Blessed are Those Who Trust in the Lord

Blessed are Those Who Trust in the Lord
Jeremiah 17:5-10
December 13-14, 2025

Open to Jeremiah. We're going to get back into our study of Jeremiah, and we'll begin in verse 5. The title of our message: Blessed are those who trust in the Lord. Been gone a couple of weekends. Pastor Matthew and I were in Israel. It really was an amazing week there. We were with 1000 pastors from around the US gathered there in Israel. We went to the site of that attack on October 7th at the Nova Festival site.

We heard from some of the survivors, and we heard stories, of course, of tragedy. We prayed, and we worshiped and prayed for the peace of Israel, prayed for Jerusalem as the Scripture tells us to do. We went to the Kibbutz. There were many that were attacked, but we went to the main one and walked through the streets. This is where 65 were killed, I think 19 taken hostage. We walked through the streets.

No one is living there now, but we walked through. It's just tragic, just breaks your heart. The bullet holes are there, the destruction is there. They have these little memorial placards in front of each home as who died there. Interestingly, the IDF soldier, this girl that was guiding us through at one point said, "My brother died here." Just moving. So many stories of heroism as well as tragedy.

Then also we went to Jerusalem and gathered on the southern steps that led up to the temple. These would be the same steps that Jesus would've walked to enter into the temple. Can you imagine 1000 believers in Jesus Christ, pastors from all over the country gathering there worshiping. We spent the evening worshiping. You could see the city there laying out. It was surreal. I recorded some of it on my phone, and just amazing. Can you imagine just worshiping boldly in the name of Jesus there in Jerusalem? It was powerful.

Then we went to Mount of Olives, the place where Jesus ascended, of course, in the Book of Acts. Also, where, on that triumphant entry, when Jesus descended on the Mount of Olives. There, he saw Jerusalem laid out before Him, and He prayed, really crying, said, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how I've longed to gather you as a hen will gather her chicks under her wing, but you will not have it. Behold your city is laid to you, desolate," as He wept over them. There in that place, we gathered together on Sunday morning, and we worshiped, we prayed. It was surreal, just amazing.

We went to the site of Shiloh, which is where when Israel first entered into the Promised Land, they set up the tabernacle there at Shiloh. They carved out the rock, set up the tabernacle. We were standing in the place where the holy of holies dwelt, and worshiped and prayed. It was just amazing. Just so thankful for the opportunity. Of course, can't wait to go back to Israel. Many of you will be joining us. We're going to take a trip there come this fall. I'm excited for that as well.

Anyway, glad to be back. Glad to be in Jeremiah, and let's open our hearts to receive from God's word. Let's pray. Lord, we honor you and thank you for your word. We know that you ascended in power to reveal your heart after us. God, we ask that you pour out your Spirit of life through your word, that you would meet us here to reveal your heart, your glory to us through your word. We pray in Jesus' name. Everyone said, Amen.

God sent Jeremiah to call the people back to revival because the nation has wandered away from God. He's going to give them, you'll read it here, warnings about what happens to a people or a nation that wanders away, turns their heart away from God. As He's calling them to come back, you have no idea the blessings that God would do if you had only come back. That's why the message, blessed are those who trust in the Lord. He's casting a vision over their life.

It's good for us. The same vision is true. You have no idea what God would do. He is wanting us to understand if we would trust in the Lord, because He's showing us and them that faith or the lack of faith has real-life consequences. Blessed are those who trust in the Lord. You'll see it in your life. There is a source of life. There is a well of living water that not only refreshes the soul but becomes the source of blessing in your life.

It's one of the great themes that runs through the entire Bible. Blessed are those who trust in the Lord. It stands in direct contrast to the barrenness of the human condition of relying on anything else other than God. They were relying on the false words of the prophets. Oh, we're good. No worries. We can trust in this false message. If not, no worry, we got Egypt to fall back on. They're relying on any other than the Lord.

It's like, where does your help come from? On whom do you rely for strength? In whom do you put your trust? Jeremiah is calling them to revival. Put your trust in God and God alone, and blessings will be yours, and strength will be yours as a nation. Now, that's an important word, a nation. You look at our nation today, if you look around in our nation, could you guess as to what might be our national motto? What is the motto of the United States of America?

Maybe perhaps it's capitalism is the way to glory. Maybe it's to thy known self be true. Maybe it's he who has the most toys wins. You might be surprised to know that the official motto of the United States is In God We Trust. It's written on our currency and is actually the law of the land passed by Congress in 1956, that it would be our national motto that it must be on all the currency.

It actually started in the Civil War. The Union soldiers wanted to strengthen their morale and belief that God was with-- In God We Trust, but it became official under President Eisenhower, passed into law so that it is the official law of the land; In God We Trust. Problem, it's not true. The nation no longer relies on God. In fact, great efforts are made to remove God from all institutions. I submit to you that the farther that this nation removes itself from God, the weaker that it will become.

Anybody want to agree with me on this? This is a great problem, a great concern because there is a spiritual principle at work. That spiritual principle applies whether it be a person, a people, or a nation. That is that when you rely on God, you are strengthened and increased. When you turn away from God and rely on anything else as a source of strength, you'll become weaker and weaker and weaker. It's true as a people, as a nation, or as a person. It's a question and a matter of faith.

In Jeremiah 17, the prophet is telling them that God called them out of all the nations in the world, God called them to be the people of God, a people of renown, under the name, a people of praise, and a people of glory. In other words, you have no idea what God would do. He wants to do so amazing blessing on your nation, on your families, and on your lives. A people of renown, a people of glory, a people of praise. He wants to do so much wonderful things.

If you would turn away from God and put your trust in idols or the wisdom of the world or in Egypt or any other place, then you'll find that the nation is barren and weak and empty. You'll be like a shrub in the desert, parched places in the wilderness, and you'll be lost and alone, empty, and barren. That's the warning, but there's an encouragement of blessings with it. Let's read it. Jeremiah 17, we begin in verse 5.

I. Beware the Dangers of Reliance on Man

"Thus says Jehovah, thus says the Lord," notice, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength." He's turned away. His heart has turned away from the Lord. "He will be like a bush in the desert, and he will not see when prosperity comes." No, he's removed himself. He's living in the desert. "He lives in stony places in the wilderness, a land of salt without habitation." Then he turns to the other blessings. "Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose trust is the Lord, for he will be like a tree planted by the water."

That's the opposite of a bush in the wilderness. "It will extend its roots by a stream, and it will not fear when the heat comes. Its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious or fearful in a year of drought, it will not cease to yield fruit. Then verse 9 is famous. He's bringing it right down to the crux of the matter, the heart. He says, famous verse, "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick. "Who can understand this?

Now he's calling attention to the fact that we were born in the condition of man. This is describing the condition in which everyone is born. That the heart is deceitful above all else and is desperately sick. This is our condition, but thanks be to God, the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ is such that you don't have to live that way anymore. That God sent His Son to seek and to save that which was lost because of the sin and condition of man, that He would redeem them out of that condition reconcile them to the heavenly Father, and that they would be given a hope and a life and a glory and a Savior that is beyond compare. That's the gospel of Jesus Christ. Can we give God praise?

Then he says in verse 10, "For I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind," literally the inner man, or in Hebrew it's the kindies, it's the inner man. "I even give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds." It says here in this verse that everyone will give an account of their life. At the end of the age, everyone will stand before the throne of the Almighty and give an account of their lives.

Here again, the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ, because if you have received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, then you have had your sins forgiven, even reconciled to God, and He gives to you as a gift the very righteousness of God, which is found in Christ Jesus our Lord. Then on that day when you stand before the throne of the Almighty God, you can stand there knowing that the righteousness of God is yours.

You can stand there with the confidence of knowing that God has given you the hope of eternal life. You can be confident on that day your sins have been removed, and the righteousness of God is yours. That's a glorious day. Can we give God praise? That's our understanding of the gospel. [applause] These words are very important to understand. We'll look at the other verses, of course, Wednesday at the midweek verse-by-verse service.

Starting with verse 5. Notice he's giving the warnings. Beware the dangers of reliance on men, on anything other than God. In fact, he says, "Cursed be the man." Very strong word. It's an important word to understand. I did a deep dive into this word. It's important. Now people don't like the word, which I couldn't certainly understand why. It brings to mind the realm of spiritual darkness, bringing perhaps spiritual power against them.

That's not what he's referring to here in chapter 17. He's not speaking of the realm of spiritual darkness. He's speaking of God himself, who can bring blessing and the opposite of blessing. Cursed is the man who does not heed the words of the Lord. Let me remind you of what God said in Genesis 12 to Abram, later known as Abraham, where he said a great promise, "I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse." They are opposites of one another, which helps us to understand what He gives here as a warning.

A. Do not wander in waste places

He's saying in verse 6, "Do not wander into waste places." Notice verse 6. The one who walks away from the Lord, turns away from God, will be like a bush in the desert. He will not see when prosperity comes. He'll live in stony places in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitants. Don't wander in waste places. Wouldn't it be a tragedy if you got to the end of your life and you look back and you thought, "I wasted my life?"

Life is precious. Life is a gift. Life is to be lived to glory. What a tragedy if you look back and you thought, "I wasted my life." Back in the '60s, when the drug culture was really permeating society, someone would take drugs, and then they would say they got wasted. That is an appropriate word. You'll waste your life. What a tragedy. It's the condition of one who's wandered away from the Lord, and instead of trusting in the Lord, he trusts in flesh as his strength. He's turned away from the Lord.

There is this contrast between blessing and being cursed. You might think of it in terms of subtraction and addition. Here's what I mean. If a person wanders away from the Lord and wanders into the wilderness, it's really a picture of the wilderness of the world. He is removing himself from the place of blessing and favor and bringing himself into waste places. That is subtraction. You wander away from the Lord, into desert places, and you're walking away from all that God would bless you. Subtraction, subtraction, less and less and less.

I tell you what, the blessing of God is very important to me. I don't want anything to stand in the way of God's greatest blessing in my life. Anybody want to agree with that? Nothing in the way. I want nothing to take away. See, it's subtraction when you wander away. Subtraction. Less and less and less. It's like that proverb, 'A fool and his money are soon parted." Less and less and less.

The one who wanders away from God will soon find that he's walked away from the greatest blessing of his life. He's wandering into a wasteland. It's like the person who walks and does the world thing. Anyone who's done the world thing knows that the spiritual life is drained. It's like someone took the plug out of the bottom, and the spiritual life is just being drained, drained, drained out of the soul. It's not a good condition. You can feel the spiritual life just being drained out of you, subtraction, taken away, taken away, less and less and less.

B. Don’t be a bush in the desert

In other words, he's saying, don't be like a bush in the desert. It's powerful imagery. Picture a lone, scraggly bush in the Judean wilderness, twisted, thirsty, barely clinging to life. He says, "And he will not see when prosperity comes." Because he's removed himself from the place of blessing and so when it rains, it does not bless him because he's out there in the desert. He's not living in the fruitfulness or vibrancy of blessing of God. No, he's removed himself. He's living in waste places.

He says, "He dwells in salt lands uninhabited." Salt land, of course, evokes the idea of the Dead Sea, where nothing grows. It's a symbol of desolation. The one who wanders into the wilderness is living in a land of salt. It's the appropriate description because salt is poisonous to a tree. It cannot flourish. It's a picture, of course, of the worldliness of the world that poisons the salt. Instead of fresh living water, they drink salt water.

It's a perfect illustration. Have you ever seen a documentary or read about people that are shipwrecked or whatever, and they're on the ocean, and they're on a raft, and there is the water. There are days and days they're out there, and they're just thirsty and thirsty, and they're thirsty surrounded by water. What is that old expression? Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. They're thirsty, they're driven, and they're so tempted to drink this seawater, the saltwater, because they crave, they desire water.

There's water, and they're thirsty so they drink the water, and it makes them worse. Salt water makes you worse. Little by little and kills them. That is an image. That's such a perfect picture of those that are drawn, the human soul thirsts. We know it's true. The soul within us long searches, craves, desires. It longs for meaning and purpose and significance and relationship and love. We weren't made for love.

We look along for love, and we look along for meaning and relationships. We're searching. We're thirsty, and we're thirsty. People go into the world because there's water everywhere. It's everywhere. Water is everywhere. They drink it because it's water, but it doesn't satisfy. It makes it worse. They're worse at the end than they were at the beginning. Little by little, it's killing them.

It reminds me of a story. My wife and I knew this woman many years ago, who went from man to man to man to man, from one relationship to the other, they pursued a need to feel wanted. She was looking to fill that emptiness. She thought a man would do it. She was looking and searching and would go from one to the other. It only made it worse. Every time she met a new man, he was a knight in shining armor and could do no wrong.

Then shortly thereafter, it all soured and went bad, and he could do no right, so she went to another guy, another one, and then repeated it over and over and over. She was drinking seawater and little by little, it's killing her. The Lord in Jeremiah 17 is describing a spiritual condition of those whose trust they look to the flesh to satisfy the desires of the spirit. It won't satisfy. Their lives become arid, fruitless, like a bush in the desert.

II. God Blesses Those Whose Trust is the Lord

Praise God, the passage that's down there, it pivots to blessing and offers hope to any who have ears to hear. Notice verse 7, "God will bless those whose trust is the Lord." Notice verse 7. It's very subtle, distinction, endeavors, "Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose trust is the Lord." Subtle but important. Trusting in God means that you rely on him for help and provision, but trust, when God is your trust, it's a much deeper understanding.

It's like you understand that, oh God is that which fills my soul. The very presence of God is the abundance of my heart. It's a very different thing, much deeper. See, if wandering away from the Lord is subtraction, less and less and less, then dwelling near to God is the blessing of addition. More, adding, adding, more and more and more. I tell you, it's a wonderful prayer when you pray, God fill me with more. Add to my life.

I am asking that you would even let my cup overflow, Lord. More and more. Add, add, increase. I want to be in that place of greatest blessing. Blessing is addition. That's when God's hand is adding favor, wisdom. You want to walk in this life in a way that's good? You need wisdom. God says, "I will pour my wisdom into you." A wisdom. Wonderful counselor. He will give the wisdom that will increase your bearing of life. We need wisdom. Anybody want wisdom in their life? God says, "I'll pour it into your life."

What happens when God blesses the ground? He has favor to it so that it produces fruit, lush green leaves that do not wither. A land flowing with milk and honey. What a contrast. You contrast that to the desert. He says, "You will be like a tree planted by the water. It extends its roots by a stream." It's a beautiful picture. A tree planted by streams of water is strong. Its roots run deep. They have found a source of life that fills and nourishes every branch.

A. You will be like a tree planted by the water

They're just drawing in. Filling. They're drawing in. They're being filled with living fresh water. That's why their souls are blessed, contented, and filled. It' planted there, strengthened by that which it draws in. Without that, it becomes nothing. I was thinking of an illustration. A number of years ago, somebody bought a house, and it had some palm trees. They didn't want the palm trees. They knew that my wife likes palm trees.

My wife has a thing for palm trees. We live in Oregon, of all places. She loves palm trees, and so someone said, "Hey, you want these palm trees?" She said, "Oh, I would love those palm trees." Then, of course, somebody has to go get them. [laughter] I called my former Marine son, "You can help me with this." I said, "Let me dig it out. I want to make sure there's nice roots. It needs roots. Let me dig it out myself."

We get there, and the person says, "Oh, the landscaper was here. They did it." I looked at it, the landscaper just cut the roots right off. No, it's like a little tiny ball. This is August. This is not the time to be planting trees. We brought it home and dug the hole and put some dirt in it, and packed it in. Sure enough, what once was vibrant, verdant leaves started to-- one by one, they all withered. Finally, after some months, funny, there was one. One thing left.

Then it started to die from the tips and get less. We started cutting it back. Finally, there was just one branch was just that much leaf. That's it. I called it my miracle tree. If it survives, it's a miracle. We had some friends over at one time, and I was showing them my miracle tree. I said, "It's done. It's over. We're going to have to dig it up." They said, "Oh no, don't dig it up. Give it a little more time. Give it a little more." Okay, all right. You don't want to be a quitter. Okay.

Then I thought of this idea. You ever seen these-- they're like these bikes. They're like pipes with holes in them, and they got a little point on them, and you can drive them down real far. I got one of these, and I drove it right down. I thought, we're going to put the water right down to its roots. I drove it down, put the little water thing in it. Little by little, it started to put new shoots in it. Now, several years later, woaah, it came back.

Water. It's the water. You need to be filled. If you're not filled, then you're going to wilt up and die. It's like John 15:4-5, Jesus says, "He who abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from me, you can do nothing." Abiding means that you're dwelling there on the vine. The sap of the branch fills and fills. You're receiving more and more. This is the key to the life of the spirit, needing to be filled. God will add and add and add.

It's a right prayer. God add to my life, let my cup overflow even. "For apart from me, you can do nothing." That fruit is the result of abiding. The fruit comes then out of your life. It's the result of God adding and adding and pouring in so that you bring forth fruit. It's like Luke 6:45. I love quoting this verse, "The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good, for the mouth speaks," notice, "from that which fills the heart."

It's about that which fills. You need to be filled, filled, added to, added to, added to. The treasures of the Lord are the word of God, the Spirit of God, the glory of God, the joy of the Lord. God will add and add and fill and fill, and thus fruit will come out of you. Notice this fruit that comes in season. In other words, it takes time. There's a maturing process that comes from abiding. You stay there, keep going, keep abiding, stay steadfast, and you will see that which will flourish when you stay in the place of abiding and receiving and growing.

Can you imagine your life? What if you dwell there near the streams of living water? You were drinking from the river of God's delight. I love that phrase. It's just a beautiful phrase. I think it's Psalm 36, "Drink their fill from the river of your delights.' You do that, can you imagine your life? If you did that for one year, what your life would be like? If you just dwelt there, just receiving God, pouring and pouring, a year.

What transformation would come? How about two years? How about five years? What if you did it for 10 years? What about 20 years? Can you imagine in your life, 20 years of that? What would your soul be like in 20 years? What if you did that such that you were an old man or an old woman, you got gray hair now, but you've been doing it so long that God has done such a great work in you that the glory of God is greater at the end than it was at the beginning.

Isn't that what God wants to do? It comes from abiding, comes from staying in that place where you just let God pour in and pour in and pour in, pour in. It's the Holy Spirit. I love that description of the-- it's called the fruit. He bears fruit because see, it's a good word. Fruit is good. Fruit is sweet. Fruit is pleasant. Fruit is delicious. It's a good word. It pictures that that which God does is beautiful. When God does that work of transforming, it's beautiful.

It's beautiful fruit. It's sweet. It's good. It's like the fruit of the Spirit. It's sweet. It's wonderful. Notice, it's not the vegetables of the spirit, it's not the Brussels sprouts of the Spirit. It's the fruit of the Spirit because it's wonderful and good. Notice Galatians 5:22-23, "The fruit of the Spirit is love." Love is beautiful. If you have been dwelling in the nearness of God, drinking from the river of His delight, He's pouring Himself.

B. He does not cease to yield fruit

God is love. You can't help it. You're going to be transformed by that love. Can't help it. You drink from that river of delight, something's going to happen. You have joy. People would look at you and see this joy and say, "You have this joy. Where did you get this joy?" To me, that's a great phrase. Where did you get it? God gave it to you. It comes from God pouring joy. Jesus says, "My joy I give to you. I give it to you." "Where did you get that joy?" "God gave it to me. God poured that."

Peace. You have this deep residing peace. "Where did you get that?" People say, "Where did you get such peace?" God did that. God gave it to you. Patience. Patience is beautiful. Where did you get such patience? It's amazing this patience that you have. Where did you get it? You weren't born with it. God gave it to you. It's the result of God. God gave that to you. Kindness. Kindness is beautiful. Treat people with kindness.

Where did you get that? You weren't born with it. We were born with selfishness. Where did you get the kindness? God gave that to you. Goodness, faithfulness, gentleness. Where'd you get that? Where did you get that? You weren't born with it. God gave it to you. Self-control. Where did you get that? You weren't born with it. God gave it to you. Notice it says, "He does not cease to yield fruit. He bears fruit."

You know the difference between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea? You say, "Well, yes, the Dead Sea's dead." Right, but why? Why is the Dead Sea dead, and the Sea of Galilee not dead? Answer, because the Sea of Galilee it receives fresh water. From the waters of the Jordan, fresh water pours into the sea, but also it pours it out. It receives, and it pours it out. It gives it. Dead Sea, it receives and receives and receives, and nothing ever comes out, and so it's dead.

James 4:3, "You ask and do not receive because you ask with wrong motives so that you may spend it on your pleasures." It's the one who always takes, takes, takes always. "It's always me. It's always about, "I want me." Take, take, take and never gives. The person who never appreciates what people do for them. They want more. They never give. The one who receives living water and is transformed by that living water refreshes and blesses those around them. That is the fruit that blesses those around them.

It's like Matthew 6:33, "Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness," and notice, "And all of these things will be added." Added, added, added. He will give and increase, adding and adding. I tell you what, you'll never regret planting your life by the streams of living water, by delighting in the word of God, by delighting in the river of His delight. You have found a source of life, plant there, stay there, and God will pour blessings upon blessings.

I tell you what, if you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, He begins by pouring out forgiveness. Oh, what a glorious gift is the forgiveness of God. Every sinner who's been forgiven is thankful for that. Amen. Then He gives to you reconciliation. He reconciles you to the Father. Then He gives to you the Holy Spirit of the living God. "Be ye filled," that's what the word says. Ephesians. "Be ye filled." Filled means filled, poured into, poured into, poured into. That's the word of God.

"Be filled by the Holy Spirit." God is adding to your soul. The fruit of the Spirit is beautiful. He says, "You want more? Ask." I love it when people ask for more. You want more? I'll give you more. Luke 11:9-13, Jesus says, "I say to you, I say, ask." You want more? Ask for it. "And it will be given to you. Seek, and you'll find it. Knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds, to him that knocks it will be opened."

You want more? Ask. I would love to pour more, more into your heart. It's a right prayer. Just pray to the Lord, "God, pour more," because that's what transforms you. That's what blesses your life and blesses the people around your life. Then he gives an interesting analogy. He says, "Now, suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish? He wouldn't give him a snake instead of a fish." Nobody. "Or if his son asked for an egg, he wouldn't give him a scorpion. No. If you then being of the world know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"

C. He will not fear when the heat comes

Ask. He loves it when you ask. Then he says, here's the result, "He will not fear when the heat comes." Now, this is an important verse. There will be heat, there will be trouble, there will be difficulty. "But the one who trusts in the Lord will be like the tree planted by the water and will not fear when the heat comes." He will not even fear, it says, in a year of drought. In Israel, it's famous, it's hot. There are droughts.

We're going to read about some of that in Jeremiah. There are droughts. Even a year of drought. You know what's interesting? There is a place in Israel that, no matter how bad the drought is, it's always green. It doesn't matter how bad the drought is, it's always green there. Where? It's in the Jordan River Valley. I don't care how bad the drought is in Israel, you go down to the Jordan River Valley, and they got acres and acres and acres and acres, thousands of acres of trees, date palms. They produce some of the best dates in the world.

No matter how bad the drought is, it's always green there. Why? Because the river flows and anything planted next to it does not have to fear a drought. It's like Philippians 4:67, "Be anxious for nothing." Anxious, fear, worry, anxiety, troubles, bad news, be anxious for nothing. "But in everything, by prayer, by supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." From anxiety, from anxiety, from worry, fear.

Psalm 112:7, "Blessed is the one who reveres the Lord," it says, "For he will not fear bad news." Why? Because his heart is steadfast. Trusting in the Lord. "Blessed are those who trust in the Lord." The world is full of bad news. There will be bad news to the end of the age. There can be bad news on a personal level, bad news from a doctor, bad news at work, bad news in relationship, bad news financially, but this one is planted by the streams of living water. His soul is steadfast.

He knows that God will be with him, that God will add His presence and His strength. He will never leave him, never forsake him. That He'll walk with him through every trouble and every trial of life. His heart is steadfast because he trusts in the Lord. "Blessed is he who trusts in the Lord and whose trust is the Lord." Plant your life right there by that stream of living water, drink from the river of His delight, and your soul will be refreshed and filled.

May your prayer be to the Lord, let my cup overflow, Lord. Pour more and more and add and add. Let my cup overflow. That is the prayer that God delights to hear. Lord, we love you and thank you. We honor you for the promises that you pour out to us. You show us the way of life, but also the warnings. Don't waste your life. There is a place where your soul can dwell and be blessed because He will add and fill and increase and pour out.

Church, how many would say to the Lord today, Lord, fill and overflow my soul. You said I can ask for more, I'm asking for more. I'm asking that you pour your Holy Spirit of life upon my soul. God, do it. Do that in me. Let my cup even overflow because you have poured forth your presence and your glory and your Spirit upon my life. I'm asking God more and more, pour more. God, I want to drink from the river of your delight.

I want my soul to be filled and overflowing. Church, is that your prayer? Would you raise your hand as a way of saying that to the Lord today, God, that's my prayer. Do this in me, Lord. Thank you, God, for everyone whose desire is to be filled with more of you. The blessings of being filled and overflowing are amazing. We give you glory for it all. In Jesus' name, and everyone said. Let's give the Lord praise and glory. Can we do that?