More Than Spiritual Needs

Sunday after Sunday the Word of God is preached. It feeds the Spirit of a people hungry for God’s word. Yet they leave each week and return to their lives with practical needs for food, clothing, and housing. Needs for physical and emotional healing. Jesus took note of this in Mark 8:1-9. A large crowd […]

Are You Ready to Receive?

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them, and broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples to set before the people. Luke 9:16, NASB There’s a line in Luke 9:16 that caught my attention: “and kept giving them.” Jesus took what the disciples […]

Prayer Journey — Discontent

Can I be content with what you have given me; with the burdens I carry? At times I feel loaded down by life, overwhelmed by its struggles. Yet you know me. You created me. You know me inside and out. Your wisdom tells me discontent is a spiritual attack by the evil one. He is […]

Being Satisfied With God’s Provision

Jesus proceeded to show the apostles that God will provide all you need. In verse 16 he took the loaves and fishes and “gave thanks and broke them.” Then he had the disciples distribute them to the thousands in the crowd.