Today’s Reading:
Deuteronomy 8
Psalm 90
1 Chronicles 4
Isaiah 54
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
Deuteronomy 8:7-9 NASB1995
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
Trust in the One who has never failed, never fails and will not ever fail. Put your hand in Mine, and walk with Me into the unknown. Walk with Me into the greater plans for the greater future — greater than you have seen, dreamed or fathomed. Take My hand, and let Me draw you, guide you out into this spacious place that I have provided, the spacious place that your heart has so greatly desired. Even before you set your things down to settle in, watch as I expand your borders.
“Enlarge the place of your tent; Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; Lengthen your cords And strengthen your pegs. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations And will resettle the desolate cities. “Fear not, for you will not be put to shame; And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; But you will forget the shame of your youth, And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.”
Isaiah 54:2-4 NASB1995
You will see your borders expand before you even set your bags down to have a look around. Expansion is coming, but it’s not coming to the place where you have been. Expansion will meet you in the place where I Am drawing you now. I’m drawing you out into the fields of your planting, though they may seem unfamiliar to you. You may look around and say, I have never been here before. It’s because you planted your seed in darkness my dear. Everything looks different in the light of day. Everything looks different in the light of My Presence. You can’t see it. You can’t recognize it, and you can barely understand or comprehend it, but I Am drawing you out into the fields of your planting and giving it to you for a great inheritance that expands and then expands again even as you are taking in its magnificent views. Even as you are beginning to understand the outlines of what I Am giving you and where I Am setting you, expansion will come, and then it will come again.
”He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint. In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end. Otherwise, you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’ But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”
Deuteronomy 8:15-18 NASB1995
This is the field of your planting. I Am giving you the fields where you have planted, and I Am expanding you into fields adjacent to those and then adjacent to those. You will not only have the adjacent fields, but you will receive and steward the harvest of those fields — the fields you diligently planted when you could not see, when there was no light and fields you had nothing to do with that I Am giving you as part of your bumper inheritance, as part of the reflection of My goodness and to sow into the days of My greater glory.
O Lord our God, let your sweet beauty rest upon us. Come work with us, and then our works will endure; you will give us success in all we do.
Psalms 90:17 TPT
The boundary lines, the field and the double expansion are here. They are a gift, a reward. They are inheritance beyond what was prescribed, and they are a great responsibility to steward for My Kingdom. Delight in them. Be diligent in them, and I will make them prosper, because I love you and delight in You and for My Name’s sake. This is the time of inheritance, and your boundaries will expand once and then again before you can even set your bags down. I will teach you how to prosper here.
How to Respond
- Pray, Lord, help me to take Your hand in obedience and follow You out into the unknown. Reveal to me the fields of my planting. Open to me my great inheritance, and bring the expansion that You have promised. I want to be with You, exactly where You want me to be, doing the good work that You have prepared for me to do in the fields of my planting and in the greater expansive place of my bumper inheritance.
- Declare, Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm that it may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested.
1 Chronicles 4:10 NASB1995 - Decree, I sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered. The Lord is bringing me into the fields of my planting and the place of my greater than ever imagined inheritance. I will see double expansion here. I will receive and steward the harvest of my planting and a harvest that I did not plant. The Lord is bringing me into a wide-open spacious place, and He will teach me to prosper here.
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