In this motivational sermon, the speaker declares that God is expanding believers’ capacity and urging them to leave environments that have become limiting. He defines “capacity” as the maximum amount one can contain or produce, and illustrates the concept with the story of Japanese square watermelons that are grown in boxes to make storage easier. The speaker argues that when we reach our maximum production in a given setting—whether a church, job, city, or mindset—God wants us to “rip open” the box and move to a new environment where we can grow further. He supports this with biblical examples (Daniel, Esther, Joseph, Abraham and Lot) and a personal testimony of moving from Italy to Canada. The sermon emphasizes that relocation can be geographic, vocational, or mental, and that each transition brings challenges such as setbacks, betrayals, and pushbacks, but also leads to greater anointing, authority, and blessing. Scriptural anchors include Romans 12:2 (renewing the mind) and Isaiah 54 (enlarging the tent). The speaker concludes with a call to obedience, expectation, and faith, asserting that discomfort signals God’s invitation to expand one’s capacity for the kingdom.
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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. Um, you know, in a lot of, um, biblical, uh, stories, people like Daniel, Esther, Joseph, they were ripped from their place of, um, 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. So 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, whatever it is. Even our mindset, like I said, can limit us. The Lord wants to bring transformation to our mind. Like Romans 12:2 says, you know, don't be conformed to the pattern of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. mind. And that, that's where neuroscience comes in. But even Lot and Abraham had to separate in order for them to grow. You know, it came to a point where the herders that were taking care of their herds were beginning to quarrel, to fight, because there wasn't enough space for them to pasture their flock. And so Lot and Abraham had to separate in order to grow. You have to let go in order to grow. And like I said, that might mean something different for each and every one of us. But we need to expect—that's what the Lord is saying—shifts, raptures, chasms, stretching, pushbacks, setbacks, betrayals, and exposure. But because with expansion comes an elevation, comes a lot of negative things. Like Joseph's brothers—their heart was revealed when they sold him. They were jealous of him. So there was a rapture there. There was a chasm that was created. There was a setback, a pushback. Joseph was mistreated. He was betrayed. But In doing that, their brothers exposed their intent, their character, and their hearts. And so for us, it will be a time of transition, elevation, growth. It doesn't mean it's going to be easy. It's never easy when the Lord calls us to do something. It's going to be hard, but at the same time, we will grow in our calling. We will grow in our influence, in our territory. Just like Isaiah 54 says, enlarge the side of your tent to make room for more children. Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings Do not spare them. Lengthen your tent ropes and make your pegs firm in the ground, for you will spread out to the right and to the left, and your descendants will take possession of nations and will inhabit deserted cities. So he's telling us to stretch our capacity even before we see any fruit in faith. If the Lord tells you to move, if the Lord tells you to change direction, whatever it is that the Lord is asking you to do, whatever shift he is bringing into your life, Although it might seem hard, painful, it might not make sense to you, you obey. And from that obedience, that's when the blessing will come. From that stretching, that's when the blessing will come. That's where the anointing gets formed. That's where your authority grows. And, you know, the anointing doesn't come without crushing. And that anointing is not for you. That anointing is for others. That anointing is to grow the kingdom of God. And you gain so much authority from that anointing, because whatever we overcome, we gain authority over. So that stretching is the training ground. It is the boot camp. It is what will empower you to fulfill what the Lord is calling you to do. So if you're feeling uncomfortable in the place where you're at right now, uh, you're feeling frustrated. It's a feeling of frustration that you cannot shake, and it's because the Lord wants you to move forward, wants you to change direction. He wants to expand you. He is growing your capacity. You have reached the maximum amount of production. Now He wants you to move so that you can produce more fruit and bring more to the kingdom of God. So be obedient, be expectant, and have faith because the Lord is with you.
