In my last teaching, we talked about receiving the life of God: believing with our heart unto righteousness and confessing with our mouth unto salvation (Romans 10:9–10). Today I want to go a step further and look at the fullness of the life we've received.

Here's the foundation. In salvation, God gave you eternal life. That isn't a small, spiritual add-on. It's the full and very life of God Himself. This life enables you to live above sin and all its consequences: sickness, pain, poverty, lack, fear and every negative thing you can think of.

That life is already complete in your spirit, the new man. But you have to live it out through your mind and then your body. That's why the mind must keep being renewed, because other information is always competing for space, trying to choke what you've received in your spirit. And the one agent of that renewal is the Word of God.

A Cup That Runs Over

The scripture I want to build on is John 10:10. Jesus said:

"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."

Notice He didn't stop at "life." He said more abundantly. This isn't being alive for the sake of being alive. It's a full life.

It reminds me of David in Psalm 23: "Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." Picture a cup being filled until it spills. That's the life of God in you. Not a cup that's merely full, but one that overflows, so much that you can bring others into it.

Jesus painted the same picture in John 7:38: "Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." A river flows, and people come to draw from it.

But when I look at how many believers actually live, most have barely got the cup half full in their daily experience, let alone overflowing. In the spirit, the cup is always full. The work is in living that fullness out in every area of life.

Eternal Life Touches Everything

Eternal life is more than prosperity, but it includes prosperity. When Jesus stood up to read in the synagogue, He said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor" (Luke 4:18). The poor were the first He mentioned. Poverty is a problem God wants to deal with.

Even the body matters to God. Paul said "bodily exercise profiteth little" (1 Timothy 4:8). Little, yes, but God still wants you to have that little. He wants you to live a 100% successful life.

Picture God, with all His might and wisdom, living on earth. What would that life look like? We don't have to strain our imagination. Jesus showed us. He commanded authority over water, over the wind, over sickness and over His own body. When tax was due and there was no money, He sent Peter to catch a fish, and in its mouth was the coin to pay it (Matthew 17:27). That's authority over money. That's a life of dominion.

Even Adam had dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air and everything that moves on the earth (Genesis 1:28). The life we have now is greater than Adam's, because it's patterned after Jesus.

One Life, Expressed Like Electricity

This is the part that's hard to explain, so let me use a picture.

God didn't give you one spirit of excellence for your career, another of prosperity for your finances and another of good health for your body. He gave you one life: eternal life. And it works like electricity.

Electricity can flow through an electric guitar and music comes out. Through an air conditioner, and the room gets cool. Through a light bulb, and everywhere is bright. Through your phone, and you can make calls and get online. There's no special "phone electricity" or "light bulb electricity." It's the same power, meeting the demand of whatever is drawing from it.

The limit isn't the electricity. The limit is what's connected to it.

That's how the life of God works in you. Whatever the highest possible standard is in your career, your finances, your health or your character, God has made His life able to meet it. If you haven't reached that point yet, it doesn't mean the power isn't there. It means you haven't drawn enough of it.

Solomon was the wisest man of his time, yet Jesus said, "A greater than Solomon is here" (Matthew 12:42). Jesus walked in that wisdom by the Spirit of God in Him, and that same Spirit is in you. You lack nothing.

A 24/7 Life

Christianity is not a Sunday activity. It's a life and a culture. It covers your thoughts, your words, your actions, your posture and how you treat people, every second of every day. There's no worldview as comprehensive as this.

Scripture says, "As he is, so are we in this world" (1 John 4:17). So your self-esteem comes from Christ. Paul tells us not to think of ourselves more highly than we ought (Romans 12:3), but we also don't think of ourselves as low. We see ourselves as we are: as He is.

And how would Christ carry Himself? Would someone with authority over the whole world shout anyhow, walk anyhow, misbehave anyhow? No. There's an elegance and a grace that comes with this life.

It shows up in the little things. If you walk into a home to share the gospel and children are at the door, greet them. "Hello, how are you? What's your name?" That's Christianity too. "Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt" (Colossians 4:6).

Righteousness is a gift we received. But a gift is meant to be unwrapped and used. We already have everything it takes to live rightly, to relate well with people, to make money, to walk in wisdom. It's a full life. Nothing is left out. God numbers the very hairs of your head (Matthew 10:30). The smallest detail of your life matters to Him.

Excellent in All You Do

So what does this full life look like in a person?

They have a good relationship with God. If they have a skill, they're very good at it. If they're a tailor, the clothes they sew look good. They relate well with people instead of seeing everyone as an enemy. If they speak English, they learn it and speak it well. If they speak Yoruba, they speak it well too. They're not mediocre. If they're a father, they're a good father. If they're a husband, they're a good husband.

Daniel is our example. He was devoted to God, he prayed, and yet the Bible says an excellent spirit was in him (Daniel 6:3). He was skilful in learning, wisdom and languages.

Does that mean you'll never make a mistake? No. When you fall, you get up and keep going, until we all come "unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13). That's the goal. But none of us should become complacent and say, "Only God is perfect."

God told Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect" (Genesis 17:1). God isn't wicked. He wouldn't command what's impossible. And Abraham didn't even have what we have. Today, the very life that makes God who He is lives in you.

Your Takeaway

Pick one area of your life this week: your work, your money, your health or your character. Ask yourself honestly, "Am I drawing the full life of God here, or settling for a half-full cup?" Then go to the Word on that area, renew your mind, and raise your demand. The power isn't the limit.

You didn't receive a small life. You received a full one. Live it.

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Michael Adegoke