Abundant Life!

Abundant life.

If we equate what we see right now in life to the price Jesus paid we have not understood the value of His sacrifice. We all like to get value for our money. We all like to get value for our time. If you work forty hours a week and only get paid for half of it, you will not sit back and take it. You would demand you get paid for your time and work. "Time is money," they say. Yet we have settled for an inferior result when it comes to the kingdom life. The enemy has indeed come to steal, kill and to destroy. He has lulled is into believing we cannot have it now.

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Let me make it very clear that God does not steal, kill or destroy. The question remains: what about all the suffering and death we see? Let us put the blame where it belongs. After Adam and Eve sinned they started the blame game and it has continued unto this day. Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the snake and the snake had no leg to stand on. Today people still blame God for things He did not do. We live in a world where people that have rejected God and His reign go about everyday doing their own thing. They have no respect for God or man. They have one desire and that is to enrich themselves and for that, they will steal, kill and even destroy. The enemy gains authority in their lives because they reject the authority of God. He does his work through those that oppose God.

God has all authority. Authority does not equate to permission. Authority is the power to rule in agreement with the will of God. Anytime you do something outside the will of God and purpose of God you do it in self-will and without God’s permission. God’s authority does not stop people from breaking His will. People breaking His will does not mean He gave permission. The fact that the police have authority on the road does not stop people from speeding or breaking the law. If I was speeding and caused an accident and then blamed the police for it, you would most probably think I have the spirit of stupid on me and you would be right. People break the law of God and then when there is pain and suffering they blame God and somehow that is totally acceptable. No, that is stupid.

The enemy steals, kills and destroys. Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. What does this life look like?

This life is superior in quality.

This life that God gives is a representation of who He is. God is life! He only gives what He is. This life is His life. He has created us from incorruptible seed. This simply means that His life is devil proof, sickness proof, and death proof. This life is eternal and can never die. When you were born again you received this life. There is nothing else on earth that has the quality of this life because it is eternal and from the heavenlies. Without this life you are nothing and you have nothing.

1 John 5:11-12 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

This life is super abundant in quantity.

He came to give us life that is abundant. We are not to walk in lack. Jesus never walked in lack. Whenever HE needed something it was made available from the Father. The very reason we need to walk in the miraculous is the fact that we have abundance in quantity. We do not serve a God that has lack. His kingdom does not represent lack. If He needs anything He makes it. It is impossible for God to need something. He came to give us the same abundance.

Psa. 132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

His life is excessive in measure.

How big is God? How big and wide is His domain? Can we even fathom His power and His wisdom? Our best prayers limit God. If we don’t comprehend His plan and purpose for people we can never ask for His full will. With limited understanding we will always ask amiss. Take heart because He knows we don’t see things the way He sees them. HE still commanded us to ask. He gives us this wonderful promise. He is looking for someone to agree with Him. Someone that will speak His desire for the nations and He will do above what we ask. He promises to do more than what we ask for. That is Him being excessive in measure.

Eph. 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

God wants to bless you. He wants to increase you and your influence in the world. He wants to put you on display and show you off. He wants the world to look at you. His promise to Abraham was to bless him, and to bless him in such a way that he would be a blessing to others. We must stop believing the enemy's lies that God does not care. I cannot explain why all these things happen to good people that don’t deserve a bad wrap from life. All I know is that I refuse to shape my theology by what the enemy does. I choose to count my blessings and believe that God can and will take care of all my needs according to His riches in Glory.

Phil. 4:19 My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.