Get filled up!

Mark 8: 1-17


Everyday someone we know or we are facing an impossible situation. A miracle is needed. What is our first response? Do we go to Jesus first or last? Someone offered what they had to solve the problem, a few loaves of bread and a few fish. When we see someone facing an impossible situation I hope that our hearts would be like this.

What happened? Someone saw a problem, a need, and asked the question, “What do I have in my hands that I can use to solve the problem?” They offered what they had, as impossible as it was they gave. Anything we give to the Lord He multiplies.

All 4000 plus (most likely 12,000) were fed with the few loaves and a few small fish. Notice they were not only fed but also filled. Often we settle for the “scraps” the devil wants to allow us to have rather than the abundance the Lord prepared. When we give things to the Lord, no matter how little it may be, He takes it, blesses it, and multiplies it and touches many more people than what we could imagine. The few loaves and fish in one person’s hands would have fed them and perhaps one other but given to Jesus 12,000 times the work was done. The person who gave may have thought, “well perhaps I will fast today as I am making this sacrifice”. God never let’s us down! Not only did they get fed with the rest of the crowd but seven baskets full were the overflow that they were given as a blessing, what an amazing thing to give a few loaves and fish and end up with over 100 times as much.

My friend Bill Wilson of Metro Ministry in New York City says, “The need is the call!” If you see a need and you move to help whether it is with your tithes and offerings in the church or an alms gift outside of the church, it honors God. When you trust Him with your financial future then he show you, only will he supply for al you have need but an abundance for you as well. 2 Corinthians 9:6 -8