How Big Is Your God?

What an awesome sermon in church today by Rev Terry Mize.

He opened my eyes to the fact that God is limitless. We limit Him by looking in the bag. How so?

He shared from the miracle of the five loaves and 2 fish. Jesus had been preaching for 3 days to a crowd of perhaps 15,000 people (5000 men and more women and children). His disciples were feeling disgruntled, tired, bored and perhaps were holding a convo even as Jesus was preaching. They debated if they should ask Jesus to stop and decided to draw lots amongst themselves to see who should go and ask Jesus to stop. Well, Phillip drew the short straw and off he went, tapping Jesus on the shoulder and told him that the people are tired and hungry. Look at the women and the kids, appealing to Jesus' soft spot ... well, Jesus eyes bored into Phillip's eyes and said, ok, FEED THEM.

What did Phillip do? He looked into the bag and said there was not enough money to buy food to feed the crowd. HE LOOKED INTO THE BAG. That was not what Jesus told him to do. Jesus said, FEED THEM. Oh, that really rang a bell ... how often do I look into the bag and limit God to what's in the bag. How big is my God? He did not ask me to look at my bank account, look at my diagnosis, look at my fridge, look at my misery .... no He asked me who is He to me? He will be to me what I want Him to be ... my provision, my love, my joy, my comfort, my rock, my refuge, my healing ... and it's not found in the bag because my God will not be limited. I am the one who's limiting Him and it is to my disadvantage.

The little boy who offered his 5 loaves and 2 fish sowed his lunch and it multiplied and multiplied until the people ate till they were stuffed and there were still 12 basketfuls left over. Terry Mize said it this way. Jesus had the ocean on one hand and a bakery in the other. What an awesome statement and it's such a visual statement that it has been embeded into my mind. Now I will always remember the abundance that the Lord has for me and that I will never ever be in lack. Sowing and Reaping ... the principle of the tithe. What happened to the 12 baskets was never documented in the bible but Terry Mize surmised it best when he said he believed that the 12 baskets went home with the little boy. God restored and multiplied what he sowed into his kingdom. God will never a debtor to man and what He promised He will carry it out because God cannot go back on His word and He cannot lie.

My faith has notched up another level and I felt so fed with fresh manna this morning in church. I went to church asking God to feed me and sow His word into my heart and He heard me and answered my prayer. What a good God I serve and I'm forever grateful that my God is great.

My heart is just so full right now :)