Filled Up

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LOL.  These little fellows took over our granddaughter's tea party tent!
Filling up cups is fun whether they are pink or blue!


August 13
What good is filling ourselves up, if we aren't willing to be poured out?

Jake Sumner wrote an excellent article on being "filled up" in "Blueprint for Life."  He states, "The secret to getting full is to empty yourself...The secret to fulfillment is twofold.  You must regularly spend time filling yourself up and you must regularly spend time emptying yourself out.  If you spend all your time filling yourself up, you're lazy and selfish.  if you spend all your time pouring yourself our, you're exhausted and headed for burnout."

Leslie Basham wrote, "A joyful, fulfilling life begins at the point of surrender."

When was the last time you evaluated what/who you are putting into your life?
Personalize the categories below and consider each from the perspectives of priority and percentage
in your life.

Things adding to my:
1)   Spiritual Growth, Praise and Prayer Time
2)   Quality Family Time
3)   Work/Volunteer Time
4)   Joy/Laughter
5)   Concern and Contact with Others
6)   Physical Benefits...Eating/Excercise
7)   World Event Knowledge
8)   Education
9)   Just for me time. TV/Computer/Fiction/Shopping/Extra Curricular
10) Fear/Anger/Bitterness


You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.  Psalm 16:11

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.  Matthew 5:6

After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.   Acts 4:31

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.   Romans 15:13

Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.   2 Timothy 1:4

Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy.  1 Peter 1:8


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