In the movie Harry Potter (just humour me for this example – don’t throw stones! haha!). When the students need to get the train to get to school, they have to go to a train platform that is in between platforms 9 and 10 and they get to said station (9¾) by running against a wall and if they ‘believe’ that it’ll open, it will and they find themselves on a ‘magic’ station which houses the train to take them off on their adventures. Stay with me!

I believe that Jesus died to give us a John 10:10 life, but many of us settle for John 10:9¾. We may say things like, ‘everything is great, except my health, my finance, my friendships, my marriage and so on. We become content with our lot and so often choose to keep a ¼ of our life and not sign it over for God to complete the fraction.

Of course, life can throw daily storms and hurdles to overcome, but I’m talking more about the long term problems that we’ve carried for years and we’ve just accepted as John 10:10 doesn’t apply!

Just like the characters in the fiction that is Harry Potter had to believe in order to get through the wall, we have to believe in John 10:10 too. If we don’t believe it’s for us, we won’t fight for it. We won’t look that ¼ in the eye and ‘take it down!’ God is a great father and he loves to look after His children just as we love to look after our own.

I was reading just this week about abundant life and the thought came to me that if you want it, you have to obey the rules of it. What do I mean? Well, for example, if you want abundant life in the area of your health, but you don’t look after your body and soul, then you’re disobeying the rules which then negates abundant life in that particular area. You can’t just pray and eat donuts – that won’t work! If you want abundant life in the area of your finances but you’re not a good steward, you’re disobeying the clauses of God’s promises which will negate abundant life in your finances.

Even though we are in a new covenant, God has still given us rules of life to follow – above are just two examples of that. Maybe the ¼ is an unanswered prayer that you’ve given up on. Pick it back up – God answers prayer, don’t give up. He will say ‘yes’ ‘no’ or ‘wait’. Some prayers won’t be answered in our life time, but they will be answered. Isaiah was prophesying Jesus who came long after he was gone – around 700 years! I hope you won’t have to wait that long, but if you do, you’ll be in heaven so it’ll be OK!

Be encouraged, go for your dreams, don’t be scared and surrender that ¼ over to God and abundant life!

Until next time, D x