You're Gonna Need A Bigger Tent

 

Enlarge the place

   of your tent,

and let the curtains

   of your habitations

   be stretched out.

Do not hold back,

lengthen your cords and

strengthen your stakes.

For you will spread abroad

    to the right

    and to the left,

and your offspring

      will possess the nations

and will people

            the desolate cities.

                Isaiah 54. 23

(Now is not the time

to huddle up

       and kick back.

God did not strategically

place us here for a holiday,

   but for holiness

Enlarge the place

        of the ministry

        God has given.

Think about it differently.

With both new doors

   and in familiar spaces,

may we bring the gospel,

even in what we never

considered ministry before.)

O LORD,

Help us to see and grasp

  that all of life is ministry,

every effort, every word,

every action and attitude,

        even the potholes.

Please multiply

  our faithfulness to You

  in a million unexpected ways,

far beyond our abilities,

far beyond our lifetimes.