How Much Bread Do You Have?

Jesus, you are real and you are alive, and you are here this morning.

We ask that you would move, that you would stir our hearts, that you would speak to us, lift us up, encourage us, challenge us to live the life that you have for us because it is a good life.

And we pray all this in your name, Jesus.

Amen.

Well, we started a brand new series last Sunday called Questions Jesus Asked.

You can communicate a lot simply by asking a question.

I remember when I was younger, the first time my parents looked at me and asked the question, most of us parents have asked at some point, do you think I'm stupid?

And it took me a while to realize that is not a question you attempt to answer.

Because there is no right answer to that question.

You just stay silent, but they are communicating so much when they ask a question like that.

Jesus asked a lot of questions, and he asked some very, very intense questions.

Questions that communicate a lot to us about who God is, about how we can know God, how we can live our lives with God.

These were loaded questions, questions that demand to be answered, and so every Sunday we're gonna unpack one of those questions for the next few weeks.

We started last week with what might be the most important question Jesus asks any of us, and that is who do you say I am?

Who do you say I am?

The people in Jesus' day had this incredibly high opinion of him.

They said he was a prophet, the first prophet in 400 years.

They said he was this amazing teacher, they said he was a miracle worker, and we can say all those things about Jesus today, and nobody is gonna challenge us.

Pretty much everyone on earth has a high opinion of Jesus.

But when Jesus asked that same question to his disciples, one of them, Peter, who at that time was called Simon, stood up and said, I think you're more than that, Jesus.

I actually think you're God.

I believe you're the Messiah, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus said, You are correct.

Now I'm gonna call you Peter, which means rock.

He gave Peter a new name.

He gave Peter a new authority, a new identity that was so much greater than what he had before.

And what we learn from that is that when we lift Jesus up in our lives, and when we place him into his rightful place in our lives, when we say, Jesus, you are my God, he lifts us up to our rightful place, and that is by his side.

Jesus honors us when we put him where he belongs, and he is God.

This Sunday we're gonna look at a new question.

And it's a question that arises amidst this practical problem the disciples are trying to solve.

The disciples have a crisis on their hands, and in the midst of this crisis, Jesus asks this incredibly powerful question.

And it's a crisis that comes from the disciples not having enough of what they need.

It's a supply and demand issue that they're trying to solve.

And all of us know what it's like to have less than what we need, right?

At least in one area of life.

If you have less than what you need, emergencies can arise very quickly.

Normal circumstances can turn into crises.

So, for example, if you're driving on 75 North, it's Thursday, and you are stuck in gridlocked traffic, that is not enjoyable.

But it's manageable.

It's not an emergency unless you happen to be like really low on gas.

If you're really low on gas and there's not a gas station nearby, you're not close to an exit, all of a sudden this is an emergency, right?

You are yelling at the traffic in front of you, hoping somehow that's going to affect it.

You stare at your gas gauge every five seconds, you'll turn your AC off, your radio off, you'll do whatever you've got to do.

And when you finally pull into that gas station, you are so charged with adrenaline that you've got like the Indiana Jones theme song playing in the back of your mind.

Because you feel like you were on that epic of an adventure.

And it all came from having too little of something you needed.

My wife and I have two amazing kids.

We've got Liam, who's four, we've got Lily, who's six months old.

And every once in a while, when we're feeling crazy as a married couple, we're like, you know what'd be nuts?

What if we went out to a restaurant with both of our children?

Like, let's just roll the dice and see what happens.

And I always love being at those restaurants where people that don't have children are eating, and they watch you hand one child across the table while one of you eats, and one of you's cutting the steak up for not your children, your spouse, and because you gotta have one hand for the kid, one hand for the food, and everyone looks at you like, what are you doing?

And you just go, just wait.

This is your favorite restaurant now?

That's about to end.

Okay.

We've got one restaurant.

We do we will not take our children there.

It is sacred to us.

We will never take them there.

I love them, it's great food, but they will have to wait till they can afford it themselves.

It'll ruin it.

And going out to a restaurant with both children, it's always interesting, but it is manageable unless, of course, we forgot to bring something like diapers.

And that shouldn't happen because we have this thing called a diaper bag.

It is called a diaper bag.

But there have been moments when I have been at a place with our children and I'm searching through the diaper bag, and I can find wipes, I can find extra clothes, a bottle, formula, toys.

I just can't find diapers.

Diapers were the one thing that did not make it into the diaper bag.

And when that happens, I mean, we are talking a DEF CON level five emergency, right?

It is it is mission aborted, restaurant is done, we gotta get out of here.

It's it's terrible.

It's because we don't have enough of something that we need.

And the disciples found themselves in this very same situation.

Jesus is teaching, and 5,000 people show up.

There might be a thousand of us in this room, probably not quite.

So just picture five times this room, every seat packed.

Everyone shows up to hear Jesus teach for Jesus to heal them, and then Jesus gets this crazy idea that all of them need to get fed.

The situation is really interesting.

This is a miracle story of Jesus.

You might be familiar with it.

It's actually the only miracle story of Jesus that makes it into all four Gospels.

And if you're new to reading the word and you wonder why we have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and each are telling the story of Jesus, it's because we get to see Jesus through four sets of eyes.

And we get to see these moments in Jesus' life from these different angles, and when we put them together, we have this incredibly rich story.

And this particular miracle story, it's the only one we get to see from four angles.

So we get so much so much detail in Matthew 13.

Actually, Matthew 14, it says, as soon as Jesus heard the news, he left in a boat to a remote area to be alone.

So remote areas were hard to find where Jesus was.

He's in this place called Galilee.

Galilee was the region that Jesus spent a large portion of his time.

And it was only about 1,300 square miles.

Now, for reference, the state of Georgia is 59,000 square miles.

And this place is only 1,300.

But it was one of the most densely populated places in the world.

Even though there's only 1,300 square miles, there were over 200 towns and villages with 15,000 or more people.

So trying to find a remote place to be alone, that's a difficult thing to do.

And in this moment, Jesus is with this huge crowd of people who followed him everywhere he went.

We think it's hard to have our kids follow us all over the house sometimes.

Thousands of people follow Jesus everywhere he went.

But Jesus hears this news and he needs to be away.

The news we know is that John the Baptist, his cousin, has been killed.

He and John were close.

John baptized Jesus.

And so when Jesus hears this news, he needs to get away.

He needs to take his close friends, his disciples, and go somewhere where they can be alone and pray.

And so they get into this boat because they're at this place called the Sea of Galilee.

And John's gospel tells us they're at the Sea of Galilee.

Do not picture a big ocean.

The Sea of Galilee is only about eight miles wide, it's a big lake.

So Jesus and his disciples leave the crowd, they get in this boat, but the crowd can see where they're going.

I mean, it's eight miles away.

It's not that hard to figure out the direction that they're headed.

So the crowd gets this incredible idea.

They say, hey, let's just walk around the lake.

And we'll find where Jesus is.

It's not that long of a walk.

We don't have anything else to do.

So they begin to walk around the lake.

Now, there have to have been tons of villages on the way because of how densely populated this place was.

And so as they're walking through these villages, what's happening?

Other people are seeing them saying, Whoa, where are you guys going?

We're going to see Jesus.

And so other people are joining them.

And the crowd is growing and it's growing.

And eventually they show up to where Jesus is.

He's taking his disciples up on this hillside.

John's gospel tells us that the grass was green, so we know it's springtime.

There's a very small window of opportunity for green grass in Galilee.

And they're on this little hill, the grass is blowing, and they're praying, they're quiet.

Jesus is just working through the death of his cousin John, and all of a sudden, 5,000 people show up.

The one thing Jesus wants is some peace and quiet.

And it's denied to him, but he does not mind.

Luke's gospel tells us that Jesus welcomed the crowd.

Matthew and Mark tell us that Jesus looked upon them and had compassion.

So he's not mad, he's not upset that his quiet time has been interrupted.

He wants to help these people.

So he begins to heal them.

And he begins to teach them.

It's early afternoon, and this goes for hours.

And pretty soon, 4 p.m., 5 p.m.

rolls around, and the disciples come to Jesus and they say, Jesus, we've got to send these people away.

Close it down because it's getting to be dinner time, they need to go home and eat.

Jesus looks at them and he says this crazy thing.

It's in Luke 9 13.

Jesus said, You feed them.

You feed them.

They showed up spontaneously.

And Jesus says, Yeah, no problem.

That's a great idea.

That's a great idea.

They do need to eat.

You guys take care of that.

And the disciples are dumbfounded.

I mean, maybe they can overlook this oversight on Jesus because he was a carpenter, not a caterer, right?

So maybe Jesus just isn't aware of how hard it is to feed 5,000 people.

And so they start to resist this.

And Jesus can tell that they're not exactly receptive to his advice.

And so he turns to Philip and he says, in John 6, 5, Philip, where can we buy bread to feed all these people?

Like, is there a bakery around that just so happens to have 5,000 plus loaves of bread laying around that we could buy?

Like maybe that baker got really excited that morning, so I think it's going to be a big day.

I'm just going to bake a lot of bread and see what happens, right?

And he asks Philip because Philip is from this place called Beth Seda.

John's gospel tells us that Philip is from Beth Seda.

Luke's gospel doesn't mention John at all, or actually Philip at all, but it tells us that they're very near Beth Seda, where they're at at this moment.

So Jesus knows that Philip is from this area.

He says, Hey Philip, you're from this neighborhood.

Where can we buy enough bread to feed all these people?

And Philip in John 6, 7, says, even if we worked for months, we wouldn't have enough money to feed these people.

We wouldn't have enough money to buy that kind of bread.

Like Jesus, do you know what it costs to buy bread for 5,000 people?

How much it costs to feed that many people?

I was curious this week.

So I called a catering company and I let them know, I'm not actually gonna buy anything.

So do not get your hopes up.

But I am curious.

If I were to say, have a meal for 5,000 people, what's that gonna cost me?

And this lady asked me, Well, what are you talking about?

I said, not steak and lobster.

Let's go with something cheap like pasta.

She said, Well, 25,000 just to start.

So when Philip says, hey, we're gonna have to work for months to pay for enough bread to feed these people, he is not exaggerating.

He is not being a pessimist, he's just telling Jesus the truth.

And the other disciples chime in and agree.

They say, Jesus, yeah, there's no way we can feed all these people.

They are hungry.

Hungry can turn into hangry.

I have seen my wife hangry.

You do not want 5,000 hangry people, right?

Let's get these people off so they can go eat.

But Jesus will not relent.

And they're telling him that they don't have bread, they don't have money.

And this is when Jesus asks the question that we're gonna look at this morning.

And this question is amazing.

He turns to his disciples.

It's in Mark 6, 38.

He says, How much bread do you have?

What do you got?

My son turned four very recently.

And when it comes to uh to birthdays and Christmas, my wife and I are really good at setting a budget, not so good at sticking to it.

And it's always my fault.

And I'm not just saying that, it really is my fault.

What happens is every time I go, okay, this time we're gonna we're gonna set a limit on how much we're gonna spend.

This kid has enough toys to last a lifetime.

He doesn't need any more, but it is his birthday.

We're gonna get him something nice, but we're only gonna spend this much money.

And Megan always gives me pushback because she loves getting gifts for our children, and so she'll say, Oh, can we have, can we have some more?

Come on, let's get him something awesome.

I'm like, no, no, we're gonna be reasonable.

This is the limit.

And then Megan gets really creative and really crafty, and her goal is to find something that costs three times what our budget costs, but not spend any more money than we have in the budget.

And she nails it every time.

This last year, she got Liam a trampoline for like pennies on the dollar, a huge trampoline.

He's gonna go nuts when he sees this thing.

And she got it for right under our budget, so we're good.

But then the day before his birthday, I was at Target.

And I saw these Nerf guns.

Now hold on.

Men, I want you to listen to me.

These Nerf guns shoot these Nerf bullets, but they supercharge them with ultraviolet light, so they glow in the dark right as they come out of the gun.

Like, hello.

So I bought two, one for him, one for me.

Because I'm all about quality time with my son.

And I got home and Megan's like, what are you doing?

I mean, I you set the budget.

And I'm like, ah, they shoot supercharged ultraviolet like bullets.

Like, do you you don't understand?

These didn't exist when I was a kid, and it would have changed my life if they did.

So I got them.

So Liam opens those and he loves them.

He sees the trampoline, he goes nuts.

But not just that, we had a party.

We had a party, and all these kids came and they brought gifts.

Grandparents went all out.

Liam had more toys than he could hope to play with on his birthday.

And later that night, we're at the department store, Walmart, Target, I can't remember where we were.

I needed to buy diapers.

And Liam, I don't know what it is about children.

Like, they may have never been in a store before.

But there is this built-in radar to the toy section.

They just know where it would be.

I don't know if when they're building a Walmart or a Target, they bring in children and go, where would you put the toys?

And they're like, over there.

Because Liam can walk into a place we've never been and just be like, toys are this way.

Like he knows.

And here we are buying some necessities, and Liam points way in the distance and says, Dad, look at that.

And I look and I squint, it's like a hundred yards away.

And I see what looks like a star, and he goes, That's a Captain America shield.

And I look again and I'm like, yeah, sure enough, that's that's what that is.

Like the size of a frisbee.

It's a Captain America shield.

It's a little toy.

And he goes, Dad, can I have that?

It's his birthday.

So of course I want to say yes.

He needs something to block the ultraviolet light-charged nerf bullets.

Right?

But but I've got to teach him a lesson.

You know, it's it's it's he's gotta know that he can't have all the toys.

He just got so many toys, he needs to enjoy what he has.

So I say no, son, and this does not go well.

I'm sure many of his parents have had our children throw a massive fit on us in a public place, and everybody's looking at you like, what is wrong with you?

He just wanted a toy.

And that's what happens.

Liam starts to lose it.

And I'm trying to figure out how to get him to calm down because everybody is watching.

So I get this amazing idea.

This is good.

I said, All right, all right, son, all right, hold on.

I will make you a deal.

I will buy you the Captain America shield if we take back everything you got for your birthday.

If we take back your trampoline, if we take back all the toys your friends got you, if we take back the two Nerf guns that shoot ultraviolet light supercharged bullets, we will take all of that back.

And then you can have this little, small, singular Captain America shield.

And Liam with these huge tears in his eyes sniffles and looks at me and goes, Okay, let's do that.

And I'm I'm sitting there going, No, like you're not supposed to say that.

I was trying to make a point and you missed it.

I'm not gonna do that.

We're not taking that stuff back.

You're not getting the toy, and then he, oh man, he just goes off because no matter how old your child is, no matter what their reasoning skills are, they understand the concept of keeping your word.

And so Liam is in this door shouting, I don't want my trampoline, I don't want my trampoline, I want this shield, and I'm just trying to get through.

This backfired completely.

And see, in that moment, Liam could only think about what he did not have.

And because he was so fixated on the one thing he lacked, everything he had was worthless.

He was willing to throw away everything he had because he could not stop thinking about the one thing he was missing.

As we get older, sometimes that doesn't change.

We can still get so fixated on what we lack, on what is missing, that we miss out on everything that we have.

So when Jesus tells his disciples, how much bread do you have, when he asks that question, what he's saying is, I'm not so concerned with what you're missing.

I'm not so concerned with what we don't have.

Just tell me what we've got.

Let's focus on that for a second.

See, we all come in with different struggles, but all of us have areas in life that we know we do not have as much as we need.

It might be money.

It might be, it might be time, it might be energy.

We never have enough energy, that's why we try to drink it.

Put whatever chemicals in our body that will give us energy.

It might be love, it might be forgiveness, it might be compassion, it might be faith.

But we all have these areas in life that we can look at God and say, I don't have enough.

I need more.

And if we get completely fixated on what we don't have enough of, we lose sight of what we do have.

So maybe your job does not pay well enough.

But you actually enjoy what you do.

Or you work with good people, you don't hate driving to work every day.

There are people that make more money that hate everything about their job.

Maybe it's our marriages.

Maybe there's one area of marriage that we wish we had more.

I know men, you can't think of what that would be.

And because we're so focused on that one area in our marriage, and we say, Man, I need more of this, maybe we completely miss out on how much companionship we have or how much friendship we have.

And all we can think about is this one part that we need more.

Jesus says, Tell me what you have.

Let's start there.

What do you have?

See, the disciples said, We don't have money, we don't have bread.

And they forgot what they did have, and that was Jesus.

They have Jesus.

And he says, Bring me what you've got.

So the disciples go out on a little reconnaissance and they bring back this little boy.

And this boy happens to have five loaves of bread and two fish.

Now, do not picture two giant catfish and these massive, like Italian bread loaves.

There's a little boy carrying this food, right?

It's small.

In fact, John's gospel gives us more of those details we talked about.

It says that the loaves were barley loaves.

Barley loaves would have been really small, dinner roll-sized loaves of bread, and they happen to be the bread of poor people.

They were very coarse, very dry.

So this little boy is a poor boy.

He's got these five tiny rolls of bread.

And it says he has two fish, but John's gospel says they're small fish.

Now they live in Galilee.

Sardines were the number one export of Galilee.

This boy's got two little salted fish and five tiny loaves of bread.

And the disciples bring him to Jesus, and I wonder if their attitude was like, Told you so.

You asked for what we got, this is what we've got.

And Jesus says, Bring it to me.

What happens next is amazing.

Mark 6, 39, Jesus told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

So they sat down in groups of fifty or a hundred.

Jesus took the five loaves and two fish.

He looked up toward heaven and he blessed them.

And then breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread to his disciples so they could distribute it to the people.

He also divided the fish for everyone to share.

They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftover bread and fish.

A total of five thousand men and their families were fed.

See, in Jesus' hands, a little becomes a lot.

And if we have Jesus, we have enough.

I love to think of this little boy.

The average person in that time period ate once a day, if they were lucky.

And we know this is a poor boy.

And so these five little loaves and these two little fish are all this child is going to eat for the entire day.

He is a poor child.

And I wish I could see this moment and I could see this little boy handing this food to Jesus with reluctance, staring at the food, knowing this is all I've got.

But I'd really love to see Jesus' eyes as he looked at that child and let this child know you can trust me.

And because that boy did that, he got leftovers.

And this is a boy that may have never experienced leftovers before.

Because he did that, he got to eat till he was full.

And he may have never eaten till he was full.

Because he gave what he had to Jesus, it multiplied.

In the hands of Jesus, a little becomes a lot.

So you may think of an area of your life where you don't have as much as you need, and you might be right.

You may not have what you need in your hands.

But if what you have is put into Jesus' hands, you have enough.

Because Jesus will multiply it.

He will multiply your finances, he will multiply your patience, he will multiply your love, your time, your energy, your compassion, your forgiveness, your faith.

You may not have but a crumb of faith that God's gonna come through in your life.

But if you give that crumb to Jesus, you have enough.

Because in Jesus' hands, a little becomes a lot.

So the question for us is what do we have?

And are we willing to be like this little boy and take what we have and put it in Jesus' hands?

What does that look like, right?

How do we do that?

It means that we walk in obedience.

See, we do the things that he's called us to do, even if we don't feel like we can do it out of our resources.

We can't forget that Jesus called his disciples to feed these people.

The disciples were not saying, Hey, wouldn't it be great if we fed all these people?

And Jesus said, Yeah, good idea.

They're like, whoa, whoa, no, we were joking.

The people were not demanding to be fed.

Jesus looked at the disciples and said, This is what I want you to do.

Feed them.

Jesus has called all of us as his followers to do things.

And he calls us to do things that we cannot do out of the resources we have.

Jesus calls us to love people, to really love people.

In fact, he said, I give you a new commandment, love one another.

And it's the way you love one another that will tell this world that you belong to me.

Our calling card as followers of Jesus is not what we abstain from doing.

It's not the music we listen to, it is the way we love one another.

But I don't know about you.

Sometimes I don't have a lot of extra love laying around.

Sometimes I don't feel like I have enough love myself.

I'm the one that needs more love.

My love tank isn't full.

How am I supposed to give what I don't have?

And the truth is, I give whatever little I've got to Jesus.

I say, okay, Jesus, I don't feel like I have much love to give, but you said give it, so I'll give it, and we'll see if it multiplies.

And it does.

So if you feel like you don't have enough love in your life this morning, Jesus says, Love somebody.

You may need help.

Jesus has called us to help one another.

He has.

There's this amazing interaction between Jesus and his disciples.

In John chapter 21, Jesus has been crucified, he's risen from the dead, and he appears to his disciples and has breakfast with them.

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And he talks to Peter.

And he says, This, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?

Yes, Lord, Peter replied, You know I love you.

Then feed my lambs, Jesus told him.

Jesus repeats the question.

Simon, son of John, do you love me?

Yes, Lord, Peter said, You know I love you, then take care of my sheep, Jesus said.

A third time he asked him, Simon, son of John, do you love me?

Peter was hurt that Jesus asked this question a third time.

He said, Lord, you know everything.

You know that I love you.

And Jesus said, Then feed my sheep.

Jesus says, Peter, if you love me, you're gonna have to help people.

Take care of my people.

See, Peter is at a low point at this moment in his life.

He has failed miserably.

He's the one that needs help.

He's the one that needs lifted up.

And Jesus is saying, Go out and feed people.

See, Peter was called to not be a fisherman anymore.

That was his trade.

Jesus said, Drop your nets, I'm gonna teach you how to fish for men.

I'm gonna teach you how to bring people into the kingdom of God.

But Peter is so dejected at this point in his life, he has abandoned that calling and he's gone back to fishing.

And Jesus says, No, no, no, my calling still stands.

Help people.

But Peter's the one that needs help.

Jesus says, if you help people, I will help you.

If you give what you've got to me, it will multiply.

Jesus calls us to be financially generous.

There are so many different reasons that we should be generous financially.

There's practical reasons.

If it's this church, you may believe in the vision of this church.

I do, my wife and I give every month because of that.

But the truth is we give because we're told to by Jesus.

He calls us to do that.

He says it very, very clearly in Luke 6: Give and you will receive.

Your gift will return to you in full, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, poured into your lap.

The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.

Not the amount you invest will determine the amount you get back, the amount you give.

He says in Matthew 6, don't store up treasures here on earth where moths eat them and rust destroys them, where thieves break in and steal.

Store your treasures in heaven where moths and rust cannot destroy.

The thieves do not break in and steal.

Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.

Now, if you're new to his hands, we don't talk about money very much.

We did an update about a month and a half ago on where we're at financially.

We'll do another update soon.

We don't pass a plate.

We don't do big giving campaigns with marketing materials designed to make you really supercharged about giving.

We have a simple approach.

Pray and ask God how much to give.

And commit to a percentage each month.

Just say, God, how much do you want me to give?

We trust you to hear from God.

We spend very little money as a church, like three times less than the average church our size.

And we give 10% of everything we are given back to this community, no strings attached.

So we are generous as a church.

And I pray that as a church, we're defined by our love and our generosity.

But I know the truth that all of us aren't here going, man, I just have so much extra in my account.

Tell me where to write the check, right?

Where to give it.

See, we're called to be generous.

I mean, think about that.

We are called to give.

We are called to be good tippers.

It's our calling as a believer in Jesus to tip well when we're at a restaurant.

Even if our service is subpar.

Because we're called to be generous.

We are called to give, and we cannot give simply out of our resources.

Because we might look at our money and say, I don't have much.

I don't have much that I can give.

So what's the point?

But what if that boy had looked at those five loaves and those two fish and said, it's not much, it's not worth giving?

You may look at what you have and think it's not that much, but what we realize is that not that much is all Jesus needs.

In fact, that's all he's asking for.

And his promise is that he will multiply it.

And I have learned in my life that I cannot say, Jesus, I trust you with my eternal soul, I just don't trust you with my money.

And I've experienced that.

Many of us have.

We are called to love people, we are called to serve, we are called to be generous financially.

Jesus is the one that calls us to that.

And his promise is that if we give him the little we can, he multiplies it.

He does not need much to make miracles happen.

And I know that we can think of people right now in our lives, and the idea of them being here and worshiping Jesus would be a miracle.

I also know there are people here right now, and you would raise your hand and say, I am that miracle.

I'm the one that no one thought would know Jesus.

And if you're here this morning and you've never given your life to him, if you look at your life and say, Why would he want this?

This isn't much.

There's not much here.

What do I have to give Jesus?

Jesus is looking at you and saying, All you have is all I want.

It's all I need.

If you give it to me, the small amount you have, you will see miracles happen because that is what I do.

So just give me what you got.

God is a giver.

Philippians 4 19.

It says, This same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.

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I love this church.

I love this family.

And I am so excited to see what's next.

I cannot wait to see what God is going to do in this next season that we're we're entering into.

I can't wait.

And Jesus, he doesn't need much to do miracles, but he did need something in this story, right?

Sure, he can make something out of nothing, but he did not do that.

He took something very small and he made something great.

I believe this community needs fed.

I believe this community needs to feast on God's love.

There are thousands of people connected to us in our lives, people we interact with on a daily basis, that have never tasted and been filled with God's love.

That is why we exist.

So the question is, how much bread do we have?

Are we willing to follow Jesus, to walk in obedience when it comes to our time, our talent, our energy, our love, our compassion, our prayer, our money, whatever it is, are we willing to give that small amount we can to Jesus and see what he does with it?

I am, I know we are, and I'm excited to see what he's gonna do with it.

So let's pray and let's worship him for what he's gonna do.

Jesus, we love you.

We thank you so much that you are a God that gives, that you're a God that multiplies.

Because we need our lives multiplied, Jesus.

We don't have enough, we can admit that, but you have more than enough, and you are willing to give to us because you love us.

So, Jesus, give.

And give abundantly and let us receive and then give it right back.

Jesus, we love you.

Bless us this week.

And if there's one person here, Lord, that has not given their life to you, I pray in your name, Jesus, that they would do that right now.

And that they would see you take what little they have and multiply it and make it great, make a miracle happen.

And we ask all this in your name.

Amen.

Amen.