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Text Box: HANDY LITTLE CHART (Thank you Patricia) God has a positive answer: YOU SAY GOD SAYS BIBLE VERSES You say: "It's impossible" God says: All things are possible (Luke 18:27) You say: "I'm too tired" God says: I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28-30) You say: "Nobody really loves me" God says: I love you (John 3:1 6 & John 3:34 ) You say: "I can't go on" God says: My grace is sufficient (II Corinthians 12:9 & Psalm 91:15) You say: "I can't figure things out" God says: I will direct your steps (Proverbs 3:5- 6) You say: "I can't do it" God says: You can do all things (Philippians 4:13) You say: "I'm not able" God says: I am able (II Corinthians 9:8) You say: "It's not worth it" God says: It will be worth it (Roman 8:28 ) You say: "I can't forgive myself" God says: I Forgive you (I John 1:9 & Romans 8:1) You say: "I can't manage" God says: I will supply all your needs (Philippians 4:19) You say: "I'm afraid" God says: I have not given you a spirit of fear (II Timothy 1:7) You say: "I'm always worried and frustrated" God says: Cast all your cares on ME (I Peter 5:7) You say: "I'm not smart enough" God says: I give you wisdom (I Corinthians 1:30) You say: "I feel all alone" God says: I will never leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5) + + +

Text Box: and all the others, and you eat to you fill as does everyone else. You must be wondering, what is going on? What is happening? Where could these few people obtain enough food to feed fifteen thousand people? There were no pack mules, no wagons, no supply train - where did the food come from? These people are not destitute, but they also are not rich. Feeding fifteen thousand people so that everyone is full, out here in the boondocks, would cost between half and year’s income and a year’s income. So even if these people manages to get the food here without my being able to know how they got it here, how did they pay for it? In a very real sense, that is what we actually do today. We follow Christ, listen to Him, study what He has said and done, attempt to understand what He has done and why He has done it. If we are lucid, we accept Christ as God, and what He has done as miraculous. We then believe what He said and taught. And if we are wise, to sustain ourselves spiritually, we receive the Consecrated Bread of Heaven, distributed to us by His disciples, His Priests. There also were those who had started out following Our Saviour, but left to go home and eat. They did not see and did not partake of the miracle. So too will it be for those who, when given the opportunity to follow Christ, do not follow Christ, for they will not receive the miracle of eternal life. Ref: Gal. 4:22-31; John 6:1-15 +

Text Box: WHEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO FOLLOW CHRIST, IF YOU DO AND PERSEVERE, YOU WILL RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE Imagine you were part of the crowd of five thousand that was present when Jesus multiplied the barley loaves and the fishes. That was five thousand men, so if you add a wife to each man, that is ten thousand people, and at least one child per couple, that is fifteen thousand people. Giving allowances for single men and childless couples, and for more than one child per couple, more than fifteen thousand people is not an unreasonable figure. Since Our Saviour had crossed the lake, there is a probability you are not a Jew but are a Gentile.

Text Box: Let us not focus so much on what Jesus did, but on what you would have done if you had been there. You followed Jesus as He walked from place to place, as He healed people of natural and demonic maladies, and as He taught both by His actions, His conversations, and as He taught as a lecturer in a classroom. You observed Him, listened to Him, tried to understand what He was doing and saying and why He was doing and saying what He did and said. You ate, slept, and talked with other people in the crowd about Jesus and what He was doing and saying. You have followed Jesus up a mountain, when He has His disciples get you and the other fifteen thousand people, to sit down, and then He has His disciples distribute five barley loaves and two fishes to you

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