Promises Follow After Expansion

About 3 months ago, I had an invitation to an event where there were many successful people attending. Initially I was not exactly very comfortable to go, in fact I felt inferior. I could almost imagined the people there saying, "25 years old and you are still in Polytechnic?". Having this thought in mind, I was struggling between attending and not attending. God is good, He always brings about illumination which leads to breakthroughs. He simply spoke about the importance of knowing our identity.

Everyone of us need to know our identity.

Knowing it will give us a sense of belonging and confidence.

When we know and trust who we are in Christ, we will have the confidence of who we are now and who we are going to be in the future.

Have the mindset and capacity according to who we want to be in the future regardless of who we are right now and who we are in the past.

• Millionaire in the future? Think like one now.
• Top student in the future? Think like one now.
• Leading a great cell group / connect group? Lead like one now.

We can afford to do it because of our confidence brought by the knowledge of our identity.

It is necessary for us to increase and expand in our mindset and capacity because God would never give us what we cannot handle.

• For e.g. An immature person or a child will not be able to handle a million dollars. Sooner or later he will lose it, regardless how huge the amount is. However given to a person with sufficient capacity and the correct mindset, this million dollars might become two or three or even ten million dollars.

It is always:

1. First the expansion then the inheritance -

• David had to fight the bear, the lion, Goliath and wait many years before he inherited the promises of becoming king.

2. First the expansion then the victory -

• Joshua had to first expand in his security as Moses' successor before becoming a great conqueror with many victories under his name.
  
• Gideon had to expand in his mindset and his self image before gaining the victory over the Midianites.

3. First the expansion then greatness -

• Jabez had to expand in his character first before becoming honorable in God's sight.

Run like giants today, don't hop like grasshoppers. :)