Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Hello.

I want to welcome everybody, all of our campuses, everyone watching online, everyone in the room.

Are you expecting for all that God will do in this place?

I mean, what a title of a series.

Let me listen to it again. Ready? Empowered. Anyone wants some power? Living a spirit-filled life.

Not spiritually empty, not spiritually exhausted, but spiritually filled.

Are you ready?

A minute I think of that, I think of an illustration.

It kind of has become my like life illustration and it's that of a cup.

I grew up in church and was told, go love everybody and I said, sure.

So I ran around and I had my little cup of love,

and I'd splash love on people. You're welcome this side. And then I'd, you know, run over and splash love over here. And then I, you know, was on sports teams. And then I was on head coaches

and teachers and friends. And then I got married, and then I had kids.

And when I had kids, I had realized something about my cup.

And it was this.

The problem wasn't me loving people.

That's wonderful.

I highly recommend it.

Jesus commands it, so, you know.

But here's what I would do.

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