A prayer to refill your empty spirit by Christine Brown, read by Liam Arton.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love may have power, together with all the

Lord's holy people to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know

this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of

God. Ephesians 3 17 through 19. This morning I grabbed a cup of coffee and settled into my favorite

chair to start my morning prayer time. I thumbed through the pages of my prayer journal where I

record needs to bring before the Lord in prayer. Keeping a journal helps me stay focused as I pray.

Only today, something remarkable happened while pausing to reflect on each page. I noticed

prayer after prayer that I'd recorded in past months and realized that God had answered many of

those prayers. I suddenly felt an indescribable fullness of God's love. My heart swelled and gratitude

overcame me. Tears poured out and I couldn't contain them. I knew then that this must have been how

David felt when he spoke the words of Psalm 235, my cup overflows. Because in that moment I felt

God refilling my spirit. We can go through our daily routine feelings spiritually depleted.

Sometimes our cup is empty and we don't even know it because we've been going through the motions

for so long. Thankfully, throughout God's word, we see evidence of His outpouring of love for our

empty spirits. Today's verse from Ephesians is part of a prayer by the Apostle Paul for the

Church of Ephesians. He prayed for the people to have strength from the Holy Spirit, Jesus

living in their hearts and the fullness of God's love. Paul also wrote about God's fulfilling love

in Romans 515. And hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our hearts

through the Holy Spirit who's been given to us. When we feel empty, nothing fills us like God's love.

By taking time in my morning routine to reflect on God's goodness in my life,

I sensed His presence overcome my emptiness. God filled me to overflowing and He'll do the same

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