From Running Out to Running Over 3
We started a series 2 weeks ago called…From Running out to Running Over. I trust it has been a blessing to you. If you missed any of the two, please visit our website and listen to the audio file online. Or it’s also still available on Facebook and YouTube. Go and listen to it so that you can understand it in context of what I am saying.
Our Foundational Scripture has been…
Luke 6:38 NKJV
Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.
Psalm 23:5 NKJV
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.
That is God’s will for you. For your cup to run over and For His blessings to overtake you.
Say that: “My cup is running over. God’s blessings are coming upon me and overtaking me”.
The aim of the past two messages and today’s is to show you that you have a covenant of prosperity with Almighty God, with El-Shaddai, the God who is more than enough. The past 2 weeks we looked at how the covenant prospered Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.
Let’s talk about you and see how the covenant will prosper you.
Galatians 3:29 NKJV
And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
So whatever God promised to Abraham and his descendants, he promised and gave to you
because you are Abrahams famous descendant. Now go with me just a few verses further
up in Galatians 3 and let’s see what we’ve been redeemed from and what we’ve been
redeemed into.
Galatians 3:13-14 NKJV
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
We have been redeemed from the curse to the Blessing of Abraham. Notice Christ has redeemed us. Past tense. What did Christ redeem us from? Poverty, sickness and the second death. Christ has redeemed us, delivered us, set us free from the curse of poverty. The blessing of Abraham has come upon us. The blessing of Abraham belongs to us.
Understand that Poverty is a curse – not a blessing
The curse of poverty should have come upon us all, Jews and Gentiles alike. But Galatians 3:13 tells us that instead of the curse coming upon us, Jesus was made to be a curse for us. Isn’t that good news. Praise God. He took our sin and in
exchange made us righteous. He took our sickness and in exchange, He healed us. He took our poverty and in exchange, He made us rich. Jesus didn’t go to the cross for Himself – He did it for us! The curse fell on Him instead of upon us. He bore the curse for us so we wouldn’t have to. Jesus became our substitute and paid the debt for our sins through His death on the Cross. And God wrote it down as though we had paid the debt for sin ourselves! Now because of Jesus, we are free from the curse of the Law – and that includes the curse of poverty!
2 Corinthians 8:9 NKJV
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
It’s amazing how many Christians are trying to become what they already are.
Became poor in the Greek…
Means “to be destitute, to be poor as a beggar, to be reduced to extreme
poverty. The word suggests the bottom rung of poverty, a situation in which
one is totally lacking in this world’s goods.”
That is what Jesus redeemed us from. He took our place so that we don’t have to be destitute anymore, poor as beggars, lacking in this worlds goods. Amen. Thank God we are not poor anymore. We are not beggars anymore.
Say…”Poor no more”
We are not reduced to extreme poverty anymore; we have been elevated to extreme prosperity. We believe we receive an extreme prosperity makeover. We talking about you now. If you are born again, you are Abrahams famous descendant and you have an inheritance that Jesus purchased and obtained for you at Calvary. The same covenant that prospered Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph will prosper you.
Luke 16:19-21 NKJV
19. There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously (means lived in luxury) every day.
20. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,
21. desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table.
Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
WE are the rich man and WE are the ones who are supposed to live in luxury every day. He desired crumbs. If you desire crumbs, that’s what you will get. No! Desire to sit at the rich man’s table. You see, if you see yourself as a beggar, then you will attract dogs. You will attract poverty. No, see yourself as rich. See yourself as having more than enough. See yourself living in luxury every day. See yourself having the best. The Father of the prodigal son said that they must put the BEST robe on him.
God gives us richly all things to enjoy.
I Timothy 6:17 NKJV
Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
The way you see yourself, is the way other people will see you. You have to see
yourself as blessed, as rich, as prosperous, before others will see you that way.
“Oh Pastor, I will believe it when I see it”. How much money do you have to have in
