Expansion is the last theme of being "in the room." I'll summarize the experience of expanding with the below verse.
Isaiah 54:2-3 ESV
[2] “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. [3] 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.
I sat in leadership groups "in the room" to prepare & give advice for what isn't seen yet. This is a familiar operation to me. As the Father often has me to go big or go home. I've been asked numerous times why did I buy such a large home if it's just me? The short answer is because God led me to do so. & because I know His flow, I understand that the expanded territory isn't just for me.
Expansion like the two other themes begins in the mind. There is no use being in large places & carrying the mentality of when you were in the smaller territory.
You have to change your mind & it's okay to do so.
Upon your convenience, read the entire chapter of the shared verses above. A widowed barren woman is being restored above all mothers and people generally in her habitation and what she owns. When she was told to expand her territory - - the promise wasn't before her yet. It was an act of Faith. But her response was a declaration of belief.
In order to expand, don't wait until you see it, prepare for it now by Faith. We do it in business all the time in vision casting, business plans or meetings about tomorrow's goals. & no one questions this. Do the same for other areas of your life - - expand your territory with intentional acts of Faith.
The above photo is from the International Multidisciplinary Conference where I shared on increasing academic rigor. It highlights the theme of expansion as it was my first professional conference as a speaker in higher education. & it wasn't by happenstance. I began to speak this year that I desire to speak more personally, professionally, and prophetically. I said it before I saw it (Faith) - - I planned for it & accepted related engagements because Faith without works is dead. & now my territory has expanded personally & professionally due to strategically saying yes to engagements to the territory that I'm called.
I'll leave with this, be careful in expanding that you only work the lands to which you're assigned. Depleted work & people are a result of treading and toiling in the wrong territory.
Spread your habitation.
Do not hold yourself back!
Make a proclamation that you believe God in what you're creating expansion for & wait for its manifestation.
I'll be back to share what territories I'm intentionally expanding to next!
I believe God in what I am creating expansion for!!