In this pastoral sermon, the speaker shares a fresh word from the Lord about "expanding your capacity." He defines capacity as the maximum amount one can contain or produce, and explains that believers may reach the limit of what their current environment (church, job, location, mental state) can nurture. Using the image of Japanese square watermelons—grown in cubic cages to make storage easier—the speaker illustrates how God may shape us into a form that fits a restrictive setting, but also how He wants us to break out of that box. He cites biblical figures such as Daniel, Esther, and Joseph, who were uprooted from comfortable, familiar places to fulfill God’s purpose, arguing that staying put would have prevented their destiny. The speaker then shares his own testimony of moving from Italy to Canada, emphasizing that the relocation was a divine invitation rather than coercion, and that staying in Italy would have limited his and his husband’s ministry. The core message is a call to recognize when we have outgrown our current environment, to “rip open” the limiting box, and to be willing to move—geographically, vocationally, or within ministry—so that God can continue to expand our capacity for fruitfulness.
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Hey guys, today I want to bring to you a very encouraging word that the Lord just gave me, and this word is, I'm expanding your capacity. That is what the Lord wants us to know today, and I want to read what the word capacity means. It means the maximum amount that something can contain, but it also means the amount that something can produce. That means that we have reached the capacity to produce what we could in the environment that we're in right now, whether that's your church, your job, the place where you live, even your mental state. It has reached the capacity, the maximum capacity of what we can produce. And when he told me this, he showed me a picture of— I don't know if you guys have ever seen those square watermelons. And these square watermelons were created by Japanese farmers not too long ago because they were having trouble storing the watermelons because they were big, they were round, and they took a lot of space and they didn't stay put. So they— what they did was create these boxes, these cages where they would put the small watermelon when it was not fully developed in this box, in this cage, in a shape of a cube, so that when they grew, the watermelon will be perfectly cubical, I guess, in shape. So that would be easy to store. And that is a picture that the Lord gave me for us, for many of us who have reached our maximum capacity of production, of bringing fruit to His kingdom, to the point in which the environment we're in is actually shaping us. It has actually begun to influence us, to stifle us, to compress our potential and our development. And so what He wants us to know is that He wants us to Move. He wants to rip open that box that is limiting us to make us grow. You know, in a lot of biblical stories, people like Daniel, Esther, Joseph—they were ripped from their place of the place that they were comfortable in, the place that they were born, a place that was safe to them. They were violently taken from those places, and I believe. It's because if they remained there, they could have never become who they were meant to be in the Lord. And the same happened to us, to my husband and I. The Lord took us from Italy. Now, we weren't forced to, but we made the choice to go after he spoke to both of us to come to Canada. And I know that if we would have stayed there, we would have never become who we were meant to be in the Lord and accomplish everything we've accomplished and we're still meant to accomplish in the future. So the Lord wants us to leave that place. He wants us to rip that box open so that He can plant us in a new environment in which we can thrive. And it doesn't mean that this environment is going to be that environment forever, you know, like once we reach our capacity again, the Lord is going to move us to somewhere else. And that might be geographical, that might be just work, ministry, church, a place, another place that we should move, another neighborhood.
