Power Of All Sufficiency

Key Scripture:  “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”  
2 Corinthians 9:8 NSFB

Power Point:

Have you ever meditated on this verse?  It’s been front and center in my thoughts for the last few months.  It’s really good news isn’t it?  Can you imagine that God could actually be powerful enough to make sure that you would ALWAYS have ALL SUFFICIENCY, in ALL things?  Wow. 

     The unfortunate thing is that sometimes we put a period after “all things” where God only puts a comma. The purpose of having “all sufficiency” in “all things” is that we may have ”abundance” for every good work. Ephesians 2:10 says, “that God has prepared those good works for us.” He gives to us from His goodness for us to do good!

 In verse 10 Paul continues in that thought when he says that God who supplies your seed to sow and bread for food, will supply and multiply the seed you have already sown so that when WE give liberally, people will praise and thank God.

In fact, if this plan works as it is supposed to, there will be an abundance of people giving thanks to Him.

    We sow from a place of safety in Him.  We sow from a place of belief in His generous kindness to us by making His grace abound to us so that we can be like Him to the nth degree. We are the evidence that He is good, kind, generous, loving, faithful, comforting and always , inclined to bless.

As I was thinking about all this the other day, the Holy Spirit showed me a picture of a lady with her fists full of money.  They were so full that she couldn’t hold them all and some of the bills were dropping to the ground.

As I looked more closely, I could see a circle of people around her feet.  They were quite small; they didn’t even come up to her ankles. They are all looking up at her, waiting, hopeful.

On her face is the most determined look. When I asked God why the people looked so small, He said that, in her mind, her problems were bigger than theirs.  She was so occupied with herself, and her own provision that she didn’t see other people with needs. The look on her face was more than determined. It was also full of fear, and greed, and selfishness. She’s been blessed with sufficiency. She has the money, but she is not sharing the wealth.

     I have a question for you.  Are you using too much of what God has given you for yourself?  I heard a pastor say once that too often we “eat the seed” God sows for us to be generous with. He supplies the seed as a means for your good works to increase, and for your life to be living proof that God is a generous, and good God. Understand this, please; God gives us ALL things richly to enjoy. He loves to see us enjoy ourselves with His extravagance. However, His gifts are not for us alone. They are meant to be shared liberally.       One thing I’ve learned is that when He is working to complete the good work He has begun in me, I’m usually tested, (okay, ALWAYS tested), on the Word that He is teaching me.  In this case, I’ll see a need in someone else’s life, which I can ignore or attend to.  I can be like the lady who really has fistfuls of dollars, but is afraid that if she spends it, there won’t be enough for her. The truth is she will always have enough if she trusts Him to be her provision.  It doesn’t matter how small the amount is that you give, it is the giving that is the blessing. He promises that if we GIVE, He will give back to us, pressed down, shaken together, and POURED out, in abundance. 

Isn’t that a lovely plan?

Are you up for the challenge?

Power Thought:

"Giving is true having."  Charles Spurgeon.

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