Continue Part 1: "God's Will for Me - My Heart's Desire"

Again, look at Jesus’ words in John 10:10: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” Satan is a thief and the enemy of God. He hates and wants to destroy anything that God loves. Anyone or anything that is the enemy of God is also the enemy of those who are God’s sons and daughters. Satan hates God, therefore he hates us (Christians) and we can rest assured that he wants to steal us, if he can. If he cannot do that, then he wants to kill us. If that does not work for him, he wants to destroy us. A thief robs and Satan is the master thief. When a person is “born again,” he or she moves from Satan’s kingdom into God’s kingdom and becomes a child of God rather than a child of the devil. If Satan cannot have a person’s soul, he then alters his plan from taking his soul to taking his life -- that is to literally kill him or to rob that Christian of the abundant life that his Heavenly Father wants to give each of His children.

Before going further, let’s look at the definition of “abundant” in the Greek. Strong’s #4053, “peissos,” means “Superabundant, excessive, over flowing, surplus.” Thayer’s Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament adds to Strong’s definition, “super added,” “beyond measure,” “exceedingly abundantly.” WOW! These are words that God plans and wants us to be able to use to describe our lives! The recipe for this life in abundance is to give our hearts and lives to Christ Jesus and then to know His Word and to do it. God’s Word is given to us to light our way through the abundant life.

I am not saying that being a believer causes one to be immune to problems and trials. Again, we must know what God says about that. Through His dear Son, He said: “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.” John 16:33. In other words, we are all guaranteed trials, but we believers have the hope and confidence that Christ, who dwells in us, has overcome them all. Therefore we have the means within to overcome all negatives that come our way.