🙌 It's the Friday Call to Worship! 🙌

My life's direction has pivoted more than once while knee-deep in hurricane floodwaters. I have fervently prayed for more water as Cape Town faced "day zero", when we would run completely dry during a record-breaking drought. We need water to live - not too much, not too little.

The last decade has felt like a rapid variance between tidal waves and droughts in my personal life - my own cup bone dry or overly full. When heaven pours down blessings, I absorb it until I'm saturated. Like a wet towel, I can only hold so much. When life feels like a wasteland and my spirit sinks to "day zero", even the morning dew goes unnoticed as it is immediately consumed by my dry cracks.

I'm currently in a season of blessings raining down. It's a most-welcomed relief after a long, unyielding drought. But, funny enough, I find myself missing my desperate need. It's easier to remember how much I need Jesus when I'm dry. When I'm saturated, I happily let my cup get full, but it quickly gets stagnant. Stagnant water is worse no water because you don't recognize your thirst for Jesus. You don't take a drink, yet nothing can live.

This week's call to worship is to stir the water in your cup, no matter how empty or full. When the blessings are flowing, instead of running out of capacity to behold God's glory, pour what you have into another's empty cup. Then you both have space for more. When your cup is empty, look for living water in others. It was designed to be shared. We stir the waters when we connect to our Jesus, our source, in worship. Listen to Bethel's "Deep Cries Out", and stir those waters! 💦