More on Abundance

2 Corinthians 9:8

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” KJV

We said yesterday that abundance is God’s will for the believer. And it means to have more than enough for yourself so that you can give to others. Though it is the will of God for you there is the need to exercise faith to walk in it. You must agree that you it can happen to you, that you can walk in abundance. 

To release faith for abundance you need to understand firstly the place of grace, because this is what God says He will cause to abound towards you. Understanding the place of grace is to understand that walking in abundance goes beyond anything you can do or achieve and neither can you earn it by hard work or your efforts and abilities. It is understanding that it is not about what you deserve or don’t deserve, what you are qualified or not qualified for but what Christ had made available. This is because grace takes you beyond what you deserve or merit. 

Remember that the Scriptures say,

“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor that ye through His poverty might become rich” 2Corinthians 9:8

When was Jesus made poor on the cross? Before the foundations of the world, because that was when the Lamb was slain, this was way before you were born, before you sinned and before you knew to do anything.

 “For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved ( delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God.” Ephesians 2:8 AMP

Do you know this salvation that we received includes our prosperity? And it says it did not come by our own doing or through our striving, it is the gift of God. Abundance is the gift of God. Receive abundance firstly as a gift from God.

“Also, every man to whom God has given riches and possessions, and the power to enjoy them and to accept his appointed lot and to rejoice in his toil — this is the gift of God [to him].” Ecclesiastes 5:19 AMP