Loafs and fishes thought of the month
Loafs and fishes thought of the month,
Hi; I want to tell you a story, from the Bible; about Jesus praying to the Father God: Jesus asked the Father, to help him to do special things; because Jesus knew, he needed heavenly power and not earthly power: Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand: When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately, to a solitary place: Hearing of this, the crowds followed him, on foot from the towns: When Jesus landed, and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them; and healed their sick: As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said; this is a remote place; and it’s already getting late: Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages, and buy themselves some food: Jesus replied, they do not need to go away: You give them something to eat: We have here, only five loaves of bread and two fish, they answered: Bring them here to me, he said: And he directed the people; to sit down on the grass: Taking the five loaves and the two fish; and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves: Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people: They all ate, and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over: The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.
You see, Jesus probably knew; his disciples, would not understand, what he was about to do: Jesus’ disciples came to Him; and asked; Shell we send the crowds home, for their tea; as it was getting late: To their shock, Jesus said; get the crowds to sit down on the ground: Jesus asked; if anybody had some food?: The disciples must have thought; Jesus was a bit mad: Why was He asking the disciples, about food?: Where were they going to find enough food to feed, that amount of people?: But what they did not understand was; Jesus had heavenly power; to make small things bigger: Jesus had faith; in his father; and his father; is our father; and he is the same; now as he was back then: can you imagine how the disciples must have felt; when the little boy stood up; and walked forward and gave up his dinner; of five loaves, and two fishes: It was a bit of a shock, really: The disciples nearly turned, that little boy away; but Jesus knew better; and he said to the disciples; bring the little boy here: the disciples must have thought; what is Jesus going to do with only five loaves and two fishes; they must have wondered; how just, five loaves and two fishes; would feed so many people: Jesus took the loaves and fishes from that little boy, he lifted them up to heaven; and gave thanks to his heavenly father: for the five loaves and two fishes; the disciples must have wondered; what Jesus was going to do; with just five loaves and two fishes; now; just remember; in those days; they did not count women, and children: Only the men, were counted; so there was more than five thousand people there: After Jesus gave thanks to his heavenly father; Jesus asked his disciples; to hand the food out, to the crowd; now; the disciples must have thought; this little amount of food; was not going to feed this many people: The disciples, came back to Jesus; and he kept giving them more food to give out; in the end all the crowd, the disciples and Jesus himself, were full: and they had twelve, baskets left over: So what did Jesus want; us to learn from this story; as the Bible clearly tells us; Jesus said; you can do far greater things than I: I must tell you; we can do nothing without Jesus; but if we ask Jesus to help us do, what He wants us to do; even if we try something, totally mad; God can work through us: In case you have switched off; I am Ken Dykes; I am unable to speak; and yet; thanks to God; I am able to use my computer voice; on hope f m radio: So, until the next time; remember; all things are possible.