The Narrow Way

In Joshua 1, God tells Joshua,
“I will give you every place where you set your foot… your territory will extend…”
But here’s the thing, new territory meant new battles.
Greater influence meant greater responsibility.
The promise came with the call to courage.

When God calls you to a greater territory,
it’s not to overwhelm you
it’s to stretch the borders of His Kingdom through you.

It means your voice will reach places it hasn’t before.
Your hands will serve in ways you’ve never imagined.
Your testimony will echo in rooms you never thought you’d enter.

But greater territory requires three things:

First, obedience.
You can’t claim new ground if you won’t move when He says, “Go.”
Joshua’s first step into the Jordan was a step of faith before the waters parted.

Second, faithfulness.
You don’t change your values when the scenery changes.
The same faith that built in the small place is the faith that will keep you in the large one.

Third, dependence on God.
Territory without His presence is just empty land.
But territory with His presence is Kingdom ground.

Isaiah 54:2–3 says,
“Enlarge the place of your tent… lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left…”

When your borders move,
don’t shrink back.
Step forward.
Own the promise.
Carry the same humility, the same worship, the same obedience
and let God fill the new space with His glory.

Because the greater the territory,
the greater the testimony.