Fill My Cup

"Fill my cup, Lord
Run it over
Give me love, give me joy
Give me peace (ooh, ooh, ooh)
Fill my cup, Lord
Run it over
I am Your child in need (ooh, ooh, ooh)
Lord, I need You (to fill my cup)" - Andrew Ripp

This past Sunday in church our youth pastor stepped in and preached a message in our Delighting in Glory series. He spoke from Psalm 50 and Joshua 6. What a gift his words were!

His message was about serving. He talked about how there are basically two trains of thought people have in regards to why we serve Christ. The first being that Christ needs us to. I immediately started graoning inside. Christ doesn't need us to serve, God is a BIG God who can do all things. And, if I had waited, that's where he went with the statement too. Many people serve out of burden, feeling like they "have to". If no one else does it, I guess I will have to do it.

That's not at all what serving should look like. God's been talknig to me a lot about serving him this year. He's helped me realize what a gift it is to serve! And that's where the pastor went next. He shared about how God allows us to come beside him and serve. It's a GET TO! Serving is an opportunity to get closer to God. He invites us into his work. How beautiful is that, seriously.

I'm nothing without God. So nothing I can do is without God either. 

I had just shared in Saturday morning workout the day before this message about how God can use unlikely people and circumstances to accomplish his will. I encouraged the ladies to think about ways that they may feel unqualified, but also feel a tug from God to serve. To start getting closer to him through the Word so they can hear where he is leading them. 

So much of what I do in person through Faith Fueled Wellness and even behind the scences is far outside my comfort level. If you've only known me through the ministry you probably wouldn't believe this but it's so true. This whole thing is a God thing, he gets all the glory, and I get to know and love him more.

What he's been telling me recently is to give it away. Give away my time, my resources and more. As our pastor shared Sunday morning when we serve from that place that God needs us, we often end up burned out and empty. Our cup runs out because we are dependent on ourselves. When we serve out of invitation from God, out of our need for Him, not the other way around, he fills our cup continutally to do the work.

God's also been speaking to me this year about beng a cup filler. I didn't have words for that until this sermon. But that's what I desire my ministry to be. Filling the cups of others, through Christ, so that they can fill others cups as well. We talk a lot about being a light, it's the same principle. What gets poured into us, we are willing to pour into others. 

Sit with God this week. 

Ask him to fill your cup. 

Ask him where you can fill other's cups so that there is room in yours for him to keep pouring into!

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:5-6