Continue Part 1: My Plan for You -- Your Heart’s Desire

Consider the words of Oral Roberts, on this subject of abundant life, spoken of in John 10:10:
“God Desires Biblical Abundance for You, SEED FAITH. As you give your total self to God, God gives His total self to you. That is the supreme message of the Bible. Inherent in God’s ‘total self’ of His own Person is true, Bible-based prosperity – the real possibility of health for your total being (body, mind, emotions, relationships), of your material needs being met. Above all, His prosperity brings eternal life. Stop to think about it. What else is there worth having?”
“ Jesus said that He came to give life – not just ordinary existence, but life in fullness, abundance, and prosperity (3 John 2). On the other hand, the Enemy (Satan) comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. The line is clearly drawn. On one side is God with goodness, life, and “plenty” of all that is necessary for life (see Joel 2:26 and 2 Peter 1:3), and on the other side is the Enemy of our souls, who comes to rob us of God’s blessings, to oppress our bodies through disease and accidents, and to destroy everything that we love and hold dear.”
“Your first step toward experiencing full biblical prosperity is to believe that it is God’s highest desire for you. The next step is to line up your highest desire with His.” (From Spirit Filled Life Bible, “Kingdom Dynamics,” page 1593.)

In order to line up our highest desire with His highest desire for us, we must get to know Him, and His nature, through His Word. Yes, He speaks to us in other ways such as by His Spirit to our own born again spirit. But the only way to prove that “Word from God” and be certain that it really came from God is to see that it lines up with His written Word. Many people take action on what they thought was a “word” from God, to simply later find themselves disillusioned and confused.

We must never forget that Satan, too, does indeed have a plan for each of us and that one of the best ways to begin to walk out Satan’s plan is to walk in our own plan. The road of my own plan will eventually merge right into his road. So many blindly choose this route and then wonder how their life turned out so disappointing. Often they will attribute it simply to “bad luck.” Well, luck has nothing to do with it and the word “luck” is not in my Bible. “Bad luck” is just a commonly used excuse for the consequences of not walking in God’s Truth.

So how can one know this “Truth,” in order to walk in it? Since “Truth” and God’s Word are synonymous, the answers are waiting in the pages of His Scriptures.