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Do I Have Enough? Series
Contributed by Brian Atwood on Mar 7, 2003 (message contributor)
Summary: Second sermon in series - "Living Life On Purpose - Christ’s Answers to Man’s Questions". This sermon deals with the disciples’ question at the feeding of the 4,000.
Listen closely and you will hear some Christian single say, "I need a good Christian mate, and the woods ain’t full of ’em either!" But not to worry, there is a God on the throne of heaven, who, since He can make blind eyes see, can certainly make the right marital candidate look good to you and vice versa!
Listen closely and you will hear someone say, "We need God to enter into our financial situation and help us clear up the mess we’ve made." Well, since God can feed 4,000 with seven loaves of bread and a few small fish, He is certainly able to multiply what you have!
Someone else needs a better home, a better car to drive, or perhaps a better attitude to deal with a bad situation. God can take our crippled lives and straighten them out for us again.
Our needs are great. God is greater!
He is not limited to providing what we need according to conventional methods either. He can whip a giant with the sling of a committed shepherd boy. He can feed millions with manna. He can make water come out of rocks. He can make the sun stand still. He can transform a terrorist named Saul into a teacher named Paul. He can take care of the needs of widows and orphans with jars of oil and barrels of meal that are almost empty.
The qualifying factor is our yieldedness to God. "How many loaves do you have?" Jesus asks us. Do we trust God enough to place what little we have into His hands?
Do we trust His love for us enough to yield ourselves completely to Him?
If we do, we will have more than enough!
