By What Measure?

Have you ever imagined winning a big lottery, or finding out you inherited a gob of money from a rich unknown uncle?

Let's suppose you won and were lucky enough to get $1 million - how would you feel about that? You could certainly increase your personal financial security. If you tithed on it, you could bless quite a few people with that. But, what would be the limits to what you could do?

Now, suppose it was actually $10 million. You could really do some good with that - and you could probably buy a pretty nice home. Maybe even a vacation home. There are still limits on it, though. You probably wouldn't have enough to say, cure a disease or something like that.

OK, so as long as we are dreaming, let's dream big. Let's make it $100 million. Wow! That's a lot of money! Now you probably could help cure a disease, feed a small country or something like that. But, if you asked some of the wealthiest people in the world they would probably tell you that there are limits to what you could do with even $100 million.

Consider the wealth of some of these wealthiest people. They are able to do some pretty amazing things for themselves, their families and for the world. People like Bill Gates or Tiger Woods can own their own islands and ships the size of a cruise ship. They can fund research projects to end diseases and programs to educate entire nations of children. But, in spite of this incredible wealth, there are still some limits to what they can do.

Now consider a couple of Scripture passages:

"that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be
strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, " Ephesians 3:16

"And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. " Philippians 4:19

God wants us to be "strengthened with might through His Spirit in the
inner man" and He wants us to have that strengthening in a measure that is "according to the riches of His glory". In other words there is no limit to how much of Him He will give us in order to strengthen us.

He wants us also to have confidence that there is no limit on how He will supply all our needs. He wants us to dream big dreams of what we will do for Him. He wants us to have big visions of reaching our world for Him. He does not want us to limit these dreams by anything short of His supply.