In the Image Of God

Imagers of Abundance: Reclaiming Your Place in the Garden

Have you ever stopped to really consider it? The Bible is crystal clear: God created man for His pleasure (Revelation 4:11, KJV). He didn't need us, but He wanted us. And He created us in His own image—the image of a God who is, by His very nature, a God of breathtaking abundance and limitless creativity.

We were designed for God-centered abundance.

Think about where He placed us in creation. He didn't position man in a factory, a cubicle, or a barren wasteland. He positioned (this is a POWER word in the Kingdom God POSITION) him in a GARDEN! (Another Kingdom Power word! Garden, Eden, Edenic) A garden is a play place, a creative space, a safe environment of abundance, created for creation to thrive. It was a place to walk with God, to play, and to co-labor with Him in that abundance.

There is no greater honor. We were created for pleasure, in God's Garden, to be imagers—to imitate and reflect HIM in creativity!

But there’s an enemy. An enemy who is jealous of our position, jealous of our access, jealous of the very image we carry. Imagine Satan, realizing that humanity was created in God’s image, carrying the divine spark of creativity and given full access to all of God's abundance!

Satan, demons, the devil, the fallen heavenly host, or whatever other terminology you choose to use to describe the enemy of God, is the OPOSITE of God in nature. Jesus comes to Give, the enemy is here to steal. Jesus came to give life. The enemy kills. Jesus creates the enemy destroys.  (John 10:1-10)

Of course, the enemy came to "steal and kill and destroy" (John 10:10). His entire mission is the very opposite of God's nature. He is violently oppositional to us walking in the fullness of the image we were created to bear. He wants us to believe in scarcity, to operate from an orphan mindset, and to forget the abundance that is our birthright.

This is why Jesus came to live and demonstrate SONSHIP in flesh and blood!

Jesus, the "express image of his person" (Hebrews 1:3), came to reveal the truth. He came to show us, in the veil of human flesh, that humanity can and will achieve the image and reflection of an abundantly creative God.

This, my friends, is SONSHIP.

Jesus didn't just come to give us life. He came that we "may have life and have it abundantly" (John 10:10). Sonship is the key. It’s the restoration of our identity. It’s the gavel-drop of the Judge that declares us "not guilty" and "fully HEIRS."

When you know you are a son, you stop begging like an orphan.

An orphan operates from a poverty mindset—scrambling, begging, and fearing lack. A son operates from an abundance mindset—trusting, building, and receiving from his inheritance.

This is the identity that unlocks Matthew 6:33. You are finally free to "seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness," because you have complete confidence that "all these things will be added to you." You're not worried about your provision; you're focused on your position.

This is our restored Edenic position! It’s a perspective shift based on the profound, unshakable truth of who we are and Whose we are.

That changes everything.

Think about the massive impact if we truly lived this way:

• What if we did marriage like secure children of the Almighty God, giving from an overflow of His love instead of begging our spouse to fill a void?

• What if we parented like royalty, understanding we are raising heirs to a Kingdom, not just trying to manage behavior?

• What if we did business like sons of God, knowing our Father owns it all, and operating from integrity and abundance instead of fear and a poverty mindset?

• What if we solved problems by looking at God's limitless resources first, rather than our own limited ones?

When you know your identity, you stop acting like an orphan and start co-laboring with the King.

This abundance isn't just about stuff. It’s a total-life provision.

• It's the promise that "my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19).

• It's the confidence that "God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work" (2 Corinthians 9:8).

• It’s a heart posture. "The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good... for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45).

When you walk in sonship, you don't hoard. You give. Why? Because you know the law of the Kingdom: "Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap" (Luke 6:38). You're not giving from your supply; you're giving from the overflow of His.

You are an heir to His good treasury. You were created to feast "on the abundance of [His] house" and "drink from the river of [His] delights" (Psalm 36:8). He is the one who anoints your head with oil until your cup "overflows" (Psalm 23:5).

We were created to be imagers. To imitate HIM. To be creative, to be generous, to be abundant in peace (Psalm 37:11) and in every good work.

The enemy wants you to forget who you are. God is calling you to remember. You are a child of the King, and He is "able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us" (Ephesians 3:20).

Go, walk as the son you are. The Garden is waiting.