15th May 2022 Infill Service - Simon Chaffer - Living in the overflow

Going to come and share with us. We're in our series of looking at

giving more than. Let me pray for Simon that he's going to come and

share. Father. We pray that our Lord, we say that our hearts

are open, our ears are ready to hear. Father. Would you speak

to us, whether we're watching later, whether watching now online, whether we're

in the room, Lord, are is open our hearts already? And Father,

I thank you that Lord Simon has spent time, in your word,

spent time with you. Father. Would you anoint him to bring that which

you've caused him to bring today? Father, would you speak to him and

to us through him? We pray in Jesus Mighty name, Amen, Simon

m m my name running m hm. So following on with the theme giving

more than the title that the floor game was living in the overflow. Yeah,

I'm now gonna start by talking about cars, because it's pertinent one of

our one of our friends once put diesel in her petrol car. Now,

although that this is the different nozzles, so you're not supposed to put the

diesel is not supposed to fit in the petrol car, she might surely get

the nozzle in her Reno five clear. I remember the discussions when she was

asked what's in her tank? I she said diesel, and the response to

a player the petrol car. Yes, and it costs a lot of money

to get the tank pumped out and then the engine cleaned. It's just put

petrol back in, and I will tell what nickname you after that. She

had a nickname after that which rises around with diesel. But it's not unusual

for people to put the wrong fuel in their tanks. It does happen,

and we want to talk about what's now a tank today? Join that analogy,

what's in our tank? Spiritually speaking, or to put another way,

I was living in the overflow. Foundational scripture is John ten ten. The

last part of John ten ten, the amplified version, which says, and

then a habit in abundance to the full, to the overflows, or if

you could take it back into the next sentence, I came that they might

have life, might have an enjoy life, sorry, and having abundance till

it overflows. Jesus came that we might have life and have it in abundance

till it overflows. The word life there is translated from the word zoe.

You get the name zoo Zozo, which means life funnily enough. But life

is not man made, it's God given life. Life is God given,

and God is alive. And when we overflow, we overflow with His life.

So I have a look this morning what means to us and to those

around us? Luke six and verse forty five in the amplifi version says,

we're out of the abundance or the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Out of the abundance or the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

The full verse says, I'm written from the amplified. The upright,

honorable or intrinsically good man, out of the good treasure stored in his heart,

produces what is upright, honorable and intrinsically good. And the evil man,

out of the evil stored evil store house, brings forth out which is

depraved, wicked, and intrinsically evil. But out of the abundance, the

overflow of the heart, his mouth speaks. We could say it this way.

Our heart is our tank, and what comes out of our heart flows

in abundance. Either he's a technical word, turned out good stuff or bad

stuff. And what stuff we're put in there in the natural, we go

to the petrol stage. We've got a car, and you you refuel.

It's still we're plugging our cards into a wall charge you won't we But by

the way, right now, most of us go to the petrol station and

we refuel without the petrol or diesel. When we consider our hearts, the

Bible, Bible tells us wherever we give our attention to is where our heart

will be. Wherever we give our attention to is where our hearts will be.

Products four twenty through twenty three. Put it this way, and I'll

emphasize some of the words, just to change the way if we read it,

My son, give attention to my words. Incline your ear to my

sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes. Keep them in the

midst of your heart. For their life to those who find them, and

health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out

of its springs the issues of life. Notice that I emphasize my words,

my sayings them. I'm just reading it through without that emphasis. These are

God's words that the righteous talking about. Give attention to His words, to

his sayings for their life and their health. Keep your heart with all diligence

for out of its flows or springs issues of life. So if I hearted

our tank in today's analogy, when we've got words God's words in our life,

springs or so, I guess the question is what are we giving our

attention to? What are we giving our attention to, and what are we

filling our tanks with? Because that is what's going to come out of our

mouths, either the good stuff or the bad stuff. For example, these

smartphones are very useful, but sometimes we can fill ourselves with too much content

from these rather than the word. Sometimes we can fill ourselves with fear,

with worry, with doubt, with care, with anxiety by all things that

around us or what's going in our lives. So let's say we take the

mask off today and would be real. You know what we are. We've

come to church. We all challenges. No, there's nobody he hasn't got

a challenge of some sort. And how we react to that challenge depends on

whether you get a victory in that area or not. What I mean by

that as where we overcome that challenge successfully with the word of God from my

phone, with the word of God or struggling through with anxiety and fear and

worry and all that sort of stuff, or that just me. We all

challenges, don't we. You can see a very very nice smile on our

face, you know, well, I'm going to send you best on and

look nice from the outside, But inside it can be struggling to be challenged,

can't we. So it's time to get the mask off today and just

nook chatting about this. These things I talked about don't give life. Only

one thing. One person gives life, and that's God. And God is

his word art synonymous for the same, and he wants us to be so

full of his words, so full of his life, that we don't live

with these challenges or live. Since we react to these challenges in that certain

way, we're already to have challenges. But it's how we react to those

challenges, whether we successful or not, and how we act to those challenges,

and how people see us acting those challenges can impact their life. So

that's my introduction. So I just want to touch base on some key blockers

to living in the overflow and look at how we can address those. Not

many, but either be all day. I suppose the key or the one

of the primary blockers to live in the overflow to living successfully and to being

a blessing is unforgiveness. In forgiveness is a real blocker because it hardens your

heart. If a heart's a heart, then become in effective. If you

read Mark four, I think it's from I just moved some scriptures around.

When Jesus explains a parable verse thirteen onwards, he explains that the ground is

the heart. It goes through various permittations. Not going to do that at

the time, but read that scripture. You've notice that depend on the condition

of your heart. It depending on the harvest that is you get. But

when we walk in on forgiveness forever reason we limit God. That's why Proverbs

follow tells us to keep and guard our hearts with our diligence, because that's

where the abundance of life flows. So when someone tries to mess you up,

or play with the head, or try to put into unforgiveness, we

can just say no. We have a choice about what we say and what

we do. Choices are tough things. Choices are tough things. We have

a choice, but we need to make that choice otherwise we get locked up.

Some people get locked up for years, get bitter, and get twisted.

Unforgiveness is progressive. It goes from being a bit hard to being a

bit bitter to being a bit twisted. It doesn't do the personally good.

It doesn't do the people they know any good. It's toxic. Really.

That's why Jesus said in Mark eleven through to twenty six, excuse me,

whenever you stand praying for anything, if you have anything, if you have

anything against anyone, that's quite inclusive, forgive him or forgive her. That

your father in heaven may also forgive you your trespassers. If you do not

forgive, neither will your father in heaven give you your trespassers if you do

not forgive. This is basic stuff, but you know, we start with

the foundational stuff. Because you keep, you keep. You need to keep

looking at stuff again and again and again to makes you don't miss it.

Sometimes you can get lost for the wood, for the trees, the simple

stuff you can walk into understudy towe. But it's so obvious. M hm.

So the key takeaway here is choose to forgive or one lady said,

do yourself a favor forgive. Mm hmmm. That was office for somebody here

listening later or watching on the street. So if you're getting feeling uncomfortable,

sorry, but obviously God wants to deal with that area. So the second

area we want to touch based on is worries and cares. Worries and cares,

I will ask for a show of hands who has had day worry or

who has had day care, because I would suggest it's probably most of us

in this room and most of them listening to it. Mm hmm. That's

why there's lots of stuff in the Bible about how to deal with it so

that we can live a successful Christian life. When you get born again,

you just don't because they're not that little switch that gets clicked and he goes,

oh everything's easy, now, off you go. Let's skip over the

daisies and all that sort of stuff. It doesn't work like that. That's

always challenges to face, but we need to face them by faith in the

Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us. And because

he gave, and so forwards, we can live in the overflow. We

can live in abundance. We can live in the blessing, which means you

can apply the principles in this word, and not have to walk around in

fear, not have to walk around in worry, do not have to deal

with cares. If we apply the principles in the Word of God, we

will succeed. That's why he wants us to walk in the overflow and the

over off his word, because we got we've got no word, you've got

no faith, you've got no power, you cannot overcome. I'm quite frankly,

if somebody walk down the street, I've got fear, I've got worry,

I've got doubt. You're Christian? Yeah, okay, bye. If

they said, if they said, I've got no worry, I've got no

fear. I'm a Christian. I'm interested. I'm interested what I want,

what you've got. I don't you fear, I don't you worry, don't

you down. I'm I'm interested. Got out myself. Thanks. Mark four

says, and now this verse eighteen first foot. Now these are the ones

sowing among phones. They're the ones who hear the Word, and the cares

of this world for the sevenings of riches and the desire for the things entering

him choke the word and it becomes unfruitful. So the cares of the world

can choke the word of God in our heart and we can become unfruitful.

That's why we've got to keep We've got to guard our heart. Louis in

a mess with a catal m. We've got a choice whether to take that

care and say it or to say no. They want not care. I

remember the story a person I never told me when I was having trouble with

thoughts, and he went to that, So how do I how to deal

with this? And God said, just do what you do to me?

He said, what is that to do to me? I actually do something?

You ignore me? Just do that mean? Look, when you say

no, just say no to the thought. You say no to me sometimes,

so I just say no to the thought. He went, oh,

right, okay, those are something behind that to him, that's a different

conversation they're going on. But he said, just say no. As you

say no to me, you can say no to the thought. So just

say no, no in Jesus name, no that. I'm not doing that

now, thank you. I'm doing something else. What you said that wasn't

being by the words something I knew then I mentioned their name for obvious reasons.

You would not appreciate it. Jesus said, peace. I'll leave with

you a peace. I give it to you. What of the world gives

to our give to you. Let not your heart be troubled you just let

it be afraid, and then you can change version. Notice, let not

your heart be troubled, you let it be afraid. So the an mempherson

here of our responsibility to deal with stuff, not to wring our hands and

think what we're going to do. Jud just said, all authority and power

given to you in my name, go were hands in a sick, raise

a dead, etcetera, etcetera, cetera. We've been given authority, We've

given power. It's about time to start using, isn't it Or isn't it

Sorry? What did Paul saying? Phlippians for verse six, do not fret

or have an anxiety about anything. Do not thret I have an anxiety about

anything. To me, any thing is anything. So why do we do

it? But in every circumstance and in everything that seems to cover everything,

by prayer and petition, definite requests with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants

known to God, and the peace of God shall be yours. The peace

of God shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its

salvation through Christ and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its fillot.

Where So all that is that piece which transcends all understanding. God's peace

is big. You can't put God in the box. God is everywhere and

his peace is everywhere. That's why it transcends all understanding. So GUIDs and

amount God, over your hearts and mind our mine. Sorry in Christ,

you notice over your hearts and mind. We have a heart, we have

a mind. In's a case of putting these scriptures into practice so that we

win. We're the back of the book. We win anyway, either back

of book Revelations says we win or that's my translation of revelation that we win,

but we win at the end. We need to win. Now.

Every day we need to win. Every day is a battle. Every day

is a challenge. Every day we need to win. So the top about

them forgiveness we've talked about cares all that sort of stuff. As a worry

can run into sort of mental health sort of issues. That's why God's work

is very clear. Don't worry, don't have care, cast your care onto

me because I care for you. So what do we do? I'm okay,

God, Yeah, I can hope. Mhm. It's not about coping.

It's about living the way God intended us. Because the widest to live

a certain way that's worry free, fear free, angers are for free and

very much forgiveness three sorry, unforgiveness free, shames for repurset h So last

one of the famous three, not the famous five, but the famous three

is fear. Fear is really the pits. God's work is. God's word

is full of faith, and fear and faith just do not work together.

It's like oil and water. They're mixed. That's why I paused to Timothy

it was a spiritual boy. God doesn't give us a spirit of fear,

but the spirit of power, love and as our mind. God has not

given us. God has not given as. God has not given us.

If God has not given us a spirit of fear, right, where does

it come from? He does not come from God? Is it? Read

that? And we can rock it off quite quickly? Can't way that he

actually break it down into his constituent parts. God has not given us a

spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.

So we walk in power, we walk in love, and we have a

sound mind. That's where he wants us to be. And that's a fear

as a blocker for walking in the overflow, for living in the overflow.

About the title of the message, So let's talk about the sweet spot,

shall we where we should be. Let's talk about his love, his peace,

and let's talk about his joy. One Corinthians thirteen Dave, thank you.

An IV version or through a puts it this way talking about God's love.

To clarify, God's love is patient. Love is kind. It does

not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud, it does

not dishonor others. It's not self seeking. It's not easily angered. It

keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil. That's God's

love, but rejoices with the truth. God's love always protects, always trusts,

always homes, always per severes. God's love never fails. God's love

never fails. So God's love, lizziness, God's love should flow through us.

What's it John thirteen thirty four. And you can't to give you?

That should love another? That's I love you and you can't I give you

that you should love one another. You just give us a commandment. It

wasn't a that's off a strange color. It wasn't an option. You know,

you go for you neither could go for a couple of cop of don

and they can have this milk or that milk and have a half that's going

to half that and they get this drink. Not tough anymore, is it?

You know? It's like, I really don't know. Yeah. God

didn't say, Oh, by the way, guys, this is one of

the options. List here take this one. He said, this is a

commandment that means you shall do this. You know. Yeah, So with

the Holy Spirit working through as you can love me, but you can't last

on't lovable, that's ridiculous. But with God's love in you you can do

so. We can't do anything with a separate from God. That's why He

lives within us. That's the hope ethos of the Christian faith, isn't it.

God lives in you and He lives through you. That's all the Book

of Colustions is about. My body is life, so God lives through us.

She can't do without God. But when you connect it to the source.

I'll go back to my plugging your carry into the socket analogy. And

you plug your car and you get the Jews, don't you bils your bash

up in what eight hours? But you know when you plug into the Holy

Spirit, his love flows through you, and that's the sweet spot walking in

his love. That's where he wants us to be. That's an everyday choice

to do that. And like I said, it's not an optional, isn't.

And his love with only master to our lives, manifest through our lives

when we're not walking in on the forgiveness because our heart is hard. A

hard heart is a big learner. A herd heart doesn't get us anywhere.

Fear, worry, anxiety, stress does it get us anywhere because the love

of God will not flow. He can get choked by all that stuff,

the bad stuff. But rather than it's allow the word of God to fill

our hearts, allow the Holy Spirit to work with us, or to partner

us. I want to put it and to be a conduit of that love

around us. I thought was on the feature word than money when it was

there? What were the titles this king of obs? So give him more

thoughts? Gonna speak on money. But then and then we can talk about

from the overflow. I thought, Okay, we need to be connected,

we need to be have a soft heart. My heart needs to be in

the right place to allow that love to flow. That's a sweet spot for

that. That's one of his sweet spots because then you can speak to people

and they go, what is it with you? Mate? We're going through

all the same stuff and you're different. What's what is it? People want

to know. That's a bit of like, tell me about this. If

you're going I don't know what am I going to do? They go,

well, is everybody else? That was love? Peace? John fourteen twenty

seven amplified, which is a bit more substance to that scripture read earlier.

Peace. I'll leave with you my own peace, my own peace, which

is Jesus speaking my own peace I give to you. Do you see Jesus

ever a stressed Oh what I'm going to do? Guy? No, you

might to think about something. When he had when the ad about the lady

of the adultree, he drew on the ground, went into the Holy Spirit,

and when the Holy Spirit spoke to him, the God Upend said him,

we've got no sin. Cast the first tone. They went, well,

that's deep man, and they all went off one by one, and

so she was left by herself. Jesus, what by the Holy Spirit too?

You had to hear it too. But he gave us his peace.

Not as the world gives, do I give to you? Is some one

of our pay abits. Do not let your heart be troubled. So that's

talking to us, isn't it. Do not let your heart be troubled.

He's let it be afraid, So don't be troubled. Don't be afraid.

So what do we do when something happens? What's the default set in?

Sometimes? Oh? What we're going to do? Ah? What was that?

Just me mm hmmmmm. Stop stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed.

Interesting, stop allowing yourselves to agitated and disturbed seeing people in around.

What we're going to do? Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed.

Do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and kardly then settled. So

it's our responsibility to deal with that, and we deal with it. No,

I'm not going to do that, but that I know, No that

I'm not going to do that. Just say no, and then ask God

to help put your put your word in it, put your work in your

mouth. But they want have given me a spirit of fear, but the

spirit of power, the spirit of love, and spirit of a sound mind.

Therefore I'm not going to fear today, Thank you very much. No

no, no, no, no, no, new clim It tends to

work when you're saying that His peace is shalom, not to missing, nothing

broken, And that's the sweet spot where he wants us to walk more as

are here today's shift, but moreen You know, was given testing about walking

in peace, people walking baster desk when she used to go to work,

and it's like, oh, it's very very peaceful here because she learned how

to work in peace. You don't just go from here to here. There's

a journey, but the faith walk on for a better description, is a

journey. You've got to learn how to do something. You've got to learn

how to maintain something. It's that these people who are going to diet,

they're like this and they go down to this and it's diet of the same

pod. They're going to go to this again. It's like, oh,

oh, what happened. We've got a revelation for you. If you keep

stuff in your mouth, you're gonna get big. If you balance your diet

just an exercise, you're going to be a thing. But some people just

do that. M You know, that's a revelation for some people. The

revelation for us too. We've got to be consistent. If we're consistent doing

the right things, we're gonna get the same results. Because if you stuck

your face, then you're gonna get back. If you consider stuff your face,

you're gonna get fat. You know, doesn't matter who you are,

just this just happens. You know, I'm not looking about in the room.

By the way, notice you know where that came from? What's on

my notes' ecops? So last week spot is joy near my eight and verse

ten says the joy of the Lord is our strength. The joy of the

Lord is our strength. So when we're going through stuff, do we go

hall, do you the joy of the Lord is our strength? Or do

we do? What am I going to do? You know what am I

going to do? You know? Joy is infectious. Have you have you

seen that before? I've been a meeting where there's like a wave of God's

joy goes across the the people. One little woman gets someone around eye is

and she've got joy, and then it just hits the whole, the whole

people in the meeting, and everyone's got joy. The of the spait of

God moves across the meeting. Election Spike only two says, the fruit of

the spirit, or the work which his presence within accomplishers, is love,

joy dot dot dot dot dot. Notice the work which his presence accomplishes,

the work of the Holy Spirit, presence of compiers is love, is joy,

it's peace. So when you're full of Him, when you're full of

the word if God, that's what comes out. That's the sweet spot where

God answers to be because that's going to make difference only to us. I

mean, Gosh, to live in peace, to the full of joy,

to walk in does log where else you want to be? M you know,

where else do you want to be? There's still stuff to go Still,

stuff goes on, but you approach it differently from a different perspective when

you're walking with God. M hm. I remember again quote of this.

It was it was, it was. It was talking about Jesus to his

neighbor, and the scipt says behold on a load of flesh, the Lord

beholding the Lord of old flesh, and anything too half for me. There's

having trouble this stuff around his house and then you want, you know it

cut himself, his blood running down his arm to come out from the side

of his house. His name says okay, mate, and he goes,

oh yeah, behold nothing to do up from God. And you think about

from this, this, this, this, and this. You know,

he was wasn't in the right place. Knew the scripture, but he didn't

approach it correctly. He was thinking, oh, I can't do this,

and a got with the problem and the guy helps him sort some problems out

on I'm trying to say, is our mind set where we think we are?

The Word says one thing, I might say something else. That's when

I put the word of God in here. It goes into our heart and

it comes up into our mind. We have a we are spirit, have

a soul living the body, you know, et cetera, et cetera,

et cetera. The word of God goes into our heart and it percolates up

here. You've got to know what the Word of God says. You've got

to move so you've got to put it in there. You've got to fill

your tank with it. You've got to let it permeate through there so when

you come to a situation you can you can deal with it. Otherwise you

just thought, you know, where's the Bible? What we're going to do

if you can't go and look at those the scriptures? When when all hell's

kicking off, or the big issue around you, there's some family issue,

or you know, your kids will You've got to be able to be ready.

H. You've got to be a read day. If you're not ready,

you're relying on God's grace and you know He's not going to burk you

and change an apple when you're eighteen and said, or when you're forte you

know you are if your if your kid came down and said, mom,

can if you address me? You know my mom? Can you make me

a drink? Mom? You know? And then in the twenties you're going

to say, can't dress yourself. We have a responsibility all the same,

HM, you have a responsibility. H. Lipping's Forefod says, rejoicing the

lot always again, I say rejoice. You know some days we can wake

up with a song in our heart and that that song carries through the day

or that just me. You know that there's there's there's there's anointing on that

solent and it's it's there Sundays you can wake up and it's like right here

we go mm hm. And you have to do what Paul just said there

and flippings forfarth, rejoicing Lord always and again I say rejoice. He got

help in your mouth. You gotta start rejoicing and start rejoicing. He starts

working and that presence of God comes on you, and that joy comes on

you. Mm hmmm. Remember, joy is not a feeling. Joy is

a person. Joy is not a feeling. Joy is a person. His

name Jesus, I have brought with him. I brought him with me today.

Wherever he goes, I go mm hm. So, going back to

the title of this message, living in the Overflow, I've lived with Lord

saying to us, as we give out more, he'll give us more.

Or to put it another way, as we give out, he will pour

into us, so that we overflow to those people around us. That may

be his peace, that may be his joy, that may be his love,

but that's where he wants us to be he wants to live. He

wants us to live in the sweet spot, which is living the overflow.

He wants to partner with him. So everybody you know influence is affected.

It's a simple a proposition, but it works. So let's make sure that

our hearts are our tanks, our followed the word of God. Let's cooperate

with the Holy Spirit and watch him change those people around us. Let's be

giving more than Let's live in the overflow every day. Okay,