ABUNDANT LIFE MINISTRIES

(From September 9, 2010)
So how do we expand our capacity? How do we go from the Holy Spirit being housed in a limited capacity in our life, to an unlimited capacity in our life? The answer is so simple yet soooo powerful! Listen to what Jesus said: Mark 4:23-25 - If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” "Consider carefully what you hear," (Hold on, wait a minute! This is Jesus talking, and before He makes His next statement Jesus takes the time to say, “Listen carefully...Pay attention to what you are about to hear...what Jesus is about to say is so important that He essentially says, “ATTENTION, ATTENTION!” O.K. back to the passage) he continued. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." Luke 6:38 says, “The measure you use will be the measure you receive.”

Whoa! Did you get that? This unlocks the question almost every Christian has asked themselves at some point or another. “Why does some people operate in so much authority and power?” “Why does God do so many miracles through them?” “Why does (fill in the blank with the name of a great man or woman of God) walk in so much victory?” “Why is “so and so” always so joyful, kind, have so much peace?” The answer is simple...The more of the Spirit you use, the more you will receive. Body of Christ, we have the opportunity to enlarge our capacity, we just have to take the limits off our mind, thoughts, and and understanding of HOW MUCH of the Spirit we can house! Get radical in your thoughts, get radical in your actions, get radical in your faith!

Let me close with this scripture: 2 Kings 13:14-19 - 14 Now Elisha was suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. "My father! My father!" he cried. "The chariots and horsemen of Israel!15 Elisha said, "Get a bow and some arrows," and he did so. 16 "Take the bow in your hands," he said to the king of Israel. When he had taken it, Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.17 "Open the east window," he said, and he opened it. "Shoot!" Elisha said, and he shot. "The LORD's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!" Elisha declared. "You will completely destroy the Arameans at Aphek."18 Then he said, "Take the arrows," and the king took them. Elisha told him, "Strike the ground." He struck it three times and stopped. 19 The man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times."

See what limited thinking will get you? Some success... No limits thinking? Complete destruction of the enemies in our lives!!! No limits! Expand your capacity!