Expand, Explode- A PROPHETIC WORD!
Prepare your containers 1
In November 2024, while with Dr Ifeanyi & Pastor Lerato Wosu in South Africa for the Kingdom Life Conference hosted by their ministry Practical Christianity Ministries. I was praying one day and the Lord dropped two words in my spirit, and they were expand, explode.
It was strange, I shared those words with Dr Wosu but I began to pray around them from time to time.
Fast forward to December, I was reading the Word and I got to Isaiah 54 and the 2nd and 3rd verses jumped at me, It seemed that the Lord was giving me scriptures to back up what he had said by the Spirit and further more was giving direction on how to walk in the benefit of it.
Some people feel that if God has said something, it will automatically come to pass, but that is not so all the time. God told Israel he had given them the Promised Land, but they still had to contend with all ‘illegal squatters’ on it.
What does 54:2-3 say?
First in the King James Version
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;
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Isa 54:2-3 KJV
Now look at it in a more contemporary version, the New Century Version
Make your tent bigger;
stretch it out and make it wider.
Do not hold back.
Make the ropes longer
and its stakes stronger,
because you will spread out to the right and to the left.
Your children will take over other nations,
and they will again live in cities that once were destroyed.
Isa 54:2-3 NCV
I believe that some words in this text correspond to the expansion and explosion that the Lord spoke to me about, for example in the KJV, the emboldened words enlarge could also read xxpand and the break forth could also read explode, they carry the same sense.
What I am going to do first is to unpack the prophetic word, then begin to break down the instructions that will enable you to be a part of this great work of mercy and grace.
The Prophetic Word
Now if you read Isaiah 54:2-3 again, you are likely to think that the breaking forth or explosion is the result of the enlarging of the tent, the stretching of the curtains of habitation etc outlined in the second verse.
But a careful & proper read is this, God was bringing upon the nation of Israel a season of explosive growth and prosperity that will cause their children to inherit the Gentiles and re occupy lost cities that had been laid waste.
But in order for them to be able to accommodate and benefit from what the Lord was going to do, they would need to obey the instructions in verse 2, namely
Enlarge their tents
Stretch forth the curtains of their habitations
Spare not
Lengthen their cords and
Drive in their stakes
Notice that these things were actions to be undertaken by the people and not God! God’s part was to bring in the explosive growth, benefit or prosperity.
His plan was that with the explosion, His people may take over nations (through evangelism) and inhabit the desolate cities (through the restoration of the Church) but to do this they would need to follow His instructions.
This is the word and you must receive this, God is bringing us or has released a season of explosion in every area to us as a ministry. He spoke this to me and I share it with you as a partner and friend in the gospel ministry.
A couple of my friends in ministry have shared a similar thing, so it might be something He is doing across the body of Christ.
However, you can receive this as a word from God to you because of our faith connection in the ministry.
I encourage you not let this slide. Think about this, began to pray over it, identify with the word and declare it to be so for you, your house and all that concerns you.
You have to receive this word personally to benefit from it.
God is bringing unprecedented and explosive barrier breaking financial explosion (it is not limited to finance) to the Church and the fundamental reason why is for world evangelism (inheriting nations) and the spreading of the message of Apostolic Christianity (dwelling in desolate cities).
The prosperity that God pours on His Church is always linked to the fulfillment of His will on the earth, in this season, people who have been faithful in this pursuit would be found worthy of this divine work of grace.
The problem with many believers is that they make prosperity, comfort, luxurious living a goal, an end in itself, while in the mind of God, it was to be a channel to bless the nations and advance His will on earth.
Please digest this, it is a more sure word from the Lord, in the subsequent posts, I am going to unpack the prophetic instructions that you need to live in this word. Halleluyah!
Get ready, bring out your containers to receive the rain of God;s goodness, because it is beginning to rain.