THE PATH TO OVERFLOW
Philippians
3:13
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended;
but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching
forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the
goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
I.
GOD IS PRO-OVERFLOW.
Joel
2:20-26
20“But I will remove far from you the northern army, And
will drive him away into a barren and desolate land, With his face toward the
eastern sea And his back toward the western sea; His stench will come up, And
his foul odor will rise, Because he has done monstrous things.”21Fear
not, O land; Be glad and rejoice, For the Lord
has done marvelous things!22Do not be afraid, you beasts of the
field; For the open pastures are springing up, And the tree bears its fruit;
The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.23Be glad then, you
children of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord
your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause
the rain to come down for you—The former rain, And the latter rain in the first
month.24The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats
shall overflow with new wine and oil.25“So I will restore to you the
years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming
locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.26You
shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, And praise the name of the Lord your God, Who has dealt wondrously
with you; And My people shall never be put to shame.
Psalm 23:5
5 Thou
preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:Thou anointest my
head with oil; my cup runneth over
Deuteronomy 8:6-19
6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and
to fear Him. 7 For the Lord
your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of
fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; 8 a
land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of
olive oil and honey; 9 a land in which you will eat bread
without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron
and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 10 When you have
eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord
your God for the good land which He has given you.11 “Beware
that you do not forget the Lord
your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which
I command you today, 12 lest—when you have eaten and are full,
and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; 13 and when
your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are
multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14 when your
heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord
your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 who
led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery
serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought
water for you out of the flinty rock; 16 who fed you in the
wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble
you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end—17 then
you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this
wealth.’18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get
wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as
it is this day. 19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget
the Lord your God, and follow
other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day
that you shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall
perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
2 Corinthians 9:8
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you,
that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance
for every good work
II.
IT DOESN’T TAKE LONG TO GO FROM ____ TO _________
Matthew 14:19-21
19 And
he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves,
and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave
the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. 20 And
they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that
remained twelve baskets full. 21 And they that had eaten were
about five thousand men, beside women and children.
2
Kings 6:24-30
2 Kings 7:1-8
Then Elisha said, “Hear
the word of the Lord. Thus says the
Lord: ‘Tomorrow about this time a
seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a
shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’ ” 2 So an officer on
whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could
this thing be?”And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you
shall not eat of it.”
The
Syrians Flee
3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the
gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? 4 If
we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die
there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender
to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they
kill us, we shall only die.” 5 And they rose at twilight to go
to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the
Syrian camp, to their surprise no one was there. 6 For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians
to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses—the noise of a great
army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against
us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!” 7 Therefore
they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact—their tents, their
horses, and their donkeys—and they fled for their lives. 8 And
when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent
and ate and drank, and carried from it silver and gold and clothing, and went
and hid them; then they came back and entered another tent, and carried some
from there also, and went and hid it.
Amos
9:11-13
11“On
that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And
repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of
old;12That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the
Gentiles who are called by My name,” Says the Lord
who does this thing.13“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “When the plowman shall overtake
the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed; The mountains shall
drip with sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.
III.
OUR GOAL IS OVERFLOW IN ALL AREAS.
1.
______________
2.
Physical
(Health).
3.
Financial.
4.
Career.
5.
Lifestyle
(Rest/Relaxation).
6.
Mental
(Personal Development).
7.
______________
8.
Relationships.
IV.
THE PATH TO OVERFLOW IN ALL AREAS.
Philippians 3:13
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended;
but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching
forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the
goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
1. You must count ___________.
Count - logízomai - to put together with one’s mind, to
count, to occupy oneself with reckonings or calculations.
2.
You can’t count yourself as having
arrived.
Apprehend = katalambánō
- to take. To apprehend, attain, obtain, find.
3. You
must ____________
4. You
must Keep Reaching.
Reaching – epekteínō
- to extend; to spread; to grow,
increase; to advance.
5.
You must go after it.
Press -To prosecute, persecute, pursue with repeated acts
of enmity
6.
You must know _________- ________ is.
Goal/Mark – The point aimed at
7.
You must Aim for the Prize.
Prize - to assign the prize in a public game. A prize
such as a wreath or garland bestowed on victors in the contests of the Greeks
8.
You must do it ALL for _________ Glory
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