Jesus taught His disciples to be distributors of His blessing and \u2018first responders\u2019 to those in need. That\u2019s why He involved them in the process; He was equipping them to represent Him in the future. In the feeding of the five thousand, the miracle of multiplication did not take place when the food left Christ\u2019s<\/i> hands, but the disciples\u2019<\/i> hands. He blessed the five loaves and two fish, gave it to them, and they set out to do what seemed ridiculous: feeding a multitude with a boy\u2019s lunch. But as they did it, they experienced the miraculous. <\/p>\n
Why? Because when the Lord\u2019s blessing is upon what you have, you\u2019ll succeed in spite of the challenges and obstacles. God has given each of us something that others need. But sometimes we fail to recognise it, or we doubt its worth. So we conclude, \u2018I don\u2019t have what it takes.\u2019 <\/p>\n
You do\u2014but it\u2019s in seed<\/i> form! Jesus described it this way: \u2018First the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.\u2019<\/i> (Mark\u00a04:28\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) God has deposited within you something He wants you to recognise, nurture, and use for His glory. When He blesses it, you\u2019ll be amazed at the underdeveloped potential you\u2019ve been running around with. <\/p>\n The miracle of the loaves and fishes began when a boy found an unmet need and decided to give what he had. That\u2019s also when the disciples discovered what Jesus could do with what they had, even though it looked hopelessly inadequate. The word for today is\u2014use what God has given you!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jesus taught His disciples to be distributors of His blessing and \u2018first responders\u2019 to those in need. That\u2019s why He involved them in the process; He was equipping them to represent Him in the future. In the feeding of the five thousand, the miracle of multiplication did not take place when the food left Christ\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}