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It has always been the tactic of the enemy to
get us to think that we.
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Are not enough as we.
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Currently are, that what we currently have is not sufficient
for the task.
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That is before us.
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But if the Lord has allowed that multitude into your experience,
that means that as you currently are, with the entrusted treasure.
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The power, the authority that He.
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Has given to you, you've got everything you need if
you just pull out.
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What He already has entrusted to you. I can you
tell somebody that there is treasure hidden in these earth
in Vessis.
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I came to tell you that by God's spirit there
is gifts, and there's power that has been entrusted to
you that is available to you, available to me as
daughters of the most High King.
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You need to know that even if you do not
believe what the scriptures declare to be true about.
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Your treasure, if you don't believe that you've been forgiven
or that you already have the victim, that the enemy
is already underneath your.
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Feet, and that there is no condemnation for those of
us who are in.
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Christ Jesus, or that you have been made competent.
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By the spirit of God.
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I came to tell you that, even.
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If you don't believe it, the enemy does. He knows
who you.
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Are, what a shamed it would be for him to
know and us not to. So it's time for us
to open up the drawer and start pulling out the treasure.
The treasure we've been ignoring, the treasure we've been calling insignificant,
the thing that we've said is not enough, not valuable.
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Lord, if I could just be like her, Lord, if.
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I could just be like that, if I could just
have a bit more of that, if I weren't me,
then Lord, I'd be enough. He says, Ah, you have enough.
You just haven't opened up the drawer.
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Pull out the treasure.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
There is a story in scripture that is going to
be very familiar to you.
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It's the one that the Lord has.
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Been using in my own life to remind me about
how he will compel me. And he will compel us
to open up the drawer and reach in and pull
out the treasure, and see what it's like when he
uses what he has already entrusted to us.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Luke, chapter nine, verse one and.
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Two says this and he called, that's Jesus. He called
somebody say he called He called the twelve together, and
he gave somebody, say he gave he gave them power,
and he gave them authority over all demons and to
heal all diseases Verse two. And then he sent somebody,
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say he sent he sent them out.
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He called them, he gave them treasure, and then he
sent them out. Verse ten says.
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And then when they returned to him, they gave an
account to him of every thing they had done, and
taking them with him, he withdrew by himself to a
hill called beth Sta. The multitudes were aware of this
Verse eleven says, so they followed Jesus because you know,
wherever Jesus went.
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A crowd was sure to follow. They weren't quite sure
he was the messiah.
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But what they didn't know was that when this man
showed up, blind people could see. What they knew is
that when Jesus showed up, the lame could walk, and
the death could hear.
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The dead were being raised. So wherever Jesus was they came.
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The crowd followed, and welcoming the multitude, Jesus began speaking
to them about the Kingdom of God and.
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Curing those who were in need of healing. Verse twelve.
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So the day starts to come to a close, and
the twelve come to Jesus and say, now, Jesus, you're
gonna have to send this multitude away. They've got to
go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging.
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They got to get something to eat. Jesus, come on
now here, we're in a desolate place. Verse thirteen.
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Jesus said to them, uh uh.
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You give them something to eat.
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They said, Jesus, we have no more than five loaves
and two fish, unless perhaps you let us go and
buy food for all these people, because you know we're
not enough as we are right now. There were about
five thousand men. Scholars say the reason why Luke specifies
men is because there were women and children too, so
there were probably about fifteen thousand hungry people that day.
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Jesus said, have them reclined to eat, in groups of
about fifty each.
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So they did so, had them all reclined, and then
he took the five loaves and the two fish, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and then he
broke them, and he kept giving them to the disciples
to set before the multitude. In Verse seventeen says they
all ate, they were all satisfied, And just so you
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know how satisfied they were, they went by and picked
up all the leftovers because there was overflow.
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In this story, we meet a hungry.
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Multitude, a multitude that is placing a demand. They have
a need. There is a lack that needs to be filled.
And most of the time when this proportion of the
Scriptures is looked into the multitudes, who we concentrate on
the five blows and the two fish and how they.
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Were satisfied with it.
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But just for a few moments tonight, I don't want
to talk to you about the twelve Disciples, those who
walked with Jesus and talked with Jesus, those who were
in close communion with Jesus, those who would come out
on a Friday night to be in the presence of
Jesus amongst the people of Jesus.
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I want to talk to the disciples of Jesus. The
Disciples on this occasion had been.
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Called to Jesus by Jesus. They were having a conversation
with each other. Jesus entrusted them with power.
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And authority, and then he sent them out.
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I love that This gospel is one of the Synoptic gospels.
The synoptic gospels are those that tell their three of them, Matthew, Mark,
and Luke. These three tell some of the similar stories
in a similar tone, in a similar way, so that
we're able to get more layers to the story.
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I love the gospels in that way. They give us layers.
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Just like if someone were to offer you a chocolate cake,
but they gave you options. You could have a one
layer of chocolate cake or a seven layer of chocolate cake.
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Which one You're gonna.
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Choose seven every single time, because the more layers there are,
the more rich and delectable the experience becomes. Mark chapter
six is a layer of chocolate cake for us. It
tells us that this is the experience when Jesus called
the disciples to himself, and then he sent them out
in pairs. Do you remember, two by two into the
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neighboring towns and communities. They were supposed to teach and
preach and perform miracles that would authenticate the deity of
Jesus Christ. Mark chapter six, our layer of chocolate cake,
tells us that they expended themselves. Y'all, they were busy
from sun up to sundown. They were about the task
of doing what it was that Jesus had assigned to them.
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They wanted to be diligent about it so much so
that when they came back to Jesus, they gave an
account to him, and.
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Jesus recognized their exhaustion. He saw that they were tired.
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In fact, Jesus himself commented that they didn't even have
time to eat because they had been so busy. They
were depleted, and they were tired. And they came back
to Jesus and they gave him an account for how
they'd handled the assignment that he had entrusted to them.
If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, you got an assignment,
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and don't let anybody tell you that your assignment isn't
ministry just because it happens to be in a corporate setting.
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Mother of small children who's chosen to stay home with
those kids, don't let anybody tell you that a ministry.
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Every single time you make that chicken for dinner and
you said it on that table, and you teach those
kids a Bible verse before bedtime, don't let anybody tell
you that that ain't ministry.
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Corporate woman.
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When you sit around that boardroom table and you're the
only one that has a set of ideals.
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That lines up with the truth of Scripture, at a
table with those who are thinking and acting and planning
in a.
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Way that is left of God's word, don't let anybody
tell you that you around that boardroom a ministry. That's ministry.
High school student, college student. You're the only student that
stands for truth. When your professor says this.
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Is the way it is and you say, no, that's
not the way it is.
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Don't let anybody tell you, as the light on that
college campus that you are not in ministry. Every single
one of us has an assignment, and.
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The day is coming.
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When we're going off to give an account.
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And here's the thing, you don't know when that day is.
My thirty eight year old cousin.
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Thirty eight for small children, The day is coming, and
you don't know the day or the hour, neither do I.
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When we're gonna have to stand before him and give
an account for how we handled what he had entrusted
to us. I'm asking you tonight, how are you handling
your assignment? Because young women, if you think that you're
young because of your age.
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Listen to me.
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If you're twenty but you only have till thirty, you're
pretty old.
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If you're fifty and you're gonna live.
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Until one hundred, then you're pretty young.
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Age is just a number, my friend, and you and I.
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Cannot qualify young or all base based on our birth date.
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It's based on our death date. And since we don't
know when that day is that I implore you, sisters,
by the mercies of.
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God, to walk in a manner worthy of the calling
by which you have been because listen, I don't know
about y'all, but when I see him face to face,
I'm looking for a well done I'm looking for well done.
When I see him, he will not ask me how
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many Instagram followers I had.
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He will not wonder whether or not folks liked my post.
He will not be.
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Interested in whether or not my selfies were perfectly lit.
He will ask me, did I know his son? And
then I will give an account. So the disciples they
come and they give an account to Jesus. I wondered
if there was a recipe for effective ministry, because if
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these guys were willing to come and look Jesus in
his face, and give an account. I figured there might
be a recipe for us for effective ministry. I'm interested,
anybody interested. There are three ingredients to the recipe.
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Nine verse one, it says he called them.
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He called them, and his calling superseded any personal ambition
that they had.
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They laid down.
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Whatever they were going to do because they heard the
call of God beckoning them to do something else.
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The beautiful thing about that entire picture is.
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That all of the glory of God the Father, all
of the glory.
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Of Heaven, was packaged in human flesh.
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Jesus wanted so much, God the Father wanted so much
to make sure that he could speak and so that
humanity could hear. That He left his throne in glory,
put on flesh so that.
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The disciples could hear his call.
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And in the same way he has giving us the
Holy Spirit, so that each and every one of us
have the privilege to hear the calling of God on
our lives, the conviction, the unction depressing the fire that
is shut up in your bones, sending you in a
particular direction.
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Heed the call of God on your lives. Then they
were not just called.
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I love so much that before he skips to the
third ingredient and the recipe sending them. I love that
before we get to the third one, there's that second one.
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He did not just call, but then he gave them
power and authority.
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It means that what he was calling them to do,
he was simultaneously equipping them with supernatural power to be
able to pull it off. So it's good news for
anybody in the room that you feel like you've got
a dream that is way over your head. You've been
called to do something you don't have the money for,
you don't have the time for, you don't have the
patience for, you don't have the gifting for, you don't
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have the talent for, you don't have the connections for
the good thing. And the great thing about our God
is that he does not call people who are already equipped.
He calls you, and then for the people that say yes,
he equips them with what they need for the calling.
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He entrusted them with power and authority. And can I
tell you why this is important.
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This is important because in order to accomplish supernatural tasks,
you have to have supernatural capacity. In other words, you
can be the most talented person in the world, but
if you go in your own strength and power, you
still won't be able to accomplish the God calling on
your life. It requires what it is that only God
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himself can give to you to accomplish the task. Ooh,
the enemy hopes you will go in your own power.
He hopes you will think you are flashy enough, and
savvy enough, and talented enough and impressive enough so that
you will no longer lean on God instead of leaning
to your own understanding.
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But it is not by power, and it is not
by mind. It is by the spirit of God.
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And some trust in horses, other folks trust in chariots,
but not us.
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We trust in the name of the Lord, our God.
So he called them, and then he entrusted them.
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He gave them some treasure, and then he sent them.
He's the one who did the sending. Resists the urge
to send yourself to do something that it is not
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yet time for, because just as important as our calling is,
that is equally as important as the timing is in
which that calling is outworked in our lives. And if
you go too soon, you might if you give birth
too soon to that which God is trying to produce
through you, you.
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Might abort what it is that he's trying to accomplish
in you.
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The spiritual backbone, the fortification that he was trying to
establish in you so that you could handle the spot
light wouldn't hit you, because listen, that spotlight that you
may be craving, if it hits you and you have
no character, it will burn you to a chrisp.
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So he called them, He entrusted them.
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He sent them out, and they returned to him and
gave an account.
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They were tired. The disciples had been given it everything
they had.
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And I know there are some of you in the
room and you would admit that you haven't done it perfectly.
But man, you've sure been purposeful. You've been intentional about
this marriage. You've been given it everything you've got. You've
been intentional about that teenager. You've been given that kid
everything you got, This toddler that has this specific bent
or this specific issue that you've been doing everything you can,
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going to see every expert that you can, reading everything.
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That you can to be the best that you can as.
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A mother, single mother, You've been giving it everything that
you've got, working the jobs that you've got to work
to keep food on the table. You've been giving that business,
that ministry, that endeavor everything that you have, and you,
the disciples, are tired. The good news about Jesus is
that when the disciples come to him tired, he does
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not say, go away from me and get yourself together.
Come back and then I can use you. He says,
come away with me. In other words, listen, the cure
for your exhaustion is intimacy with Jesus.
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That's the cure, y'all. I'm saying. I agree. Take the holiday,
take the vacation.
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Tell them you need a little sabbatical. You gotta step
back for just.
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A little bit.
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You need a little margin in your life. Take the holiday,
but don't take a holiday from Jesus. Don't take the
sabbatical from your relationship with the Lord. Prayer shouldn't exit
your schedule, because.
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These are your rest days.
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You still need to be the deer the pants after.
The water in your soul has still got to be
replenished and can only be replenished when you have intimacy
with Him. And you're trying to figure out Lord, you
told me that I was gonna be replenished. You told
me that I was gonna refresh. You told me that
you had something that you wanted to.
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Give to me.
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Why would you take me here to this place where
I'm being pressed down by a multitude of issues and
concerns and frustrations. There's something overwhelming me that is bigger
than what I feel like I have the capacity to handle.
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Why would you bring me here?
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This tells us that the story of the Feeding of
the five.
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Thousand is not just about the five thousand. It's also
about the disciples. It's not just about the multitude getting fed.
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It's about the the disciples being.
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Fed physically, spiritually, emotionally.
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And it tells us that the five loaves and the
two fish are the gift.
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To the multitude.
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But it's the multitude that's the gift to the disciples,
because the multitude is what's going to make them have
to finally open up their drawer, pull out the treasure
that they would have otherwise ignored, place it in the
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hands of a multiplying master who's gonna show them what
it looks like when he takes their little bit and
makes it a lot. There is no replenishing like watching
God multiply your loaves and fish. I came to tell
somebody who's got a multitude pressing on you in your marriage,
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or in your finances, or in your health, or in
your parenting, or in your singleness.
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That thing is weighing down on you. That means that
they're a drawer waiting to be opened.
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That means there's some treasure waiting to be unveiled. And
when you take it out finally, when you stop ignoring it,
when you stop circumventing it, when you stop acting like
God hasn't given you everything you need, when you will
finally recognize this little bit, this little gifting, this little talent,
this little time, this little money, this little dream, this
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little vision, that this is all I need if I'll
just pull it out and entrust.
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It to the hands of a multiply master. Can I just.
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Show you real quick what the disciples did, just real quick,
because I think it's interesting, because it's so us. They
said to Jesus in verse twelve, send the multitude away.
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And here's the thing that's so us. See, we don't
just say it, we pray it. We pray away.
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What we don't even recognize is the gift He has
given us to press us into opening up our drawer.
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So if you prayed for your multitude to be taken away,
and in God's.
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Sovereignty he has left it in your life.
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That means there's a drawer. There's a drawer, Start looking
for a drawer.
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If there's a multitude, that means there's loaves and fish
somewhere in your life that is supposed to be entrusted
into the hands of God.
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So we pray away.
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Did you realize in verse twelve they are wishing away
what in verse eleven Jesus welcomed. Jesus welcomed what they're
wishing away. So the deciple will say, get this multitude away.
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They don't even know they're praying away their miracle.
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Everybody wants to see the Red Sea divide, but nobody
wants to be the one that comes face to face
with a red seed. Everybody wants to see the walls
of Jericho come tumbling down, but nobody wants to be
the one who has to walk around those walls in
obedience to God to trust him to shout prior to
seeing one brickfall. If there is a multitude, that means
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there is a miracle. Okay, so praise the multitude, or
they ask for the multitude to go away. And Jesus,
he doesn't go for that. So when he doesn't, he
doesn't go for that. The disciples have another solution.
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This is us two. Send the multitude away. Jesus says
mm m, And they say, well, send us away. Then
you see it.
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They said, send us to the surrounding towns and villages
so that we can go and buy more, accumulate more,
get more. Because as we are is not sufficient, So
send us somewhere else so we can get better and
be better suited to this multitude.
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Because as we are is not enough.
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It has always been the tactic of the enemy to
get us to think that we are not enough as
we currently are, that what we currently have is not
sufficient for the task that is before us. But if
the Lord has allowed that multitude into your experience, that
means that as you currently are, with the entrusted treasure,
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the power, the authority that he has given to you,
you've got everything you need if you just pull out.
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What he already has entrusted to you.
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In fact, in Mark chapter six, Our Layer of Chocolate Cake,
we find out that.
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He says to the disciples, well what do you have?
That question, he says, what.
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Do you have and then he doesn't even give them
a chance to answer. He just immediately responds and says,
go and look. He said it like that, Go and look.
He said it like you would tell your kid if
the month, I mean the week after Christmas.
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They came to you and said, Mom, I'm bored, you
would say, well, what do you have?
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And then before you gave them a chance to respond,
because you could already tell that the response there was
gonna give you was gonna get them in trouble, So
you didn't even give them a chance.
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You just say, you would say to them.
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Go and look, because if you'll just look, you'll see
that the thing you're complaining about is something you already
have access to. If you will go and look, Moses,
you will see that everything you need to do, what
I've called you to do, it's in your hand.
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It's that rod, that common rod that is always been
right beside you. But now I'm gonna infuse it with
my power.
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If I can just get you to go and look, Moses,
pick the stick up, put it over the red sea.
You will see that it will make the Red Sea
divide like a solid wall. Go and look, David, Yes,
Goliath is right there. But if you'll go look down
by the stream, I've already provided five smooth stones. It
will be everything you need to take.
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That giant down, go and look.
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Spend all of the energy that you're spending complaining.
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Spend that energy going to look for what God has
already given us access to. So they pulled it out.
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All right, Jesus, you're gonna do something with this. They say, Okay,
here you go, and they.
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Put it in.
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Everything changes when you put your five and two in
the hands of cheese. Everything changes when you stop speaking
negatively about it and just trust it into the hands
of Gee.
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When you just take that little dream that he isn't
trusted to.
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You and you give it back to him and you say,
don't look like much.
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Right now, but I'm putting it in your hands.
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And the great thing about our God Verse sixteen says
is that he took the meager gifts of man. He
didn't look at that little bit and say, come back
when you've got more of a holy, divine, almighty, powerful God,
a god who does not need us.
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Or our loaves and fish.
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When man gave it to him, he received it, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed it, y'all.
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You don't need more. You just need God's blessing on
what you've already got.
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You don't need more, You just beed God's blessing on
your five and two.
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Girl, That's all you need. You know what his blessing is.
It's his favor, y'all.
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Favor is what makes the scales balance over in your favor.
Favor is what makes things a little bit unfair on
your behalf.
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Favor is what opens doors that nobody can shut.
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Favor is what puts you in positions that nobody can
take away. Favor is what sets you before kings and queens.
The favor of God is what you want on your life,
on your five and two.
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Looking up to heaven. He blessed it than he broke it,
and he kept giving it to the.
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Disciples, and it kept going, and it kept going. In
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the twelve didn't understand how the little bit they had
had they had in the beginning had.
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Become so much, and their entire.
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Multitude, the whole burden was satisfied. And when everybody was satisfied, ooh,
somebody say, satisfied, ooh, Victoria, I wish we had time
tonight girl.
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Satisfied. This is not some you know, happy meal sort
of situation here. Mmmm.
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This is not a number one on the Burger King
drive through. This is Sunday afternoon. I'm talking about old
school Sunday where your mom started to cook on Saturday
night and the yeast rolls were rising, and the macaroni
and cheese was bubbling, and the sweet potatoes were all
gooey on the stove, and ever the sweet tea was
going the roast. You know, she started the roast on
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two hundred the night before and let it simmer, oh
night long.
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Y'all are getting hungry, aren't you. I know, listen, do
you remember how when you came home from church the
next day you ate that?
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And the only thing you could do after that was
that's all you could do. That's why Jesus said, go
ahead and have the people reclined, Have them get in
a posture of expectation that I'm getting ready to do
exceedingly abundant, lead, above and beyond anything that they.
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Can ask or think.
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Satisfied Someday afternoon kind of satisfied, that's what he does.
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And they were so satisfied, y'all don't even sit down,
just stay dead and listen. They were so satisfied. This
is how you know how good the meal was.
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There was left doors.
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They started going around picking up the leftovers, y'all. And
guess what.
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There were twelve baskets full, one basket for each disciple
to take home as an overflow of the grace and
the blessing of God. I wanna pray for any of
you who are in this room and you've got a
multitude weighing on you. You gotta, I mean, that thing
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is burdening you down, and you've never considered.
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The fact that you've already got what you need.
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You've been thinking, this is not enough gifting, this is
not enough talent, it's not enough money, it's not enough.
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I don't have enough. And Jesus is whispering in your
ear tonight. You gotta not just give it to me.
I'm gonna multiply it.
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I'm gonna blow your mind with what I'm gonna do
if you just trust it to me. Anybody got a
specific multitude that you need prayer in regards to, just
go ahead and raise your hand.
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We're gonna pray right now. And Jesus say, Victoria, will
you come up with me. Please, just as a pastor
in this house, would you just be present in this
moment so we can pray over God's people. Lord.
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Right now, we entrust every single woman who has her
hand raised in particular, we entrust every single one under
the sound of our voice, Lord, to your love and care.
We thank you that you are sovereign over their lives. Father,
We thank you that there is nothing that is in
our experience right now that has not first passed through
your fingers. And since we know you are good and
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that you are kind, and that your mercy endures forever,
then Father, we believe that if you've allowed this multitude,
there's something in this multitude we don't want to miss.
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And so Father, I pray right now.
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That you would change our perspective so we can see
in this multitude what you have for us.
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Don't let us miss it for anything in the world.
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Lord. And then Father, I'm gonna pray over our five
and two I ask right now in Jesus' name, whatever
the five loaves and the two fish are that you
have entrusted every single woman, I pray that you would
give a holy courage and a holy boldness that would
compel us to open up the drawer and pull it
out and entrust it to your hands.
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Father God, I do pray.
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That if this multitude has anything to do with the enemy, Lord,
if the enemy has assigned an attack on any woman
or her family, I pray that his attack would be
canceled in Jesus' name and by his brood that has
been shed on Calfrey.
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But Lord, if this multitude is of you, then right now,
in Jesus' name, I thank you for it in our lives.
Come on and thank him for it. I thank you
for it.
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And then, Father, we're gonna go ahead and get in
a posture of abundance. We're gonna start living and praying
and acting like people.
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Who believe that you are.
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The God of Ephesians three twenty and twenty one. You
can do above, oh that we asked you think in
Jesus' snaves.
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In Jesus' name, Come on, everybody, show they man
It has always been the tactic of the enemy to
get us to think that we.
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Are not enough as we.
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Currently are, that what we currently have is not sufficient
for the task.
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That is before us.
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But if the Lord has allowed that multitude into your experience,
that means that as you currently are, with the entrusted treasure.
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The power, the authority that He.
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Has given to you, you've got everything you need if
you just pull out.
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What He already has entrusted to you. I can you
tell somebody that there is treasure hidden in these earth
in Vessis.
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I came to tell you that by God's spirit there
is gifts, and there's power that has been entrusted to
you that is available to you, available to me as
daughters of the most High King.
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You need to know that even if you do not
believe what the scriptures declare to be true about.
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Your treasure, if you don't believe that you've been forgiven
or that you already have the victim, that the enemy
is already underneath your.
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Feet, and that there is no condemnation for those of
us who are in.
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Christ Jesus, or that you have been made competent.
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By the spirit of God.
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I came to tell you that, even.
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If you don't believe it, the enemy does. He knows
who you.
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Are, what a shamed it would be for him to
know and us not to. So it's time for us
to open up the drawer and start pulling out the treasure.
The treasure we've been ignoring, the treasure we've been calling insignificant,
the thing that we've said is not enough, not valuable.
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Lord, if I could just be like her, Lord, if.
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I could just be like that, if I could just
have a bit more of that, if I weren't me,
then Lord, I'd be enough. He says, Ah, you have enough.
You just haven't opened up the drawer.
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Pull out the treasure.
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There is a story in scripture that is going to
be very familiar to you.
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It's the one that the Lord has.
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Been using in my own life to remind me about
how he will compel me. And he will compel us
to open up the drawer and reach in and pull
out the treasure, and see what it's like when he
uses what he has already entrusted to us.
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Luke, chapter nine, verse one and.
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Two says this and he called, that's Jesus. He called
somebody say he called He called the twelve together, and
he gave somebody, say he gave he gave them power,
and he gave them authority over all demons and to
heal all diseases Verse two. And then he sent somebody,
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say he sent he sent them out.
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He called them, he gave them treasure, and then he
sent them out. Verse ten says.
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And then when they returned to him, they gave an
account to him of every thing they had done, and
taking them with him, he withdrew by himself to a
hill called beth Sta. The multitudes were aware of this
Verse eleven says, so they followed Jesus because you know,
wherever Jesus went.
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A crowd was sure to follow. They weren't quite sure
he was the messiah.
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But what they didn't know was that when this man
showed up, blind people could see. What they knew is
that when Jesus showed up, the lame could walk, and
the death could hear.
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The dead were being raised. So wherever Jesus was they came.
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The crowd followed, and welcoming the multitude, Jesus began speaking
to them about the Kingdom of God and.
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Curing those who were in need of healing. Verse twelve.
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So the day starts to come to a close, and
the twelve come to Jesus and say, now, Jesus, you're
gonna have to send this multitude away. They've got to
go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging.
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They got to get something to eat. Jesus, come on
now here, we're in a desolate place. Verse thirteen.
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Jesus said to them, uh uh.
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You give them something to eat.
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They said, Jesus, we have no more than five loaves
and two fish, unless perhaps you let us go and
buy food for all these people, because you know we're
not enough as we are right now. There were about
five thousand men. Scholars say the reason why Luke specifies
men is because there were women and children too, so
there were probably about fifteen thousand hungry people that day.
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Jesus said, have them reclined to eat, in groups of
about fifty each.
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So they did so, had them all reclined, and then
he took the five loaves and the two fish, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and then he
broke them, and he kept giving them to the disciples
to set before the multitude. In Verse seventeen says they
all ate, they were all satisfied, And just so you
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know how satisfied they were, they went by and picked
up all the leftovers because there was overflow.
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In this story, we meet a hungry.
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Multitude, a multitude that is placing a demand. They have
a need. There is a lack that needs to be filled.
And most of the time when this proportion of the
Scriptures is looked into the multitudes, who we concentrate on
the five blows and the two fish and how they.
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Were satisfied with it.
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But just for a few moments tonight, I don't want
to talk to you about the twelve Disciples, those who
walked with Jesus and talked with Jesus, those who were
in close communion with Jesus, those who would come out
on a Friday night to be in the presence of
Jesus amongst the people of Jesus.
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I want to talk to the disciples of Jesus. The
Disciples on this occasion had been.
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Called to Jesus by Jesus. They were having a conversation
with each other. Jesus entrusted them with power.
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And authority, and then he sent them out.
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I love that This gospel is one of the Synoptic gospels.
The synoptic gospels are those that tell their three of them, Matthew, Mark,
and Luke. These three tell some of the similar stories
in a similar tone, in a similar way, so that
we're able to get more layers to the story.
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I love the gospels in that way. They give us layers.
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Just like if someone were to offer you a chocolate cake,
but they gave you options. You could have a one
layer of chocolate cake or a seven layer of chocolate cake.
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Which one You're gonna.
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Choose seven every single time, because the more layers there are,
the more rich and delectable the experience becomes. Mark chapter
six is a layer of chocolate cake for us. It
tells us that this is the experience when Jesus called
the disciples to himself, and then he sent them out
in pairs. Do you remember, two by two into the
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neighboring towns and communities. They were supposed to teach and
preach and perform miracles that would authenticate the deity of
Jesus Christ. Mark chapter six, our layer of chocolate cake,
tells us that they expended themselves. Y'all, they were busy
from sun up to sundown. They were about the task
of doing what it was that Jesus had assigned to them.
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They wanted to be diligent about it so much so
that when they came back to Jesus, they gave an
account to him, and.
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Jesus recognized their exhaustion. He saw that they were tired.
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In fact, Jesus himself commented that they didn't even have
time to eat because they had been so busy. They
were depleted, and they were tired. And they came back
to Jesus and they gave him an account for how
they'd handled the assignment that he had entrusted to them.
If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, you got an assignment,
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and don't let anybody tell you that your assignment isn't
ministry just because it happens to be in a corporate setting.
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Mother of small children who's chosen to stay home with
those kids, don't let anybody tell you that a ministry.
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Every single time you make that chicken for dinner and
you said it on that table, and you teach those
kids a Bible verse before bedtime, don't let anybody tell
you that that ain't ministry.
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Corporate woman.
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When you sit around that boardroom table and you're the
only one that has a set of ideals.
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That lines up with the truth of Scripture, at a
table with those who are thinking and acting and planning
in a.
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Way that is left of God's word, don't let anybody
tell you that you around that boardroom a ministry. That's ministry.
High school student, college student. You're the only student that
stands for truth. When your professor says this.
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Is the way it is and you say, no, that's
not the way it is.
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Don't let anybody tell you, as the light on that
college campus that you are not in ministry. Every single
one of us has an assignment, and.
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The day is coming.
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When we're going off to give an account.
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And here's the thing, you don't know when that day is.
My thirty eight year old cousin.
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Thirty eight for small children, The day is coming, and
you don't know the day or the hour, neither do I.
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When we're gonna have to stand before him and give
an account for how we handled what he had entrusted
to us. I'm asking you tonight, how are you handling
your assignment? Because young women, if you think that you're
young because of your age.
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Listen to me.
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If you're twenty but you only have till thirty, you're
pretty old.
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If you're fifty and you're gonna live.
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Until one hundred, then you're pretty young.
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Age is just a number, my friend, and you and I.
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Cannot qualify young or all base based on our birth date.
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It's based on our death date. And since we don't
know when that day is that I implore you, sisters,
by the mercies of.
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God, to walk in a manner worthy of the calling
by which you have been because listen, I don't know
about y'all, but when I see him face to face,
I'm looking for a well done I'm looking for well done.
When I see him, he will not ask me how
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many Instagram followers I had.
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He will not wonder whether or not folks liked my post.
He will not be.
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Interested in whether or not my selfies were perfectly lit.
He will ask me, did I know his son? And
then I will give an account. So the disciples they
come and they give an account to Jesus. I wondered
if there was a recipe for effective ministry, because if
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these guys were willing to come and look Jesus in
his face, and give an account. I figured there might
be a recipe for us for effective ministry. I'm interested,
anybody interested. There are three ingredients to the recipe.
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Nine verse one, it says he called them.
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He called them, and his calling superseded any personal ambition
that they had.
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They laid down.
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Whatever they were going to do because they heard the
call of God beckoning them to do something else.
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The beautiful thing about that entire picture is.
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That all of the glory of God the Father, all
of the glory.
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Of Heaven, was packaged in human flesh.
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Jesus wanted so much, God the Father wanted so much
to make sure that he could speak and so that
humanity could hear. That He left his throne in glory,
put on flesh so that.
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The disciples could hear his call.
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And in the same way he has giving us the
Holy Spirit, so that each and every one of us
have the privilege to hear the calling of God on
our lives, the conviction, the unction depressing the fire that
is shut up in your bones, sending you in a
particular direction.
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Heed the call of God on your lives. Then they
were not just called.
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I love so much that before he skips to the
third ingredient and the recipe sending them. I love that
before we get to the third one, there's that second one.
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He did not just call, but then he gave them
power and authority.
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It means that what he was calling them to do,
he was simultaneously equipping them with supernatural power to be
able to pull it off. So it's good news for
anybody in the room that you feel like you've got
a dream that is way over your head. You've been
called to do something you don't have the money for,
you don't have the time for, you don't have the
patience for, you don't have the gifting for, you don't
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have the talent for, you don't have the connections for
the good thing. And the great thing about our God
is that he does not call people who are already equipped.
He calls you, and then for the people that say yes,
he equips them with what they need for the calling.
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He entrusted them with power and authority. And can I
tell you why this is important.
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This is important because in order to accomplish supernatural tasks,
you have to have supernatural capacity. In other words, you
can be the most talented person in the world, but
if you go in your own strength and power, you
still won't be able to accomplish the God calling on
your life. It requires what it is that only God
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himself can give to you to accomplish the task. Ooh,
the enemy hopes you will go in your own power.
He hopes you will think you are flashy enough, and
savvy enough, and talented enough and impressive enough so that
you will no longer lean on God instead of leaning
to your own understanding.
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But it is not by power, and it is not
by mind. It is by the spirit of God.
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And some trust in horses, other folks trust in chariots,
but not us.
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We trust in the name of the Lord, our God.
So he called them, and then he entrusted them.
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He gave them some treasure, and then he sent them.
He's the one who did the sending. Resists the urge
to send yourself to do something that it is not
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yet time for, because just as important as our calling is,
that is equally as important as the timing is in
which that calling is outworked in our lives. And if
you go too soon, you might if you give birth
too soon to that which God is trying to produce
through you, you.
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Might abort what it is that he's trying to accomplish
in you.
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The spiritual backbone, the fortification that he was trying to
establish in you so that you could handle the spot
light wouldn't hit you, because listen, that spotlight that you
may be craving, if it hits you and you have
no character, it will burn you to a chrisp.
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So he called them, He entrusted them.
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He sent them out, and they returned to him and
gave an account.
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They were tired. The disciples had been given it everything
they had.
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And I know there are some of you in the
room and you would admit that you haven't done it perfectly.
But man, you've sure been purposeful. You've been intentional about
this marriage. You've been given it everything you've got. You've
been intentional about that teenager. You've been given that kid
everything you got, This toddler that has this specific bent
or this specific issue that you've been doing everything you can,
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going to see every expert that you can, reading everything.
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That you can to be the best that you can as.
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A mother, single mother, You've been giving it everything that
you've got, working the jobs that you've got to work
to keep food on the table. You've been giving that business,
that ministry, that endeavor everything that you have, and you,
the disciples, are tired. The good news about Jesus is
that when the disciples come to him tired, he does
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not say, go away from me and get yourself together.
Come back and then I can use you. He says,
come away with me. In other words, listen, the cure
for your exhaustion is intimacy with Jesus.
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That's the cure, y'all. I'm saying. I agree. Take the holiday,
take the vacation.
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Tell them you need a little sabbatical. You gotta step
back for just.
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A little bit.
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You need a little margin in your life. Take the holiday,
but don't take a holiday from Jesus. Don't take the
sabbatical from your relationship with the Lord. Prayer shouldn't exit
your schedule, because.
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These are your rest days.
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You still need to be the deer the pants after.
The water in your soul has still got to be
replenished and can only be replenished when you have intimacy
with Him. And you're trying to figure out Lord, you
told me that I was gonna be replenished. You told
me that I was gonna refresh. You told me that
you had something that you wanted to.
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Give to me.
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Why would you take me here to this place where
I'm being pressed down by a multitude of issues and
concerns and frustrations. There's something overwhelming me that is bigger
than what I feel like I have the capacity to handle.
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Why would you bring me here?
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This tells us that the story of the Feeding of
the five.
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Thousand is not just about the five thousand. It's also
about the disciples. It's not just about the multitude getting fed.
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It's about the the disciples being.
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Fed physically, spiritually, emotionally.
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And it tells us that the five loaves and the
two fish are the gift.
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To the multitude.
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But it's the multitude that's the gift to the disciples,
because the multitude is what's going to make them have
to finally open up their drawer, pull out the treasure
that they would have otherwise ignored, place it in the
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hands of a multiplying master who's gonna show them what
it looks like when he takes their little bit and
makes it a lot. There is no replenishing like watching
God multiply your loaves and fish. I came to tell
somebody who's got a multitude pressing on you in your marriage,
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or in your finances, or in your health, or in
your parenting, or in your singleness.
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That thing is weighing down on you. That means that
they're a drawer waiting to be opened.
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That means there's some treasure waiting to be unveiled. And
when you take it out finally, when you stop ignoring it,
when you stop circumventing it, when you stop acting like
God hasn't given you everything you need, when you will
finally recognize this little bit, this little gifting, this little talent,
this little time, this little money, this little dream, this
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little vision, that this is all I need if I'll
just pull it out and entrust.
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It to the hands of a multiply master. Can I just.
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Show you real quick what the disciples did, just real quick,
because I think it's interesting, because it's so us. They
said to Jesus in verse twelve, send the multitude away.
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And here's the thing that's so us. See, we don't
just say it, we pray it. We pray away.
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What we don't even recognize is the gift He has
given us to press us into opening up our drawer.
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So if you prayed for your multitude to be taken away,
and in God's.
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Sovereignty he has left it in your life.
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That means there's a drawer. There's a drawer, Start looking
for a drawer.
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If there's a multitude, that means there's loaves and fish
somewhere in your life that is supposed to be entrusted
into the hands of God.
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So we pray away.
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Did you realize in verse twelve they are wishing away
what in verse eleven Jesus welcomed. Jesus welcomed what they're
wishing away. So the deciple will say, get this multitude away.
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They don't even know they're praying away their miracle.
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Everybody wants to see the Red Sea divide, but nobody
wants to be the one that comes face to face
with a red seed. Everybody wants to see the walls
of Jericho come tumbling down, but nobody wants to be
the one who has to walk around those walls in
obedience to God to trust him to shout prior to
seeing one brickfall. If there is a multitude, that means
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there is a miracle. Okay, so praise the multitude, or
they ask for the multitude to go away. And Jesus,
he doesn't go for that. So when he doesn't, he
doesn't go for that. The disciples have another solution.
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This is us two. Send the multitude away. Jesus says
mm m, And they say, well, send us away. Then
you see it.
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They said, send us to the surrounding towns and villages
so that we can go and buy more, accumulate more,
get more. Because as we are is not sufficient, So
send us somewhere else so we can get better and
be better suited to this multitude.
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Because as we are is not enough.
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It has always been the tactic of the enemy to
get us to think that we are not enough as
we currently are, that what we currently have is not
sufficient for the task that is before us. But if
the Lord has allowed that multitude into your experience, that
means that as you currently are, with the entrusted treasure,
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the power, the authority that he has given to you,
you've got everything you need if you just pull out.
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What he already has entrusted to you.
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In fact, in Mark chapter six, Our Layer of Chocolate Cake,
we find out that.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He says to the disciples, well what do you have?
That question, he says, what.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Do you have and then he doesn't even give them
a chance to answer. He just immediately responds and says,
go and look. He said it like that, Go and look.
He said it like you would tell your kid if
the month, I mean the week after Christmas.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
They came to you and said, Mom, I'm bored, you
would say, well, what do you have?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
And then before you gave them a chance to respond,
because you could already tell that the response there was
gonna give you was gonna get them in trouble, So
you didn't even give them a chance.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You just say, you would say to them.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Go and look, because if you'll just look, you'll see
that the thing you're complaining about is something you already
have access to. If you will go and look, Moses,
you will see that everything you need to do, what
I've called you to do, it's in your hand.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
It's that rod, that common rod that is always been
right beside you. But now I'm gonna infuse it with
my power.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
If I can just get you to go and look, Moses,
pick the stick up, put it over the red sea.
You will see that it will make the Red Sea
divide like a solid wall. Go and look, David, Yes,
Goliath is right there. But if you'll go look down
by the stream, I've already provided five smooth stones. It
will be everything you need to take.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
That giant down, go and look.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Spend all of the energy that you're spending complaining.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Spend that energy going to look for what God has
already given us access to. So they pulled it out.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
All right, Jesus, you're gonna do something with this. They say, Okay,
here you go, and they.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Put it in.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Everything changes when you put your five and two in
the hands of cheese. Everything changes when you stop speaking
negatively about it and just trust it into the hands
of Gee.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
When you just take that little dream that he isn't
trusted to.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
You and you give it back to him and you say,
don't look like much.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Right now, but I'm putting it in your hands.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
And the great thing about our God Verse sixteen says
is that he took the meager gifts of man. He
didn't look at that little bit and say, come back
when you've got more of a holy, divine, almighty, powerful God,
a god who does not need us.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Or our loaves and fish.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
When man gave it to him, he received it, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed it, y'all.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You don't need more. You just need God's blessing on
what you've already got.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You don't need more, You just beed God's blessing on
your five and two.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Girl, That's all you need. You know what his blessing is.
It's his favor, y'all.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Favor is what makes the scales balance over in your favor.
Favor is what makes things a little bit unfair on
your behalf.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Favor is what opens doors that nobody can shut.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Favor is what puts you in positions that nobody can
take away. Favor is what sets you before kings and queens.
The favor of God is what you want on your life,
on your five and two.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Looking up to heaven. He blessed it than he broke it,
and he kept giving it to the.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Disciples, and it kept going, and it kept going. In
(27:02):
the twelve didn't understand how the little bit they had
had they had in the beginning had.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Become so much, and their entire.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Multitude, the whole burden was satisfied. And when everybody was satisfied, ooh,
somebody say, satisfied, ooh, Victoria, I wish we had time
tonight girl.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Satisfied. This is not some you know, happy meal sort
of situation here. Mmmm.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
This is not a number one on the Burger King
drive through. This is Sunday afternoon. I'm talking about old
school Sunday where your mom started to cook on Saturday
night and the yeast rolls were rising, and the macaroni
and cheese was bubbling, and the sweet potatoes were all
gooey on the stove, and ever the sweet tea was
going the roast. You know, she started the roast on
(27:57):
two hundred the night before and let it simmer, oh
night long.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Y'all are getting hungry, aren't you. I know, listen, do
you remember how when you came home from church the
next day you ate that?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And the only thing you could do after that was
that's all you could do. That's why Jesus said, go
ahead and have the people reclined, Have them get in
a posture of expectation that I'm getting ready to do
exceedingly abundant, lead, above and beyond anything that they.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Can ask or think.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Satisfied Someday afternoon kind of satisfied, that's what he does.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
And they were so satisfied, y'all don't even sit down,
just stay dead and listen. They were so satisfied. This
is how you know how good the meal was.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
There was left doors.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
They started going around picking up the leftovers, y'all. And
guess what.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
There were twelve baskets full, one basket for each disciple
to take home as an overflow of the grace and
the blessing of God. I wanna pray for any of
you who are in this room and you've got a
multitude weighing on you. You gotta, I mean, that thing
(29:25):
is burdening you down, and you've never considered.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
The fact that you've already got what you need.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
You've been thinking, this is not enough gifting, this is
not enough talent, it's not enough money, it's not enough.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I don't have enough. And Jesus is whispering in your
ear tonight. You gotta not just give it to me.
I'm gonna multiply it.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I'm gonna blow your mind with what I'm gonna do
if you just trust it to me. Anybody got a
specific multitude that you need prayer in regards to, just
go ahead and raise your hand.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
We're gonna pray right now. And Jesus say, Victoria, will
you come up with me. Please, just as a pastor
in this house, would you just be present in this
moment so we can pray over God's people. Lord.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Right now, we entrust every single woman who has her
hand raised in particular, we entrust every single one under
the sound of our voice, Lord, to your love and care.
We thank you that you are sovereign over their lives. Father,
We thank you that there is nothing that is in
our experience right now that has not first passed through
your fingers. And since we know you are good and
(30:31):
that you are kind, and that your mercy endures forever,
then Father, we believe that if you've allowed this multitude,
there's something in this multitude we don't want to miss.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
And so Father, I pray right now.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
That you would change our perspective so we can see
in this multitude what you have for us.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Don't let us miss it for anything in the world.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Lord. And then Father, I'm gonna pray over our five
and two I ask right now in Jesus' name, whatever
the five loaves and the two fish are that you
have entrusted every single woman, I pray that you would
give a holy courage and a holy boldness that would
compel us to open up the drawer and pull it
out and entrust it to your hands.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Father God, I do pray.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That if this multitude has anything to do with the enemy, Lord,
if the enemy has assigned an attack on any woman
or her family, I pray that his attack would be
canceled in Jesus' name and by his brood that has
been shed on Calfrey.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
But Lord, if this multitude is of you, then right now,
in Jesus' name, I thank you for it in our lives.
Come on and thank him for it. I thank you
for it.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
And then, Father, we're gonna go ahead and get in
a posture of abundance. We're gonna start living and praying
and acting like people.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Who believe that you are.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
The God of Ephesians three twenty and twenty one. You
can do above, oh that we asked you think in
Jesus' snaves.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
In Jesus' name, Come on, everybody, show they man
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