritual Life and Community. These are the places I have made to be your boundaries. You must guard them well. Call in help on the four sides. These are the places that must be fortified in prayer. These are the places to set men and women who will stand on the wall and watch. My angelic host are appointed to the four corners, but you must appoint watchmen and women to your four boundary lines. This is how you will prosper in this new, expanded place. Remain in Me, listen to and heed My voice, and come up higher.
How to Respond
- Heed the voice of the Lord to come up higher, and seek help from prayer warriors who will stand on the walls of your boundary lines and watch.
- Pray, Lord thank You for expanding my territory. Thank You for bringing me into a place of prospering and growth. Help me to learn from Your Spirit how to steward it well. Help me to ascend and stay in the up-higher place with You. Show me who to ask to help me with prayer and watching over these new expanded boundary lines. Teach me how to make this expanded place a blessing to many.
- Declare, See? Yahweh has proclaimed to the ends of the earth: Tell my daughter, Zion, “Look, here comes your Deliverer! See? He’s bringing his reward, and his recompense goes before him.” They will be called His Holy People, The Redeemed of Yahweh. And you will be known as Those Whom God Loves, A City Not Abandoned.
Isaiah 62:11-12 TPT - Decree, The Lord has expanded my boundary lines, and I will obey His voice to move to an up-higher place. I will heed His voice to seek the help of prayer warriors who can be watchmen and women on the four boundary lines He has put under my care. I will not permit entry to the enemy who is seeking to kill, steal, destroy and devour. My portion will prosperity and be a place of life more abundant in Christ Jesus.
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