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Friday, December 19, 2025

Give Them Something to Eat

Scripture: Matthew 14:13-20 

Focus verse: Matthew 14:16 – “They do not need to go away,” Jesus replied. “You give them something to eat.” We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish, they answered. “Bring them here to Me,” Jesus said. 

Have you ever felt like that the task before you is too big for you to handle?Have you ever felt that unless you get external support you cannot move? Did you ever come to a point where all that surrounds you is not enough?What do you do or where do you run to when you are faced with inadequacy?  

Jesus has just finished teaching more than five thousand people and it is getting late in the evening. The disciples are concerned about the crowd, they are hungry and they need to have something to eat. All that is available is a small amount of money and a small lunch (two fish and five loaves of bread) from a lad. The disciples advise Jesus to send the people away so that they can go and buy food for themselves in the nearby town. Then ironically, Jesus tells them not to send the people away but instead they need to give them something to eat. How is it possible? Two fish and five loaves of bread! Then Jesus said, “Bring them to me.”

Service to the Kingdom of God is all sufficient. God is not just concerned about our spiritual lives but also our physical needs. He cannot meet our spiritual needs and then send us out to the world to fetch for our physical needs. All that we need for our lives God has provided. We don’t need to send the people out to go and look for their needs but we can trust God to provide in His own ways even when what we have seems not enough. Our “not enough” is more than enough when we surrender it to the hands of God. Believers are not beggars from the world, our God is able to provide for all our needs much more than we think or ask. The task may seem too huge, but the God we carry is Mighty in power. Ours is to give thanks, trust and believe that He will be able to handle each situation.

 

Rev. Eliazar Wambo Nyakwadah

Pastor Makira Baptist Church

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