Wednesday, November 23, 2005

True Godly Compassion

“In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples unto Him, and saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with Me three days, and have nothing to eat: And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. And His disciples answered Him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? And He asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven. And He commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and He took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to His disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people. And they had a few small fishes: and He blessed, and commanded to set them also before them. So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets. And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and He sent them away.” Mark 8:1-9

Jesus called things that are not, as though they were, and thousands of people were fed! Jesus is now the Author and Finisher of our faith! Jesus is our Vine and we are His branches! God never changes, He worked this way through Elijah, through David, through Abraham, through Moses, through Jesus, through Peter, and through Paul and He works this way through us today! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for and we have the Holy Spirit dwelling within us and He empowers us to abound in the hope of being filled with and being used with the fullness of God! The Holy Spirit allows us to hope to be used as Jesus was used and He allows us to hope that we will be used to do even greater works than Jesus was used for! Faith comes for us by hearing how God works through us! Today is the day of our salvation and today God will work through the least one of us greater than He ever worked through the greatest of the Old Testament! A-men, we are born again from the Incorruptible Seed of God and A-men we will be used!

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