It Happens In Your Hands

There is something remarkable about the feeding of the five thousand, a miracle by Jesus which is the only miracle recorded in all four gospels. So, what did I notice that is so remarkable? Well, it isn’t something quite new, but it is something we need to take note of when dealing with God.

Jesus went to a deserted area to spend time with His Father—God our heavenly Father, but He saw a lot of people who came looking for Him. Jesus, of course, had compassion on them, healed the sick among them, and performed several miracles. It was getting late and His disciples advised that He should dismiss the people so that they could go and get food to eat.

Jesus surprisingly asked His disciples to give the people something to eat. But thinking as typical humans, they concluded that it would cost a lot of money to feed the people because there were more than five thousand people. As the men alone were five thousand, women and children’s actual figures weren’t stated which in total would most likely hit above ten thousand at the least. So feeding them would cost a whole lot.

Now, this is where it gets interesting. Jesus asked them what they had, and they said they only had five loaves of bread and two fish, which belonged to a boy. Jesus said that was OK and requested for it. He raised the bread, looked up to heaven, gave thanks, and began to break the bread and gave it to His disciples to give to the people who were seated in their fifties and hundreds. As we know, when the people were filled, Jesus asked the remnant to be packed together, and it was a surprising twelve baskets full. Wow!

The point I want you to take note of here is that the miracle did not happen in the hands of Jesus but in the hands of the disciples. Remember, Jesus asked them to feed the people. When they didn’t get what He meant exactly, He asked them what they had. He blessed it and gave it to them to distribute.

God has given us the entire world as resources to use for His kingdom as managers here on earth. The question He will always ask you is what resource you have in your hand. The five loaves of bread and two fish were enough because that is enough for Him to show you how to exercise your dominion here on earth that He gave you.

Every time we cry to God to come to our rescue, He always asks what we have in our hands. It is what we have in our hands that we command in the name of Jesus to meet our needs.

Let me elaborate on that. God’s business is to meet our needs, not us. True, we could be in a state where unbelief sets in. When this happens, take what you have in your hand and speak life into it to meet your needs. In other words, you are asking Jesus to release how to make use of the wisdom He has deposited inside of you in the use of the resources He placed in your hands for the right purpose. I hope you got that.

The reason why this is important is that by living the life of a steward or manager here on earth, we use the resources He has given us in the right way to expand His kingdom. In the use of this, we see our needs being met. But as I said, unbelief or doubt could deter us from our focus on Him because we are not seeing our needs being met. In other words, we start thinking like the disciples who were seeing the impossibility of feeding the people. But God always needs us to focus on Him to get things running. So that is why we need to have a resource in our hands, that is, what the resource(s) we use for the work He asked us to do, and then we speak to it in the name of Jesus to be enough to meet the needs required.

Our focus is on His mission, the miracle happens in our hands as we use the resources in His wisdom. And in every case, in the Bible, the miracle happens when we obey Him on how to use the resources, the wine at the wedding at Cana of Galilee, the widow’s oil and many more. Speak to your resource and allow Him to lead you in the right way to use it.

 

 

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Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are obtained from the New King James Version (NKJV)