Every Need Is an Invitation
Even empty vessels are useful when positioned under the Source.
Devotional Credit:
Days of Heaven on Earth – by A.B. Simpson
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Today’s entry from A.B. Simpson invites us to reconsider our trials, not as interruptions, but as containers—vessels that God Himself provides for the infilling of His Spirit. It challenges the restless striving we often default to when surrounded by problems. Instead of rushing into action or fretting over outcomes, we’re told to do something surprisingly simple: bring the need to Jesus.
The phrase “Bring them here to Me” from Matthew 14:18 wasn't just for loaves and fish. It's for every burden, every overwhelming situation, every empty vessel in our lives. The need is never the issue. The real issue is what we do with it. Will we try to solve it with our own logic and effort, or will we place it in the hands of the One who transforms scarcity into abundance?
God often provides opportunities for deeper intimacy and miraculous provision by allowing us to face needs too great for our natural resources. Those difficulties are not signs of abandonment—they are divine invitations. The oil only flows into the vessels we bring. So the question is not whether God is willing to fill, but whether we are willing to yield and wait for Him to do what only He can.
Bring it to Him—all of it. And then be still, for He is not only able—He is ready.
Journal Entry – Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture
I am the One who called you out of darkness and placed My Spirit within you. I have never sent you into a moment that I Myself have not also entered. When you see lack, I see an empty vessel. When you face impossibility, I see space for My grace to flow.
You were not designed to strive or to figure it all out—you were designed to yield and receive. Every circumstance you label as "problem" I have marked as "possibility." Not possibility for your self-effort to win, but for My life in you to be made known.
I multiply what is surrendered. I fill what is held out. I breathe life into what seems dead when you stop trying to fix it and instead place it fully before Me. I do not need your performance—I long for your trust. That trust is the pipeline through which My provision flows.
Rest, not in passivity, but in expectancy. Wait—not because I delay out of reluctance, but because My timing unveils My glory. Bring your need, your ache, your confusion, and your questions—and lay them at My feet. I am the faithful One. I will act. I will fill. And you will see My grace overflow.
Scripture References:
Matthew 14:18; 2 Kings 4:1–7; Romans 8:32; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Psalm 46:10; John 15:5; Galatians 2:20; Romans 6:6–14; Isaiah 30:15; Lamentations 3:24–26; Ephesians 3:20–21; Philippians 4:19; Psalm 37:5; Isaiah 64:4
Real-Life Analogy
Imagine standing at your kitchen sink with an empty pitcher in hand. The faucet is flowing, but unless you place the pitcher under the stream and wait, it remains dry. You could wave it in the air, shake it vigorously, or hold it upside down—none of that fills it. Only positioning it under the source and waiting will do.
Likewise, the needs we carry are like empty pitchers. When we place them in God's presence and cease our own frantic movements, His grace flows into them. You might be facing a project today that feels far too big, or a conversation you're dreading. Instead of strategizing in your mind, pause and say, “Lord, I trust You to express Your life through me in this moment.” As you go into that meeting or encounter, you are not performing—you are yielding to the indwelling Christ to live His life through you.
Prayer of Confidence
Father, I thank You that I never come to You with empty hands, only with empty vessels. And every empty vessel is an opportunity for Your abundance to be seen. I rest today in the sufficiency of Christ within me. I don’t need to fix or force anything—I need only to trust and yield. You are already working. You are already providing. You are already filling. I thank You that the very need I once dreaded is now an invitation into deeper fellowship with You. I rejoice that I lack nothing because I have You.