April 02, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Zoom 1 Virtual Platform
Theme: God is enlarging your tent even after the wilderness.
Season: Lent – Week of Recommitment & Resurrection Readiness
🔑 Key Verse
"Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes." – Isaiah 54:2 (NIV)
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🕊️ Lesson Title: Stretch, Don’t Shrink
Text: Isaiah 54:1–10
Theme: Expanding into Resurrection – A Call to Rebuild, Rejoice, and Ready the Nation
🌄 Kingdom Focus: Resurrection Readiness
As New Unity Nation journeys from the wilderness toward resurrection, this lesson speaks to our collective call: to build beyond barrenness, to sing through the silence, and to prepare for the overflow. Even when exile echoes louder than evidence, Heaven still speaks: “Enlarge the place of your tent.”
🔥 Kingdom Connection:
Isaiah 54 is a blueprint for empowerment. God tells a grieving people: Build anyway.
This is the heart of New Unity—mobilizing saints to prepare even before the miracle.
📘 Session Overview
Section | Description |
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Scripture Focus | Isaiah 54:1–10 |
Lesson Title | Stretch, Don’t Shrink |
Core Verse | “Enlarge the place of your tent…” (v.2) |
Key Theme | Post-exilic people must prepare like resurrection is inevitable. |
Spiritual Goal | To stretch faith and build in anticipation of God’s enlarging move. |
🧭 Learning Outcomes
Disciples will:
Embrace the prophetic call to prepare before provision.
Reflect on their role in nation-building beyond personal limitations.
Commit to one spiritual stretch during Lent that echoes Isaiah 54.
Name and claim their post-exile purpose in New Unity Nation.
📖 Sacred Reading & Reflection
Read Isaiah 54:1–10 aloud.
Imagine God speaking this directly to New Unity Nation:
“You may have felt forsaken, but with deep compassion I will gather you…” (v.7)
Reflection Prompts:
Where have you settled for shrinking instead of stretching?
How is God calling you to build in barren places?
What “tent stakes” (faith, discipline, vision) need strengthening in your life?
🛠️ Nation-Building Actions This Week
Stretch | How to Practice |
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Prayer Stretch | Add 5 minutes of intercession for areas you've feared. |
Faith Stretch | Sow a gift, encouragement, or offering into someone else's barrenness. |
Word Stretch | Memorize Isaiah 54:2 and declare it daily as your nation-building mantra. |
📝 Discipleship Journal Prompt
Write a short letter to yourself titled “You Are Bigger Than This”.
Describe one “tent” God is calling you to enlarge.
Commit to one bold act of obedience by Easter Sunday.