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09.14.12

How to Really Live Large

Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of
your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your
stakes. - Isaiah 54:2 NKJV.

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a
building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. - 2
Corinthians 5:2 NKJV.

Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by
reminding you, knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord
Jesus Christ showed me. Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always
have a reminder of these things after my decease. - 2 Peter 1:13-15 NKJV.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me
indeed, and enlarge my territory.." - 1 Chronicles 4:10a NKJV.

In Warsaw, Poland, a new house is being built between two existing
buildings. The architect for the project is Jakub Szczesny. The house will
be a temporary home for various artists and writers beginning with Israeli
writer Edgar Keret. What's so unusual about this house? The Architect said,
"It's the most challenging project I ever had. The living conditions in it
will require a spaceship like adaptability." Why is that? At the narrowest
point, the house will be two feet, four inches wide. At the widest point,
the house will be slightly less than four feet wide. The reason for building
the house? To provide a living space that has a restrictive feel to the
inhabitant's surroundings. I think that would do it for me! (Orange News
09.12.12)

Jabez prayed asking God to ".bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory."
Just moving from a smaller home to a larger one, you do have a sense of
enlargement. The first home for our family was a small apartment where we
lived for a few months, and then we bought a small mobile home that was our
home for about four years. It did seem as though the longer we lived in the
mobile home the smaller it became. Maybe that was why the next home that we
bought was an old two story house with about 3,000 square feet. It was not
in the best of shape, but we did enjoy our enlarged area for living. We only
had the house for a year and a half, but we enjoyed our time there.

Another way to enlarge your territory (coast - old KJV) appears to be as
Jabez was suggesting with a land area. This would fit in with the idea of a
merchant having additional markets for his goods. It also fits with a larger
ministry area. When I changed careers from being a parole officer to that of
a pastor, my ministry area increased dramatically. With the advent of the
Internet, my ministry area had an exponential increase.

A third way that our territory can be increased is in a personal way. Isaiah
speaks of enlarging the place of your tent. The apostle Paul and the apostle
Peter speak of their human bodies as being a tent. More specifically, they
are speaking of their earthly lives as being like a tent. Your earthly tent
can be enlarged by an increase of margins. When you have less debt, and more
savings you have a financial margin. When you are in a good relationship
with your spouse and your friends, you will have an increased emotional
margin. When you are in a good relationship with your God by spending
devotional time with Him, as in time, in the Bible, prayer, fellowship with
other believers, and serving the Lord, you will then have spiritual margin.
When you have spiritual margin, you will find it results in your having
increased margin, an enlarged tent, for every area of your life. And that,
is how you can really live large.

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