Living and walking in a life of overflow

Key factors to access and sustain to continue to walk in His overflow.

When we allow God to bring an overflow of His presence in our life, there is a measuring and unveiling that happens. Where His light comes in, darkness must flee and what is hidden is exposed. Understand that this is very uncomfortable for the flesh. Understand that the flesh wants to preserve itself. The flesh is in enmity with God and resists Him. Understand that He is exposing the lies with His torrents. His war is not with you, but with anything that wants to keep you away or separate from Him. He has brought an annulment to the covenant of death that we had. Death (being forever separated from Him) has no hold on you. It is in turning to, seeking and beholding Him that we are drawn. The less we ask ‘why’, and the more we choose to turn our gaze to Him in every situation, there is a passing. The ‘Who’ becomes more important than the ‘why’. (Isaiah 28: 16-19)

Ezekiel saw a vision of God’s River flowing from the temple. (Ezekiel 47) Why did the prophet keep going deeper into the river? Simply because He was drawn to the Presence of God. The same river is mentioned in Revelation 22. But this time it was flowing from the throne of God. In the New Covenant, His Presence is within us. We have become His temple, the place where we commune with Him.

John 10:10

“The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].” – Amplified Bible

Let us look in the Word to seek out some aspects of Him that God intended us to overflow in, how to identify blockages and opposing forces that want to overpower us, how to access His life, what that looks like and to renew our mind in our expectations for our lives as a whole.

“in abundance” GR #4053 “perissos”

perissós (an adjective, derived from 4012 /perí, “all-around, excess”) – properly all-around, “more than” (“abundantly”); beyond what is anticipated, exceeding expectation; “more abundant,” going past the expected limit (“more than enough . . . ”)

“over and above, more than is necessary, superadded.”

Jesus announced that He came to earth to present to us a life that is more than enough than what we think we need or what we can dream up. He sacrificed Himself willingly for us to have access to a life that overflows. If we understand the context of this chapter, Jesus is comparing us to sheep that hears the voice of the shepherd. The abundant life that was lost due to sin, Jesus came to restore to us here and now. It is when we behold Him and choose Him that we have access to the very life God intended us to have.

In fact, the very nature of the Father has always been “more than enough”. El Shaddai, God Almighty, more than enough, the One Who seeks out the lost and saves them, the One Who seeks out your love and your relationship.

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip and bounced upon her knees.” ESV

Here are some facets of the Lord’s nature that cannot be contested, overwhelmed, resist, or overcome:

#1 His love: 

Songs 8:7

“Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love All the wealth of his house, It would be utterly despised.”

Romans 8:38-39

“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Ephesians 3:14-19

“For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

#2 His light: 

John 1:4-5

“In Him [Jesus Christ] was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend(overcome) it.”

His light speaks of truth in the highest and holiest form. It speaks of heavenly wisdom and understanding that can only be attained from the Lord Himself. Where His light shines, there is fullness of understanding of Who He is to us, for us and through us.

Ephesian 1:16-21

“I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:  that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,  the eyes of your understanding[hearts] being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,  and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,  far above all principality[rule] and power[authority] and might[power] and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.” – NKJ

18:  “And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people)” – Amplified Bible

#3 His hope: 

Romans 15:13

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow[perisseuo] with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” – NIV

“overflow” GR#4052 “perisseuó”: to abound, overflow, i. e. α. to be abundantly furnished with, to have in abundance, abound in; εἰς τὸ περισσεύειν ὑμᾶς ἐν to excel more than

The overflowing, abundant, and excelling confidence and the hope that Jesus gives us, is given by the power of His Holy Spirit. This is one of the core values and functions of His Holy Spirit. Jesus called Him, Advocate, Helper, Comforter. What unlocks this infilling? Having faith, trust in Him, believing Him. Our faith is a key to access this overflowing confidence and hope.

#His Spirit

John 4:14

“But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” – NKJ

“But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.” -(Amplified Bible)

God told His people through the prophet Jeremiah the issue we have as human:

Jer 2:13 – “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns–broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”

The invitation resounded through the ages:

Isaiah 55:1 -“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!”

Blockages to the overflow.

#unbelief: where we have exchanged the truth for a lie, and our faith is working in reverse. Jesus needs us to give our mustard seed faith and activate it with our speech, releasing it unto Him! He does the miracle! He asks us: “What can I do for you?”

#hardness of heart: before we met Jesus we all had hard hearts! (Eph 4:18) Jesus gave us a heart of flesh. But watch out that he does not harden again ! He warns us not to harden our hearts when we go through tests, trials, trouble, tribulations and temptations. This is the trap of the enemy so that we cannot receive His word. (Hebrews 4:6-7)

2 Cor 1:5 “For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.” Berean Standard Bible

We follow Jesus’ example:

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.” – Hebrews 12:1-2