Get Ready for Overflow

Get Ready for Overflow

1) Let me talk today about Get Ready for Overflow. Allah SWT didn't create us to just get by in life, to just have enough for what we need - we're grateful for that, but Allah SWT is not a "get by" Allah SWT, He's an overflow Allah SWT, He wants you to have an abundance, so you can be a blessing to others. When you have so much joy, you bring joy everywhere you go. You have so many resources, that you can help those around you. And you may not have seen this yet, but Allah SWT is about to do a new thing. One touch of his favor will take you from having just enough, to having more than enough.

You need to get ready; overflow is coming. You're going to overflow with creativity, with ideas, with talent, overflow with good relationships, with great people in your life, overflow with influence, promotion, resources, where you can come out of debt, where you can lend and not have to borrow. Now, get an agreement with Allah SWT, "O, my Creator, thank you that overflow is coming. Thank you, that you're a more than enough Allah SWT".

Sometimes people will try to convince us, that we're not supposed to be blessed. People teach us, that we are supposed to live in lack, to show that we are humble. But one of the names for Allah SWT is "El Shaddai", that means "More than enough". If Allah SWT wanted you to just get by, if He wanted you to have just enough, why would his name be "More than enough". Don't let people talk you out of the overflow, that belongs to you. "Well, sir, I'm just grateful to get by". Yes, be grateful, but don't stop there. "O my Creator, thank you that you're AL-BAASIT, The Extender, the Allah SWT of more than enough. Thank you, that overflow is heading my way".

2) When you honor Allah SWT with your income, when you give the charity, the first 10% of your salary, "Allah SWT will open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that you cannot contain". That's the overflow Allah SWT, you can't contain it. And many of you have been faithful, you've given, you've served, you've helped others - Allah SWT has some of these "Cannot contain" blessings coming your way. He's not limited by your job, by your salary, by what family you come from. He knows how to increase you - one good break, one idea, one contract, one inheritance will put you into more than enough. I'm asking you to get ready for overflow, get ready for bleeds blessings that you cannot contain. "Well, Joel, I don't see how this can happen". You don't have to see how, all you have to do is believe.

All the circumstances may say, "It's impossible", Allah SWT is asking you what He asked them, "When did I become weak? Is there any limit to my power"? Get an agreement with Allah SWT, He's about to shift some things in your favor, He's about to open a door that no person can shut, He's about to put you at the right place at the right time, He's going to cause the quail to find you. We look at our situations in the natural, but we serve a supernatural Allah SWT. He has ways to increase you, you've never thought out, just to shift here and suddenly you're in overflow, a shift there and suddenly blessings you cannot contain.

3) Friend of mine wanted to buy some property to build a school on. He had some land but he needed more. There were ten acres behind him, connecting to his property, he had bought his land for four thousand dollars an acre. He inquired about this new property, they wanted twenty five thousand an acre - more than five times what he paid for his. He was disappointed, he didn't have the funds and he knew he was supposed to build the school, but he didn't see how it could happen. Instead of living discouraged, talking himself out of it, he kept thanking Allah SWT that overflow was coming, that he was a "More than enough AL-BAASIT, The Extender, Allah SWT".

Three years later a man from the government unexpectedly knocked on his door. He had never met the man, never told him, he was looking for property. But this man told my friend, that there were a hundred and twenty acres right across the street, that had nine buildings on it. The property had been foreclosed on five times. He said, "I'm authorized to get rid of it, make me an offer and we'll see what we can do". Well at twenty-five thousand an acre, like the property behind him, the land alone would have been three million dollars, plus there were nine nice buildings that he could use for a school.

My friend said, "I'll give you $200,000". The man shook his hand and said, "You've got a deal". He got the hundred and twenty acres, nine buildings for less than ten percent of what it was valued at. Allah SWT knows how to bring you into overflow, He can make things happen that you could never make happen. And I love the fact that my friend wasn't looking for this man, He wasn't trying to track him down, talk him into it - the man came looking for him.

"When you honor Allah SWT, blessings will chase you down". You don't have to look for the blessings, just keep Allah SWT first place and the blessings will look for you. I believe right now promotion is looking for you, the right people are looking for you, the help, the scholarship, the property, the business is looking for you. It's just a matter of time before you hear that knock on the door, you weren't expecting it, you couldn't have made it happen. What was that? Allah SWT AL-BAASIT, The Extender, of overflow pouring out one of those blessings, that you cannot contain.

4) When you pour water into a glass, you have to stop when you come to the top of the glass. You're limited by the size of the container, but Allah SWT says, "When I pour out a blessing, I'm not limited by your capacity to receive". You may have a small cup, small faith, small dreams. If Allah SWT only blessed us according to what we believed, we would never reach our potential. Allah SWT doing exceedingly more than we can ask think or imagine". But Allah SWT says, "Even if you have a small cup, even if you have small faith, that's not going to keep the big blessing from coming from me". Allah SWT is not going to stop pouring at the top of your cup, he's going to give you a running-over blessing.

I would love to tell you that great faith works, believe for big things, and much of what I've seen are simply running-over blessings. Allah SWT bless us way beyond what we had the faith for. And I've learned, it's not the size of your faith that will limit you, it's the quality of your character. If you will keep your heart pure before Allah SWT - that doesn't mean that you're perfect, but when you make mistakes you asked for forgiveness, you do better the next time, you treat people right, you have a good attitude - then Allah SWT can release these running-over blessings, blessings that you can't measure. It's not going to be your lack of faith that stops you, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can move mountains".

Sometimes only being respectful to others and honoring them works. Allah SWT looks at our heart as much as he looks at our faith. Sometimes we don’t have the faith, but we have the heart to please Allah SWT. Don't be discouraged if you don't feel like you have enough faith, you have small dreams, a small cup, you think you're limited by how you were raised or about how big that obstacle is. You wish you had more faith, the fact is: Allah SWT has running-over blessings. Because your heart is right, your lack of faith is not going to stop the awesome future, that Allah SWT has in store for you.

And you may feel like you're stuck, you don't see how you could accomplish your dreams. Allah SWT is saying, "Soon you're going to be bursting at the seams, soon you're going to see a net-breaking blessing". Allah SWT is about to do something unusual, out of the ordinary: promotion that you can't contain, increase that causes you to explode to a new level.

This overflow is not just to reach your dreams, not just to go further, but you're going to see overflow in the hard places. Maybe you're facing an illness, you're taking the treatment, or you're raising a difficult child - that is not going to defeat you, you're about to overflow with strength, overflow with health, overflow with success. Perhaps you're struggling with depression, anxiety, fear - that is not your destiny, you're about to overflow with joy, overflow with peace, overflow with help. In the hard places Allah SWT promised: you wouldn't overflow with abundance. That means you're not going to lack anything that you need, you're gonna have plenty of grace, plenty of joy, plenty of favor.

The day is coming, where everything barren and fruitless will overflow with blessing. This passage was written many years ago, I don't believe the day is coming, I believe the day is here. Whatever is bearing in your life, whatever area you've been lacking in, Allah SWT is saying, "You're about to overflow with blessings, overflow with good health, overflow with joy, overflow in your finances. You are coming out of lack into abundance". I believe: it's going to be an overflow year for you, you're about to be bursting at the seams, you're about to see net-breaking blessings, promotion that you can't contain, increase that catapults you to a new level.