ABUNDANT LIFE

“I am the door, if anyone enters by me he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy .I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly” (John.10:9-10)

At the beginning God created man to have quality and quantity of life: that is, more than enough. After the fall of Adam and Eve at the Garden of Eden, man lost that privilege of having more than enough of life; he began to be in lack, and in want. The scripture says for all men have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. However, Jesus Christ comes as a solution and remedy to the degrading nature and lack of mankind. He came to offer plentiful, more than enough of life vis-à-vis physical, spiritual and eternal life. Apostle John in his epistle affirmed that God’s desire for those who have received Jesus Christ and believed in him is to prosper in health even as their soul prospers. So God’s redemptive package through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross of Calvary is to be blessed and become a blessing. The overflowing life we received is physical, spiritual and eternal.

Physical life is the ability or the grace impacted to you as a child of God to function and grow to fulfil God’s purpose and plan here on earth .To you, God’s promise through Christ Jesus is that as you serve Him the Lord-God, He will bless your bread and water. And will take sickness away from you, you will not suffer miscarriage or be barren in your body and in the work of your hand, and will fulfil the number of your days, no premature death. Even while here on earth, he will keep your body in good health because the spirit that gives life to man is in the inside of you. “If the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the death is living in you, He who raised Christ from the death will give life to your mortal bodies through His spirit who lives in you” (Rom.8:11) Through Christ Jesus you have been given power and authority to live in perpetual victory over all the forces and powers of darkness (Lk.10:19), to be healed and be in health (I Pet.2:24) and have the power to create wealth and have more than enough riches and material blessings (Deut.8:18).

Secondly, you have been given spiritual life in abundance through Christ our Lord, Jesus said whoever believes my word and believes in Him who sent me has crossed over from death to life. (Jn.5:24) You are brought near to God through His blood, through Him, you have access to the Father by the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the new and living way opened for us through the curtain that is his body. Jesus came to restore communion and fellowship between mankind and God by taking away our sin and breaking the wall of partition between us and the Father.

Thirdly, eternal life which is a gift from God comes to us through Jesus Christ our Lord and King (Rom.6:23b).Without genuine spiritual life in Christ the gift of eternal life is not possible. Blessed are those who partake of the first resurrection, the second death has no power over them; they will reign with him eternally. To experience abundant life, make room large enough for Him in your heart, clear your mind of every vile and unprofitable thought and imagination, usher Him in and let him fully occupy your heart, mind and body.

Pray that you will experience his manifold blessings this year in more than enough quantity, He is the all sufficient God He will satisfy and fill you to overflowing.

SHALOM