Bring Your “Not Enough” to God

Oct. 17, 2018 | By Creflo Dollar

The world is accustomed to living in lack and insufficiency. Until we got born again, we may have succumbed to that same mindset; now that we’re believers, however, we have access to more than enough resources to experience abundant success on every level. Our old lives may have been characterized by never having enough of what we needed, but we exchanged those lives for brand new ones. When God blessed us and said, “Bring your ‘not enough’ to Me,” everything radically changed for the better.

Because of what Jesus did, we never again have to suffer under the curse of poverty, lack, or insufficiency. During His earthly ministry, whenever Jesus showed up, multiplication and increase followed. It happened during a wedding when there was no wine (John 2:3, 7, 9, 10), when He was preaching and the multitudes had no food (John 6:11-13), when the disciples were fishing but couldn’t catch anything (John 21:6), and when there was no money to pay taxes (Matthew 17:27). These manifestations continue today when we accept by faith what God wants to provide for us.

As Christians, one of the biggest challenges we face in learning to think differently from the rest of the world is the fact that we’re now children of a God who has no limits, barriers, or boundaries. What is impossible in the natural is entirely possible in the supernatural. “Jesus said to him, ‘If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes’ ” (Mark 9:23, NKJV). There’s no lack or insufficiency in heaven; therefore, we don’t have to tolerate it in our lives on earth.

Whatever it is we need, God can create it out of nothing. We can work hard to accomplish something through our own efforts, but unless He’s involved, nothing will happen. Regardless of whether we’re working as a team or individually, asking the Holy Spirit for His help and guidance in what we’re trying to build, grow, or create gives us success. “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase” (1 Corinthians 3:6, 7).

It’s not God’s will that we struggle with financial issues. Through Him, we’re empowered to experience prosperity. “And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19, NLT). When religion says that Christians are supposed to be poor, God says that He’s already put in us the ability to lay hold of what we need. “But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day” (Deuteronomy 8:18).

The abundance God wants for us extends to other areas, as well. When the world has no peace or joy, we have plenty of it. We also have good health, deliverance from trouble, and everything else that makes life sweet. “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

We have everything we need in Christ. The world doesn’t understand this, but it’s something we can depend on. When others wonder if their efforts will be enough, we know that Jesus is more than enough for us.

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