Should
       You Have
     Abundance?

 

Some people question if Christians should have abundance in their lives.  Or should we have the attitude of just having enough to get by?  What does God's Word say?  In this message, He will answer what He has for your life.  You will see how you are destined for abundance in every way—your spirit, health, resources, abilities and relationships and accomplishments, in every way.  Discover how you can live in abundance.
I.    Have a Different Spirit.
II.   See What God Has.
III.  Watch It Come to Life. 
IV.  Taste of God’s Goodness. 
V.   Start With a Seed.

 Don't Accept
     the Way
  Things Are!

     There was a woman named Marsha who was so tired of the stubborn pattern she was seeing in her life.  She had a disappointment that was tagging along and she didn’t seem to be able to get rid of it.

     A doctor had informed her that she would never be able to have a baby.  But that wasn’t good enough for her.  She knew the power of God could operate in her body and break off that diagnosis and give her a miracle.  This is what the Word of God does.  It’s as a hammer that breaks off the bad news, the problem, the wrong conditions.

     In Jeremiah chapter 23 the Lord says, Is not My word… like a hammer that breaks in pieces the rock of most stubborn resistance?  Yes, something can seem stubborn in your life, and you can’t break it off.  But the Word of God can.  When you have faith in the power of His Word, what keeps repeating and you can’t seem to get rid of can be broken off.  It’s faith in God’s Word that enables it to work in our life.

     So Marsha began to pray and ask everybody she knew to pray.  Her husband of course was also praying but it became harder for him to believe as the years went by.  Then when his wife began to show signs of menopause, that was really hard.  He’s a scientist and so he knew all the data about the probability of being able to become pregnant when a woman is entering menopause.

     But the symptoms were just another manifestation of the pattern that was tagging onto their lives.  It had to be broken.  So after a while, Marsha made an appointment with her doctor, the one who said she could never have a baby, and she requested a pregnancy test be done.  He refused!  He didn’t want her to get her hopes up, and he knew there wasn’t any way she could be pregnant.

     So he said to her, “Asking for another pregnancy test indicates you are not accepting things as they are.”  Well, what he didn’t realize was that was a good thing for him to say!  She WASN’T accepting things the way things appear to be.  She was accepting what God’s Word says.

     She knew the promise that she could be healed.  You see, she was taking out the hammer of God’s Word and breaking the stubborn condition that was preventing her miracle.  Oh, take out the Word of God and use it as a hammer.  The spiritual hammer.  It breaks off what has been tagging along.

     So Marsha kept hammering away and believing.  She was breaking the stubborn pattern.  We need to ask ourselves if we’re accepting the way things are that we see, or are we accepting the way things are in God’s Word.  Are we willing to allow the stubborn issue to tagalong forever?  Or do we want to break the chain that keeps controlling our conditions?

     Marsha wasn’t about to allow the stubborn pattern to keep her from having her miracle baby.  The doctor was right.  She wasn’t accepting the way things are.  She was accepting the way God SAYS things are.  Don’t accept the way things are.  Accept the way God says things are.

     So she kept bugging the doctor for a pregnancy test.  And she got it.  He may have done it just to shut her up.  But that’s okay.  We don’t care if someone else doesn’t understand why we’re believing for the impossible.  God will cause them to do what we need.  When the test came back, it was positive.  She was pregnant.

     But that was hard to believe for the medical staff.  So over the next 14 days the doctor ordered four more pregnancy tests and several sonograms.  Now it was the doctor who was having trouble accepting the way things are.  He accused her of that before the test and now he couldn’t accept it.  After all the tests and the time for the pregnancy to be complete, the baby was born.

     Marsha went full-term and there weren’t any bad events during that time.  She said about their new baby, “We call her Miracle Mandy.”

     You think that baby would exist now if she had not broken that stubborn resistance to her miracle?  We have to come to the place she did.  We’re not willing to accept the way things are.  We know the way they can be, and that’s what we go after.  We break the pattern of the way things have been and we start a new one.

     If it’s something we’ve been told, or our own behavior that we want to change, or it’s a condition or problem or challenge that just keeps hanging around, it cannot resist the power, THE POWER HAMMER, of God’s Word as we use it to believe for our miracle.

Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:
“I GET MY MIRACLE!”

Here is a powerful prayer to say out loud:

Thank You, God, that I don’t have to accept the way things appear to be.  I accept the way YOU say things are for me.  And You say that I can see this stubborn issue broken off me.  So I receive my miracle.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen.