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THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY HUMBLE PAGE - I GUESS IT WOULD BE THE RIGHT THING TO TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT ME -FIRST OF I AM VERY DEVOUT CHRISTIAN MAN WHO IS VERY SERIOUS ABOUT MY WHERE I WILL SPEND MY ETERNITY - THE 23 PSALMS 5 VERSE ENDS WITH, "MY CUP RUNETH OVER." I BELIEVE THAT MY CUP RUNNETH THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD AND THAT HE DO PROVIDE ALL - IF YOU AREN`T SURE ABOUT WHAT YOU BELIEVE CONCERNING GOD, PRAY ABOUT IT AND ASK HIM TO GUIDE YOU TO THE TRUTH AND HE WILL. YOU READ MY BIO IF YOU WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH ME, DROP A LITTLE NOTE AND I WILL RESPOND.


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MY CUP RUNNETH OVER


Psalm 23:5 *MY CUP RUNNETH OVER*


There are four words that explain how I feel today and those four words are in the 23 Psalms verse 5 the last four words I want you to read with me now the last four words, *my cup runneth over. Every once in awhile your cup ought to run over.

In other words, I am so full of the joy of Jesus Christ that I just can't contain it all ¿ my cup runneth over.
Have you ever been there where you was so happy the words could not express what you was feeling at the moment. And sometimes tears of joy began to swell up in your eyes, because only the tears can express how you're feeling at the moment. David said here, ¿my cup runneth over.

I recall a short story by Dr. G. W. Target entitled the window. In that story it is told of two elderly men who shared a hospital room. One lay in a bed next to a wall and another lay in a bed next to a window, the one and only window in that hospital room. The man who slept in the bed next to the window was a man whose life had been full of joy, he always had something good to say about people and people always had something good to say about him, his cup was running over.

On the contrary the man who lay in the bed next to the wall had lived a wicked and treacherous life. He had nothing good to say about anybody and nobody had anything good to say about him. His cup was not running over. But somehow these two men formed a union together, they talked together, they shared ideas together and for one hour out of everyday that union was severed when the nurse would come in and she would prop up the man who lay next to the window, so that she could drain fluid from his lungs.

But while he was propped up for that one hour he would manuver his body over to the curtain of the window and pull it open. And for one hour he would share with the other man next to the wall the sights that he saw on the other side of the window. Can I tell you what he saw, He saw fathers teaching their sons how to fish in the lake on the other side of the window and he told the man next to the wall about it. He saw mother pushing their daughters in the swing in the park on the other side of the window and he told the man next to the wall about it.
He saw young lovers walking and smiling at each other holding hands in the pasture on the other side of the window and he told the man in the bed next to the wall about it.

And what he told that man that lay next to the wall kind of helped that man to gain a little bit more strength to make it through another day. But one day, you know the devil work, you do know the devil don't you, you are familiar with Satan, You do know how he works on mind.One day as it would happen a foreign thought entered the mind of the man by the wall. Do you want to know what that thought was?His thought was, Why is he the one who get's to lay next to the window.


I would like to see fathers teaching their sons how to fish, I would like to see mothers pushing their daughters on the swing and I would like to see young lovers walking and talking in the pasture. Why is he the one that get to see it all and tell me about it? One night as it would happen the man who had the bed next to the window began to gasp for air and began to whisper help, help me, I am dying. And the man who was laying in the bed next to the wall could have pushed the nurses button and saved the man next to the window.

But because of the envy in his heart he wouldn't do it. The man died that night and the nurse came in the next morning and discovered the dead body and called for the undertaker to roll him out. As the nurse and the undertaker was rolling him out, the man in the bed next to the wall said, excuse me nurse do you mind rolling my bed next to the window. They rolled his bed over next to the window and gave her a smile and said now I can see father's teaching their son¿s how to fish, mother's pushing their daughter's in the swing, now I can see young lovers walking in the pasture and he braced himself up and he grabbed the curtain of that window pulled the curtain back to see all this stuff on the other side but to his dismay all he saw was a blank brick wall.

Rev. what in the world are you trying to tell us, what I am trying to say brothers and sisters is the moral of this story is happiness is a choice. Contentment is a choice, contentment and happiness is not based on your circumstances but your perception. Your happiness is not based on what you have to look at but your happiness is based on what you have.


There may be somebody here today who is discouraged because it don¿t look like you have much. There may be someone here today that is down and discouraged because you are bound by the myths of today. You do know what some of the myths aretoday don't you? Let me share with you a few of them, one of the myths of society today is people are saying, if I can have something else then that would make me happy, guess what? That's a lie.

We have learned that life does not consist of the abundance of things, life does not consist of how much stuff you acquire, how many things you can buy. That does not ultimately bring you true joy, because if you were honest with yourself and was honest with the lord we would have to be willing to admit the more you have the more you want. And, so things will not really bring you true joy.

And there is somebody saying, if I could just go somewhere else then that will make me happy. Well that's a lie, because happiness is not geographical. We can never learn to be happy anywhere in life until we first learn how to be happy right where we are. We are always trying to run somewhere looking for happiness, thinking that if we can relocate we can find some happiness, but don¿t you know when you relocate you are going to take you with you and you is half the problem.

There are some people who say if I could just be with someone else. If I can just be with someone else then I'll be happy but guess what that's a lie because if your self esteem is so low to where you need another human being to validate your existence, that person will never be able to make you happy no matter what he or she does.

The truth is if you have Jesus in your life, if you are saved and you¿re born again, if you¿re filled with the Holy Spirit it's then and only then that you¿re able to shout, my cup runneth over.
How many of you know that the Lord is good? How many of you know that the Lord is kind.
The Bible talk about how good he is, Psalm 34:8 says, "O taste and see that the Lord is Good". Is there anybody in here that's ever tried Him.

Anybody, here knows he's a good God. He'll watch over you and he¿ll protect you even when you can't do it for yourself, He's a good God? Psalms 68:19 says, "Bless be the Lord who daily loads us with benefits He's the God of our salvation."

Lamentation 3:22, 23 say, "it's because of the Lords mercy that we are not destroyed his compassion are never failing they are new every morning and great is His faithfulness."
John 10:10 says, "the thief comes at night but to steal and to kill and destroy but Jesus says that I've come that you might have Life and not just any old Life but Life more abundantly."
So I'm a witness here today that the Lord I serve is a good God. Tell your neighbor he's a Good God. And so David says let me tell you how good God is He¿s so good to me that he prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

Don't you know that you don¿t have to bug and badger God to bless you, don't you know God is ready, He's willing and he's able to provide your need, he provides for His children and we don't ever have to beg him to make him do for us if we live right before Him, he's ready he's willing and he's able to bless us.

I would like to say that just because we¿re all here today is a proven fact that we¿re all beneficiares of God's extravagant benevolence. God has been good to all of us, he has been better to us then we've really have been to ourselves and because of that we can say, my cup runneth over.
<<br /> Now there's somebody out there who's saying Revern are you suggesting that I deny reality. Are you suggesting that I am just acting like I dont have any problems. Well first of all you must realize who wrote that passage, from the beginning David knew about trouble.

David didn't live an easy life, David was hunted down by King Saul, and he had never done Saul anything. David had afamily that was falling apart. David wasbeing exiled from his own throne and almost lost his kingdom not at the hand of some enemy but at the hand of his very own son. David was a man whose friend sold him out to his enemies.

David had some problems but yet when he looked at his problems and when he shared his problems in the light of what God was doing for him. He said even though I¿m having some problems.

Even though I'm having some trials.imikimi -