Abundance
To have an abundance of something is to have more than you need. It's often used to describe positive qualities, such as "an abundance of love." Abundance is the opposite of scarcity.
It means that you have everything that you need, not just material but also spiritual.
Appreciating all the simple pleasures
We have to recognize all the blessings God instills on us.
It’s ok to have hard times, Jesus suffered for us far more than most of us will.
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An Abundant Life
...is a life that is complete. Filled with happiness, peace, and genuine friendship with God. A life found in Christ, not in worldly things.
An abundant life is filled with things that are good for us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, compassion, humility, enthusiasm, confidence, honesty and especially, a relationship with God.
Matthew 6:25 instructs us not to worry.
In Matthew 6:25-32 God assures us that we do not need to worry about what we will eat or what we will wear. While physical blessings can be gifts from God, neither wealth nor poverty are indications of a person’s status with God.
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
We should not be dependent on outside circumstances for happiness
Matthew 7:7-9 Ask, Seek, Knock
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Thank you Donna’s sister!
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In Psalm 30:5, the psalmist says joy is found on the other side of suffering — weeping lasts the night, ‘but joy comes with the morning.’ But Paul’s testimony in the New Testament claims he found joy together with his suffering. He said this in 2 Corinthians 6:10, talking about being ‘sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.’ So does joy follow suffering? Or is there joy inside suffering?
Blessing God instills on us often far outweighs the suffering we endure.
God alone is the source of what we have and what we are. Fath is a living daring confidence in God. And God gives us grace.
Living an Abundant Life
Living an abundant life begins with having faith in Jesus Christ (being born again). When you have faith in Jesus, you desire a personal relationship with God, your motives change, and in turn your relationship with worldly ideals change too.
Genuine abundant living comes from joy and gratitude toward what we have, not wishing for or pursing what the world claims we need.
For a Christian, fullness of life is not measured in terms of wealth, power, or prestige, but seeking after God and His goodness. We must grow in the grace and knowledge of our savior Jesus Christ.
Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3:18
Peter teaches us that an abundant life is a continual process of learning, practicing, and maturing. We must remember that failing, recovering, adjusting, enduring, and overcoming are parts of this continual learning process.
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The Word of God is our sure witness of the abundance that God intends for us, His children. It reveals to us God’s heart for us – that we prosper exceedingly and live in His abundant provisions for us. Let us examine a Scripture that speak of His abundance for us.
MALACHI 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it.