I need and want God to fill me with His Spirit. It is good for me and the good of it can pour out to help others.

A Morning Prayer

I submit to Your hand come cleanse me.

Purify my heart. Make me more like thee.

Here I am waiting patiently.

Here on bended knee.

Come Lord and fill me.

Come Lord I belong to thee.

I submit to Your hand come use me.

Fill my heart with love. Help my eyes to see.

Here I am waiting patiently.

Here on bended knee.

Come Lord and fill me.

Come Lord I belong to thee. Amen

  Teapot

Today as I was cleaning my collection of teapots, I thought about tea. Sometimes I drink tea because it is soothing and comforting. Sometimes for medicinal purposes. And sometimes a friendly cup when people visit. Tea has a way of warming me and relaxing me. Sometimes when my fingers are real cold I get them warm from the teapot. I like to watch the steam curl out of them spout. As a child I loved to pour tea and still do today.  God is at times like a teapot. He is warm, friendly, comforting and soothing. He has the medicine I need for what ails me physically, spiritually and mentally. I find rest in Him and He calms me and helps me relax. He is always full of these wonderful attributes and always willing to pour them into me, His teacup. And as His tea cup He never leaves me there to sit and grow cold. He offers me to others. To warm them, be a friend to them, comfort them, and more according to what He has poured into me. Also if  I don't allow others to retrieve what He has poured into me, I wont have room for Him to pour anymore in. I will become cold and stale. And if  I only let them retrieve the bare minimum The next time He pours something in it will only become lukewarm. Like when Hot tea is pour into a half cup of cold tea. I want to be a hot cup of tea with my steam rising (prayer and praise). So that when cold hearts and spirits see me they will be drawn to my warmth and receive what God has put in His tea cup for them. (A little friendship, a little comfort, God only knows) I want to be an empty tea cup before God waiting and willing to be filled. I want to be a clean tea cup too. Daily submitting myself to Him for cleansing, filling and offering. Aaah! What a good life for a tea cup!

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saint what is the width and length and depth and height-- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. Ephesians 3:14-21

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