Stepping in your abundant life!

According to John 10:10, God’s desire for His children is to have life and have it more abundantly!

How many of you really believe this scripture to be true? Do you really believe that God desires for you to live an abundant life or do you think this only applies to Pastors, or the rich? Well according to my Bible, it says, in Numbers 23:19, “God is not man, that he should lie or a son of man, that he should change his mind”, if He said, His desire for you is for you to have life and to have it more abundantly then why can’t you believe that? He said it and He meant it!

The word abundant that Jesus uses in John 10:10 is the Greek word perissón, and it means "superabundant," "superfluous," "overflowing," "over and above a certain quantity," "a quantity so abundant as to be considerably more than what one would expect or anticipate." I’m not sure about you, but when I look at my life, I have way more than I need or could expect. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I’m Oprah, but I am saying I have more food than I can eat, more clothes than I can wear and shelter over my head everytime I lay down to sleep.

Please don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying I do not pray for more in your life, but what I am saying is too many times as Christians we pray for things that already exist in our lives, and for one reason or another we have missed that the very thing we are praying for already exist in our lives. It’s like praying for a loving and caring husband or wife, when other people can see that we already have one, but we can’t. I believe this is how God see our lives. He sees it as it as already abundant, and He is just waiting on us to recognize that we already have what we are praying for. We pray for an abundant life when we already have a roof over our head, some of us two or three roofs (houses), an over abundant amount of food to eat and way too many clothes in our closets.

For years I played into the whole, “My blessing is on its way!” mindset. Until one day the Holy Spirit made me realize I was already living out my blessings each and every day I opened my eyes. Not necessarily because everything I desired in life had come to fruition, but because there was not a prayer or decree I had ever said or prayed to God for that hadn’t come to fruition. Basically there was nothing I had prayed for that I had not gotten. This made me realize that God was doing what He said in Psalms 37:4, He was giving me the desires of my heart, and He was going to continue to do so, all I had to do was continue to walk in this belief and receive what He handed out to me on a daily bases, His provision, His love, His mercy and YES OF COURSE HIS GRACE, (for the forgiveness of my sins). On this day I realized I was already living an abundant life. This was the day I stopped begging and pleading with God to answer my prayers, walking up and down the church isles and begging Him to hear my prayers. His Word already says in James 5:16, “The Prayers of the Righteous availeth much,” so I had to think, I am righteous by my belief in Him so this must mean that my prayers have great power and will produce wonderful results, which is what “availeth much” means. That day I began to pray for things from God with a different mindset. I began to pray, and leave them at the altar, because I knew at some point in time they would be answered. What loving father do you know of doesn’t want to give His daughter The World?

Yes, there are times when spiritual warfare happens and continual prayer is necessary for a spiritual breakthrough, but that’s not what I am talking about here. I am talking about how we as Christians are always talking about “our blessing is on its way”, meaning the blessed life we always thought we would have is just around the corner or that it hasn’t arrived yet. We’ll I’m here to tell you the blessed life is here; all you have to do is change how you view your life, and how you view God desiring to bless your life!  

God is God and He is God all alone. You might be saying, “Well I’ve been asking God for a lot of things, but I’ve received nothing.” Well I would say to you, “How are you asking?” Do you ask in doubt or do you ask believing that you will receive and then walk into that belief? Check this out; how do you ask the sun for sunlight? Do you say, “Sun can I have some sunlight?” Or do you just get out there and walk into the sun and experience it! How do you ask electricity to give you light? Do you say, “Electricity give me light?” Or do you switch on the light, and you receive the light it is prepared to give. This is the same way you should begin to receive the abundant life that God desire for you to live. He has already prepared it for you through His Love, Grace and Mercy, now it’s up to you to just walk into it!

Forever In His Grace!

Toinette Neube