1. How to get hold of abundant life;- 1 Chronicles 4:10; Courage to change.

John 10:10; A promise. Matthew 6:33; A relationship needed & priority must be right.

Jeremiah 17:7-8; Unwavering trust & hope.

Proverbs 22:4; Humility and fear of the Lord have a lot to do with abundant life.

‘The thief does not come except to steal, to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.’

1. Is promised not in the absence of adversity.

a. Adversity will always be part of life.

• John 16:33 ‘These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.’

1. Is promised not in the absence of adversity.

b. We will always have a choice.• John 16:33 ‘These things I have

spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.’

2. Is to live within our limitation.a. To acknowledge the need of God.• Deuteronomy 8:18 ‘And you shall

remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.’

2. Is to live within our limitation.

b. To constantly depend on God.

c. John 15:5 ‘I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruits, for without Me you can do nothing.’

3. Is designed for a greater cause.a. Start with correcting our theology• John 9:1-3 Now as Jesus passed

by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ Jesus answered, ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.’

3. Is designed for a greater cause.

b. To fulfill God’s covenant

• Deut 8:18 ‘ for it is He who gives you the power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.’

• Genesis 12:3 ‘ .. and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

• A promise with challenges.

• A life of dependence.

• A call to significance .