Capacity

Capacity

Focus Word: Capacity
Focus Verse: Psalm 23:5 says My cup overflows
Declaration: The Lord expands my capacity to receive and to serve. I’m prepared for greater responsibility.

4 major points to remember:
God desires to increase your capacity.
The word ‘overflow’ implies that God wants to expand your capacity, not just meet your needs.
Isaiah 54:2 says “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.

2 Kings 4:3-6 says (3) Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. (4) Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.” (5) She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. (6) When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.” But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

There is no limit to God pouring out but all He needs is vessels. If you increase your capacity, God is ready to keep pouring into your life!

Ephesians 3:20 says Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

The reason behind why some of us are not blessed or we do not grow, is because we need to increase our capacity so that God can bless us.

Capacity determines the level of receiving.
There are a lot of different types of capacity that we can have; mental, pain-bearing, load-bearing, growth capacity, and many such types.
God’s supply is abundant but receiving depends on capacity.

Matthew 9:29 says Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”;
Faith is also a capacity; how much we can believe, how much more we can believe, how much we believe that we will receive. The Bible says that we will receive proportionate to our faith.

Mark 6:5 says He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.
Over here we see limited miracles because of unbelief.

Luke 6:38 says Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

Capacity is expanded through growth and stretching.
Capacity does not increase automatically, it grows through stretching.

Romans 5:3-4 says (3) Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; (4) perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Everything that we face in life; all the shortcomings, fights, difficulties, etc. are what help increase our capacity.

Capacity must be prepared before overflow comes.
God prepares the vessel before releasing the overflow. We can see this in the life of Joseph, he went through tough patches in life. When the vessel was ready then the overflow came.

2 Timothy 2:21 says Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

Psalms 23:3-4 says (3)he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. (4) Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Matthew 25:4 says The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.

Without preparation, increase cannot be sustained!
God prepares you before He enlarges you!