Luke 9:16-17 New King James (NKJV)
Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. 17 So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.
Reflection:
Standing at the gate of the abandoned 100-acre horse farm with an unfocused vision on my heart. The property is worth four million dollars, I only have three pennies, but I think Lord, that is not enough Or a church member has been out of work for several months and the Lord spoke to my husband’s heart to give him $100, but I think Lord that is not enough…. I know you have been there before, but I can only speak for myself. For years we have struggled to be on the “right side” of the world system’s interest equation. For years things just have not added up. It wasn’t until the Lord gave me revelation on our key passage that I started seeing things a little differently.
Say what you want about the twelve disciples, having seen so many miracles yet when given the opportunity to put what they believed into practice, they repeatedly failed. Thank God for Jesus! He took five loaves and two fishes, resources that in the natural could not feed five thousand plus people, but acknowledging that the spiritual realm supersedes anything here on earth, thanked the Lord for the items. He had an expectation that the Lord to multiply what He could not see. Saints, we need to stop looking at these stories as fables and have it resonated in our souls that the events of the Bible actually happened. We need to be able to look at our checking accounts, thank the Lord for the money that is there and start expecting for the Lord to multiply our seed. In 2 Corinthians 9:10-11, the Word says, Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God. Like the disciples, we are too quick to settle for defeat or mediocrity at best, instead of expecting a miracle around every corner. Instead we need to look beyond our narrow-minded focus of providing for our immediate families. We need to start expecting to provide for thousands of needs, with our seemly limited resources. When you have an eternity mindset then the process of time doesn’t seem like an issue. So getting back to my 100-acre farm…there is a purpose why that land is on my heart. For the $100 sacrifice to our brother in the Lord we couldn’t afford to give it and I didn’t think it would make a difference in this life…it is not my job to be enough, it is my job to have faith that God is enough and our actions of obedience is the currency that will bring the manifestation of testimonies to pass.
Seeking Revelation:
Create a notebook:
Different from your main journal, create a notebook that just references your sacrifices and testimonies. Over the years, you can be like David that told Saul why he was going to beat the uncircumcised Philistine, because of his victors over the lion and the bear. Those victories were bench marks of faith the he could look back on and justify the reason for his courage. If maintained, this victory journal will cultivate spirit of thankfulness in your life and will become one of your most prized possession.