border breaking praise ...

“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.” Isaiah 54:2 ESV

Enlarge the place of your tent …

Most often, when I have heard this verse mentioned it has been in the context of taking new territory.

However, as I sit here tonight, praising and praying and rejoicing …

A very different light shone upon this verse.

‘Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst?’ I Corinthians 3:16 NIV

 

 

Chapter 54:1 of Isaiah begins by telling the barren woman to SING!!!

Chapter 54:3 of Isaiah promises this –

‘You shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and made the desolate cities inhabited.’

It was with a shout of PRAISE and VICTORY that the walls of Jericho fell and Israel transcended boundaries and expanded their territory.

“Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed;
Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame" Isaiah 54:4

Even if your voice sounds like mine … there is a place in worship where He even helps that.

'Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.' Psalm 24:9 KJV

He inhabits the praises of His people!

Enlarge the place of your tent,

The place of dwelling for the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY

 

We are that TENT –

With arms outstretched –
Let His praises resonate in every vocal chord ... 
Strengthening our faith –
A faith which drives deep just like a stake –
Rooting us in and anchoring us to JESUS