Saturday, 17th May, 2025
YOUR CUP WILL NEVER RUN DRY
“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.”
Psalm 23:5 (NKJV)
The anointing brings healing and comfort to your wounds. To be anointed is to be consecrated by God for His divine purposes and protection.
The anointing of the Lord upon you is a demonstration of how much He values and honours you.
The quality of oil your host pours on you reveals the degree of value he places on you.
Our Lord anointed you with His Spirit. The anointing of the Holy Spirit is the immeasurable quality of the Spirit dispensed into you.
The anointing is not only poured on you; it is also transfused into you as a divine quality.
This makes your life a rich, anointed life for the glory of the Lord.
I don’t know how you see yourself, precious one in Christ. However, from the day you believed in Jesus and received the Holy Spirit into you, you received a gushing fountain, which springs up as life. It is not only designed to nourish you, but to make you a fountain to nourish others.
Your cup is too small to contain all that the Lord has poured into you. And you know what?
He is not stopping, THE LORD KEEPS POURING MORE!
It is a gushing fountain overflowing into every aspect of your life, and to nourish the multitudes
Glory to God!
The reality is that whatever the Lord serves you with, He serves it superabundantly. One may think it is wrong to say Our Lord serves. He is King, and we must serve Him. That is the irony here. Our Lord is not the King who demands service. He serves you, and any service you may render to Him, He does it with you. For without Him, you can do nothing. (John 15:5).
“For even the Son of Man did not come expecting to be served by everyone, but to serve everyone, and to give his life as the ransom price in exchange for the salvation of many.” Mark 10:45 (TPT).
The Lord serves you with His best.
Whatever He serves you with dispenses the life (which has an eternal value) into you. He gives water, and it becomes a gushing fountain of the Holy Spirit, springing up and flooding you with endless life!
The term or word “Cup” in Psalm 23:5 has been given several meanings. Considering the various figurative meanings of “Cup” throughout scriptures.
This word is used in scriptures both figuratively and literally. Literally, it is a usual cup (either of horn or some precious metal); it is used for drinking during meals or ceremonies. It is used during a family or a solemn, sacred meal.
At such sacramental meals, the head or father of the family pronounced certain blessings over the cup. That makes the cup a cup of blessing. Depending on the pronouncement made over the cup (These cups are mostly filled with wine). After tasting it, the head or father passes it around to the company and his whole family, who will also partake of it. (Just as it happened during the “Lord’s supper“).
All through the scriptures, you will find expressions such as:
The “cup of salvation” (Psalm 116:13), the “cup of consolation” (Jeremiah 16:7). There is also the cup of death, the cup of trembling, and the cup of wrath.
These are figurative expressions.
In ancient East and even Egypt, there was also an art of divining by means of a cup (Genesis 44:2-17)
The concept of the cup in a figurative or metaphoric sense depicts an individual’s fate, destiny, and satisfaction with time and life.
For example,
In Psalm 16, the Psalmist said,
“O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot.” Psalm 16:5 (NKJV).
Read it in The Passion Translation:
“Lord, I have chosen you alone as my inheritance. You are my prize, my pleasure, and my portion. I leave my destiny and its timing in your hands.”
However, Psalm 23:5 emphasises an abundant life with an overflowing cup (portion of blessings and satisfaction). This is an overwhelming or mighty picturesque in an arid or semiarid topography.
From the above point, I want you to know that YOUR CUP, which runs over, is not merely an object you have in your hand.
It is your LIFE.
The Psalmist said, “MY CUP“. This points to “HIS LIFE AND LIVING“.
The Lord doesn’t put an object or cup into your hand just for you to receive His precious wine. His LIFE becomes your LIFE (John 10:10; Colossians 3:4). And this LIFE is the CUP which overflows with HIS RICH ABUNDANT SUPPLY of His drink.
“Now on the last and most important day of the feast, Jesus stood and called out [in a loud voice], ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink! He who believes in Me [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Me], as the Scripture has said, ‘From his innermost being will flow continually rivers of living water.” John 7:37-38 (Amplified Bible).
Beloved in Christ, let this reality settle deeply in you that your cup (your life and living, which is the life of God in you) will never run dry.
ENJOY THE OVERFLOWING, GRACIOUS BLESSINGS OF THE LORD.
Selah.
