Provision Isn’t Tied to Punching The Clock!

Did you know there are Kingdom resources available to you and you can tap into them just by applying some very simple Biblical laws?  One of my favorite examples of this is found in Mark 6:35-44. The people had been with Jesus for three days and they were out of food. Some five thousand people were in need. There was not enough food to go around. This situation seemed impossible to fix in the natural. Have you ever been in a place where you didn’t have enough to meet your need?

Jesus teaches us how to tap into the Kingdom of God to meet our need. Just as the disciples filtered this situation through their natural sense, we tend to look at our circumstances in the natural and say, I guess I need to get a second job or work more hours or find another job that pays me more money. Looking at verse 37, the disciples told Jesus that it would take eight months wages to buy enough to feed this many people.  They just naturally believed that in order to get provision they needed to labor. This is how we all think because we have been brought up under the earth curse, which attaches everything we have or ever will have to labor, painful toil and sweating. Your provision does not have to be tied to working harder. The Father can take care of you with a new system out of a different Kingdom.

Jesus asked his disciples if there was any food there at all and, if so, how much?  After checking, they answered that there were five loaves of bread and two fish. We see that when He took the bread and fish from the disciples, the Bible says He broke it and blessed it. The word ‘bless’ means ‘to sanctify’ or ‘to separate, to make holy’.  When Jesus took the bread and fish and blessed it, He literally separated the bread and fish from the authority of the kingdom of men and moved it under the legal jurisdiction of the Kingdom of God. The bread and fish changed kingdoms. The bottom line is that the bread and fish would not have multiplied unless Jesus had taken it first and blessed it before He told the men to pass it out to the people. The bread and fish were brought under the dominion of the Kingdom of God by Jesus speaking words of authority when He blessed it.