Paths of Increase – Part 2: There is Hope for Your Future

January 20, 2012 – Pastor Jordan Gash

elevator button “Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.” – Job 8:7 (KJV)

God has a plan for your life… a plan of increase. He wants you to see beyond where you are to His plan for your future. He wants you to come to Him and receive a fresh vision of what He has in store for you. Job 8:7 begins with these words, “Though thy beginning was small”. You might look at where you’re at in life right now and say, “I’m in a small place”. God’s saying to you that no matter where you’re at right now, no matter what you may be facing at the moment, there is hope for your future. He has a plan for you to greatly increase.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” – Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

In Jeremiah 29:11, we see that God desires to prosper you. It goes on to say that He has a hope, a future and an expected end for you. The “end” He has planned is not a small ending. It’s an ending of increase, blessing, prosperity, peace and goodness! This is the will of your Heavenly Father. The word increase has been defined as becoming greater in number, size, strength and quality. Notice that increase is not only becoming greater in quantity but also in quality. In other words, when you experience God’s increase it means that areas of your life begin to rise, things come up to new levels and you enter into new places of blessing.

Do you believe that your latter end could greatly increase? Do you believe that you could go beyond where you’ve been into greater days? I sincerely believe that your best days are in front of you, not behind you. I want to encourage you today to dream new dreams and to expect big things in life. Allow these verses to stir your heart concerning God’s plan for you. Dare to believe that He is able to do things that you’ve never seen before. Get ready, because though your beginning may have been small, yet your latter end will greatly increase!