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Walking In Abundance- Part 16

October 31, 2026 – 3:20 am

We are meant to walk in abundance, but there are conditions!

King David wrote by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 34:

9 Fear the Lord, you His saints; For to those who fear Him there is no lack of anything.

10 The young lions do without and suffer hunger; But they who seek the Lord will not lack any good thing.

And in Psalm chapter 84:

11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

There are three conditions found in the above.  

The first condition is fear the Lord;

The second, seek the Lord;

The third, walk uprightly.

I suggest to you actually, the second and third conditions flow out of the first. The first is the basic one. If we fear the Lord, it will be natural to us to seek the Lord and to walk uprightly. But those are the three conditions: fear the Lord, seek the Lord and walk uprightly.

Any preacher who tells you that you’ll not want any good thing without qualifying it, without impressing upon you the conditions that God has laid down in His Word, is really not doing you a service.

Because you’ll start out with the impression that everything is going to be fine and you find out, after a little while, everything is far from fine. But don’t blame God. You may perhaps, blame the preacher, but you must really accept the responsibility yourself. You tried to claim the promise without examining and fulfilling the conditions.

We need to understand that there are two ways in which a thing may be good. And I think many, many Christians do not understand this and consequently they’re frustrated and they think that something’s gone wrong.

A “thing” may be good in itself—what I would call in philosophic terms “essentially good”—in itself a thing is good, period. But this still leaves open the possibility that though the thing is good in itself, I call it essentially good, it may not be good for me in my particular situation. That’s what I call “relatively good.”

So, if you can accept this kind of terminology, a thing may be essentially good and yet may not be relatively good for me in my particular situation.

Consider this example. A very wealthy man has a teenage son. The teenage son has an ambition to own one of the latest, most powerful and most expensive sports car. Now, the father is perfectly well able to buy the son the car but he knows that the son’s character is not fully developed. He’s unstable, he’s emotional, he wants to impress his girlfriends and if he gets that car, it’s more than probable he’ll end up in a wreck. And so, the father, who’s wealthy and can easily afford the car, in fact, he could afford ten cars like that, nevertheless, when his son says, “Dad, give me this car for my birthday, my sixteenth birthday.” The father says, “No.” Now, in the terminology we’re using, that very expensive sports car is essentially good. It’s beautifully manufactured, it’s beautifully put together, it’s very smart and attractive—it’s essentially good. But for that son, at his age development, with his emotional instability, though it’s essentially good, it’s not relatively good. Because if it’s put in his hands, without him being properly disciplined and trained and matured, it will be an instrument of destruction and not of good.

When we say God will withhold no good thing from us, it’s not enough to know that the thing is essentially good, we also have to know that it’s relatively good for us in our condition. Otherwise, God may act like the father of the son who wanted the sports car and say, “My son, I could afford ten. There’s no problem about my being able to afford it. I’ve got all the sports cars in the world at my disposal. But if you’re going to destroy yourself with it, then I’m going to withhold it from you.”

So you’ve got to bear in mind that when God says He will withhold no good thing, we’ve got to view it two ways: Is it essentially good? Is it relatively good?

The three conditions stated earlier point to one thing: being spiritually mature!