overflow

I heard a very good analogy last night about how God's love and His Spirit should overflow in our lives. Kay M. was leading a devotional before our G.R.O.W. event began, and she was using the illustration of a water fountain to explain the idea of overflow. The water that flows out of the top of the fountain is God's love and Spirit, and as it pours out on us (the first tier) it begins to fill us to overflowing. Then that flows out from us to our family, the church (second tier); then out to the community (third tier); then out to the world (fourth tier). She did a good job of explaining this, and it was encouraging to hear how we need to allow this overflow to take place in our lives so that people will see our good works, and glorify our Father in heaven.

Yes, it was an encouraging devotional........and it soon became an amazing reality. If you were at G.R.O.W. last night, you know what I mean. What we had just heard about.....we saw before our very eyes as the people of HRCC went to deliver 150 coats to Rowan Helping Ministries, and personally handed each person a coat, a Bible, and prayed with them as they were waiting in line for a meal. We saw the expressions of the nurses at RRMC that were recipients of "overflowing" baskets of "Thank you for all you do". We listened as the prayers we had offered earlier in the evening became answers that were being shared by individuals that had experienced, first hand, "overflow". 135 letters were hand written to people we have yet to meet because what we are experiencing at HRCC needs be to shared with everyone. We can not keep this to ourselves; we must overflow.

Last night we heard about "overflow", we saw "overflow", and we witnessed what God can do in the lives of His people. And hidden in the chorus of a song not yet released...

help me overflow, overflow
make my life a living worship
send me to the world
unashamed of You