Beyond Human Logic - John 6:1-15 (05.10.2026)

How you doing? Go ahead and be opening your Bibles to John chapter six,

if you have not done so, and I'll pray for us one more time.

Father, we just thank you for today and for your goodness and your provision for all of us.

And we thank you for getting us here today to hear your word.

Your word says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.

And we just pray that you would increase our faith today through this word in Jesus' name. Amen.

All right. So The Hobbit is probably one of my favorite books.

And I think one of the reasons that I like The Hobbit so much is because Bilbo

is just such a relatable character.

And if you're, maybe you're familiar with the book, maybe you've seen the movie.

But the story begins with Bilbo, who's a hobbit.

And, you know, he lives this very comfortable life.

He lives in a very comfortable hole in the ground in the Shire.

And his whole life is kind of revolves around that, around just like being as

comfortable as possible. And,

Gandalf, the wizard, volunteers Bilbo for a mission that he knows nothing about.

And suddenly, Bilbo finds his home filled with 13 dwarves and all wanting,

you know, food and drink and all this stuff.

And he has no idea really what's happening, except that he seems to have been

swept up into something that he is completely unequipped for.

And it's such a relatable story because we've all found ourselves in situations

where we feel like overwhelmingly, I am in over my head.

I do not have the resources that it takes for blank, for this.

And that feeling of, I don't have, we don't have what we need.

I don't have what I need for this.

That is exactly what Jesus is walking his disciples into in this story.

They're in a desolate place. They don't have the resources.

And Jesus looks to his disciples in all of the accounts of this in each of the gospels.

And he tells them, like, he puts the ball in their court. You give them something.

In John's account, he looks to Phil, where are we going to get enough food for all these people?

And in this story, we're going to see people make two errors as they relate

to Christ, but they're related.

The first is to look to our own resources to meet the demands that are upon

us. We'll see Philip make that mistake.

And the other is to try and have Jesus serve our agenda, and we'll see the crowd make that mistake.

But they're both related because they both have to do with a failure to trust Jesus completely.

So that's kind of the quick overview where we're headed.

We've been making our way through John 5, as you know, and the past few weeks,

we've seen Jesus make some astonishing claims to being equal with the Father.

And then last week, we looked at his evidence for that.

He shows that the father gives witnesses to these claims.

And now today we're here at the feeding of the 5,000. And you're probably all

very familiar with this story.

5,000, you may know, it's just men, 5,000 men.

And so most scholars believe this is probably somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 people.

Whatever the case, this is a massive crowd, huge crowd of people.

And it really is an important miracle.

It's the only one of Jesus's miracles that is in all four of the gospels.

So it does deserve our attention.

And so I'm excited for us to be looking at it and studying it today.

And if you sort of overlay Mark's gospel on top of this and in his account,

we learned that in between last chapter, chapter five, and now this one,

he begins it with after this.

So he doesn't say how much time after, but there's something important that

happened in between here.

And that is that Jesus had sent his disciples out in pairs to go preaching the

kingdom, healing, casting out demons, all of that.

And so Jesus was already becoming famous, but at this point,

he's becoming so famous that it's really difficult for him to go anywhere without

just an incredible crowd following him.

And so the other accounts let us know that sort of what led to this going into

a desolate place was Jesus wanting to get his disciples and get away from the

demands of ministry for just a bit.

But the crowds find out where he's headed.

They try to slip across the Sea of Galilee, and they find out where he's headed.

And they run across the northern tip, around the northern tip of the Sea of

Galilee, and they find him.

They meet him where they land in the boat.

And so Jesus, he sees this crowd, and I think it's in Mark's gospel that it

says he sees this crowd, and instead of being frustrated,

he has compassion on them, he spends time teaching them, and then of course,

he is setting up this opportunity for this incredible miracle.

So that's the context. And this is one of those sign miracles that's in the

book of John that points beyond itself that we've talked about.

It points beyond just the power that's on display to a deeper meaning.

And we're actually not gonna dig into that today because John's gonna,

we're gonna get 50 verses pretty much at the end of this chapter that's digging

into the deeper meaning of the miracle.

So actually, today, that's not the focus.

What we're going to do today is we're going to look at some of the things that

the disciples learned through this miracle.

There are some lessons that they learned through what Jesus did.

He's always teaching them, always, always, always.

And so that's what we're going to focus on today.

Four lessons the disciples learned through the miracle that we can learn as

well. So lesson number one is that we need to learn that Jesus orchestrates our tests.

He orchestrates our tests. Look at verses five and six, lifting up his eyes

then and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him.

Jesus said to Philip, where are we to buy bread so that these people may eat?

Verse six, he said this to test him for he himself knew what he would do.

Jesus knew he would do this miracle.

And he's talked about in chapter five, how he does, he always does the works of the father.

He always does what the father gives him to do. And this is one of those works.

And so he knows exactly what he's going to do and why he's going to do it and

what it's going to point to.

And so he goes to this desolate place, knowing that thousands of people are going to find him there.

He sets this whole thing up, knowing that there's nowhere to go buy food,

that there's no town for them to just run into, right, and get something to eat.

He orchestrates this situation.

And he does this with the express purpose of providing in that situation.

He asks Philip, where are we to buy bread so these people may eat?

He said this to test him. What does that mean?

Well, James tells us that the Lord God never tempts us with evil.

He is never the source of temptation to sin.

So this is not a temptation to sin, but the Lord does test us.

And the Bible is replete with examples of God testing his people for their good,

to reveal what's in our hearts, to help us, to show us, to train us in godliness.

Proverbs 17.3 says, The crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold,

and the Lord tests hearts.

This proverb compares the testing of the Lord to a crucible and a furnace.

So, I mean, I don't have to say this to you all. You know this. Testing hurts.

It's hard. It's hard.

And right now, this week, in this moment, many of you are in those tests. I mean, right now.

And so this is where, I mean, where we just have to begin.

And you know this, but we need the reminder. every single test is orchestrated by God.

There's nothing that comes to us.

There's nothing that comes into our lives that doesn't first pass through a very good God's hand.

And I think that that is one of the things that the disciples learn here is

that the Lord sets this test up.

It's one of the most interesting things to me is that he's doing this miracle,

but how much of it he puts on his disciples.

And I've always thought that that was really fascinating. And especially if

you read all the gospel accounts of it, you really start to see that. Right.

That he's really, he's setting this whole thing up and he is the one that's

going to do this miracle, but he's also like dumping this pressure on them in that moment.

And it is very, very intentional what he's doing.

He knows what he's about to do. He knows where the food's going to come from.

He knows he's going to create massive quantities of food for these people on the spot.

And here's what we need to see. God, who is sovereign over every detail of our

lives, who knows every hair on our heads, and that includes every time one falls.

And in my case, that is all the time.

He's still keeping up. He knows every little detail of our lives.

He's sovereign over it all.

He orchestrates tests for our good. He leads us into situations where we feel

our absolute inability to meet the demands upon us.

I want us to see that's where Philip is here and the rest of the disciples.

Situations where we look down at our hands and we go, I don't have enough for this.

I don't have enough for this.

And he goes and he takes us there for our good.

And he takes us there and he looks at us and he says a similar question to Philip.

Where will you get enough blank for this?

Where will you get enough blank for this situation? He asks us so that we look

down and go, I don't know. I don't have enough for this.

And just like in this situation, he already knows how he's going to meet our need.

What happens if we don't learn? I want to, for each of our points this morning,

I want to ask that question. Okay, here's the lesson.

We need to learn that he is the one that's orchestrating our tests.

But then for each one, I want us to ask the question, okay, but what happens

if we don't learn that lesson? Here's what I think.

Happens if we don't learn that he orchestrates our tests. Several things can happen.

One is I think that we'll be fearful and anxious people.

I think we will be fearful and anxious because if we lose sight of the fact

that he is sovereign over our lives, including the tests that we face,

we'll struggle to have confidence that he can carry us through that test that we're facing.

Right? If he isn't sovereign over the fact that we're in it,

how can we have confidence that he's sovereign enough to carry us through it, right?

So that's the first thing. We'll be fearful, we'll be anxious.

The next thing is that we could become frustrated or angry.

And I don't know about you. I use that word frustrated a lot to soften the conviction

that I'm actually just angry, right?

And I just want to preach to myself here and let you all in on it.

We need to use biblical words for those kinds of things because the Bible calls it just anger.

We need to call it anger because that's what it is. And it's a sin.

If it's unrighteous anger, and usually it is, but we can become angry.

We just become frustrated all the time. Well, that's angry all the time until

we learn that, no, God, you're good. You're sovereign.

You've allowed this into my life.

So in this passage, we see Jesus setting the stage for the test,

throwing his disciples into the deep in. And he does the same thing for us all the time.

So we've got to see him as being sovereign and orchestrating those things.

Now let's look at how Philip responds. And then a slightly different response from Andrew.

So point number two, we need to learn to look to him for supernatural help.

Look at verses seven through nine.

Philip answered him, 200 denarii

worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.

One of his disciples, Andrew Simon Peter's brother said to him,

there's a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?

The first thing that liberal Bible scholars have always done is they remove

the supernatural from the scriptures.

They attack anything that's supernatural. They try to explain it away.

You know, whether it's the crossing of the Red Sea or the virgin birth,

the resurrection, this miracle.

They're going to look at every miracle. They're going to try and explain it away.

This is the first thing that liberal scholars, that's what they do.

Because if you take the supernatural out of the Bible, you end up with a false gospel.

You can't do that.

I don't think that's a problem in this church. I don't think that there's anyone

sitting in this church that doesn't believe the supernatural elements of the scripture.

But I do wonder if we struggle to believe the supernatural still happens in

2026, in my life. I wonder if we believe it.

And if we don't, it's a big, big problem. because we end up living in functional unbelief.

We end up just believing that God is more theoretical than experiential and

real and involved and powerful.

And so this is a big deal.

And I just think it's amazing, you know, and encouraging to me in my little

faith that Jesus' disciples who are walking around with him,

watching him do the supernatural every day,

go into a situation like this and they don't immediately think,

well, Jesus could supernaturally solve this problem. They don't immediately think that.

And Philip clearly doesn't think that way, that Jesus could or would do something

supernatural in response to their needs.

He asks Philip, where will we get enough food for these people?

And we can see from Philip's response what Jesus is after, because Philip's

response is a calculation, right?

He gives this very earthly response, a mindset that's bound by logic.

He does the math and decides that Jesus has led us into an impossible predicament,

which is just astonishing because Jesus is right there.

They've seen what he can do so many times.

And we do this all the time, don't we?

And how many times have we seen what he can do how

many times what's what's what

helps me to just relate to philip so much is according to the rules of logic

his response is right yeah there's this is a year's about a year's wage 200

denarii wouldn't come close wouldn't give everyone here a bite.

I mean, you know, that's logical. That's reasonable in a certain level.

But Jesus means to teach us how to have faith-filled, a faith-filled heavenly

mindset that looks to Christ for supernatural help.

And I want to just like hone in on that, that looks to him for supernatural help.

Like what I mean is the kind of help you can't get from anywhere else.

That's the kind of intervention that God wants to have in our lives.

We need to hear the stories of it. I thought of one this morning.

I usually do not immediately think to ask him to do something supernatural,

but I thought of a time when my boys were really little.

We had some people over to our house. We were church planting in Vermont.

We had some people over to our house that night. We're sitting at the table

discussing something, and the kids had made this giant stack of couch cushions really high.

And they were jumping from the top of the couch to the top of the cushions.

And it was really fun because, you know, you kind of hit the cushions and they

would spring down and when they would sort of throw them off.

Well, you know, we were being great parents and letting them just have a blast

and had no idea what was going on, you know, 10 feet away.

And And all of a sudden, I mean, you just hear that kind of scream that like

makes every parent's heart drop.

And right before the scream, a thud, a really bad thud.

And I run over and Sam's on his back with his head on the fireplace hearth,

stone fireplace hearth.

And he's screaming. And I reach around the back of his head,

not knowing what I'm going to find. And I mean, my hand is just covered in blood.

So pick him up take him over into the kitchen and it's i was emt right before

this so i wouldn't be thrown off by a lot of blood but this was a lot of blood

and we were where we lived was,

35 minutes best case scenario over a mountain to the nearest hospital or clinic

or anything And so I am just, we're kind of like, what do we do? It's late.

Like it's, this is not good.

And the more I'm trying to like get through his hair to see what's going on,

it's like, this is a big problem, not a band-aid problem.

And in that moment, I don't know, the Lord just put it on our hearts,

but we put our hands together on the back of his head.

And we said, Lord, seal it up, please.

We took our hands off and it stopped, stopped like completely not another drop

and stopped so perfectly that I took him into the bathroom,

put his head under the tub, washed the back of his head, watched so that I could

see what we were dealing with, and it was still completely perfectly sealed.

Amazing. Amazing. And it was one of those rare, rare moments where we thought,

what if Jesus wants to do something supernatural right now?

And I think of how many times I missed that. How many times,

you know, we're sick, somebody's sick, I'm sick, whatever it is.

And my very first thought is Tylenol.

And listen, don't mishear me.

Thank God for doctors, hospitals, emergency rooms, Tylenol.

Praise the Lord for those things. But I'm just saying, shouldn't our first thought, as Christians,

as children of God, shouldn't our first thought in all of our needs,

in all of our situations be, what if God wants to do something supernatural right now?

And just ask. But we're oftentimes, we're like Philip and we begin immediately

calculating and we just quickly come up with, well, I don't have enough blank.

I don't have enough time. I don't have enough patience. I don't have enough

whatever to deal with These people or this situation Don't we do that.

Reviewing the problem only through the lens of logic.

And again, I'm not saying don't use logic. Logic is good.

It's a wonderful thing, but not as an excuse for unbelief, right?

Not as something to hem us in

and keep us from asking God to do something beyond the confines of logic.

One time I read the gospels and I just, for every decision that Jesus made,

I put myself in that the same position. And I asked myself, would I have made

the same decision that Jesus made using the normal rules of logic?

And it's pretty much never the case. Never, not once.

Because he's the perfect example of a human being living by faith.

It's an amazing, amazing thing.

What does Andrew do? How does Andrew respond? Because it's different,

right? Look at how he responds in verse nine.

He says, there's a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish,

but what are they for so many?

Now, you know, he says, what are they for so many? So his response isn't great.

It's not like Andrew is bursting with faith here, but he gets something right.

Doesn't he? He looks around and he says, what do we have?

And whatever we do have, let's bring it to Jesus.

And let's just, I don't know what he's going to do with this,

but let's bring it to Jesus.

And friends, that's the right response for us.

That's the right response. We may not know. I mean, most of the time we're not

going to know how he's going to solve the problem.

Or the need, but we bring whatever we've got and hand it to Jesus.

Lord, these are the hours that I have today to get all of this done. I give this to you.

I need supernatural help.

Lord, these are the resources that we have.

I give it to you. I need supernatural help. Lord, this is being asked of me.

This is the little bit that I have to give in this situation.

I want to love people well in this situation and honor you. I need supernatural help.

And Andrew's response is so encouraging because even though his faith isn't

great, even though he's like, what is this for so many people?

Jesus still uses it. He still takes it and he still multiplies it.

And it shows us that the Lord doesn't need our faith to be flawless.

He uses a little faith as long as it brings us to Him. What happens if we don't

look to the Lord for supernatural help?

Well, the,

I read this all the time and I think, oh, Lord, I don't want that to be my life, my story.

When Jesus goes to his own hometown, you probably all know the story.

It says in Matthew 13, 58, he did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

And I pray all the time, Lord, don't let that be the story of my life,

that you did not do many mighty works in my life because of my unbelief.

And on the other side of the spectrum, we read these accounts of where people

come to him and he says, let it be done for you as you have believed,

like to the centurion in the book of Matthew.

Let it be done for you as you have believed. And I think there's a principle here.

What we see God doing in our lives is basically going to be as we have believed in the sense.

That our unbelief will hinder him, keep him from doing many mighty works.

Not that he can overcome our unbelief. He is God. He is sovereign.

But clearly he goes to Capernaum. They don't have great faith.

And so he doesn't do many mighty works there.

I think that that could be true in our lives. So we need to learn to look to

him for supernatural help.

Point number three, and this one is so, so encouraging.

We learned that first, Jesus orchestrates our test.

Second, we need to look to him for supernatural help. Now third,

we need to learn to trust him as our good shepherd.

Verses 10 through 13, Jesus said, Have the people sit down.

Now there was much grass in the place, so the men sat down, about 5,000 in number.

Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them

to those who were seated. so also the fish as much as they wanted and when they

had eaten their fill he told the disciples gather up the leftover fragments that nothing may be lost,

So they gathered them up and filled 12 baskets with fragments from the five

barley loaves left by those who had eaten.

This miracle is amazing.

And it's likely in all four Gospels

because, first of all, it's a clear demonstration of Christ's deity.

A couple of reasons. And the most obvious one is that he is creating food in his hand on the spot.

He is taking these five little, these five barley loaves are like more like cakes.

They're, when you read this five barley loaves and a few fish,

they're little fish, probably dried, small little dried fish,

and then like a cake, a small cake.

And that's what he takes and in his hands creates enough to feed 10,000, 20,000. We don't know.

So that's the first thing that

we see here. Only God can create new bread and fish in his bare hands.

Second thing though, is that this, again, it's pointing beyond itself.

This is a miracle that's pointing beyond itself.

Look back up in verse four, and he mentions, John mentions now the Passover

of the Feast of the Jews was at hand.

That's not a throwaway detail. There are no throwaway details in scripture.

John includes this because he intends to provoke thoughts of the Exodus in the minds of his readers.

So for the Jewish people, the Passover, the Exodus are just two parts of the

same story, right? They celebrate the Passover.

The Lord passes over them and he sends them out, redeems them from Egypt.

And they go through the Red Sea. They go into the wilderness.

So he's evoking that to their mind for a reason.

And in that story, God's people get out into the wilderness and they are hungry.

And how does he provide for them?

Miracle bread from heaven called manna. And so here we have that,

you know, that little...

That verse about the Passover. And then we see Jesus in the wilderness with

a massive group of Israelites who are hungry.

And how does he provide for them miracle bread?

It is to point us to the fact that Jesus is God.

But there's one more beautiful thing here that I want you to see.

And look at verse 10. Speaking of no throwaway details, why do we learn that

he tells them to sit down, have the people sit down?

And why does he tell us there's much grass in the place?

Why that detail? Why does it matter whether they sat down to eat or they stood

up to eat? Why does it matter if they sat on grass or on sand or on rocks?

Why those details, John?

And here's why I think that he gives us those details.

I think he's pointing us to the most famous psalm about God's care for us.

Some of you are already there in your mind, Psalm 23. Listen to this, the first two verses.

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures he leads me beside still waters y'all

i read that i got chills all over and i thought why didn't he make him lie down

so then i go look at the verb,

in the greek and do you know what it means it means to recline it means to lie

back or recline look it up.

The same word that's always used when they would recline at table.

He literally makes them lie down where?

In green grass. And think of it, where are they?

Beside the Sea of Galilee. It's currently still, because he's in just this next

section, he's going to send his disciples out into it, and then it becomes this

turbulent sea. The storm hits while they're out on it.

He's making them lie down in green grass besides still water.

And it says, what? That everyone has eaten as much as they wanted.

They shall not want. It's amazing.

Amazing. I think the disciples saw that.

I think that's what John, that's why we have these details. This is Yahweh, our good shepherd.

Who makes us lie down, who provides for us.

We're going to dive into the symbolism of the bread in this miracle later in the chapter, as I said.

We're going to see that Christ himself is our greatest gift.

Our shepherd cares about our temporal needs, but he's most concerned with with

our greatest needs, forgiveness of sins, reconciliation with himself,

our sanctification, that we'd be formed into his image.

But before we get into that, let's also just see the compassion and care of

our shepherd who cares and provides for our temporal needs as well.

What happens if we don't learn to see Jesus as our good shepherd?

And I think the answer to this is that you know, we may still pray,

ask him to do things, but we're going to, if we don't learn to see him in this

way as a good shepherd who wants to provide good things for us,

who wants us to rest in him,

there will be a twinge of suspicion in the back of our minds when he walks us into tests.

Like, I don't know if you're completely good.

Or we may be suspicious of his sovereignty or his wisdom or his motives or whatever it is.

But when we see that he is a good shepherd, we can trust him completely.

If we don't learn to see him that way, we might miss out on the rest that he

wants to give us, might miss out on that contentment that he's offering to us.

And then here's the other thing. I think that if, this brings us into our last

point, I think that if we don't learn to see him as our good shepherd,

that instead of trusting him completely to do things his way in the best way,

we will try to take him and use him for our own means.

That's what we see here at the end. Verses 14 and 15.

Point number four is we need to learn that using Jesus never works.

Verse 14 and 15. when the people saw the sign that he had done,

they said, this is indeed the prophet who has come into the world.

Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him

king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

So after this miracle, the crowd believes that this is the prophet,

capital P prophet that Moses prophesied in Deuteronomy 18. In other words,

they believe he's the Messiah.

At least they believe in a certain way and they want to make him the kind of Messiah that they want.

They want to set him up as king so that he can defeat Rome.

They're oppressors and give them political freedom right then in that moment.

But that's not the right kind of faith that trusts him and his plan.

And Christ just will not be used by them. So he's gone. He's out of there.

Remember what verse 2 said. We didn't talk about it earlier,

but it said that a large crowd was following him because they saw the signs

that he was doing on the sick.

So that's not good when John points that out.

We come across that one time already back in chapter two, the end of chapter two.

Remember, he would not entrust himself to them because it was a deficient kind of faith.

They were following him around because of the miracles that he was performing.

They wanted to use him, get from him what they wanted to get from him.

And so John is pointing that out to us again.

And by the time we get to the end of the, through all 71 verses of chapter six,

that crowd's going to be gone because Jesus is going to take care of this because

he's going to start saying things that are very hard for people to accept.

Like, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no part in me.

And people are like, I think I'm out.

So why does he do that? Why doesn't he just want as many people there as possible?

It's because he's not just looking for a crowd. He is looking for genuine faith,

a faith that comes to Jesus as Lord, that says, I want to submit to you.

I want you in charge. I want to obey you, not I'm coming to you to use you for my purposes.

If jesus allowed us to use him for our agenda then we would be lord and he's

not going to allow that and if he'd allowed them to make make him messiah right

then the way that they you know,

set him up as king right then the way that they wanted to the consequences would

have been catastrophic yeah he had the power to set up an earthly kingdom and

conquer every ruler on earth Of course he did. But what then?

He would have never been crucified.

We would have had no forgiveness of sins, no reconciliation to God,

no resurrection from the dead.

What happens if we try to use Jesus for our purposes? We don't learn that that doesn't work.

Well, a couple of things I'll point out briefly as we bring this to a conclusion.

The first is that if we go to Jesus to try to use Him for our own ends,

we will do that with other people as well.

We use other people for our own purposes.

If we objectify Christ as a commodity for our use, we'll objectify our neighbors

who are made in the image of God.

That might look like lust and consuming people with our eyes to satisfy fleshly

desires. It might look like.

Stepping on people, using people to try to accomplish our own goals.

But even more dangerous than that, even more dangerous than those things,

if we don't learn that Jesus will not be used, then we will miss out on ever really knowing him.

We might think that we do, but I think that we'll know him in the way that those

people in Matthew 7 knew Jesus, who called him Lord, Lord,

and performed miracles in his name and did all these mighty works in his name.

And he'll say to them, I never knew you.

They were just using Jesus for their own ends, using his name for their own

purposes. But he is king.

And if we attempt to relate to him that way, to use him in those ways,

Just as this crowd, the moment that they got it in their heads that they knew

what they were going to do with him and he disappeared,

I think we'll experience the same kind of thing in our lives.

We'll look around and we'll say, where is he in my life?

So here's what we have to learn is that when we come to him,

we have to come to him humbly submitting to his agenda.

And what we learn when we do that is that he's better than the distorted,

self-centered version of him that we try to create. He's a good shepherd.

He's sovereign over every detail of our lives.

He walks us into tests and says, where will you get enough blank in order to show us what He can do.

And He means for us to turn to Him and expect Him to do supernatural things

in our lives so that He gets all the glory.

But we've got to come to Him on His terms. Let's pray and let's consider how we need to do that today.

Lord, thank You for these reminders this morning and the opportunity for us

to see your power on display,

and your care and your concern and your compassion for people,

your desire to meet needs supernaturally if we will just come to you.

And Lord, would you show us the lessons, the specific lessons that these disciples

learned that we need to learn today,

and help us to really learn them, to put them to practice today.

Would you show us specifically how to do that for your glory in our lives and

for our good in Jesus' name, amen.