LeTourneau - The Life Giver: ...But I Come That You Might Have Life and Have It in Abundance. John 10: 10

Revolutionary Freedom

Copyright 2012 Joey LeTourneau

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To my life-giving family

Father, I love You! Thank You for who You are and for loving me so much! I want to love You more. Heres to the life that Your love gives!

Destiny, my bride, you bring life into every part of mine! You simply shine. Even your laugh gushes life, and I love you with all my heart!

My special daughters, Anna, Ayni, Mercy, and Gali, you bring more life to your mom and me than you could ever know. We bless you to live the Fathers life and to live it more abundantly!

To Mom, you have given me life for over 30 years in so many different ways! Thank you doesnt even begin to express how much you mean to me or the life God is multiplying.

To Dad, who is living and loving large in his heavenly home, thank you! Your life meant so much to mine that even since you left this earth I have continued to inherit life from you in the biggest of ways.

Jackie, thank you for all you mean to my life and family. I love you lots, appreciate you, and bless you to live the fullest and most fruitful life God could possibly have for you!

To all my family, your life-giving ways have always modeled what it means to love and embrace everyone, unconditionally, as family. Thank you each very much!

To our Ethiopian family, you mean so much to us. We love you like family, which is how you have always loved us. Thank you! A big part of our heart will always reside in Ethiopia.

To our spiritual family all over, thank you for always offering so much love, life, and support to us in so many different ways. Thank you for partnering with us to give life!

We live in such an encouraging time in history when believers all around the world are beginning to realize they were designed to bring hope, life, and restoration. The Body of Christ is recognizing the mandate of the hour and that is to bring the Kingdom to earth. The Life Giver is a book written for the purpose to see you bring life everywhere you go.

Eric Johnson
Author of Momentum: What God Starts Never Ends
Senior Leader of Bethel Church, Redding, CA

I am so excited about The Life Giver by Joey LeTourneau. You will not want to put it down as Joey reveals some really great insight into finding your true identity. Its for those who want to get all they can out of life and more!

Doug Addison
Author of Personal Development Gods Way
www.dougaddison.com

I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly (John 10:10).

W E serve and follow a creative, life-giving God, and He has created us to be creative, life-giving people. He gives physical and spiritual life in an abundance of ways, and He has called us to tap into that life, receive it in abundance, and freely give it out to a world that is waiting, longing, and in need. We must remember that our Father has not only given us life to live, but He has given us life more abundantly to transform. This has left a cry in my heartand I hope in yours, too. I want more! I want more of Him and the revived life He brings in me. I want more for my family, for my community, for our nation, and I want more of my Father and His life for the world. Life is created to multiply. Our Father gave this life more abundantly, but He has called on us to move forward and pass it on.

I love the above verse, John 10:10, where Jesus reminds us why He came: to give life and to give it more abundantly! He is once again re-affirming the mission He announced for Himself from Isaiah 61:1-3, when He began His ministry here on earth (see Luke 4:16-21). Jesus fulfilled His calling from Isaiah 61 to release the captives not just by setting them free, but amidst the process of setting them free, He did what He always saw His Father do: He gave life!

Then Jesus answered and said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will (John 5:19-21).

Jesus saw what His Father did at creation. Jesus saw the Father give life to the world, and to humankind, simply by speaking a word. So, is it any wonder that when Jesus began His ministry here on earth He gave new, more abundant life to someone through healing, simply by speaking a word? Is it any wonder He gave life and delivered the oppressed, simply by speaking a word? Is it any wonder that Jesus told His followers that they would do greater things than these (see John 14:12), after His Father had made the same known in regard to the Sons ministry? (See John 5:20.) Jesus picked up the mantle of the Father and used His life and His whole ministry to offer the world the same life-giving power that He always saw the Father operate in. Why would He give anything less? And since we are called to carry the mantle that Christ has left for us, why would we give the world anything less?

God is a creative God, and He has never shown us anything to the contrary. He has always given life in creative ways. He led Elisha to use an ax head and empty vessels to reveal the Lord. Joshua and the Israelites were to let out a great shout to topple a massive structure. God answered Noah and his family with a rainbow of color and promise. Jehoshaphat won a physical battle through praise and worship. The New Covenant Church saw healing come through shadows and handkerchiefs. Jesus used dirt and saliva for healing and turned water into wine! (See Second Kings 6:1-7; Joshua 6:15-20; Genesis 9:12-17; Second Chronicles 20; Acts 5:15; Mark 8:22-25.) Where has our creativity gone? We often live in a black-and-white world desperately in need of colors that our human eye has yet to see. We need new life! We need more life and life