I just wanted to share this little bit of encouragement with every one:

by: Emilie Barnes

Fill my cup, Lord.

I hold it up to you with outstretched hands,

My heart parched and thirsty for your living water.

Fill my cup with your love, Lord.

Help me to feel your hands holding mine,

feel your arms around me, feel your love empowering me.

Fill me with quietness and encouragement and trust.

Help me to live for you when trials, difficulties,

and storms hit me and those I love so deeply.

Help me not to give up when giving up seems easier.

Help me to trust you when I don't feel like trusting anymore.

When I know pain, fill my cup with prayer.

Teach me the secrets of service and surrender.

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Fill my cup, Lord. I lift it up to you.

Lift me up to do your will with love and sacrifice,

Never forgetting what you sacrificed for me-

Your Son.

My Messiah.

My Lord Jesus Christ.

Help me, Lord, to accept where I am now.

Help me to know I'm not stuck forever in my circumstances.

Help me remember that the windows do open

and that fresh breezes do blow in

and that living water forever flows

and that those who ask receive.

I'm asking, now, Lord.

I'm holding my cup in my hands,

And I'm asking you to fill it . . . with you.

. . . .

And when my cup springs a leak,

As earthen vessels are prone to do.

Then I'll just have to ask again,

Trusting in your love

To fill me again . . .

Amen

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