ABUNDANT LIFE.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy but I came that you may have and enjoy life and have it in abundance...............................The word of God is a prophetic picture that shows the end from the beginning. In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth with Light, firmament, green vegetation, waters(seas, oceans, rivers, lakes etc) and animals. As if this was not enough, God also created man in His image and after His own likeness. In fact, He breathed into a moulded clay and His breath(Spirit) gave rise to man and man became a living being. Man was superior to every living thing that had breath that existed because of the spirit, soul and body that man had. God blessed man with fruitfulness and multiplication and granted him inexplicable dominion over all things. Everything on earth was subject to man`s dominion and man had authority, prestige, power, dominion and beauty until the robber(the devil) showed up. The robber is good at selling lies to take his victims captive. If we can successfully counter the devil`s lies with the truth of God`s word, we will never fall captive to his lies but we cannot overcome his lies if we are not conversant with the truth of God`s word as contained in the Holy Bible. The truth of God`s word given to man in the beginning was that man must not eat of the fruit of a particular tree called the tree of life but when the thief came to man, he sold a lie to him that if man could eat of that fruit, man would be exactly like God and that nothing would happen to him. When man accepted the lie, man fell flat completely and lost all the glory, beauty, dominion and colour that God gave him in the beginning as he was spiritually dead and a spiritually dead man cannot access the treasures of the promises of God. So the devil stole the dominion, authority, beauty and colour of man. He killed man spiritually as man lost contact and fellowship with God and he finally destroyed man as man was sent out from the garden of pleasure/dominion and was reduced to nothingness by depending on the sweat of his brow for survival which was not so in the beginning at the garden of pleasure. But the story did not end there as Jesus came. Jesus...the Son of God born of a woman and coming after the order of the flesh came to showcase the kind of dominion that Adam showcased in the garden of Eden. He exhibited dominion over the fish of the sea, the fig-tree, the waves of the sea, demons and agents of darkness and He worked in supernatural prosperity. He sacrificed His life to reconcile man to God and to recover all that the devil stole from man and to take man back to the state that he was in the beginning at the garden of pleasure. His sacrificed LIFE gave LIFE to the stolen, killed, destroyed, battered, tattered, buffeted life that man inherited from the devil and in turn gave man abundant life of dominion, prestige, beauty, colour, fruitfulness, joy, abundance, health and prosperity. He that will enjoy the abundant life that Christ has to offer must of a necessity believe and accept all that Christ did for him/her on the cross of Calvary and he/she must be a fanatical follower of Christ in giving attention to His words as written in the Holy Bible. The devil is eternally defeated as far as Heaven is concerned. With his eyes wide open, Christ went down to hell and stripped him naked of all powers and dominions and authorities and splendor and he is left with nothing except LIES. He is still in the business of selling lies to people especially believers because he wants to steal from them, kill them spiritually and eventually destroy them in hell. The only way a believer can continue to silence the devil is to be a studious reader of God`s word in order to locate what Christ has done for him/her via redemption. The devil is still selling lies to some Christians that they will continue to live a sickly life when the word states clearly that...He took away our infirmities and carried away our sickness so that by His stripes we have been healed. The devil is also selling lies to some Christians that they will die barren not having the children of their own when the word states clearly that...Be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth. Kings and nations shall come and proceed out of your stock. He is also selling lies to some people that they may not live long due to untimely death when the word says that...With long life will I satisfy you and show you my Salvation. A child among them shall die a hundred years old. You shall come to your grave in old age just like a shock of grain goes up in its season. The devil is still going about aimlessly selling lies of failure, depression, poverty etc to Christians when Christ has made provisions for them. The unfortunate thing about this cycle is that when the devil`s lies are believed and accepted as true, he will go ahead to steal all that Christ has done for the believer. If he succeeds in stealing all that Christ has done for the believer, he will proceed to kill and destroy that precious life. On the other side of the coin, if a Christian accepts and believes all that Christ did for him/her in redemption, sooner or later, he/she will start to see the fruits of redemption in his/her life. The fruits of redemption includes health/healing, fruitfulness in all of life`s ramifications, success, joy, dominion, prosperity, beauty, colour, prestige etc. May your life spring forth with the full blessedness of redemption having surrendered your life to the AUTHOR OF LIFE Himself....Christ Jesus and having escaped the yoke/bondage of the devil that is in our world through multifaceted LIES/DECEPTION. I see your life springing forth with divine blessings, peace, joy, prosperity and colour as you follow Christ fanatically by obeying His words as contained in the Scriptures. It is well with you!