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Your Monday Morning
Increase Your Capacity
This week’s message was brought to us by Pastor Anthony Njoroge.
Ephesians 3:20 tells us that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. Today’s message is to shake us from any limitations, small thinking and believe our best days are still ahead of us.
Capacity
The Webster dictionary defines the word capacity as the ability to contain or deal with something. In order to experience more, you must be intentional about expanding your capacity. When it comes to human beings, it is about our potential to deliver on a strategy or a goal. Each one of us has a capacity that God has uniquely gifted us with. Matt 25:15 says “And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability.”
Every single capacity can be increased or expanded. We believe that God is yet to do so much more in our lives. Job 42:12 tells us that “the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning”
What happens when you don’t have capacity?
In 2 Kings 4:1-6, we learn about a woman whose husband died and left her in debt, when she cried out to Prophet Elisha, he asked what she had in her house, to which she replied, a small jar of oil. Elisha asked her to “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few” Once she gathered the jars, the oil kept flowing until there was not a jar left. “Then the oil stopped flowing.”
As long as there was capacity, the oil continued to flow. Some of you are meant to impact nations but are limiting what God can do in you and through you. The small jar filled all those jars, but the oil stops because you don’t have capacity! You need to increase your capacity. (Isaiah 54:2)
What do I need to do to increase my capacity?
1. Have a mentor: A mentor is one who has gone where you need to go and has done what you need to do. When Moses connected himself to Jethro, his leadership capacity multiplied seventy times. Timothy needed Paul, Joshua needed Moses. A mentor shows you there is more. (Proverbs 15:22)
2. Be a good steward: Being faithful qualifies you to receive more. Matthew 25:21 says “whoever is faithful with a little, God added more” How have you been spending your money or your time? Faithfulness multiplies your seed. The Bible tells us that God is no respecter of persons but of principles. (Matthew 25:29)
3. Take risks: God is asking you to step outside of your comfort zone. How will you know if God has anointed you if you don’t face your Goliath? When you step out of the boat, God will take you to places you have never gone! (Mark 9:23)
4. Be a learner: Read books! Go back to school! When you sharpen your axe, you increase your capacity. Some of us need to expand our minds in order to grow.
5. Generosity: The closer you grow to God, you realize what you have is not even yours, you are but a steward. As your intimacy with God increases, your wallet should follow suit. Luke 6:38 says “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” It is only in God’s kingdom that you give in order to receive more.
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