Capacity building is what you need, and you get it from God. Most of the battles we are fighting today, we shouldn’t fight them: It should be our capacity to handle such.
1 Chronicles 4:10 says, And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
The word “bless me indeed” means that you have nothing, and everything has been taken care of. The scripture says, The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it [Proverbs 10:22]. Jabez talks about “enlarge my coast” which means that because of your enlargement, you are about to buy your enemies. He then says, “thine hand might be with me”, just what Ezekiel 37:7 said, The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones. Jabez had the capacity: he said, “thou wouldest keep me from evil.” Meaning if You (God) don’t keep me away from evil, I will kill the evil and the evil people. Poverty, sickness and sin are all evil. No man can destroy evil apart from God, hence Jabez was saying, I will become like You and destroy this evil.
The devil will always attack you, but the bible tells us to resist him, and he will flee from you [James 4:7]. The devil uses religious spirits (that you’re righteous) to attack you through sickness and poverty such that people can ask where your God is, and when God comes in, He holds you until you build capacity, hence No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper [Isaiah 54:17]. The more you grow in God, the more you become stronger: even though the enemies come to destroy you, they will fail because you are strong. When you fall, God will pick you up. He will shield you and cement you. I declare, you are going higher because of your capacity in God.
You are not born with capacity, but it is just breathed into you by God. God breathed in Adam [Genesis 2:7]. He knows that your body can expand, and He can breathe in you the breath of life. The life John 10:10 talks about is coming in you. When God breathes in you, you become like Him, and you do greater works like Him [John 14:12]. I declare you are going to defeat sin.
Jesus did three things before He died: He forgave sins. He told Mary Magdalene, “Your sins are forgiven” [Luke 7:48]. The second thing He did: He overcame the conditions of this world. When people were hungry, He fed them [Matthew 15:32-38]. From today, you are going to overcome every condition that has been tormenting you. The third thing He did: His life became a following. You have been following others, but this year, your life is going to be followed because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world [1John 4:4].
God built capacity in David that when Goliath came, he had to kill him. David had built capacity when he killed a bear and a loin [1 Samuel 17:34-36].
The devil attacks man in three areas:
- The head: The devil used cunning to control the mind of Adam and Eva; he thought that he could control man’s entire body. Adam and Eva had no discerning capacity hence that attack left the ground cursed which had three rivers and man had to sweat [Genesis 2:11-14, Genesis 3:1-17]. When the devil attacks you, renewal your mind [Romans 12:2]: let the mind which was in Christ Jesus also be in you [Philippians 2:5].
- The hands: The devil then attacked Cain and he killed Abel his brother. That attack was on the hands [Genesis 4:8]. Even though Adam was cursed, his hands were not cursed: whenever he could work, God would bless him, BUT when Cain killed his brother, the curse came on the hands. Your hands were meant to train for battle [Psalm 144:1]. Galatians 3:13,Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.
- The loins (waist): In Genesis chapter 6, the sin continued. Verse 1-2, And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. In Job 1:6, when God called his sons to present themselves, also Satan came among them YET in Genesis 3:15,it was the seed of a woman to bruise his head.
Child of God, you could try to build something big through holiness and righteousness, but if you don’t have capacity, it will fail. You rather have a small business when you are spiritually, mentally and financially a giant.
Why should the war in Ukraine affect us in Uganda? Why should someone in New York determine our economy? Why should drought ravage us, yet we have big water bodies like River Nile, Lake Victoria and Kyoga? It is because we lack CAPACITY. If you don’t have capacity, you cannot contain even the little you have: It will be taken away from you.
Joseph worked in Potiphar’s houses where witches lived, and he became the head of that house. When he had the dream, God was building his capacity [Genesis 39:2]. Joseph was taken to prison, and he became a leader [Genesis 39:22-23]. He built the first world bank, and TODAY it is found in Washington DC [Genesis 41:48]. We have been here for over a thousand years, but what do we have? The reason why we have been able to persevere through tough times (COVID, Ebola, wars) is because we have capacity.
When Satan heard that they had daughters, he entered through the loins (waist) such that he could destroy the seed that would crush his head [Genesis 6:3-7]. But thanks be to God for Jesus because out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water [John 7:38]. The devil will tell you things about you, but he will never tell you to build capacity.
As I conclude: Through prayer we build capacity, and Jesus showed it to us in Luke 22:44 when he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. The devil doesn’t want you to give because he knows that once you give, God will give you a good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over [Luke 6:38].
None of you here was born to suffer or to depend on others. When you are at a low capacity, the devil might even step on BUT when your capacity is BIG, he can’t. Today, God is enlarging your capacity.
I pray that as you read and meditate on this message, it will go through you in Jesus’ Name. To watch a rebroadcast of this entire message, use this link below and you will be blessed: https://youtu.be/UkV-IOfBpvs
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