Accessing Divine Provision

Journey Into The Promised Land

John 6:1–13 (CSB)

THE FOURTH SIGN: FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND

After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias). A huge crowd was following him because they saw the signs that he was performing by healing the sick. Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with his disciples.

Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near. So when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so that these people can eat?” He asked this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.

Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii, worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place; so they sat down. The men numbered about five thousand. 11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks he distributed them to those who were seated—so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.

12 When they were full, he told his disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.” 13 So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

Act Upon The Word

In John 6:1-13, we find a hungry multitude and a meager food supply of five loaves of bread and two fish. Let these loaves and fish represent your own limited financial resources. You may look at your finances, and think how insufficient they are to meet the needs you face right now. You may look at your limited income and your small offerings for the work of God, and wonder, “What can my small gift do to meet such a great need as evangelizing the world?”

But the little boy with the bread and fish gave his limited resources to Jesus. The Lord took them, praised God for His supernatural provision, and multiplied the food until there was an abundance. Not only was there enough for more than five thousand people to eat and be satisfied, there were twelve baskets of food left! How would you like God to multiply what you give until all your needs are supplied with twelve baskets left over?

Paul declared:

… Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. (2 Corinthians 9:10-11)

When you give from your limited resources, believing God for His supernatural provision in your life, He will multiply back into your life His abundance.

God wants to you to bring your five loaves and two small fish — your limited finances — to Him. As you give what you have, He will multiply it and you will literally be catapulted into the divine Cycle of God’s Supernatural Provision.

The Church has sat back passively for too long. We have let Satan run roughshod over us. We need to learn to say what we want from God, and then we need to manifest it. No longer can we hide. It is time to come out from the closet and let the world know who we are — the children of the living God!

God hath not given to us the spirit of fear. We are not afraid of what the devil can do, or what he can say, or how he can act. The God you and I serve has given us His power!

Fear is a demon spirit that controls, dominates, possesses, oppresses, vexes, and torments eight out of ten people in the world today — including born-again Christians! Fear binds you. Nothing I know of in this world can bind us any more than fear. Fear keeps us from walking out and taking that step of faith. Fear short-circuits the Word of God. If you are to claim the promises of God then, like the little lad with his loaves and fishes, you must step out in faith.

You must get your eyes off your circumstances — off of the bigness of your debt and onto the supernatural provision of Almighty God! The time for you to act upon God’s Word is now!

Make this declaration:

I am taking my eyes off my financial circumstances and focusing them onto the supernatural provision of Almighty God.

*Adapted from MCWE email – Journey Into The Promised Land by Morris Cerullo

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