THE BOY WITH FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD AND TWO FISH BY PR. PHILIP LOTIMONG 16-06-2024

WHEN GOD SPEAKS WITH YOU, YOU OUGHT TO FOLLOW THE INSTRCTIONS.
WHAT WORKS FOR YOU COMES WITH THE ANOINTING ON WORD OF GOD AND THE INSTRUCTIONS FROM GOD’S WORD.
THERE’S A JERICHO YOU ARE FACING, AND YOU HAVE TO OVERCOME IT.

MASTER SCRIPTURE JOHN 6:1-15

MANY TIMES WHEN WE READ THIS SCRIPTURE, WE LOOK AT THE MULTIPLICATION OF LOAVES AND FISH BUT DONT FOCUS ON THE BOY WHOSE PARENTS ARE NOT KNOWN.
THE BOY WAS IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME WITH THE RIGHT NEED.
JESUS SAW THE NEED OF THESE PEOPLE AFTER HEALING AND DELIVERING THEM AND THE NEED WAS FOOD.
THE ANOINTING DIDN’T TAKE AWAY THE HUNGER.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU ARE ANOINTED, THERE’S A NEED OF BREAD AND FISH.
JESUS BEING JESUS ASKS PHILIP, ABOUT WHERE TO BUY THE BREAD AND PHILIP’S RESPONSE SEEMS TO BE “IT IS IMPOSSIBLE” BECAUSE HE ASKS EVEN IF THEY HAD THE MONEY, WHERE WOULD THEY GET THE MONEY TO BUY THE BREAD YET JESUS WAS JUST TESTING HIM.
JESUS KNOWS WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR NEED.
HE MAY ASK PHILIP BUT HE KNOWS WHAT TO DO.
YOU CAN CHOOSE TO BE PETER OR PHIILIP. PETER SAW THE FISH AND LOAVES.
IN LIFE YOU NEED A PETER WHO SEES THE POSSIBILITY OUT OF AN IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION.
THIS BOY’S NAME, HOME, PARENTS ARE NOT KNOWN OR MENTIONED ANYWHERE, WE DON’T KNOW WHETHER HE WAS SELLING THE BREAD AND FISH OR THIS WAS HIS FOOD OR HE HAD BEEN SENT BY HIS PARENTS.
HE BECOMES A SOURCE OF SOLVING THE PROBLEM.
THE FIVE LOAVES DID NOT LEAVE JESUS’ HANDS WITHOUT BEING MULTIPLIED.
IT NEVER CAME TO A STOP IN THE HANDS OF JESUS.
WHATEVER YOU HAND TO GOD, WILL NOT CEASE OR RUN OUT, IT WILL STAND.
AS LONG AS IT WAS IN THE HANDS OF JESUS, EVERYBODY ATE AND THERE WAS SOME BREAD AND FISH LEFT.

WHAT HELPED THIS BOY TO SURRENDER WHAT HE HAD?

1. TO KNOW THAT GOD IS CONTROL. JESUS KNEW WHAT HE WOULD DO EVEN WHEN HE ASKED PHILIP. NO MATTER THE SITUATION YOU ARE IN, GOD KNOWS WHAT TO DO. YOUR PARENTS, FRIENDS, RELATIVES MAY NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT YOUR SITUATION BUT JESUS DOES. HE IS IN CONTROL! PHILIP SAW THE IMPOSSIBLE IN HUMAN EFFORT, BUT JESUS KNEW WHAT TO DO. NO MATTER THE SITUATION, OUR GOD IS IN CONTROL.
  EVEN WHEN THE WORLD IS TORN APART, MY GOD IS IN CONTROL.
  A SITUATION MAY BE IN CHARGE BUT GOD IS CONTROL.
  JOB’S SITUATION WAS IN CHARGE BUT GOD WAS IN CONTROL.
2. GOD IS ABOUT MULTIPLICATION
  WHAT THE BOY GAVE WAS VERY LITTLE BUT IT WAS MULTIPLIED,
  THE BOY’S FOOD COULDN’T EVEN FEED 10 PEOPLE, BUT IN THE HANDS OF JESUS, IT FED THOUSANDS, HE MULTIPLIED IT. DON’T DESPISE THE LITTLE YOU HAVE.
  WHATEVER YOU GIVE FROM YOUR HEART TO GOD, WILL COME BACK AS A BLESSING FOR MANY.
  GOD DOESN’T LOOK AT THE SIZE OF WHAT YOU HAVE, IT IS THE HEART THAT GIVES.
  IT IS THE SIZE OF YOUR HEART THAT DETERMINES YOUR GIVING.
3. MULTIPLICATION REQUIRES TRUST. TRUST THAT GOD WILL WORK ON THE THINGS YOU HAVE PUT IN HIS HANDS.
  THIS BOY KNEW WHAT JESUS WOLD DO. PROBABLY HE HAD HEARD ABOUT THE MIRACLES THAT JESUS HAD PERFORMED BEFORE AND TRUSTED THE LOAVES AND FISH WITH JESUS.
  WHATEVER GOD GIVES YOU, HE WANTS YOU TO BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS.
4. THE BOY MADE A GREAT SACRIFICE. HE SACRIFICED WHAT HE HAD. SACRIFICE YOUR LIFE, SACRIFICE TO GOD AND HE WILL BLESS YOU FOREVER.
  THE CHRISTIAN JOURNEY IS ABOUT SACRIFICES. SACRIFICE YOUR LIFE, SACRFICE WHAT YOU HAVE.
  THERE’S NO KINGDOM WITHOUT SACRIFICES.
  JESUS WAS GOD HIMSELF, BUT HE NEEDED THE BOY TO GIVE HIM BREAD.
5. YOURS IS TO GIVE AND IT IS GOD’S ROLE TO MULTIPLY WHAT YOU HAVE GIVEN GIVEN HIM. DID THE BOY AND HIS FAMILY EAT THE MULTIPLIED FISH AND BREAD? OF COURSE YES! IF THE BOY DIDN’T HAVE THE BREAD AND FISH, WOULD THERE BE THE MIRACLE OF MULTIPLICATION? NO?GOD CAN NOT TRUST YOU WITH MUCH, WHEN YOU HAVE NOT BEEN FAITHFUL IN THE LITTLE. WHAT ARE YOU GIVING TO GOD? WHICH SACRIFICE ARE YOU MAKING FOR GOD? IS GOD IN CONTROL OVER EVERY SITUATION OF YOUR LIFE? ARE YOU TRUSTING GOD ENOUGH?