Squeeze a sponge. What comes out? (The Fire Has No Power - Part 1)

Overflow:  to fill a space to capacity and spread beyond its limits

Imagine a sponge soaked so much in water that when you touch it, it oozes water.  That is overflow.  

What overflows in your lives when you are squeezed?  Do you overflow in the love of Christ?  Or, do you overflow from the problems of your daily life?

How do you overflow in Christ, when every turn you take seems to present another problem that keeps your undivided attention, and seems to drag you down?

The answer is simple, but applying the answer everyday in our lives rarely seems simple or easy.  What is the answer?

Trust in God.  Daniel 3 shows us what happens when we trust God, and I will go over this chapter in the next several posts.  Today, I want to share with you how to trust God.

It can be difficult to trust someone you do not know, especially if you do not know why you should trust them, or if they have your best interest at heart.  Trusting someone is more than making acquaintances or even casual friends. 

Trusting someone requires a level of intimacy, much like the trust a husband and wife have in a marriage.  

How do you get to know God?  He has given us the bible.  Through the bible we can learn His likes, His dislikes, his will, what pleases Him, what He expects of us, and what we should expect of Him.  

Sounds simple, doesn't it?  Yet, every time we sit down to read and spend time with God, the phone rings, the kids need attention, we remember something we forgot to do, and so on and so on.  We fill up with the problems in our lives rather than the Word of God.  Then, when situations arise we are panicking and in damage control mode.

Whereas, when we determine to make a regular routine of spending time with God in His Word, we fill up with more of Him until we overflow God's Word, God's character, God's love in every situation in which we are squeezed.

The next time you are squeezed, what will overflow?  

"This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success." Joshua 1:8 AMP