The Champion Defender has Enlarged You - Despite the Squeezing

THE CHAMPION DEFENDER HAS ENLARGED YOU - DESPITE THE SQUEEZING
WORD BY JODIE HUGHES | AUGUST 31, 2020
© Pour It Out Ministries


GOD IS MAKING ROOM FOR YOUR DREAMS
Despite the season, God has made room for you to increase! God makes room for every promise and dream He has placed in His people. God has not forgotten what He said to you.

Many feel distressed, squeezed & limited right now, but God is enlarging you & making room for you despite the season.

“God, you are my righteousness, my Champion Defender. Answer me when I cry for help! Whenever I was in distress, you enlarged me.I’m being squeezed again—I need your kindness right away! Grant me your grace, hear my prayer, and set me free!” Psalm 4:1 TPT

WHEN I’M IN DISTRESS, YOU ENLARGED ME
I love this verse. I think it’s for now. I particularly love that it says “whenever I was in distress, you enlarged me”. Or as the Passion Translation explains, it could be translated, “you made room for me”.

Many feel distressed, closed in and limited by circumstances, and wondering how (or if) the God dreams and promises they sensed at the beginning of 2020 will ever manifest. I think many are crying out, “I’m being squeezed” and I need your kindness God right now!

CHAMPION DEFENDER
What a beautiful description of our God… “Champion Defender”!
Jesus, the one who hears our cry and sets us free, the one who gives grace when we’re squeezed, and kindness to those feeling weary. God sees. God hears your cry. God is our Defender Champion! Nothing is unseen, and God will defend you and fight for you. I love that this verse also says in the the midst of distress, that God “enlarged me”. That seems like it doesn’t make sense. How can I be enlarged in the middle of distress, or seeming attack on every side, or from being squeezed? And yet, God is saying there’s an enlarging taking place in the very season of “squeezing”.

RECALIBRATION AND DIVINE RESET
Much is being said about recalibration lately. I think one of the great silver linings of this season is that we have had opportunity to refocus our hearts on what matters most, and allow God to strengthen our resolve and build us up on the inside. We truly have had opportunity for a recalibration to the purity of God. Those who have pursued God’s heart above the noise, have experience their connection to God has grown deeper and never stronger. New surrender and divine reset of our personal relationship with God has prompted spiritual journeys to “create in me a clean heart”. This has forged new passion for authentic, sold-out faith, and has led us to the depths of God’s kindness.

THERE ARE DOORS TO COME THAT WILL NOT UNLOCK FOR THE LUKEWARM. FIRE IS THE KEY.
Our faith has been re-calibrated and “normal temperature” has been re-set to “boiling hot”, as lukewarm tendencies were set on fire! There is an urgency to set our hearts to “hot”, as there are doors ahead that will not open to lukewarm. The key to the coming season is “fire”!

YOU’RE BEING ENLARGED IN THIS TIGHT PLACE TO CARRY MORE
What is the hope of this seemingly restricted and pressured time?
God has, and is, enlarging your capacity in this season!

YOU’RE NOT THE SAME AS YOU STARTED 2020.
You’ve been forged in the fire and grown. You can carry more… more glory, more compassion, more courage, more strength to walk out this God dreams and promises you’ve held on to. Not only that, God himself is making room for you! God is making space for your promises and God dreams He put in your heart. God has enlarged you, and will make space for what you carry.

THE SQUEEZING HAS NOT DIMINISHED YOU, IT’S PRODUCED OIL
God is the not just a door opener, He is a giver of room, or “space”, to dream, build and establish His promise in you once you’ve stepped through the doors He’s opening. God has grown you as you’ve leaned into Him through this season of squeezing! Consequently, you’ve not diminished through the squeezing, you’ve grown in capacity… you’ve been enlarged!

NOT ONLY HAVE YOU INCREASED, BUT JUST AS AN OLIVE WHEN PRESSED PRODUCES OIL, SO YOU HAVE PRODUCED OIL TO BURN
The oil that has come from the pressing, will enable you to burn and sustain the fire when other lights go out. Well done faithful one for surrendering to the divine reset and pressing into God. As you’ve answered the invitation of deeper intimacy and repentance from the Lord, this season has been extremely productive! You’ve produced oil for the journey ahead.

GET READY AND STAY READY
Get ready to push out the tent pegs (Isaiah 54:2) faithful dreamer. This era needs courageous, forged in the fire, pure hearts. God has used this season to not just “ready the harvest”, but ready you, His harvester! You have been made ready, so get ready, stay ready, and be ready.

I pray great grace to your heart in the middle of squeezing and what many have described as distress. Lord we need you! Lord we thank you for your kindness in the midst of great challenge. We ask for freedom. And thank you for growing us ready for what is ahead. Despite the squeezing, we have been fortified by God and made stronger, not weaker.

MY PRAYER
I ask for grace, and breakthrough, in the places of distress. I ask for surprise kindnesses from You God that bless our homes, and melt our hearts with Your great love of us. Give us supernatural hope, that You are making space for us, and for the promises you’ve placed in our hearts. We are coming out of this season “enlarged” and ready to carry the dreams put in our heart.

PRATICAL ACTIVATION: Read this verse again and SAY is out loud, claiming it as yours:
“God, you are my righteousness, my champion defender.Answer me when I cry for help!Whenever I was in distress, you enlarged me.I’m being squeezed again—I need your kindness right away! Grant me your grace, hear my prayer, and set me free!” Psalm 4:1 TPT

Bless you friends.
I’m praying great grace & supernatural hope for you today. May you know and experience the realness of our Champion Defender right where you need Him.

Jodie Hughes
Pour It Out Ministries
www.pouritout.org

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