Walking In Abundance- Part 2
October 15, 2026 – 3:57 amWhat is abundance?
We were born for fruitfulness and abundance.
What does abundance really mean? It means we have all our own needs met and something left over to give others. Jesus could feed a multitude with a few loaves and fish. He also paid taxes by supplying the coins from the mouth of a fish. That was abundance.
It’s very important that we understand precisely the meaning of the word abundance. There are a number of words in that general area which are related, with which we’re familiar, and yet their meanings are not identical
There are many words that are all in some way related and yet distinct, are as follows: rich and riches, wealth and wealthy, prosper, prosperous, prosperity, and abound, abundant, and abundance.
Take the first two pairs, rich and riches, wealth and wealthy. Both those two sets of words indicate the possession of large amounts of money and other material possessions. They definitely imply that the person has large sums of money, owns large properties, and other valuables.
The next set of words: prosper, prosperous, prosperity does not necessarily indicate that, particularly if you go to the root meaning of the word used in Scripture. The central meaning of this set of words denotes success.
The Beloved disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in 3rd John:
2 Beloved friend, I pray that you are prospering in every way and that you continually enjoy good health, just as your soul is prospering.
To prosper is really to accomplish what you intend to do successfully. Prospering is succeeding in what you’re commissioned to do.
Abundance means basically you’ve got enough for all your own needs and something to spare for others. Abundance is always associated with a thought of having something for others as well as yourself.
The following is a list of words generally express the opposite. Poor and poverty, want, need and lack and fail and failure. So we’re talking in terms primarily of abundance. We’re talking in terms of something that does not necessarily indicate the possession of large sums of money or property but something which is the opposite of poor, and poverty, of want, need, and lack and also of fail and failure.
Consider Jesus in His earthly ministry. Jesus exemplified abundance. Many people have failed to see this. They’ve pictured Jesus as poor. In the truest sense, He was not poor. He had abundance. He didn’t have large amounts of cash or material possessions, but He had abundance. He had nowhere to lay His Head but He had abundance. He depended on others to provide Him with a sleeping place. Yet He was never without one. Yet out of that, He was able to feed about 10,000 people, men, women and children with five loaves and two fishes. That’s not poverty. Anybody who can do that is not poor.
Another time when the question arose of His paying tax, instead of sending Peter to the bank with a check, He sent Peter to the Sea of Galilee with a fish hook and said, “Just cast your fish hook in, don’t put a bait on it, just cast the hook in, and take up the first fish that comes, open its mouth; you’ll find the tax money.” Now that’s an unorthodox way to pay your taxes but He wasn’t in need. He had all the money He needed for His taxes. You understand, this is abundance; it’s not necessarily wealth in the normal sense, nor riches, but it’s abundance.
Jesus remarkably enough, imparted this to His disciples. When He sent them out, He said, “Freely, you’ve received; freely give.” He didn’t send them out to get, He sent them out to give.
That’s the essence of abundance. Its ultimate expression is giving, it is having more than enough!
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