CHANGE YOUR MINDSET

John 6:1-7
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

1 After this, Jesus crossed over to the far side of the Sea of Galilee, also known as the Sea of Tiberias. 2 A huge crowd kept following him wherever he went, because they saw his miraculous signs as he healed the sick. 3 Then Jesus climbed a hill and sat down with his disciples around him. 4 (It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration.) 5 Jesus soon saw a huge crowd of people coming to look for him. Turning to Philip, he asked, “Where can we buy bread to feed all these people?” 6 He was testing Philip, for he already knew what he was going to do.

7 Philip replied, “Even if we worked for months, we wouldn’t have enough money to feed them!”


Philip responded to Jesus in much the same way as most of us would have responded to His question. Philip saw the crowd. Philip knew the status of his bank account. He recognized the gap between the need and his resources. His response was a natural one.

What Jesus knew was that He didn’t have to operate in the natural. The Jesus we know, love and serve is God of the super-natural. He was about to again show His disciples His divinity, the unlimited extent of His resources.

When faced with a gap between our needs and our resources, we can call on a God who has all we would ever need. Don’t limit your thinking to the natural. Our God operates in the super-natural.