JUST ENOUGH OR MORE THAN ENOUGH?

Ezekiel 34:26 NIV I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.

Can I ask you something? Is your concept of God one that He gives us ‘just enough’ to get by? When someone asks how much milk you want in your drink and you show them your thumb and finger close together to say a little bit, just enough? Are we the same with God? Just enough money to pay the bills Lord, just enough health to get through the day? Lord, if you could just ….?

Or is your image of God one where His arms are thrown wide open and you know He is the God of ‘more than enough’ and that His heart is to shower you with His blessings, not because we deserve them but because of His great love for us. Ephesians 1:8-9 NIV says God lavished His grace and favour on us. Lavish is an over the top word because our God is actually an over the top God!😊

Our perception of God will determine how much we can receive from Him and if we think He’s holding back on us then we maybe haven’t quite believed this verse…

Romans 8:32 NLT Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?

The enemy always tries to make us doubt God’s promises, to make us think they were for a different time, or for someone else, but if we belong to God then all His promises, ALL of them, are yes and Amen in Jesus.

God is wanting us to take the limits off Him, to believe His word where He says His heart is to prosper us and not to harm us, to prosper everything we set our hands to, to walk in the abundant life Jesus died to give us. 

In order to do that we have to have a sense of bible expectation, of  hope based on His word, of faith that sees the unseen, to know God has given us the ability to call forth what we’re believing for by faith, because of His promises. If we can see it already in front of us then we don’t need faith, but we do need it for the things we can only see with our spiritual eyes.😊

Jesus turned 120 gallons of water into wine, He gave thanks and a few fish and rolls fed 5,000 people with 12 big baskets of left overs. God split the sea for Moses, fed 2-3 million people for 40 years in a desert! So is it just possible we’ve been insulting God by only asking Him for ‘just enough’ health, just enough strength, just enough money, etc., instead of believing our God is the God of ‘more than enough” and it blesses Him when we ask for more than enough of the ‘everything’ He wants us to have!😊

Lord, open our eyes so that truth sinks right down into our spirits to see You as You really are - our wonderful God of more than enough who wants to pours out Your blessings on us if we’ll receive them. Amen.

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