Is There Room In Your Vessel?

Is There Room In Your Vessel

What a humbling experience it is to enter this house each Sunday, and enjoy such an awesome presence of God.

His love and grace is overwhelming at times. His eternal, unwavering care for His people is awesome.

My prayer for us all is this. Keep your eyes on Him. Your faith in His promises. Never stop praying. Pray more than ever, with passion.

Don’t quit until He answers, or until He tells you why.

I want to share a very familiar Psalm today. Probably the most recognized Psalm in the Bible.

I want to share some thoughts titled, “Is There Room In Your Vessel”

There is one verse that is the heart of the message today, but all of Psalm 23 is amazing.

Psalms 23:1-6

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.
3 He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.

4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows.
6 Surely goodness and loving kindness will follow me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

The word cup is used figuratively to mean, “his portion or lot.” The phrase runneth over, or overflows means, “saturation.”

David is saying that God has blessed him beyond what he deserves, to the point his blessings are spilling out all around him.

Psalms 16:5-6

5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You support my lot.
6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.

The word lot in verse 5 is referring to destiny. The lines of His heritage is referring to the earthly heritage. The kingdom that God has given David.

There is something that is critically important to the work of God in our lives. It is contained in one word. Thanksgiving.

At every level we are at. Every season of life. We must be thankful for what we have. The things we have been given. The strength to move beyond the pain that life has brought. In abundance or in lack.

The scriptures I read were blessings, but if you know David’s story He faced peril as well. That is life. God is always there in every situation. That is more than enough reason to honor Him with praise and thanksgiving. In Psalms 63 David had found himself in the wilderness.

Psalms 63:1-5

1 O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water. (Symbolic)
2 Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory.
3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips will praise You.
4 So I will bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
5 My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.

David is probably our greatest example of the grace of God. God loved him in his failures, his bad decisions, his fear. God blessed David richly. Not because he was worthy, it was because he was greatly loved.

Ephesians 3:14-19
14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,

16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,

17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Filled means, “to cause to abound furnished or supplied liberally.” Fullness means, “That which is filled with the presence, power, agency, and riches of God and Christ.”

Is there room in your vessel? If so how do we obtain this level of God and His presence?

The Apostle John said this, and I read the Amplified

John 1:16 Amplified

For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift].

Jesus said in John 7 verse 37. ““If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.”

Are you thirsty? Hungry? Is there room in your vessel for more?

Have an awesome week. There will be more to come.

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