He Satisfies Our Soul
God uses our trials and difficulties as opportunities to fill us with the Holy Spirit and meet all our needs through His riches in glory.
Charles E. Cowman preaches on the theme of bringing all our needs and difficulties to God, emphasizing that these challenges are opportunities for the Holy Spirit to work in our lives and reveal new blessings. By holding our vessels of needs before God in faith and prayer, we allow Him to intervene and display His grace and glory in ways we have never experienced before. Trusting in God's riches in glory through Christ Jesus enables us to draw upon His abundant provision and never have to rely on anything else.
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"Bring them hither to me" (Matt. 14:18.).
Are you encompassed with needs at this very moment, and almost overwhelmed with difficulties, trials, and emergencies? These are all divinely provided vessels for the Holy Spirit to fill, and if you but rightly understood their meaning, they would become opportunities for receiving new blessings and deliverances which you can get in no other way.
Bring these vessels to God. Hold them steadily before Him in faith and prayer. Keep still, and stop your own restless working until He begins to work. Do nothing that He does not Himself command you to do. Give Him a chance to work, and He will surely do so; and the very trials that threatened to overcome you with discouragement and disaster, will become God's opportunity for the revelation of His grace and glory in your life, as you have never known Him before. "Bring them (all needs) to me." --A. B. Simpson
"My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:19).
What a source--"God!" What a supply--"His riches in glory!" What a channel--"Christ Jesus!" It is your sweet privilege to place all your need over against His riches, and lose sight of the former in the presence of the latter. His exhaustless treasury is thrown open to you, in all the love of His heart; go and draw upon it, in the artless simplicity of faith, and you will never have occasion to look to a creature-stream, or lean on a creature-prop. --C. H. M.
"MY CUP RUNNETH OVER"
There is always something over,
When we trust our gracious Lord;
Every cup He fills o'erfloweth,
His great rivers all are broad.
Nothing narrow, nothing stinted,
Ever issues from His store;
To His own He gives full measure,
Running over, evermore.
There is always something over,
When we, from the Father's hand,
Take our portion with thanksgiving,
Praising for the path He planned.
Satisfaction, full and deepening,
Fills the soul, and lights the eye,
When the heart has trusted Jesus
All its need to satisfy.
There is always something over,
When we tell of all His love;
Unplumbed depths still lie beneath us,
Unsealed heights rise far above:
Human lips can never utter
All His wondrous tenderness,
We can only praise and wonder,
And His name forever bless.
--Margaret E. Barber
"How can He but, in giving Him, lavish on us all things" (Rom. 8:32).
Sermon Outline
- I. Trials and Difficulties as Opportunities for Blessings
- A. God uses them to fill us with the Holy Spirit
- B. We must bring them to God in faith and prayer
- C. He will work in them to reveal His glory and grace
- II. God's Source of Supply
- A. God Himself is the source of all our needs
- B. His riches in glory are available to us through Christ Jesus
- C. We must trust in Him and not lean on creature-props
- III. The Fullness of God's Supply
- A. When we trust in God, our cup will always run over
- B. He gives us full measure and satisfaction
- C. His love and tenderness are beyond human comprehension
Key Quotes
“Bring them (all needs) to me.” — Charles E. Cowman
“My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” — Charles E. Cowman
“There is always something over, When we trust our gracious Lord;” — Charles E. Cowman
Application Points
- We must bring our needs and difficulties to God in faith and prayer, and trust in His ability to work in them.
- God's supply is not limited, and when we trust in Him, our cup will always run over.
- We must trust in God and not lean on creature-props, and give Him a chance to work in our lives.