SATURDAY, June 7th, 2008

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A Few Thoughts From Yesterday:
Phil: Hey man, I am sorry, I did not get your text, because my phone is broken. When my phone gets fixed I will definitely give you a call!!
Yagami: BrEaKfAsT wAs FuN tHiS mOrNiNg! ThAnKs FoR cOmInG! yOu ArE cRaZy!
Lucy: well, I am concerned if you want us all to be shining and burning LAMBS!!!!!! Sick! :) see you tonight at Lorraynes party~!
Jessica: Aloha! How is your new furniture? Great application yesterday: "how can we share His word if we dont know His word"
Jeff: 2:00 in the morning??? Where were you last night? Thanks for being faithful!

John 6:1-14

1 After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.
2 Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased.
3 And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples.
4 Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.
5 Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?”
6 But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
7 Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may have a little.”
8 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,
9 “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?”
10 Then Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
11 And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted.
12 So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.”
13 Therefore they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.
14 Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”


This is a great story that most of us are familiar with. This is the story when Jesus fed over 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish. There are so many GREAT lessons in this story. I wil list a few.

1. The boy was willing to give all that he had tp Jesus so that Jesus could turn it into something outstanding. Think about it: If the boy would have been selfish then he would have hid what he had for himself, but instead, he was willing to let God make something great out of His life. To the extent that we are talking about Him on a blog over 2,000 years later. God wants to use each of you in the same way that He used this little boy.

-Maybe a thousand years from now (if Christ has not returned) people will talk about the great things that God did through you on an IHTC. (Integrated Holographic Telecommunication Core) Sell out to God and let Him use you for Greater things that you can dream of!!

2. God can take the little things that we have and turn it into much bigger things!

3. God will always take care of our needs when we follow Him. Probably over 10,000 people (because it says there were 5,000 men, - not including women and children) were out by this mountain and Jesus knew their need for food, and met that need! What a loving and compassionate God! He not only cares about our eternal needs, but He cares about our temporal needs as well!

4. If you dont have a lot of food, and you pray over it, then it will turn into baskets and baskets of food!! What??? Are you telling me that it didnt happen for you? Well youmust not have enough faith!! ;)


So, the main point: Give God all you got! Let Him turn it into SO MUCH MORE!!

What are your thoughts about this passage?