What if He promised you a life so full
of supernatural abundance that people
wandering around in the wilderness of this
world could see His amazing power and
lovingkindness just by looking at you?
That sounds like a wonderful life, doesn't
it? Some people would even say it sounds
too good to be true. Yet, according to the
Bible, it's the plan of God for every one of His
children. It was His plan in the beginning
when He BLESSED Adam and put him in
the Garden of Eden. It was His plan when
He made covenant with Abraham and
promised to BLESS him and his seed; and it
was His plan when He said to us in the book
of Isaiah: "Hearken to me, ye that follow
after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD:
look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and
to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto
Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone,
and blessed him, and increased him. For the
LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort
all her waste places; and he will make her
wilderness like Eden, and her desert like
the garden of the LORD" (Isaiah 51:1-3).
"But Brother Copeland," you might say,
"those verses are in the Old Testament.
They're talking about God's plan for the
Jews and for Israel."
They're also talking to us as believers.
According to the New Testament, Abraham
is our father too (Romans 4:16). We're his
seed and heirs of what God promised him
(Galatians 3:29). We're citizens of Zion, the
city of the living God (Hebrews 12:22).
What if God invited you to
live in a Garden of Eden...
not just someday in heaven
in the sweet by-and-by, but
right here on earth in the
rotten here and now?
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by Kenneth Copeland
