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January 5, 2024 · 5:30 AM

I’ve seen several people and churches ask, “What is your word of the year?” I love reading the comments on posts like this to see what people are seeking. One comment that stuck out to me was the word “more”. I couldn’t help but think how we could all use more of what God has for us. I need more of His grace. I want more of His blessings. I crave more of His presence. More is a great word and God has more to give you this year and throughout your life. Don’t settle for less than what God has for you. The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy, but Jesus came to give you life MORE abundantly. Pray today and ask God to give you more of what He wants to give you.

Here are some Bible verses on things God wants to give you more of.

1. But he continues to pour out MORE and MORE grace upon us. For it says, “God resists you when you are proud but continually pours out grace when you are humble.”

James 4:6 TPT

2. Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly MORE than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 3:20-21 AMP

3. For to everyone who has [and values his blessings and gifts from God, and has used them wisely], MORE will be given, and [he will be richly supplied so that] he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have [because he has ignored or disregarded his blessings and gifts from God], even what he does have will be taken away.

Matthew 25:29 AMP

4. May God give you MORE and MORE mercy, peace, and love.

Jude 1:2 NLT

5. Yes, God is MORE than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have MORE than enough of everything —every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do.

2 Corinthians 9:8 TPT

What would you like MORE of from God this year?

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July 22, 2019 · 5:56 AM

Spilling God’s Love

One of the toughest things Jesus told us to do was in Matthew 5:44. He said, “I say to you, love your enemy, bless the one who curses you, do something wonderful for the one who hates you, and respond to the very ones who persecute you by praying for them” (TPT). I have to tell you, that goes against everything that I want to do in those situations. The easiest thing to do is to hate the person who hates you, curse the person who curses you, yell at the person who hates you and to fight anyone who comes against you. That’s the way I’m wired anyway. The things Jesus is asking us to do here goes against my nature.

I believe God asks us to act this way because we are to be a reflection of Him and who He is. When we are full of ourselves, and someone does something to us, it’s who we are on the inside that spills out onto them. When we replace who we are with who God is inside us, our reactions change. Everywhere we go, we will be spilling God’s love onto anyone who runs into us. The hardest part of being a Christian, is getting rid of all my selfish desires so that I can be filled with more of who He is, but that is God’s desire for each one of us. It’s a constant battle, but it’s one our spirit must be victorious in.

For many of us, we view God as the person we are when someone cuts us off on the road. He’s angry and out for payback. What Jesus said gives us insight into what God is like. Psalm 145:8 does as well. It says, “You’re kind and tenderhearted to those who don’t deserve it and very patient with people who fail you. Your love is like a flooding river overflowing its banks with kindness.” God isn’t angry and out to get us when we mess up. Like a good father, He’s kind and does everything He can to help us succeed at being more like He is. He’s patient with us in our failures as well. As we get to know Him more, He will become increasingly more evident in our life through our responses to people.

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