XPAND YOURSELF!

Date: January 19, 2025

What is it that God wants us to understand for 2025?

To be perfectly honest, I know only in part. We never fully see what God is talking about extensively, but we see His Word unfold to us with new revelation as we walk forward with what we do understand.

The word for 2024 was re-establish.

My goodness! Looking back, almost everything we can think of was taken down to the base foundation and is being re-established.

I recognize there were many things I thought I knew, but they were not exactly all God wanted me to do, or He wanted me to respond to them differently.

I have come to see the enemy’s plan more vividly than ever, and I have come to see God’s plan shift my mindsets. Yes, XPAND them and it is still XPANDING! There is never an end to knowing God’s thoughts in a different way and at a different level.

So how can we XPAND ourselves?

There are so many things we can do, and there are many things we MUST do to XPAND ourselves!

We need to understand how God XPANDED His Kingdom. His plan was set out for us to understand.

First, we must seek first the Kingdom of God AND His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto us.

But how do we do that? Hunger for more!

 That means there is more teaching and training that needs to happen that you need to sign up and be faithful to.

Ephesians 4:11-13

11 It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
12 to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up
13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Impartation is a very real thing. Who you give to and who you receive from will mark your life and mold your future.

That is why I am going to have five-fold ministers come and minister to us in 2025. We must understand that if God says they are necessary to prepare God’s people for the works of service that we may be built up, then we need to assure ourselves of being with them. The more you receive the better you will be able to fulfill your destiny.

Also please note that they come to prepare you to serve, SO THAT you will built up to know GOD and to be mature and enjoy the fullness of God.

I heard a Pastor recently say, “Don’t look for a church that makes you feel good; look for a church that offends your carnality.”

That may sound harsh, but that is how we grow and this is what the Word says,

Hebrews 12:7-8

7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

Hebrews 12:11

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

This is a time of XPANDING and we will have to make room to XPAND by dropping off the sinful habits of the past and moving forward with excitement. A passion to XPAND will come from being with God AND with others who are also passionate.

We need APOSTLES to XPAND our vision to include everyone and everything that God has mandated for our time frame in history.

We need PROPHETS to speak into our lives with truth that comes from revelation (and that agrees with God’s Word) but has the NOW word for us to live by. Prophets help us see what is wrong as well as what is right.

We need PASTORS to love us and show us what true faithfulness and unity and family looks like. They will show us how to include others in our family as we XPAND.

We need TEACHERS who give us step by step ways of understanding the word with all of the tools God has put in their toolbox with their calling. They will train us how to get the depth out of the word and apply it to our life with deep yet practical application.

We need EVANGELISTS to stir up God’s intentions for us to be productive in reaching the lost. Evangelists have the heart of God to open hearts and show others how to properly present the wonderful truth of God’s amazing grace and the pathway to know Jesus personally.

TOGETHER, the five-fold Ministers work with the Holy Spirit to bring us into oneness with the Trinity and with each other.

As we recognize all the gifts in each other and freely give of the gifts we have also received, we will XPAND the Family of God.

This will be a year of buckling down into a determination to get all you can get so you can be all you can be!

With it will come the prosperity of your soul. You will be satisfied in Him as nothing else can give you satisfaction. You will operate from the mind of Christ and not from your feelings.

That is why we must be ready to learn. We must be ready to do what we need to do to get everything in God’s order in our lives.

My greatest times of growth have been in my greatest times of longing to learn more and seeking what else I did not know. There is still LOTS of that! There always will be, and it is supposed to be that way because God is not stagnant. He wants us to learn precept upon precept so we can act on each one and integrate it into our lifestyle.

Notice, we must activate the saints. That means every born again believer, so there must be lots of training and activations for all of us to grow.

This is a time where your hunger is the key! Satisfaction should not only be challenged, but kicked out! We must never settle down when Jesus is forming us into a Bride without spot or wrinkle, that will do exploits!

I am signing up! I hope you will too.

God is going to show us the importance of the five-fold ministry in our lives. Then we are going to get trained and activated in ways that may be uncomfortable at first, but will pay off with God’s greatness being instilled inside of us.

Daniel 11:32

The people who know their God shall be strong and carry out great exploits!

Exploits are “a heroic deed of achievement.”

I am excited and I hope you are also! Be ready for the challenge!

God is counting on you, and so am I.

• We will win souls.
• We will be bolder than ever before.
• We will worship in spirit and in truth.
• We will enjoy victory as we press forward.
• We will have fun with God. Yes, He is fun and funny!
• We will grow with each other.
• We will go into the highways and the byways and compel them to come in.
• We will XPAND God’s Kingdom.
• We will have the peace of God rule our lives.
• We will be faithful to God and HE will be faithful to His Word concerning us.

Let us pray and ready ourselves.

PRAYER

Dear God,

Let’s GO! Take us deep into Your presence, and reveal Your will and Your plan for us.

We come understanding this is a challenge, but You must know we are ready for the challenge because You said it is time to XPAND.

We surrender our will before You, we desire ALL of You.

We will honor those who pour into us with gladness of heart.

We will rush to You, stay with You, worship You and partner with You.

Help us, Lord, as we serve You. Please open doors and show us pathways of righteousness to walk in.

Help us to be able to help multitudes, not just a few.

Help us to move in the Spirit and not in the flesh.

We desire to be disciplined by You. We know that though correction may hurt in the moment we will enjoy the peaceable fruit of righteousness and we are exercised by it.

We are not remaining the same! We are not going to be stagnant! We will flow in Your RIVER and enjoying the fruit that it brings.

We love You forever and we thank You that You love us forever!

We are committed to YOU as first place in our life.

XPAND ME!

XPAND US!

XPAND YOUR KINGDOM!

AMEN.

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