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Hello Everyone,

This week we are continuing in our series “Having Your Cake and Eating it Too” secrets for abundant living.

Remember that this whole series is based on 3 very important principles.
1. God has a plan for your life - Jeremiah 29:11 says “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”.

2. There is a battle engaged for your life - Jesus said in John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”

3. Too many of God’s people are losing the battle - Marriages, children, finances, life. Matthew 9:36 - “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.”

Over the last 4 weeks we have looked together at our first seven ingredients.
• 4 Questions - Who are you? What are you? Where are you? What do you really want?
• It’s your recipe. Own It! Take responsibility for and control of your life.
• Embrace Positive Change!
• Make a Plan!
• Work your Plan!
• Start with the Spiritual
• Do it Gods way - you can’t cheat and win.

We are almost there - at least we’re headed down the home stretch. Today I want to share with you the next secret for Having Your Cake And Eating It Too. “All You can Eat”!

John 10:7-15 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

¹¹ “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. ¹² But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. ¹³ The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. ¹⁵ As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. NKJV

Abundantly (Perissos in the Greek)- means both superabundant in quantity but also superior in quality.

Next Ingredient – “All You Can Eat” - What does it mean to live a life of abundance?

When Jesus says to us that He came that we might have life and have that life abundantly - what does He mean?

The world around us defines abundance in fortune and fame. In fact the church has even gotten into the act. We are Going to Redefine Abundance.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil