Whose needs are you putting first today? Is it marking your life with overflow or lack? Pause with Pastor Louis to experience your cup overflowing as David’s did.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
– Psalm 23:5 (NIVUK)
Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.’
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‘You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.
– Haggai 1:5-6, 9 (NIVUK)
Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel. David said to Solomon: ‘My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the Lord my God.
– 1 Chronicles 22:6-7 (NIVUK)