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source of those resources! Had they realized that, they would have answered Jesus' question correctly when He asked them, "Where will we buy food that these may eat?" They would have answered, "LORD, there's no place on earth that has enough food for this crowd. It's going to have to come from heaven!" The same thing is true for you today. You don't have enough natural resources to be the kind of BLESSI NG to the world God wants you to be. You can't work enough hours to bring in all the money God desires to put in your hands. at means there's another way to get those fi nances. You'll just have to take the little God has put in your hands, and expect Him to multiply it! Instead of looking to your limited resources in this earth, you'll have to look to the unlimited resources of heaven! But to do that, you'll have to stop sitting around thinking about your own puny fi nancial ability and what you can or can't do. Stop thinking within yourself and start thinking outside yourself. Start thinking inside e WORD and what God can do. When you get outside of yourself and begin to think inside e WORD of God, you get outside of your limitations and into the limitless power of Almighty God! And His power truly is limitless! He can handle any fi nancial need this world can come up with. In fact, all of them together don't put any kind of strain on God's resources. You could take all the wealth in the world and put it together in a pile and it wouldn't impress God for fi ve seconds. He created it all! So stop thinking about what you can't do and start thinking about what He can do. When there's a pressing fi nancial need and you start to think, How in the world am I ever going to get enough to…? Don't even fi nish that thought! Instead, start thinking about Jesus. Let His WORD talk to you. Open your mouth and say, "My God supplies all my needs according to His riches in glory! He is able to make all grace abound toward me, that I, always having all suffi ciency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work!" Start thinking outside yourself and inside e WORD—and let Jesus BLESS the world through you! Get Involved in a Miracle Remember that the next time God doesn't seem to be answering your questions or addressing your concerns. Maybe it's because you haven't been paying attention to His WORD. Maybe it's because you've been so busy thinking about and reacting to your problems that you've failed to listen to (and act on) what He's already said to you. If that's the case, He doesn't have any grounds on which to communicate with you. at's the position the disciples were in that day. But Jesus didn't leave them there. Instead He gave them one simple instruction: "Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about fi ve thousand. And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fi shes as much as they would" (verses 10-11). Even though the disciples didn't pass the test, Jesus gave them the privilege to take part in what He was doing. Despite their weaknesses, He was still able to capture their thinking and get them involved in a miracle. In His hands, Jesus took the little loaves and fi sh that Andrew brought to Him. He blessed them, gave each disciple a portion and—miracle of miracles— those portions multiplied and fed the entire crowd! What made that possible? e anointing of increase! at is the anointing that's in the hands of Jesus! It's in His ministry. It's in His WORD. It's in His Spirit. It's in His Name. It's in His blood and it is in and on His people! Jesus' disciples had that anointing of increase on them even though they didn't understand it very well. As a result, they were able to cooperate with Jesus and become a source of BLESSING to thousands of people that day. ey were able to give those folks not just a little something to eat, as Philip thought, but rather as much bread as they desired. God Can Handle It at was the plan of God. He didn't intend for those disciples to be at the mercy of the world's resources that day. He intended them to be the 6 : B V O V "Instead of looking to your limited resources in this earth, you'll have to look to the unlimited resources of heaven!"

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