Walking In Abundance- Part 13
October 27, 2026 – 3:47 amIn order to walk in abundance, we must have the correct focus and mindset!
I’ve written on four principles from God’s Word on which our faith for abundance must be based.
The first principle—God’s provision is in His promises.
The second—The promises are our inheritance.
The third—All God’s promises are now available to us through Christ. And you’ll remember I emphasized three short, important words, “all, now, and us.” All God’s promises are now available to us through Christ.
Fourth, the promises are the expression of God’s Will. God never promised to do something that it was not His will to do.
There is one more vital principle connected with God’s promises. This is the fifth principle. It is this: The fulfillment of God’s promises does not depend upon our circumstances but upon our meeting God’s conditions.
Here is where so many people miss out. They find the promises. They set out to claim their inheritance. They find something tremendous and wonderful that God has promised and they’re all excited and enthused, and then they look at their conditions and their circumstances, and they say, “Well, God couldn’t do it in this situation, my situation’s too difficult; of course, God really intends to do that, but in my particular situation, it just wouldn’t be possible.” That’s one big mistake that we continually make. Instead of focusing on the promises, we turn away and look at the situation and so we miss out on the promises.
Often, we do not need to try and make things easy for God. God wants to work in such a way that the glory goes only to HIM. I have pointed out more than once:
The purpose of God’s promises and the purpose of God’s abundance is His glory and in a certain sense, the more impossible it is, the more the glory goes to God.
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Judges chapter 6:
11 The Angel of YAHWEH came to the village of Ophrah and sat down under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was secretly threshing some wheat in a winepress so that the Midianites would not see him.
12 YAHWEH’s Angel suddenly appeared to Gideon and said, “YAHWEH’s presence goes with you, man of fearless courage!”
13 “Me?” Gideon replied. “But sir, if YAHWEH is truly with us, why have all these troubles come to us? Where are all his miracle-wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, ‘Did not YAHWEH deliver us out of Egypt?’ But now YAHWEH has abandoned us and put us under the power of the Midianites.”
14 Then YAHWEH Himself faced Gideon directly and said, “Am I not sending you? With My Presence you have all you need. Go in the strength that you now have and rescue Israel from Midian’s power!”
15 Gideon said to him, “But Lord, how could I ever rescue Israel? Of all the thousands in Manasseh, my clan is the weakest, and I’m the least qualified in my family.”
16 YAHWEH replied, “My Presence and My Power will be with you. Believe Me, Gideon, you will crush the Midianites as easily as if they were only one man!”
Now consider God’s dealings with Gideon to assure that GOD will receive the glory and no other. Gideon started out with 32,000 men to fight the Midianites and God said, “You’ve got too many men, let some of them go, if they’re afraid, let them go because if you win the battle with 32,000, people will say Israel did it by their own power. So, Gideon said, “Well, if there are any people that are afraid, let them go home.” 10,000 went, 22,000 were left. God said, “There’s still too many, take them down to the brook and let them drink, and the ones that lap like a dog; they’re the ones you can take.” Only 300 met that condition. So from 32,000
God whittled the army down to 300 because HE wanted the glory for Himself. He wanted to exclude the possibility that Israel had done it without God.
Another example is Elijah calling down fire on his sacrifice on Mount Carmel in 1st Kings chapter 18. The odds were 450 to 1. Elijah didn’t call down fire on a dry sacrifice. He went out of his way to wet it and he not only wet it once or twice, he drenched it in water three times until the whole sacrifice was drenched. Water was in the trench all around it; it was as wet as anything could ever be. But when the fire fell from Heaven, it burned up the sacrifice, the dust, the stones, the water in the trench.
God didn’t need Elijah to make it easy and Elijah knew that. He deliberately made it difficult. He wanted the Israelites to know God did this; it’s not something that man could do.
We must not focus on our ability and circumstances; we are to focus on HIS Word and promises knowing that HE will bring HIS Word to pass!
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