A MIRACLE OF BLESSING (2 OF 16)
Scripture: Luke 9:10-17
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A Miracle of Blessing (2 of 16)
Series: The Miracles of Luke
Richard Bradley
Luke 9:10-17
Baptist know all about seeking God's blessings; especially for food. I was eating with a family the other day and they asked me to bless the food. I said, ''No, but I'll ask God to bless the food.'' What's the difference between having enough to feed a little boy at lunchtime and having enough to feed 5,000 men, and I assume also women and children? One can only imagine how much it would take to feed all those people! However, in this case, the answer had nothing to do with a certain volume of food. No, it had to do with God's blessings on the meal. When God blesses something it always becomes more than enough!
What we have in these verses is truly a miracle of blessing. Only God can do what Jesus asked the disciples to do. I would hope that they remembered for a long, long time what they learned that day about God's blessings.
Luke 9:10-17
10 And the apostles, when they had returned, told Him all that they had done. Then He took them and went aside privately into a deserted place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
11 But when the multitudes knew it, they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing.
12 When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, ''Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here.''
13 But He said to them, ''You give them something to eat.'' And they said, ''We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.''
14 For there were about five thousand men. Then He said to His disciples, ''Make them sit down in groups of fifty.''
15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
16 Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to ...
Series: The Miracles of Luke
Richard Bradley
Luke 9:10-17
Baptist know all about seeking God's blessings; especially for food. I was eating with a family the other day and they asked me to bless the food. I said, ''No, but I'll ask God to bless the food.'' What's the difference between having enough to feed a little boy at lunchtime and having enough to feed 5,000 men, and I assume also women and children? One can only imagine how much it would take to feed all those people! However, in this case, the answer had nothing to do with a certain volume of food. No, it had to do with God's blessings on the meal. When God blesses something it always becomes more than enough!
What we have in these verses is truly a miracle of blessing. Only God can do what Jesus asked the disciples to do. I would hope that they remembered for a long, long time what they learned that day about God's blessings.
Luke 9:10-17
10 And the apostles, when they had returned, told Him all that they had done. Then He took them and went aside privately into a deserted place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
11 But when the multitudes knew it, they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing.
12 When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, ''Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here.''
13 But He said to them, ''You give them something to eat.'' And they said, ''We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.''
14 For there were about five thousand men. Then He said to His disciples, ''Make them sit down in groups of fifty.''
15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
16 Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to ...
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