the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of jensen franklin media ministries when god allows you to go through a storm it is not to destroy you it's to show you who he is on another dimension and level that you've never seen him move before everybody give god a praise for just a moment hallelujah open your bibles with me to the book of mark chapter 6 mark chapter 6. so i want to talk to you for a few moments about this story because it's interesting how that they go from one miracle to a storm they go directly from jesus feeding the 5 000 right into the greatest test and storm that they would ever face five thousand men gathered women and children besides in a desert place in desperate need of the word of god as a matter of fact deuteronomy said man does not live by bread alone but by every word so they didn't have food they had the word of god jesus was teaching listen to this and these people had rather have had the word than bread if they had to choose they said i'll take the word over the bread to eat it shows a tremendous hunger for the word of god if you've got a hunger for the word of god god will always supply your needs and the bible said that when the disciples told them how weak they were how hungry they were the people hadn't eaten and they were concerned jesus said they need not depart they don't have to leave me they came for the word but i can give them word and bread and jesus said to them what do you have point number one the miracle always begins with what you have when you recognize what you have then god can multiply it's not in what you don't have you have to recognize notice the pattern that jesus is showing us he's saying the first key to receiving my provision for your life no matter what kind of storm or season you're going through or facing is recognize what you have because when you recognize what you have then god can multiply it the bible said that it's ironic that they did not count the women and the children i i think it's very ironic because the one that they didn't count was the one that god used to bring the miracle no they counted 5 000 men and in their mind they said the women and the children don't count but notice something about your god god uses people that other people don't count god uses people that other people discount god uses people that other people say are unimportant so unimportant they don't even count but that's the very one the little lad that had five loaves and two fish he was the one that nobody counted that everybody discounted he's just a kid with five slices of bread and two fish but the one that people didn't count was the one that god counted i want to tell you that's the truth about our god he counts people that other people discount people may look you look at you as unimportant may write you off as unimportant but god says i count people that other people don't count what do you have when you recognize what you have i can multiply it and always remember that i count people that other people don't see anything worth counting in that's the kind of god we serve jesus then gives a strange command when they bring the boys food jesus said to them separate into groups of 50. now this is going to take a while you got 5 000 men plus women plus children a minimum of 15 20 000 people you got to count out 50 people separate them put them over here in a small group and then do another in a small group and then another and then another and in another do you know how long that would take the people are already feigning the people are already hungry the people haven't eaten all day in the sun and the sun is setting and why in the world would you take the time to separate them into groups of 50 because sometimes the best miracles take time sometimes we need to understand that god's best miracles are not driven by need or necessity or hunger that when god is doing something big in your life you can't rush what god is doing that's why the bible said you have need a patience that after you have done the will of god you might obtain the promise the bible said you and james you heard of job of of job's patience and one of the fruits of the spirit is patience and what i've learned and what you're going to learn is god's best miracles take time sometimes you have got to have order and structure he said divide them up into 50.
give me some order out of this mass crowd give me some structure because it takes order and structure to receive the magnitude of the blessing that god wants to give you many times we're saying god blessed me with more and we're mishandling what we have god doesn't god doesn't give you more according to what you ask for he gives you more according to what you can manage and if you can't manage what you've got right now why would god give you more to squander and he said i want you to have a structure that can maintain the magnitude of the blessing that i want to pour into your life and the bible said that they brought jesus the bread they gave him what they had and jesus took it the bible said and he blessed it he's blessing what is not enough he's blessing five loaves of bread and two fish it's obviously not enough to feed 5 000 men plus the women plus the children it's not enough but he's giving thanks for what is not enough when you learn to be grateful even when what you have is not enough then god can begin to multiply not enough into more than enough until you can be thankful for something that is not enough you cannot be multiplied into more than enough god i thank you for this job it's not the one that i really want but i'm thankful for it and i praise you for it god says that's what i can take and multiply into something greater god i thank you for this house it's not what i hope for it's not what i really need this tiny apartment i really need a house but you know what when you're thankful when you have gratitude for what you do have when you start thanking god he's lord i thank you for this little bit even though it's not enough you have a spirit of gratitude and thankfulness that's when the miracle begins you'll never see the multiplication as long as you're ungrateful but when you become thankful for what he has given you as little as it is little is much when god is in it i wish somebody would just right now say lord i'm thankful i don't have everything that i wish i had but i'm thankful for what i've got that's when the miracle starts and the bible said that when he took it and he blessed it gave thanks for it blessed it that he had the correct inventory two fish five loaves nothing had multiplied nothing had increased it wasn't until he did something the bible said he then took the bread after he blessed it he broke it and when he broke it and started handing it to the disciples to distribute as he broke it he began to lose count the blessing is in the breaking it wasn't until it was broken that it began to multiply that which refuses to be broken refuses to be blessed it is in the breakings of life that produces the blessings of life some of the most blessed people that you will ever meet have gone through something that broke them before they got to the blessing because it's the blessing is hidden in the broken the more that he broke it the more it multiplied the more he broke it that's when it would multiply he would break it and break it and break it and it would multiply every time he broke it it multiplied in his hands now that's a spiritual law that if god allows you to go through breaking it is not to destroy you it is to bless you because the breaking is what brings the blessing now i want to ask you a question have you thanked the lord for every time he broke you every time he snapped you every time he put you through a season of brokenness he wasn't killing you he was blessing you every time he was breaking you every time you were rejected every time you were alienated every time you were disappointed every time you were cursed every time you were told no every time your heart was broken broken homes broken hearts broken families broken hopes the greatest blessings come out of the hardest breakings and that's why we don't get discouraged we understand if god's allowing me to go through a plan that i never dreamed would happen i thought it would be a straight shot to success and the goodness of god but instead i'm walking through a season of brokenness like i never dreamed i would be good that's a sign god is on your case and if he's blessing you it's because he's do you hear me if he's breaking you it's because he's going to bless you don't give me a little golf clap clap your hands like you believe he knows how to bless us out of the breaking didn't come until it got broken didn't multiply didn't increase until it got broken the very thing you're cursing is the very thing god's going to use to multiply and bless your life he fed the multitude through the breaking process i've never heard a preacher preach that had a message that touched my heart that hadn't been through the breaking process you cannot feed other people the bread of life without going through brokenness again and again and again and just when you think everything's good god says i really need to use you again and in order for me to use you again to make that word that i'm going to give you have effect i gotta get you in another time of brokenness so when you say god use me you think that means he's gonna give you a suit and a microphone and let you he's gonna break him you have no idea what ministry cost it's a continual now what you really have it's a continual breaking it never stops jesus does not feed the multitude directly he breaks it and gives it to his disciples his friends and he says you go feed them notice that the blessing passes through your hands not from your hands many of you have been blessed there's some blessed people under the sound of my voice but i've come to remind you that the blessings that you're experiencing do not come from your hands they come from jesus hands they come through your hands and don't ever get it mixed up be careful to give god the praise and the glory because any blessings that you are participating in is not your doing it came from the hand of jesus and is flowing through your hand you need to learn to eat god's blessing even if he brings it through somebody else's hand he'll even feed you and bless you sometimes to people who don't even like you through the enemy's hands prepare a table before you in the presence of you they'll say things like this i don't know why i'm doing this hallelujah now here's a big point about this little lesson he god is a good chef and he he he's very good at math he has a book in the bible called numbers and when he cooked for the children of israel and he did he spread a table in the wilderness the bible said for 40 years they had nothing to eat except what god personally provided for them from the bakeries of heaven every morning when they got up there was something called manna that god had cooked up and it was so precise god is such a good chef you know a good chef you can just tell them how many people are coming and they know how much stuff they're gonna need and god is not a wasteful god so when he would provide food for the children of israel in the wilderness he would give them just enough to eat that day no leftovers none so matter of fact if they didn't eat all their meal for that day they couldn't store it up for the next day if they did the bible said it had worms in it because god was teaching them you're gonna have to depend on him every day of your life and so and so here's my point when god cooks he knows how many people he's cooking for and he knew if he wanted to he could have just supplied exactly enough meal for the 5 000 men and he knew how many women he knew how many children and it would have been enough to feed everybody and stopped he knew the exact number but he purposely designed it so that there would be leftovers jesus could have been precise he could have stopped on the last person in his mind he knew when he got to the last person who needed to be served a meal and he could have stopped but he kept on breaking off more than was needed he chose to give them overflow don't you ever let people tell you that god just wants to give you enough god doesn't just want to give you enough that sounds real religious when people say that but the truth is god does not his name is el shaddai not el chipo el shaddai means in hebrew more than enough a god whose name is more than enough will never stop at enough david said my cup runeth over he is the god of overflow he doesn't just want to give you enough he wants to give you more than enough god says i'm not blind i'm just a god of overflow and i want you to understand that my blessing is greater than your capacity to contain it my blessing is not limited to what your little glass says you can hold but when i pour out my blessing i'll pour out a blessing you won't have room enough to receive it'll be pressed down shaken together running over shall men give unto your bosom i know what i'm preaching is the truth and i don't know what people have taught you but don't you dare believe that god just wants you to have enough he's the god of more than enough he's the god of overflow and he's not limited to the size of your container hallelujah it'll flow over to your children it'll flow over to your children's children it'll flow over to the poor and the needy it'll flow over to people who are going through a hard time it'll come through your hand not from your hand because he's a god of abundance somebody give him a great shout of praise i believe it hallelujah hallelujah this is so important what i'm about to share with you the bible said in another place and in this particular text too that he so over provided that they had to pick up the leftovers and it was 12 basket fulls 12 basketfuls of leftovers i mean lord 12 of them god never intends for you to go through a trial and not have something left from it and the bible said when they immediately after gathering those fragments and putting them in 12 baskets jesus constrained them right after a miracle to get in the boat without him and go to the other side constrained means i'm ordering you i'm giving you divine instructions do what i'm telling you to do and they didn't know it but jesus knew he was sending them right into the path of the storm it's so important to understand that they were following divine instructions when they encountered the storm the enemy will tell you when you go through a storm this is the judgment of god the enemy will tell you when you go through the storm and through the flood that god's getting you back for your past but i'm here to tell you the truth of god's word jesus constrained them didn't give them a choice said if you're my disciple under my authority you obey my voice get in that boat and i'm god he knew the storm was coming and he put him right in the path i'm telling you today that if you're going through a storm you're in that storm by divine instructions and god does not intend for you to go down he det he intends for you to receive something in the storm there was a lot of people the multitude were burping on blessings they had just eaten fish and chips and they were happy and the disciples wanted to stay there but jesus was about to show 12 of them what they would never see on the shore some of you are about to see things in the storm that other people burping on the blessings on the land never get to see when god allows you to go through i'm preaching right now i am i'm telling when when you when god allows you to go through a storm it is not to destroy you it's to show you who he is on another dimension and level that you've never seen him move before everybody give god a praise for just a moment hallelujah [Applause] hallelujah see when jesus came walking on the water the wave walker walked out to the boat and he got on the boat he was not upset at them because they were in a storm he said i'm disappointed you did not consider the miracle of the fish and the loaves he's saying why didn't you i had you loaded down with 12 baskets so while you were fighting the storm you would be reminded god is faithful god can do it god can make a way and i'm saying to every one of you you need to what is that on your coat it's it's bread crumbs from the last miracle that you just came from and you're freaking out because you got a bad doctor's report or you're freaking out because you got a financial crisis well let me give you a news flash you didn't have nothing when god found you he gave you the job he gave you the opportunity and if you go back down to nothing if you've got gods you can get it all back [Applause] your power is not in where you are your power is in where you have been and he did not want them to forget the miracle of the fish and the loaves the only reason he gave them leftovers was so they would remember where he brought them from if you're going to survive the storms of life you have to constantly remember where god brought you from and so today the leftovers the if you would reach back and get some breadcrumbs from the previous miracles of how god opened doors of how god provided how god healed you the previous crumbs the crumbs of previous miracles if you would just reach down in the bag because you you didn't get in the storm without some testimony and nobody can tell your testimony like you can but remember where he brought you from and where he's able to take you to and don't let what you see defeat you he has not given you the spirit of fear but a power and of love and of a sound mind and he's saying reach back and remember what i've done for you i will not fail you now i want you to give god a great praise if you believe i'm preaching the truth [Applause] great is thy faithfulness great is thy faithfulness stand to your feet at every campus and give jesus christ a great great praise i want you to thank him for what is not enough right now knowing that he'll multiply into more than enough [Music] we're so honored that you decided to join us for kingdom connection today if you have never invited jesus to be lord and savior of your life and you feel him drawing you today 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