The main principle of this story in my opinion is that God expects us to give in faith believing in him for the outcome. The boy gave his lunch, having no idea of the outcome. The disciples waded into the crowd with a ridiculously small amount of food and fed a multitude. They didn't pray in a truckload of food. They didn't wait for the food they had to grow into a mountain of food before they began distributing it. They simply did what Christ told them to do, and the need was more than met.
This is the same principle that was demonstrated when Elijah met the widow at Zarephath. She was looking for enough wood to cook the last bit of food she had, but Elijah asked her for it. She gave it up and as a result, she always had enough oil and flour for one more meal until the famine had passed. She never had a lot of oil or flour, but she always had plenty.
If we as believers could learn to hear God's voice and the direction He has for us, and then learn to trust him to complete what he begins in us, there is no limit to what God could do through us. If we could learn, as Henry Blackaby relates in his little book, What the Spirit is Saying to the Churches, that the important question is not "Can we afford it?" but "Is this what God is calling us to do?" We could do so much for the Kindom, we wouldn't be able to fathom it.
More, tomorrow.
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