Isa 54:
1 Sing oh barren women, you have never born a child
God is saying that the shame of the world, the looks of those who see you and call you barren, call you desolate, call you unfulfilled, even the thoughts that well up inside you that say, "I am barren, I am childless, I am without fulfillment. All around me I see fullness, richness, fatness in the lives of others while I am left desolate, empty, dry and weary.
Burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor
You shall burst soon with joy, fulfillment shall be yours, though without those things that enrich the many around you, you shall become rich. You shall become filled
because more are the children of the desolate woman, than of her who has a husband says the Lord.
God is getting ready to fill you, and not just to fill you, but to fill you to such a capacity that those who now appear to be full, those that now appear to be rich, those that now appeart to have that you do not, shall come to you and say, "Why are you so full? Why are you so rich? What is it that you have? Teach me, show me, impart to me that I may partake in your richness."
2 Enlarge the place of your tent
The word I am receiving is abode - which like tent is a physical place but is representative of all you have, your entirety, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual....
stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
Increase your capacity and your expectations. Do not hold back, do not set limits, do not build boxes or walls, do not set boundaries....
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
God is ready to establish his house, and a large house it will be, wide will its breadth be and long its depth, able to contain vast numbers and vast accumulations....
your descendents will dispossess nationsand settle in their desolate cities
The joy of the Lord will fill you as you take back and take in what has not been seen before. The joy of the Lrod will go ahead of you and behind you and encompass you round about.
Then I heard, joy, joy, joy, joy over and over again. So in closing I've recorded just these few brief scriptures.
1 Chron 16:
27 Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and gladness are in His place.
Job
8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing.
Psalm
5:11 But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you
Isaiah:
9:3 You have multiplied the nation And increased its joy; They rejoice before You According to the joy of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
29:19 The humble also shall increase their joy in the LORD, And the poor among men shall rejoice In the Holy One of Israel.
51: 11 Therefore the redeemed the LORD shall return, And come to Zion with singing, With everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness; Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
55: 12 “ For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
56: 7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Habakkuk
3: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
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