{"id":2880,"date":"2023-10-18T01:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T01:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2023-09-30T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T16:05:12","slug":"abundance-from-scarcity-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/abundance-from-scarcity-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Abundance from Scarcity, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Wednesday, October 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abundance from Scarcity, part II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Then he told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups on the green grass<\/em>. <strong>Luke 9:16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It`s hard for us to truly understand how the disciples must have felt, when they looked out at the huge crowd, with the words of Jesus ringing in their ears, `You feed them!` The pressure they must have felt when they were charged with doing what they deemed to be impossible. From both a physical and practical point of view it was totally impossible \u2013 Jesus was well aware of this. He wanted to show the disciples more of who His Father really was.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, what we see unfold is nothing short of a miracle and a wonderful reminder today of who we belong to. Note, Jesus was not fazed by the challenge set before Him at all. He didn`t complain to His Father about their seeming lack of provision, or tell the disciples to go back out and find some more food. He certainly didn`t look at the practical, realistic viewpoint and tell the people to go home and find their own food. He looked at the situation from God`s point of view, where nothing is impossible, and simply took the loaves and the fish, looked toward heaven and asked God`s blessing on what they did have. The rest was up to His Father. It was, without question, a dramatic miracle \u2013 and a giant learning curve for the disciples.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe God is challenging you in your life or ministry. Maybe you`re being asked to do something `impossible`. You may not have enough provision. You may be a long, long way short. But, according to this account, that`s not the point. Having done your part, take what you do have, look toward heaven and ask God`s blessing on it. He`s the One who will bring the increase and cause the miracle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember, we serve a God who loves to prove that He is who He says He is!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Thank you Lord for your amazing provision for the people in this story. Help me to be trusting of you, even when things look impossible. In Jesus` name. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, October 18 Abundance from Scarcity, part II Then he told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups on the green grass. Luke 9:16 It`s hard for us to truly understand how the disciples must have felt, when they looked out at the huge crowd, with the words of Jesus ringing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}