Tag: <span>abundant life</span>


“..I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.  I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”’  John 10:10-11

Cora was only fifteen.  But she needed to work to support her widowed mother and family. Three years later her mother died.  Cora worked even harder to keep her five siblings together. One by one they graduated and went off on their own.  Then Cora was alone for the first time in her life.  She felt her purpose for living was gone.

Cora took pills to lift her mood, but her depression got worse.
She gave up on life, overdosed and woke up in the hospital.
By her bedside was a Bible. She began reading the book of John. Cora saw how much God truly loved her. She prayed and gave her burdens and her heart to Jesus.  She left the hospital with a brand new purpose for living!

Oh, friend, God can, and will, give you a new outlook on life.

By Vonette Bright
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Further Reading

•   Father God’s Intimate Love Letter to You
•  God is my Delight
•  Salvation Explained


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We are told that there are things that accompany salvation (Hebrews 6:9). The things that accompany salvation are probably innumerable. Here are but a few.

Abundant life  –  John 10:10
Being sanctified – 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
Christ in us  –  Colossians 1:27
Deliverance from the power of darkness  – Colossians 1:13
Eternal life  – 1 John 5:11
Forgiveness  – 1 John 1:9
God being for us  –  Romans 8:31
Hope  – Acts 24:15
Illumination  –  Hebrews 8:1
Joy and peace  –  Romans 15:13
Knowing the things God has freely given –  1 Corinthians 2:12
Learning Christ  – Ephesians 4:20
Married to Christ  – Romans 7:4
No condemnation  – Romans 8:1
Our names written in Heaven  –  Luke 10:20; Hebrews 12:23
Peace with God  –  Romans 5:1
Qualified to partake of the saints’  inheritance  –  Colossians 1:11-12
Righteousness, peace, and joy –  Romans 14:17
Strength in the inner man  –  Ephesians 3:16; Romans 8:11
Taste of the Lord  –  1 Peter 2:3
Understanding eyes  –  Ephesians 1:18-19
Victory in overcoming the world  –  1 John 5:4-5
Whole armor of God  –  Ephesians 6:11-18
Extra ordinary miracles  –  Acts 19:11
Yearning heart of the Lord  –  Jeremiah 31:20
Zeal for the Lord  –  Roman 12:11

What a joy when our hope is in Christ!

My prayer for you this week

Creator God, thank-you for making the unchanging nature of Your purpose very clear to us by confirming it with an oath. You did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for You to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek. Thank-you, in Jesus name, Amen.”  Hebrews 6:17-20

by Alec Niemi
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