Knowledge, the Foundation of Abundant Life
An elephant that could snap a chain in seconds spent months tied to a stake with a rope it could have broken on day one. When they finally removed the rope, the elephant still only walked the same small circle. The chain was gone. It had just moved from its leg to its mind.
That's the picture that opens this message: most limits people carry are not around them, they are within them. Nothing changes around you until something changes within you, and the mind you carry determines the life you live. From there the message moves through Scripture to make one central case: knowledge, real knowledge of what has already been made available, is the foundation of a full and free life. Using the flood narrative in Genesis as a picture of the Word doing deeper and deeper work in a life, and the story of the prodigal son's older brother who lived like a servant despite already owning everything his father had, the point lands again and again. You cannot walk in what you do not know you have.
The message pushes past information into application. Knowing truth and living free are not the same thing, and the difference between the two is often the one thing holding someone back from the life they are seeking. This is a call to press further than familiarity with the Book into an active pursuit of what it actually offers.
- The story of the circus elephant and how a limit can outlast its cause
- Why nothing around you changes until something changes within you
- A walk through the flood narrative in Genesis as a picture of the Word at work in a life
- The prodigal son's older brother and the cost of not knowing what you already have
- Why truth must be applied, not just known, to be experienced as freedom
- Some things you already own. This episode makes the case for finding out what they are.
- mmack Ministries and Charis Bible College. Find them at https://www.awmi.net and https://charisbiblecollege.org.za
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An elephant that could snap a chain in seconds spent months tied to a stake with a rope it could have broken on day one. When they finally removed the rope, the elephant still only walked the same small circle. The chain was gone. It had just moved from its leg to its mind.
That's the picture that opens this message: most limits people carry are not around them, they are within them. Nothing changes around you until something changes within you, and the mind you carry determines the life you live. From there the message moves through Scripture to make one central case: knowledge, real knowledge of what has already been made available, is the foundation of a full and free life. Using the flood narrative in Genesis as a picture of the Word doing deeper and deeper work in a life, and the story of the prodigal son's older brother who lived like a servant despite already owning everything his father had, the point lands again and again. You cannot walk in what you do not know you have.
The message pushes past information into application. Knowing truth and living free are not the same thing, and the difference between the two is often the one thing holding someone back from the life they are seeking. This is a call to press further than familiarity with the Book into an active pursuit of what it actually offers.
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In this episode:
- The story of the circus elephant and how a limit can outlast its cause
- Why nothing around you changes until something changes within you
- A walk through the flood narrative in Genesis as a picture of the Word at work in a life
- The prodigal son's older brother and the cost of not knowing what you already have
- Why truth must be applied, not just known, to be experienced as freedom
Some things you already own. This episode makes the case for finding out what they are.
This message is brought by Pastor Isaac Akowuah, Africa Regional Director for Andrew Wommack Ministries and Charis Bible College. Find them athttps://www.awmi.netandhttps://charisbiblecollege.org.za
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- Article https://charisbiblecollege.org.za
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