{"id":2767,"date":"2010-09-03T06:25:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2010-09-03T07:04:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T15:04:35","slug":"pouring-out-the-water-of-satisfaction-9-03-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"Pouring Out the Water of Satisfaction 9-03-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pouring Out the Water of Satisfaction<\/h2>\n<div id=\"post-854\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>September 03, 2010<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"key-verse-box\">He would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/bible.logos.com\/passage\/nkjv\/2%20Samuel%2023.16\">2 Samuel 23:16<\/a><\/div>\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"333\" height=\"222\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BetSXRwAl1k\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"333\" height=\"222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BetSXRwAl1k\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What has been like \u201cwater from the well of Bethlehem\u201d to you recently\u2014 love, friendship, or maybe some spiritual blessing (\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2+Samuel+23:16');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2+Samuel+23:16\"> 2 Samuel 23:16 <\/a>)? Have you taken whatever it may be, even at the risk of damaging your own soul, simply to satisfy yourself? If you have, then you cannot pour it out \u201cto the Lord.\u201d You can never set apart for God something that you desire for yourself to achieve your own satisfaction. If you try to satisfy yourself with a blessing from God, it will corrupt you. You must sacrifice it, pouring it out to God\u2014 something that your common sense says is an absurd waste.<\/p>\n<p>How can I pour out \u201cto the Lord\u201d natural love and spiritual blessings? There is only one way\u2014 I must make a determination in my mind to do so. There are certain things other people do that could never be received by someone who does not know God, because it is humanly impossible to repay them. As soon as I realize that something is too wonderful for me, that I am not worthy to receive it, and that it is not meant for a human being at all, I must pour it out \u201cto the Lord.\u201d Then these very things that have come to me will be poured out as \u201crivers of living water\u201d all around me (\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+7:38');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+7:38\">John 7:38<\/a>\u00a0). And until I pour these things out to God, they actually endanger those I love, as well as myself, because they will be turned into lust. Yes, we can be lustful in things that are not sordid and vile. Even love must be transformed by being poured out \u201cto the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything \u201cto the Lord,\u201d other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>September 3, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n<p>If I think about my connection to and with God being a conduit through which He can flow to and through me, I can picture in my mind blessings flowing through&#8230;&#8230;not <em><strong>to.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Considering Oswald\u2019s devotional for today, I can understand what can happen when I hold onto the blessings\u2026\u2026..they can clog up the conduit.<\/p>\n<p><em>And God says\u2026..\u201dWhen you give yourself away, and allow all\u00a0your blessings to flow through to others, more blessings can flow through you.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pouring Out the Water of Satisfaction September 03, 2010 \u00a0 He would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord \u20142 Samuel 23:16 \u00a0 What has been like \u201cwater from the well of Bethlehem\u201d to you recently\u2014 love, friendship, or maybe some spiritual blessing (\u00a0 2 Samuel 23:16 )? 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