Category Archives: Holy Spirit

Isaiah 54:^2-3 “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will soon be bursting at the seams. Your descendants will occupy other nations and resettle the ruined cities. (NIV &NLT)

As you move in directions that will enlarge you, you will be stretched. The natural human response is to hold back. Inherent in stretching is stressing. And when the stressing begins there is a tendency for us to want to hold back. Read the rest of this entry →

Malachi 3:¹⁰ “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.” (NIV).

Generosity is not something that God wants from you. It is something that God wants for you. God is not trying to get something from you, He is trying to get something to you. Read the rest of this entry →

1 Peter 2:¹⁵ “You see, it is God’s will that by doing what is right and good you should hush the gabbing ignorance of the foolish”. (The Voice)

A kind heart is a forgiving heart. Kind people forgive, but mean people do not forgive. When you are enlightened, you know that you are not standing by your strength (if you are standing at all). Read the rest of this entry →

Isaiah 54:² “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.” (NIV, emphasis added)

The image inserted shows that the first thing you and I need to stretch is the mind. When your mind is stretched, you will have a larger heart. Read the rest of this entry →

Isaiah 54:^2-3 “Clear lots of ground for your tents! Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big! Use plenty of rope, and drive the tent pegs deep, because you will grow in all directions. Your children will take over many nations and live in the cities that were destroyed.” (MSG & ERV)

The second thing that stretches your mind is The Conversations You Have. Have you noticed that when you have conversations with certain people, it is like a light bulb comes on in your mind? Why? It is because your mind has just been expanded, and your perspective has been broadened. Read the rest of this entry →

Job 32:⁸ “But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.” (KJV).

The Holy Spirit wants to activate your brain and give you solutions to amazingly complex problems. But you have to exercise your brain (mind), so that you do not place a limit on God.

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Psalm 119:⁷³ “Your very hands have held me and made me who I am; give me more revelation-light so I may learn to please you more.” (TPT).

The neurosurgeons and brain experts say that when the human brain is left without training or stretching, for a child, the brain on its own begins to stretch and train itself. That is why children are so inquisitive. Read the rest of this entry →

Luke 6:⁴⁵ “A good man produces good deeds from a good heart. And an evil man produces evil deeds from his hidden wickedness. Whatever is in the heart overflows into speech.” (LB)

Everybody wants, should want, or seems to want an enlargement of territory. However, it is the stretching, and the enlargement of the mind that leads to the stretching, and the enlargement of the heart. Read the rest of this entry →

Isaiah 54:² “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.” (NIV)

As you are being stretched, and as you are stretching the tent of your habitation, there is a tendency to hold back, to cut back. There is a tendency for self-preservation. Read the rest of this entry →