ABUNDANT LIFE

“Every believer is called to live a life that is abundant, increasing and always expanding. Words like growing, improving, expanding and increasing are the vocabulary of God’s abundant life. Abundant life is about always moving forward and rising higher. When life on earth started in Genesis 1, the Spirit of the Lord started moving across the earth, and He has never stopped since then…

So many in the Church today have lowered their vision and are trying just to hang on until Jesus comes. So many are trying just to survive and are moping and hoping the Antichrist won’t put the marks of the beast on them. Many Christians are so defeated that they wish Jesus would come back tonight. They have no vision for tomorrow, and they’re like prisoners, waiting for an escape.

This is not the abundant life of God; it is the life of religion and the expectation of tradition. This is the attitude of people who don’t know the life that God has called them to. So many “pew warming” Christians have been raised so long in the religious culture of just making a living and trying to hang in there that they don’t know God’s abundance even exists. The negative, sick, sorrowful environment they were raised in keeps them constantly confused. They’re always wondering what’s happening. Their lives are not what God willed. Their vision is not what God planned. What they see for tomorrow is not what God sees for tomorrow…

The Greek word for life spoken by Jesus in John 10:10 is zoe. It means “absolute life, the purest kind of life, life in its very essence.” Jesus didn’t say, “I’ve come for you to exist”…He didn’t say, “I’ve come for you to survive”…He didn’t say, “I’ve come for you to make a living”…No, Jesus said, “I’ve come that you might have the God kind of absolute life, the purest kind of life, life in its very essence – zoe.”