“ . . . You anoint my head with oil; My cup overflows.”
PSALM 23:5 NIV
In Christ we have access to renewable energy. There’s no such thing as a power failure. You can never use up God’s power. The Holy Spirit continues to energize us as the vine energizes the branches–moment by moment.
ACTS 2 SAYS THAT ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST THE DISCIPLES were filled with the Holy Spirit, and the rest of the book shows how they continued. They went on being filled, “moment by moment,” as the song-writer says. “Moment by moment I’m kept in His love, moment by moment I’ve life from above. Looking to Jesus . . . ” This means that He is the vine, and we are the branches. We get our supplies afresh daily from Him. Jesus described it as continuous as a river (John 7:37, 38). We are being renewed in spiritual power as we need and use it.
“God does not give the Spirit by measure”(John 3:34) when He gives it. Not by measure means not weighed–not precisely so much and no more–but “good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over” (Luke 6:38). God never gives anything in a calculating manner. For example, He gives life, but it is without measure–BECAUSE IT IS HIS LIFE and it is EVERLASTING (John 3:36).
ELISHAS DOUBLE PORTION WAS NOT JUST A BIT OF WHAT Elijah had. God never arranges for some to have half and some twice as much as others. The Holy Spirit gives “of” (out of) Himself, out of His fullness, not a measured gallon or two. The Bible promised showers and rivers, not drops. Powerful rivers don’t come by fits and starts, dribs and drabs, nor does the Holy Spirit come as an occasional spurt. Christ chose the expression of “rivers” to indicate uninterrupted flow (John 7:37, 38).