Fill My Cup Devotional

FILL MY CUP

I am again reading Romans during my Bible time and these verses are just as powerful today as they were 4 1/2 years ago. 

October 4, 2017

Today during my prayer time what came into my spirit was a song, fill me up, I began to sing in the spirit Lord fill me up, fill my cup to overflowing, fill me up, fill my cup and make me whole. As I prayed and continued to sing these words I had my Bible open and I turned to:

1.       Romans 8:8-9: and those who are in the flesh cannot please God, v9: However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

I backed up to vs 5-8: For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is l Death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so.

Lately during my prayer time, I have allowed my mind to dictate my day and time spent in the Lord’s presence. Allowing all the many things of this life to cut short my time with the Lord. I would begin to pray and then after 10 to 15 minutes, my mind would begin to go down the list of all the things I could or should do today. I would pray for a few minutes longer and then go and do. My spirit was grieving from this. The Spirit of God does dwell in me, I am a child of God, but I was allowing my mind, set on the flesh to be in control, instead of the Spirit controlling me. 

When I read these verses, “that the mind is hostile towards God, it is even unable to subject itself to the law of God.” I repented and turned from this course of allowing my mind to direct me.  

As I continued to read and I reached v11: But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through the Spirit who indwells you.

I love that verse, but today I saw it in a new light. Right now, as I am writing this when I wrote “saw in a new light.” I thought about the Seraphim, who fly around the throne of God, and as they look on Him they cry out Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord.” I have heard it said they continually cry out because they see something new and marvelous, holy, and magnificent each time, they can’t help but cry out how magnificent God is. Could this be the same for the Word of God? Each time we look at a familiar verse, and we see something we didn't see before, and cannot but cry out, how wonderful, holy, magnificent the Word of God is.

This time I saw in this verse, if I set my mind on the flesh even though I am not of the flesh but of the Spirit, I quench the Spirit of Him to raise up my mortal body through the Spirit that indwells me.

I repented, and declared verses 6-11 like this:

For my mind is not set on the flesh, but my mind is set on the Spirit of life and peace.

My mind is not set on the flesh, but is subject to God and the law of God

I am not in the flesh, I please God.

I am in the Spirit.

The Spirit of God indwells me

I have the Spirit of Christ and I belong to Him.

Christ is in me

Though my body is dead because of sin

Yet my spirit is alive because of righteousness

The Spirit of Him who raise Jesus from the dead

Dwells in me

He who raise Christ Jesus from the dead

Will also give life to my mortal body

Through the Spirit who indwells me.

I began to pray in the Spirit, my mind was going, but I continued to pray in the Spirit not even allowing my thoughts to direct or dictate me.

I turned to Romans 5:5: “and hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”

Hope: I have a faith project that I have been waiting on, and I need hope to continue to wait in faith.

Hope does not disappoint – I began to sing again about filling my cup, fill it up and make me whole. And then I began to thank and pray to the Lord for filling me with His love that has been poured out into my heart through the Holy Spirit. I continued to repeat, thank you Lord for filling my cup with your love by the Holy Spirit, thank you for filling me up with Your love poured out into my heart, by your Holy Spirit.

I just meditated on that thought for a bit, then I was led to:

Romans 15:13: “Now may the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

God is the God of Hope

He fills me with hope

That I may abound in hope

By the Power of the Holy Spirit.

This hope is not a wishing thing, although in the flesh it would be.

But this God given hope

Comes only by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I began to pray in the spirit and then I saw that My God, the Holy Spirit was filling my cup with HOPE! A powerful hope, God given hope.

So now here’s my cup, fill me up and make me whole: My cup is filled by the Holy Spirit with God’s love, abounding with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit, filled with joy, peace, and faith (believe = faith).

God is so wonderful, there is nothing that can compare to Him. 

He never leaves us where He finds us.

 I am His, and He came for me and corrected me, but so loving and so compassionate. 

He corrected my thinking and then He filled me up. 

He placed in my heart a song, for Him, to fill my cup, to fill me up, and make me whole. 

Then He led me to the verses of correction, how my mind and my flesh were keeping me from being filled up. 

Then after I repented, He filled my cup with His love, His hope, He filled me with Himself, because God IS love, God OF Hope, peace, joy, faith. 

How much I have missed and could continue to miss if I allowed my mind to be in control and resist and quench the precious and great Holy Spirit.

Be blessed today,

Suzy Bee