The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 10:10
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
John 7:37-38
What keeps us from experiencing an Abundant Life in Christ?
1) Am I
for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:13
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
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13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 1:13-14
2) Am I holding on to
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 John 1:9-10
3) Am I
By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
John 7:39
4) Am I
18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms…
Ephesians 1:18–20
Every experience God gives us, every person He puts our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see. —Corrie Ten Boom
• Edward Kimball (1823-1901)
• D.L. Moody (1837-1899)
• J. Wilbur Chapman (1859-1918)
• Billy Sunday (1862-1935)
• Mordecai Ham (1877-1961)
• Billy Graham (1918-2018)
• James Hugh (1931-2017)
• Edward Kimball (1823-1901)
A river reaches places which its source never knows. God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others. —Oswald Chambers
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21
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