Already Provided
“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
Whenever God calls us to a specific work, he also makes provision for everything we need to accomplish it. He makes all grace abound to us so that in all sufficiency, we may have an abundance for every good work.
This verse is not just a hope; it is a promise! It begins with the words, “God is able”!
God is not interested in just meeting your needs. He always wants to give you more than you need. That is what ‘abound’ means, an ever-increasing, super-abundant supply.
“Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” Ephesians 3:20.
Think of what is being promised here. When you are down and tired and don’t think you can go any further, God is able to so invigorate you that you will have all you need in every possible situation at all times.
It is as if the Lord is saying, “Listen, all you who faithfully attend my house and labour in prayer, the word, praise and intercession. I want to give you an abundance of strength, hope, joy, peace, rest, finances, encouragement and wisdom. In fact, I want you to have an overabundance of all you need.”
God never intended us to be poor in the things of the Lord. On the contrary, he wants us to enjoy all the great provisions he has prepared for us.
The Bible says, “Now we have received…the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual” 1 Corinthians 2:12-13.
We need to lay hold of His promises and say, “Lord, Your Word says I must know all these things that are freely given to me so that I can claim them for your glory!” Dear Lord, reveal to me what you have prepared! Open my mind and my spirit to your resources in Jesus Christ name, Amen.