Poured Out - The Best Gift To Give God

IT’S NOT DEVOTION UNTIL I’M ALL IN. 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper,[f] to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be[g] in you.JOHN 14:15-17 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.MATTHEW 10:39 YOU WERE MADE TO GO ALL IN36 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table. 37 And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, 38 and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” 40 And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered…LUKE 7:36-50 HOW DO I KNOW IF I’M DEVOTED?HAS IT COST ME SOMETHING?LID: FEAR OF LACK25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? MATTHEW 6:25-26 2. HAVE I GONE PUBLIC?It was bold for a woman with a sinful reputation to come into the house of a Pharisee, but she was willing to do anything to express her love for Jesus. DAVID GUZIKLID: FEAR OF MAN 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him. 42 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.JOHN 12:41-433. AM I COMMITEDCommitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.Rollo MayLID: FEAR OF DISAPPOINTMENT Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.PROVERBS 3:5-6 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;    a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.PSALM 51:16-17