Enlarge Your Territory
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Introduction -
The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few
The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few. He’s not looking for leaders, He’s looking for laborers. There is a season of advance,met and promotion coming for His kingdom work.
Prepare for the answers to your prayers. He’s going to give His people authority over ten cities. He wants to remove small mindedness. What He’s going to be doing in your life is better than you imagine.
How many souls do you want to win?
How many souls do you want to win?
You have a purpose. DO YOU want to fulfill it? He wants to expand our territory, our influence, our ministry, our business. He has always wanted us to be fruitful, multiply, subdue, and take dominion.
Isaiah 54:2 (KJV 1900)
Enlarge the place of thy tent,
And let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations:
Spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
Enlarge Your Tent
Enlarge Your Tent
Share about looking back & seeing the word HEART
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:
Eat and drink, saith he to thee;
But his heart is not with thee.
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Increase our capacity by enlarging our container.
Stretch The Curtains Of Your Tent
Stretch The Curtains Of Your Tent
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Most Americans will live within 10 miles of the city they were born. (75%)
We live in the generation that has changed more than every previous generation added together.
A person today has access to more information in the New York Times than someone in the 1900 had all their life.
There is more powerful tech in your smartphone than the Space Shuttle Challenger when it was launched in 1983
Be a continual learner. Continual learners are always adding to their greatest asset. THEY ARE ALWAYS GROWING.
It’s ok to be an old dog as long as you learn new tricks.
Everything new is uncomfortable Until it becomes second nature. Keep at it.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts - John Wooden
Don’t Hold Back
Don’t Hold Back
“Don’t just avoid losing, Play to win”
BASKETBALL ILLUSTRATION -
Boxing match never throwing a punch,
basketball game never taking a shot, or
football game never throwing the ball.
Too many go through life avoiding losing instead of playing to win.
Playing it safe is a slow death.
Opportunity Cost -Opportunity cost is what could have been but wasn’t because it went uninvested.
A tip that would make a $1000 investment become $100,000 -In this case $99,000
And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Jesus gave us guaranteed thing.
Take the shot. Run the ball. Give it your all.
Make the investment. Don’t play safe. Play to Win.
Lengthen Your Cords
Lengthen Your Cords
Nobody is really successful unless the people around them want them to be.
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
One can chase a thousand
Whevever two or three are gathered in his name
gates of hell shall not prevail
multitude of counsel there is much wisdom
Strengthen your stakes
Strengthen your stakes
The higher the building the deeper the foundation.
How high do you want to go? Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
When the Twin Tower were built, they went really deep to build the foundation. How high do you want to go? The higher we build, the more attention we must put to the foundation.
Build With The End In Mind
Matt 7:24-27
24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:
25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”