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Walking In Abundance- Part 28

November 15, 2026 – 3:16 am

The purpose of FATHER’S abundance is for every good work!

We’ve seen that God’s Abundance is made available to us, as believers, on one basis only—the cross. On the cross, Jesus exhausted the poverty curse that we, in turn, might receive and enjoy God’s abundance.

The outworking of this is summed up by two statements of Paul in Second Corinthians.  Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in  2^nd Corinthians chapter 8:

9: “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.” (NIV)

There’s the exchange in respect to the poverty curse. Jesus became poor with the poverty curse due to us that in return we might inherit the riches due to Him.

And then Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2^nd Corinthians chapter 9:

8 “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.” (NIV)

We see there it’s grace and that the grace of God is abundant—abundant even in the financial realm. And as a result of God’s grace abounding toward us we can live in a condition in which all things, at all times, having all that we need, we may abound to every good work.

There are two important points to note in that verse.  First of all it is all by grace. We cannot earn it but it’s received only through faith. That is always the rule. By grace through faith. The two are always directly related. Grace cannot be earned. It can only be received through faith.

And then the purpose of God’s abundance and this is what I’m going to emphasize. It’s for every good work.  Let’s dwell on this theme: for every good work. It’s not for our own selfish end. It’s not for our own satisfaction or glorification, but it’s for every good work.

I’m going to share with you the various kinds of good works which God makes His abundance available, but today let’s deal specifically with the motives and attitudes we need to cultivate in looking to God for His abundance.

It’s very easy to look to God for His abundance but to have wrong motives and wrong attitudes.

You see, motives and attitudes are a primary importance with God. God doesn’t look at man as man looks at himself or even as we look at one another.

In First Samuel chapter 16 verse 7 the Lord told Samuel something when he came to anoint one of the sons of Jesse to be the future king of Israel. Jesse looked at the first son who was tall and handsome and impressive, and he thought this must be the Lord’s anointed. But the Lord spoke to him and told him something which is of general significance and consequence in all our relationships to men.

“The Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’” (NIV)

That’s at the very essence of what we are talking about. God does not see as man sees.  Man just looks at the outward appearance—he hears the words, he sees the appearance, he forms his conclusions. But the Lord looks right below the surface at a man’s motives and his heart attitude.

You see this can apply, for instance, in the realm of business. Two men may be in the same kind of business, outwardly pursuing the same goals, using the same methods. Outwardly there is nothing to distinguish the one from the other, but inwardly the motives of the one are selfish whereas the other is genuinely concerned with extending God’s Kingdom. So God will withhold abundance from the former—the one whose motives are selfish, but grant it to the latter—the one who sincerely desires the extension of God’s Kingdom. Now there is nothing on the surface that would indicate why God should do that, but God looks below the surface, He looks at the motives and the attitudes of our hearts.

Jesus spoke in Luke chapter 6:

43 “For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

44 For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

FATHER looks at our intent and its outworking in determining our ability to handle greater resources required to establish HIS Kingdom on earth!