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Renee, thank you so much for accepting who God made you to be and living it out to the fullest. As a single mom I at times put to much on my children than I should. With the finances and our need for a vehicle it can get so overwhelming at times. I needed to hear this at this moment. I pray constantly and I know the more I read and learn of our Heavenly Father the more I will understand. All I can say is that I trust God and that I accept His will. Sweet Jesus fill my empty places with your unfailing love, change my heart Lord, I accept your strength and I know this situation will not last forever for you Lord will bring everything together for your glory. Amen
What a beautiful illustration of what we most definitely need to fill our spirits,minds and hearts! I am already growing so much from this study and feel like scales are being taken off of my eyes. As this is happening more light is radiating into me and my love and connection to Jesus is becoming so much more alive!!!! I feel like my spirit is “dancing” to the rhythm of the love that Jesus has for me. Renee, thank you for this study and may God bless you and all of the women who are partaking in this with me!
This has been one of the biggest realizations I’ve had in the past three years: I was dependent on people and things to fill me and it was killing me how empty I remained.
What I love about this illustration is how perfect it would be for young girls; they could even participate by putting the objects in the jar.
I can’t wait to show this to my daughter when she’s a little older; because her father chooses to be mostly absent from her life, I am desperate to teach her early where the truth sense of worth comes from! I don’t want her to struggle for 36 years like I have!
Good Morning Renee, Hope you are well today. I have watched the video and I so much feel the way the jar does. I try and fill it up whit everything and anything and nothing works. I have been trying to change that since last November 2012. With this study and my new Church I’m getting better days and somedays I’m not so good. But I’m learning to lean on God more and more. When this study is over I want my jar filled with the Living water at all times and over flowing. I love and Know God is the one and only just waiting for my heart to catch up. Thank you and God Bless you and people like you for ever. In Christ love Amen.
P.S. May all the women in this study including me let God Fill and fulfill us today. Amen
Boy this hit the nail on the head for me today. Before my divorce two years ago I expected my husband and children to fill my every need for unconditional love. I have learned since then the only one I can rely on is God. Things are great but they are just that things. They won’t get me into heaven to spend eternity with God. I can not say that these last couple of years have been easy, as a matter of fact they have been downright hard, but they have been a great growth experience for me. My kids on the other hand, well they are teenagers and we have no cable or internet enough said. No really after the six months with out it they have adjusted and we have spent more quality time together. Don’t get me wrong I do not advocate divorce. If I had my choice I would have fought a lot longer. But God has used this experience to bring me to rely on him more fully. Now if he would just see things my way on going back to school we would be all set. Actually I have decided that I am going to give up that fight (two years is long enough, I guess). Bit if you would pray fo
Let me finish that statement. Would you please pray for clarity in the degree. I think it has to do with children but not exactly sure. Thank you everybody for your encouragement.
Jill, I pray that God will give you the wisdom and direction that you need.
Thank you Renee. I needed this at the precise moment I received it. You were a part of answering my cry to Jesus. Praise The LORD!
I loved this message! For so long I have been living for others` approval, namely my parents and relatives, who are always quick to point out everything I do wrong and how I just don’t measure up of what a Christian should be. I’m discovering that God wants me to live for Him, not for others. He is the One who will love me without fail. But I struggle with finding that place of loving my parents without putting value in their opinion of me ( which is that I’m not meeting their expectations). Please pray for me!
Thanks for the reminder! What a wonderful video message to start the day. It is so easy to forget in our day to day routine that He is all we need.
Thank you!
Blessings to you Renee! The video is so true, I always find myself wanting more of those things that can’t feel the hole in my heart. Lately, I have been seeking God on a much deeper level. With the loss of my sweet brother 6 months ago and my precious niece shortly brfore that, I have felt a tremendous hole in my heart. I went into a deep depression and only by Gods grace am I here today. I tried to get busy to avoid the pain, that didn’t work either. One day I was up, the next down, over and over. I do have a relationship with God, but something is missing. I know what that is…truly trusting and having confidence in the LORD!! So thankful to have found you ( that was no coincidence ). Through this study and bible study, God is lifting me up and filling me up with His everlasting word and love. I am finding Joy in my suffering!! Praise Jesus!!!
All day yesterday, into the long early hours in the morning, I wrestled with God.
Now I have a better understanding as what part of my wrestling is about.
I thirst for the Father’s unconditional love for me. This video gave me a better understanding
that I don’t need to fight and wrestle for God’s love. It’s already there, and ready for me to
receive it. I am encouraged to forge ahead in my walk of faith, one step at a time. Thank you for the reminder.
Love the video Renee and thanks for the study notes to the video, I am a note taker so loved that you did that for us! Thanks for showing us how we let other things try and fill us to no avail. Only God can do that. I pray that all of us will let God fill us and not rely on things, people, food is my issue. Praying that we will all only look to HIM.
Hi Renee,
Thank you for these videos. What a wonderful way to illustrate what our “humanness” naturally goes for vs what God, in His Word, tells us to strive for, to find that wonderful, unconditional, pure, Godly love! It’s through the living water that Jesus promises. That made my day! Thank you. I may use that sometime with my kids, so thank you for being so invested and allowing God to use your live so mightily! I am looking forward to digging deep with everyone!
Agape,
Cindy
What a great illustration and so well timed for me personally. It’s so easy to split back into old habits of expecting people to fulfill me in a way that only God can do. Thanks for the message. I’m loving the book as well.
Loved the video! I went to a Woman of Joy conference this past weekend and heard the same message there! God is dealing with me on this subject of allowing Him to fill my empty places. Being a Pastors wife you would think I should have everything together however I have ALWAYS struggled with self confidence. I think I’m actually afraid of it? If that makes sense?? I have always turned to other things to fill in whether it was relationships with the male species (lol), my children, my job, my poisition as Pastors wife, or anything else you mentioned in the video.
God is revealing to me that I need to look to Him and Him alone for fulfillment and love! Instead of talking to others about my concerns or problems…….take them to the only ONE that can help me!
Praying that God will continue to help me in this struggle and me to allow Him to teach me about His unfailing and unconditional love!!!
Renee thank you so much for allowing God to use you. Your ministry is important! I need it! 🙂
That was wonderful! Thank you so much! God is really working on my heart and I’m overwhelmed daily by the teachings and reading in this Bible study. God’s timing is perfect! I felt such peace when you poured the water into the jar. That’s what God’s love brings. Peace. Instead of the hectic, busy, constant demands the other ‘things’ bring along with them. I pray God transforms my thinking in a lasting, life-changing way through teachings like today’s.
Thank you!!!
This was a great illustration. I have spent a lot of time trying to fill those empty spaces in my life with all those material things. With acceptance of people. I know deep down inside that only God can fill the empty places of my life. But, for some reason, I get distracted. Now my closets are full, my house is full, and I am frustrated by all the clutter. I want my house filled with the Lord, I want my house so filled with God, that it spills out. I want to be satisfied by Him and filled with His unfailing love. I need to empty out and make some room for Him. I have allowed clutter and things to crowd the Lord out! I am going to give some things away….material….and spiritual, I need to make room….so God can continue to fill my heart.
Thank you Renee for this beautiful reminder to be filled with the right thing! I saw an email this morning with the scripture of Proverbs 30:8. Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor wealth; feed me with the food I need. God knows our hearts and EXACTLY what we need. Taking the time to stop and still ourselves for God’s word to penetrate our hearts is when we can hear God speak to us. Taking the time to still is when our souls will truly come alive!! I desire and crave God’s balance in my life. Only He knows what I need to grow!!
Thank you for the reminder I sometimes get off track ….Love your illustration.
Definitely an eye opener and hopefully the beginning of something beautiful for my Lord and I.I am a visual person, so I will be physically doing that jar for myself and placing it so I can remind my self . I really loved thegift box…been there done that. Thank you
The visual presentation that Renee shared with us is priceless. I have been guilty of filling my jar with so much “stuff” in my life. However, seeing the jar filled with living water, just takes my breath away. I will treasure this in my heart as God continues to fill me. Thank you everyone for your comments!
Hi Renee
Very good picture of how we try to fill the places only God can fill
Jesus invites us to drink of his water that only he can give. Every time I am focused on him I am filled and content. When I let myself become distracted by something and my focus comes off Jesus I begin to feel those empty places and my needs begin to scream at me . Then I start trying to fill myself.
Too much food too much TV, too much shopping, too much bad reaction to the actions of others.
When I am looking to Jesus it is well with my soul as the old hymn says. Thanks for this message and for writing the book. I am connecting to other women who needed to hear about Gods perfect father love for them too. One has joined the study and is now on the way to salvation. May our perfect Father continue to bless and possibly save the women who participate in it with us.
Love and prayers
Michele