SOUL
SATISFACTION
BREAD
15 The
eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. 16 You open your hand and satisfy
the desires of every living thing. Psalms
145:15-16 (NIV)
14 Satisfy
us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be
glad all our days. Psalms 90:14 (NIV)
1 “Come,
all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come,
buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why spend money on what is not
bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat
what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.” Isaiah 55:1-2 (NIV)
11 The Lord will guide you always; he will
satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You
will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Isaiah 58:11 (NIV)
3 Because
your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. 4 I will praise you as long as I
live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. Psalms 63:3-4 (NIV)
10 Whoever
loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied
with his income. This too is meaningless. Ecclesiastes 5:10 (NIV)
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will
give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my
yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew
11:28-30 (NIV)
18 I pray
also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know
the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in
the saints, 19 and
his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working
of his mighty strength, 20 which
he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his
right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion,
and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the
one to come. 22 And
God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over
everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills
everything in every way. Ephesians
1:18-23 (NIV)
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have
come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10 (NIV)
16 I pray
that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his
Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with
all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of
Christ, 19 and to
know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure
of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than
all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church
and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:16-21 (NIV)
BUTTER
“He who is a
believer in Jesus finds enough in his Lord to satisfy him now, and to content
him for evermore. The believer is not
the man whose days are weary for want of comfort, and whose nights are long
from absence of heart-cheering thought, for he finds in Christ such a spring of
joy, such a fountain of consolation, that he is content and happy. Put him in a dungeon and he will find good
company; place him in a barren wilderness, he will eat the bread of heaven;
drive him away from friendship, he will meet the ‘friend that sticketh closer
than a brother.’ Blast all his gourds,
and he will find shadow beneath the Rock of Ages; sap the foundation of his
earthly hopes, but his heart will still be fixed, trusting in the Lord. The heart is as insatiable as the grave till
Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to overflowing. There is such a fullness in Christ that He
alone is the believer’s all. The true
saint is so completely satisfied with the all-sufficiency of Jesus that he
thirsts no more – except it be for deeper draughts of the living fountain.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“You know to what extent You have already changed me, You who first healed me of the lust of vindicating myself, so that You might forgive all my remaining iniquities, and heal my diseases, and redeem my life from corruption, and crown me with loving-kindness and tender mercies, and satisfy my desire with good things.” St. Augustine
“Do not give your
heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.” Abba
Poemen
“If
I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the
most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” C.S.
Lewis
“Because
I love you, I’m asking you to guard your heart from anyone or anything that can
steal you away from Me. Remember, My love, this world offers a counterfeit Life
that will never fulfill you. What I create for you will satisfy your soul; what
the enemy offers will satisfy your flesh for a while. However, in the end the
world’s way leads to destruction. If your heart wanders and you are not
equipped with My Word, you will be unable to discern the difference between
real faith and counterfeit religion.” Sheri
Rose Shepherd
“Father,
as we’re here today, please help us to rid our hearts and minds of the clutter
that is within them. Our thoughts are
clouded by worldly matters - things that don’t matter. Our hearts seek after things that don’t
satisfy. We run after the perishable and
fail to seek the imperishable. Forgive
us, Father. May Your Spirit remind us of
Your Presence in all of our lives- all of the time. Guide us.
Let our thoughts and words and attitudes be pleasing to You. Let us imitate Christ. Give us His mind and His attitude. Strip us of our pride and self-sufficiency
and may we be humble as Jesus showed Humility.
In the Name of Jesus, Who humbled Himself to death, even death on the
Cross, for us, we pray.” Roger
Killian
HEART
SAVOR
- · Christ is my sufficiency, Christ is my strength. In Him is complete fullness and abundance of life both now and eternally.
- · When one is filled with Christ everything else worldly received is superfluous, merely icing on the cake, a cherry on top – good, but not necessary.
- · My soul finds rest in God alone.
