Power for Abundant Living

The Power of Believingto forgive me. I promised the Father that if He wouldforgive me, as long as I lived I would never preach anegative sermon, I would never condemn anybody.Why? I want to teach people how to tap the resourcesfor the more abundant life, not the less abundant lifeI cannot help what people have been in the past; allI can do is to teach that what they were in the pastcan be forgiven and forgotten and that they can moveon with the greatness of the power of God. This iswhy we must not only know what is available ifwe are going to live the more abundant life, but wemust also know how to receive the spiritual things ofGod. After we have received from God, in the thirdplace, we must know what to do with these spiritualthings.183First, what is available; second, how to receive;and third, what to do with it after we have received. Forexample, here is this book. It is available and I knowhow to receive it; but unless I know what to do withit after I have it, I still cannot utilize it for the purposefor which it was designed. I knew the book wasavailable; I knew how to receive it; but then if I usedit as a garden hoe, it would not serve very well, wouldit? It is not designed for that. This book was designedfor reading. In the spiritual realm we must know what