LEAVE A MARK - Truths From the Fish and Loaves

We have been examining the story about the feeding of the 5,000 in Mark 6 .  This is the only miracle that is recorded in all four Gospels. 

There are some important truths to be observed:

1.  Jesus was willing to be inconvenienced by the needs of people at the very time that He really needed some relaxing time.

2.  When people came demanding more from Him, when He was already tired, when the day had already been long, and when He was grieving inside, He had compassion.

3.  Jesus was willing to feed both souls and stomachs. We have no right to claim that only one of those functions should be the interest of the church. As a church, our responsibility is to spiritually and physically care for people in need.

4.  Jesus thinks BIGGER than excuses, and so should we! God is creative and so are we because we are made in His image.  

5.  God honors whatever amount we bring to Him. And He can multiply it.  If we give Him what's in our hands, He can use it to meet the needs of others. 

6.  While the five loaves and two fish seem like little, from the standpoint of that boy who brought them, it was much.  It was all that boy had.  God sizes up how much we have left over, not just how little we bring. 

7.  Somehow, we must quit using the classic excuses of inconvenience and cost.  These two will always prevent God's work from progressing the way God wants it to. 

WHICH ONE OF THESE TRUTHS WILL YOU "PRAY INTO" YOUR LIFE TODAY?