What do you fill yourself with to get you through your day or week? What motivates you? A lot of us fill our thoughts with job, children, spouse or significant other, possessions, or other things like these. Maybe you occupy your mind with drugs and ,or alcohol. This thing that motivates you, how fulfilling is it?
In this article I’m going to call that area you try to fill your tank. When you drive your car to a point when the fuel light come on that’s an indication its time to fill your gas tank. If you don’t put gas in your car its going to start sucking up trash that is at the very bottom of your tank. When this happens your car will either start stalling or skipping or maybe cut off. If the trash don’t affect your car, it will eventually run out of gas.
This is an example of what happens to us if we don’t fill our minds with the right thing or we do put the right thing in our mind but not enough. When we go to church on Sunday we are putting the right thing in our mind to help us to be truly effective. But is that enough to get us through the week? If that’s all we do, by the middle of the week we are empty again. We become short tempered, impatient, distant or quiet, shallow or just talk about things that don’t cause you to think or you just simply shut down. When we get like this what do we have to offer to the important things in our life. You know the people who are always complaining, bitter, mad all the time, gossip, lie, who are spirit breakers or just plain mean. These people have little or nothing in their tank.
Now we get to the part about what to fill our tank with and how to fill it.
First of all you have to receive Jesus Christ as your Savior. I end every article with a sinners prayer telling how to confess Jesus as your Savior. Saying this alone don’t make you saved. Romans 10:9 &10 says, “That if thou shall confess with thou mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” The confessing with the mouth has to be done first that Jesus is Lord but it doesn’t end there. Now you have to believe unto righteousness which means you have to believe the only true righteous One, God. Now that you believe God is who He says He is, you must start to get in line with what He represents. Its really a transforming of the heart and mind. Salvation is deliverance from wrath and from the power of sin. When true salvation come, you instantly stop doing some of the things you know are not right. Some things are a little deeper and may take some time to stop doing. That’s why you have to keep filling yourself with the Word of God to drive out uncleanness. We fill our tank with the Word of God by going to church, studying the Bible, praying and meditating on God’s Word. By doing these things you and other people will see a change in you. Praise God until your tank overflows. When your tank overflows you will bless the people around you and you will be blessed also. Let’s stop filling our tank with just enough to get by. Remember how I used the comparison to filling your gas tank. If everyday you just fill yourself with just enough to get by, sooner or later you are going to give out too much and you are going to shut down. I think half filling your cup is selfish because you really don’t have that much to give to other things in your life. Build your faith up. Romans 10:17 says, “ Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” So the only way to build you true faith up is to hear God’s word. So let’s pull up to God’s filling station and tell Jesus to fill us up. God Bless

Prayer

Father God we thank you for unearned favor and second chances. We bless Your holy name. Father God we ask You to fill us with Your holy Spirit so we can be useful in this life. We want to be filled until we overflow so we can bless those around us. Thank you for hearing our prayer. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN