Abundant Provider: Living in the Fullness of El Shaddai

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Good morning. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. This morning, I’m going to continue sharing with you a message that I preached in one of our Victorious Faith services called, Who Do You Say That I Am? My Abundant Provider. So join me now in our live service for the continuation of this message. Who Do You Say That I Am? My Abundant Provider. So he said, I will multiply thee exceedingly might with abundance, muchness greatly and very greatly to a great degree with muchness. Glory to God. And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful. I will make you abundantly fruitful, greatly very fruitful with muchness. Hallelujah. That’s right. Amen. Praise the Lord. Glory to God. Hallelujah. So God was saying to Abraham, I am El Shaddai, the breasty one, the one who nourishes and fully satisfies, who multiplies you and makes you fruitful. This is my covenant with you. If you walk before me uprightly and blamelessly, because in the Hebrew… I mean, in the English it says perfect, in the King James, God doesn’t expect you to be perfect, like flawless. What it means is wholehearted, fully committed, fully devoted. So it’s upright and blameless or wholehearted, fully committed, fully devoted. You walk before me, this is your part. A covenant has two sides. Your part, my part. His part, our part. His part, or he first says, this is my covenant, this is your part. You walk uprightly before me, wholeheartedly, devotedly, committing to me completely and fully. And my part, I will multiply you exceedingly and make you exceedingly fruitful with muchness, greatly and abundantly fruitful with muchness. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And as I’m sharing on the radio program that a lot of the Old Testament promises are, God says, if you’ll walk before me uprightly and if you’ll obey me and keep my laws, I’ll multiply you. I’ll prosper you. I’ll make you rich. I’ll make you fruitful. So abundance and prosperity are all through the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, connected to our walking before him uprightly and fully committed and obedient to him. One of our rewards in this lifetime is abundance and fruitfulness and multiplication and richness and muchness. Amen. That’s our reward in this life for serving him. And then along with that goes long life. And long life has to include healing because you have to get healed. Everybody’s going to have to swat down a germ now and then or a COVID now and then and swat it down and go on and be healed and live long. Right? So everybody is going to have to swat down some germs and And be healed to live long. So it includes healing. Long life. So he says, I’ll prosper you and give you long life. And the third reward is honor. And I don’t have all the scriptures, but there’s a list of scriptures. You can look them up. If you obey me, if you walk before me, if you keep my commands, I’ll prosper you. I’ll give you long life and I’ll give you honor. Prosper, long life, and honor. Prosper, you’ll prosper, have long life and honor. Those are God’s rewards. He says, this is what I’ll do for you. And besides that, you get to go to heaven when you’re done. But in this life, you’ll still prosper, have long life and honor. Those are the rewards for serving him. Praise the Lord. And with muchness. Praise the Lord. With muchness, with abundance, with fruitfulness, fruitful multiplication. Amen? Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. So this name of God, El Shaddai, declares that God is the one, the breasty one, who makes us exceedingly fruitful. It is his bountiful goodness. So as you walk with God wholeheartedly, he will abundantly supply all of your needs and desires with muchness. Glory to God. And that goes right along with Philippians 4.19. But my God shall supply how many? All your needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. And you can just put in parentheses with muchness. I like that word. I’m going to use that. With muchness. You like, say, I’d like some ketchup, please, with muchness, or give me a little bit of dressing there with muchness. People will look at you like, what are you saying? It’s our new word, muchness, all right? God will supply all your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Glory to God. And also, this scripture is a picture of El Shaddai. And in the Greek, the word supply is an awesome word. You need to look these words up in the dictionaries. They are powerful. They are amazing. The word supply, you just look up that word, my God shall supply. This is what it means. to make full, to fill up, to fill to the full, to cause to abound, to furnish or supply, not just a little bit, just enough to get by. No, liberally, liberally, to fill to the top so that nothing shall be wanting to full measure, fill to the brim, cram full, and then to complete, finish, and bring to an end. That’s what the word supply means. I mean, you’ve got a little, what, six-letter word there, supply. And it means God will supply. He’ll make full, fill up, fill to the full, cause to abound, furnish and supply liberally so that nothing is wanting to full measure, fill to the brim, cram full, complete, finish, and bring to an end all of your needs. Woo! Hallelujah. Glory to God. Glory to God. All your needs. Isn’t that an amazing thing? God, he so liberally wants to supply that nothing lacking to full measure, but fill to the brim, cram full, and bring to an end every need. That’s the word supply. So God will fulfill, complete, and bring to an end all your needs. Hallelujah. And then right with this, we use this in our offering scripture, 2 Corinthians 9.8. And God is able to make all grace. Remember, grace is all gifts and provisions. Abound, that means to be over and above. That’s the word abound. to be over and above toward you. So God is able to make all grace, all gifts, all provisions abound to be over and above toward you, that you always, under all circumstances, it says in the Amplified, having all sufficiency, there’s the word sufficiency connected to El Shaddai, our sufficiency, more than enough. In all things may have an abundance. Again, that word means to be over and above for every good work. Hallelujah. These words in these verses are just powerful. And we see El Shaddai in these verses all over again, especially all sufficiency in all things, having more than enough. He’s our sufficiency to cram full so that there’s no lack thereof. all lack is brought to an end, and that you may have an abundance and abound, be over and above for every good thing. work. Glory. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Praise the Lord. You ready to receive that? You say amen. I receive it. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Let’s go to one more name, Jehovah Jireh, and I’ll just take a few minutes here. Jehovah Jireh, I’ve also been sharing on the radio. It literally translated means Jehovah, the Lord foresees and provides. Genesis 22, 13 and 14. Abraham looked up. This is when he was offering Isaac on the mountain. Abraham looked up, and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place, the Lord will provide in the Hebrew, he called that place Jehovah-Jireh. Now, of course, in Hebrew, they pronounce J like Y, so it would be Yehovah-Yireh or something to that nature. And to this day it is said, on the mountain of the Lord it shall be provided. So the word Jehovah or Yehovah is the eternal, the self-existent one, he who was and is and is to come. That’s the meaning of Jehovah, the eternal, the self-existent one, he who was and is and is to come. This name reveals God’s covenant relationship with mankind because this name is often compounded with other words that bring out characteristics of his nature and what he provides and gives to his people. And it’s all bound in covenant relationship in blood. So it’s the covenant name of God to his people saying, I will be this for you. I will be this for you. I will do this for you. That’s why you have Jehovah Rophe. It is the covenant name. I am your healer. I am covenanted to you. And then we have Jehovah Jireh. I am your provider. I am covenanted to you. And so every compound name used with Jehovah reveals another attribute of God’s covenant with man. And God has made covenant with man to meet all of his needs. The word gyra or gyre means to see and to behold and to provide. So again, it’s like foreseeing and providing. Even in the English, you see it in our word provision. The word pro is a prefix similar to pre. Pre and pro both mean before. And so pro is like pre, means before. Vision means to see, so it means to see before. But you’re not just seeing before, you’re doing something about it. So provision means you’re seeing ahead of time what will be needed and you’re making ready a supply for a need. So it means foresight, pre-vision, arranging in advance, measures taken beforehand, previous preparation, and to make previous arrangement for the supply of a need. And it is God providing in advance for his creatures. Hallelujah. We see several scriptures in the New Testament of his preparation before the foundation of the world. Matthew 25, 34, that’s when the sheep and the goats come before him. He separates the sheep from the goats. And verse 34, then the king will say to those on his right hand, come, you blessed of my father, inherit the what? The kingdom prepared for you when? from the foundation of the world. So God provided for you. Remember, we were talking about kingdom just a little bit ago. Seek first his what? Kingdom and his righteousness and what? All these things shall be added to you because all the things you need are where? In his kingdom. And where is the kingdom? In us. And the Father is pleased to give you the kingdom and the kingdom is within you. But the kingdom was prepared. He had a kingdom. And he prepared it for you from when? From the foundation of the world. And some say even before the foundation of the world. Some translations will put that in there. Before the foundation of the world. So from the very beginning, he made the preparation for all your needs. So every day of your life, from the day you were born and you cried your first cry, and you needed a diaper, God made provision for your first diaper. And then as you got older, he provided for your school clothes. and your little tablet and pencils and backpack God provided, and your lunchbox that you toted to school. What you just heard was the continuation of a message that I preached in one of our Victorious Faith services called, Who Do You Say That I Am? My Abundant Provider. And we will continue this message again tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow, and remember, God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.