Possibility (Daily Devotional)

Greetings! Thank you so much for this opportunity to come to you and spend a few moments with you in the word of God and prayer. This week we're talking about mindset, and today I want to talk about having a possibility mindset. The best way to illustrate what we are talking about or trying to communicate today is to look at that incident in the ministry of Jesus, we read this in the gospels, in John chapter 6 and also Mathew chapter 14, where Jesus fed the 5000 people, men besides women and children. In John’s account, the crowd has been with Jesus for three days and the disciples come and say, let us send the people away, they have been with us for a long time. Then Jesus says, you give them something to eat. They are obviously taken aback by that suggestion/ command/ instruction from the Lord. How we are going to give more than 5000 people something to eat out here. Immediately Andrew goes into his accounting mindset, after doing his calculations and says Lord, even if we have so much money, we will not be able to buy the bread and the food that we need. Probably he has thought through on this and said it is not going to work, even if we have the money, there is no place we can go and buy the food that is needed to feed all of these people. That is the Andrew mindset- very logical and pragmatic. There is another person called Philip and we don’t know exactly what went through his mind but there seems to be this indication that he had this sense of possibility. What does Philip do? He gets the food that the little boy was carrying, and he comes to the Lord and says Lord, we’ve got five loaves and two fish here, perhaps something can be done, there is a possibility there. He is thinking, we’ve got something to start with, this is obviously not what we need, it is far short of what we need, but there is a possibility here, we’ve got 5 loaves and 2 fish. Then Jesus tells them, tell the people to sit down, He gives thanks, and He tells them to go out and distribute it. I’m just thinking about Philip, what must have gone through his mind when he bought 5 loaves and 2 fish to Jesus? Perhaps, he is thinking in terms of possibilities. Just a little here, but there is something big that can come out of it if I can put it in the hands of Jesus, perhaps something to start with, he must have been thinking in terms of possibilities and that is something I want to encourage us to have a possibility mindset. You’ve got something little and small, a little talent here, a little gift there, a little opportunity, a little finance, a little energy, and strength, but what would that amount to if it was placed in the hands of Jesus? That is possibility thinking, think in terms of possibilities of what God can do with the little we have. Have a possibility mindset because of God. Let’s pray, Father, we ask that in every circumstance you will help us see possibilities, to see not the closed door but the opportunity that could happen, that doors could open, ways could be made, because you are in charge. Help us to see and think in terms of possibilities, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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