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*STRETCHING OUT AND REACHING HIGHER*
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*Isaiah 54:2  Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;  Do not spare;  Lengthen your cords,  And strengthen your stakes.
3  For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations,  and make the desolate cities inhabited.*
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*Introduction:  *When we view the Old Testament, many times we see it in terms of the Law and miss the fact that God’s full intent was for Israel to be a forerunner of faith that the Church would imitate.
Literally in this time of Israel’s history, she was regarded as a “Barren Woman,” because she had no children even though she had a Husband who was Jehovah.
God had plans for increase by causing Israel to burst forth as water.
The overflow would be so great that they would have to enlarge their tents, enlarge the ropes and tent-pegs.
In other words Israel would have to stretch to receive this great increase.
The “Singing and Shouting for Joy” would come because of the increase of children.
These weren’t natural children…these were spiritual children who would come from the gentile nations.
On the right hand and on the left, meaning “on all sides” these children would come.
By spreading the Word of God to the gentile nations, Israel would be enlarging their tents.
You see, the Christian Church is viewed as a continuation of the Jewish Church; and the conversion of nation after nation to the gospel is looked upon as the extension of Jewish authority over fresh lands.
The cities of these lands…*desolate* until then, without godly inhabitants, will under these conditions come *to be inhabited*; will be populated by faithful men.
The intent of God has never changed…but if this growth is going to continue, the Church must be willing to be stretched beyond her norms.
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Like a rubber band, our personalities, talents and gifts are different by the blueprint of God.
We will not realize our greatest potential unless we are stretched.
We will not fully know who we are until we are stretched.
We are not effective unless we are stretched.
Reaching and extending are the faith building blocks of life.
No one comes into this world fully equipped for success.
Success is not magic nor is it the work of a genius; but success is due to our stretching in the challenges of life.
Most of us avoid stretching, reaching and extending.
When we come up against something that is bigger than we are, we tend to back off or let go.
Why?
Much of the time it is because of FEAR!
The unknown can really paralyze a person who is not willing to stretch beyond their fears.
Many times unpleasant experiences of the past will strip us of the possibilities of the present.
When a message is preached such as this…we first get the idea that the preacher is talking about getting more stuff or perhaps going into business.
The reality is that God will give us things and He has no problem with us going into business, school or any other worthwhile venture, as long as we put first things, first.
*Matt 19:26  But Jesus looked at them and said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
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The work of the Kingdom of God can never reach God’s objective and command, if the majority of the Saints remain ideal and unproductive.
Far too many people are satisfied with praise and worship and little or no work in the Kingdom.
Salvation means you are now saved and gifted to help someone else.
The problem is that some people who have been baptized come out of the water satisfied and not realizing that it’s not the end, it’s just the beginning.
So we come out of the old life into the new life still imprisoned by our unwillingness to get involved with the process that saved us.
It is one thing to leave here filling good and another leaving here doing some good.
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*Isaiah 54:1  Sing, O barren, you who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman, says the Lord.*
Every person who is a saved believer is gifted by the Holy Spirit.
*1 Cor 12:7  But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:  8  for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,  9  to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,  10  to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
11  But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
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I believe this is a special message for some people in this room today.
You may have been fruitless in the past, but rejoice.
You may have failed as a Christian so many times before, but rejoice.
You may have been seriously discouraged and lost hope, but rejoice.
You may be truly barren, but rejoice.
You may be looked upon as an outcast, useless and good for nothing, but rejoice.
Burst into songs; rejoice right now, because you are about to be stretched forth.
You will remember no more your pass.
You will spread out to the right and left.
*Tell your neighbor, to give me some room…I’m about to stretch!!!*
\\ Barrenness is a condition of unfruitfulness.
The condition of the powerlessness to produce or bear regardless of how much desire or effort is put in.
But barrenness is not a permanent condition.
It can be broken.
You may be experiencing serious trouble in achieving, bearing good results, being happy, or being fruitful in any area of your life.
Sing for joy.
Start to rejoice.
All of that can be history right now.
Burst into shouts of joy.
You will make it.
You can do it.
You will bear fruit.
You will spread out.
Your outcome will surpass those who made it easily; you will live in great joy.
*Gala 4:27  For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear!
Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.”*
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*Gal 4:27* (/Amplified/) *For it is written in the Scriptures, Rejoice, O barren woman, who has not given birth to children; break forth into a joyful shout, you who are not feeling birth pangs, for the desolate woman has many more children than she who has a husband.
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Greater are your children.
Greater is your wedding.
Greater is your healing.
Greater is your success.
Greater are your achievement.
Do you not know that it’s no great news if the newly weds bear a child, but its great news if a barren woman after sixty years of trying bears a child.
Don’t be afraid, you will not be ashamed, you will not be humiliated and you will not be disgraced.
You will spread out to the left and to the right as God has said.
You will stretch your own curtains because of what The Holy Spirit is doing in your life.
You will spread out and be a blessing and receive a blessing.
Don’t look at what you are now, see the change.
See yourself stretching out in the Gifts God has given you!
 
Barren women are usually cast out.
Also people who do not achieve or poor, unschooled or people of disadvantaged backgrounds are perceived as outcast.
It’s very WRONG and it’s very BAD.
But it doesn’t matter if you are an outcast and you have become unproductive.
You will make it.
You will spread out.
Your Maker the Lord God Almighty will see to it.
He is our Redeemer.
Don’t be afraid, burst into songs of joy.
Sing praises to Him.
Ignore what people have called you.
Ignore what people think about you.
You will spread out.
Do not hold back.
Do not doubt this gift of grace.
Trust God, Love Him, Obey Him, because He will not leave you.
You shall have children of the womb, mind, hands, heart, prayers answered and desires met.
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