Posted on by Renee Meyer

I Will Be Satisfied.

In India this summer, I loved getting to meet people from various religions and learn what they believe and how that faith affects their lives. But I also loved and was greatly impacted by watching and learning from my Indian brothers and sisters, believers in Jesus.

One Sunday evening we had the opportunity to visit a small home-church gathering. This handful of  Indian Christians meet in an apartment in a part of town where very few Christians live, to sing, and pray and study the Bible together each week. It was beautiful.

A young man with a guitar led our singing, interrupting the songs periodically to pray. He thanked the Lord for His presence. For their American guests. For the gift of meeting together. For God’s Word and wisdom and guidance. For His goodness.

As he prayed and sang, this young man would periodically pause and say, Read more

Posted on by Renee Meyer

Abundance v. Scarcity {Living on the Rock}

This week in Living on the Rock, we are discussing a concept that’s intrigued and perplexed me for as long as I can remember: Jesus’ promise of abundant life.

In John 10:10, Jesus says, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” The Mssg translates this: “A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.”

This week we spent a couple of days looking at the Bible’s promise of ABUNDANCE. And the promise is abundance of LIFE, an abundant life. The word used there in John is elsewhere translated  MORE. It means exceeding, more than is necessary, surpassing, uncommon.

So my question is WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE? How do you have more life than is necessary? What kind of life is that? Read more