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Monday... He knows what we can do.


Monday... He knows what we can do.

Have you ever thought that God knows what we can do because he's given us power but he knows that we don't really believe what we can do so he gives us some difficult even impossible situations to let us see the possibilities we can do but with him?

Now Luke 9 in verses 1-2 (NLT) says, "One day Jesus called together his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority to cast out all demons and to heal all diseases. Then he sent them out to tell everyone about the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick." And then verse 10a says, "When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done." And I sure they were really excited. And he could have stopped there but he didn't. He knew he had given them power to do more.

Jesus tried to get away by himself but a large crowd found him and verse 12 says, "Late in the afternoon the twelve disciples came to him and said, 'Send the crowd away to the nearby villages and farms, so they can find food and lodging for the night. There is nothing to eat here in this remote place." They saw a problem and they had a solution but it wasn't Jesus' solution. Verse 13 says, "But Jesus said, 'You feed them.'" 


Now I wonder if they had come back from their experience thinking they had the power to do anything. They were on a mountain but Jesus needed to show them that yes, he had given them power but they still needed him. Maybe that is what our Mondays are all about. The difficulties of our Mondays are there to show us that we really do need God. 

They must have been looking for an answer before they came to Jesus. They had been searching and they had found five loaves and two fish but they realized that wasn't enough to feed over 5,000 people on their own so they came to Jesus with a human solution to send them away but he threw it back at them.  

Yes, God has given us the power to do unbelievable things but he also knows what we can do when we depend on him and we need to do what verse 10b (NIV) says, "Then he took them with him and they withdrew by themselves." He knew what was ahead.

Now verses 14-16 (NLT) says, "For there were about 5,000 men there. Jesus relied, 'Tell them to sit down in groups of fifty each.' So the people all sat down. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up to heaven, blessed them. Then breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread and fish to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people." 

He took what they had found and used it and multiplied it. And he will do the same for us. They had found the loaves and fish and they knew it wasn't enough but Jesus took what they had found and blessed and used it. They came up with a solution and told him what he should do but he turned it back on them and used what they had done. 

God has a place for us in handling the impossible situations in our life and he will take what we have done and use it. So we need to do what we can do and then give it to God to bless and use it. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 



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