August Week 4 Theme Vision: Uncommon Increase.

Praise the Lord Church.

What an honor for us to gather again through this online platform so that we could receive another dose of the Word of God.

My name is Pastor Maxine Jogona.

I have the honor and the privilege to lead our youth church here at Parklands Baptist Church.

We're in the season of uncommon increase, spirit-led enlargement, and God is calling us back to the perspective that he is a God of the increase and in our time together.

I'll be glad to share with you three realities of this uncommon increase that we could consider even for our edification today.

The first thing that I want you to realize is that increase begins from the place of access.

So the first ingredient of increase is what we call access.

Access is the ability to go through the gates.

The Bible says in Psalms 100 that enter his gates.

Psalm 100, verse 1, 2, and 3, enter his gates with thanksgiving and enter his courts with praise.

Psalms 100:1

This reminds us that when God calls us forth to the place where we can experience his love, he's keen to open the doorways, the pathways and the gates of life.

That will be ideal for us to be able to partake that which he has prepared for us.

Access is a measure of increase If God is releasing you to the place where you are beginning to experience some common increase, you will begin to notice that the realities of access are being opened up to you.

Offices that you could not go into yourself, opportunities that are flashed before you that you could not go to into yourself, opportunities that are flashed before you that you could not push through for yourself, is a showcase that increase is having an expression upon your life.

The second reality of uncommon increase is what we call preservation.

So we move from access to preservation.

Preservation is where God begins to preserve us in the moments of our access points, because it is not enough to step into it, but we must be preserved in our areas and in our lives where we have been able to find our places of increase.

There are many people who have found access, but they have not been preserved in their places of access.

When you have been promoted to the next level of your life, the next level of these uncommon increases is that God preserves you.

He ensures that you maximize on the opportunities that you have been able to receive, even by his spirit.

And then we get to the third reality of uncommon increase, which is advancement.

We move from access, preservation and advancement.

Advancement is where you continue to make progress in the place where God has preserved you Because you have found your climate of preservation.

Now God continues to call you higher so that you don't climax all at the same level.

There are so many believers who have attained to the place of preservation, but they have not contended for the reality of advancement.

God is calling us to yearn for the next level of grace.

Isaiah 54, verse 1 to 3, talks about stretching our curtains.

Isaiah 54:1–3

It talks about strengthening our sticks, because God is a God of advancement and we get to a place where we are able to experience his love, we are able to experience his compassion because his advancement continues to take root upon our lives.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, fellow believers, this month of Uncommon Increase, we declare that every one of us is finding the access that we need, we are finding preservation that we need and we are finding advancement that we so need.

Access that leads to preservation, that leads to advancement, is a common ultimate reality of Uncommon Increase.

Thank you so much for joining us in this broadcast.

May the Lord bless you, and I wish you God's blessings and tidings even in the days to come.

In Jesus' name, amen.