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Until You're Full



Have you ever read the story about Jesus feeding the five thousand with five loaves of bread and two fish? Reading this story again, I gained a deeper revelation than I had before. The story starts off with the apostles and Jesus deciding to go off to a quiet place to get some rest from all the people they had encountered. Jesus and the apostles left for their quiet place only to arrive to their destination with even more people waiting to hear a Word. 

“But many people recognized them and saw them leaving, and people from many towns ran ahead along the shore and got there ahead of them. Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped from the boat, and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.”
Mark 6:33-34 NLT

What got me with this story is that these people were so anxious to hear a Word from Jesus. They were desperate to have an encounter with the Lord. Have you ever just needed to hear a Word from God that would change your life forever? I can imagine these people going through any means necessary to hear from a man who was healing people of diseases and more. They had the mentality, "I gotta get it too." We all have cravings for something every now and then. We crave that banana pudding from grandma or some pound cake, but these people had another craving. They craved a Word from God! Before Jesus fed them physically these people had a desire to be fed spiritually. They were committed to hearing a Word from Jesus that would change their lives forever. 

In order for these people to be fed both physically and spiritually they had to first be obedient. Even though Jesus and the apostles left for another destination they followed them. Some of us would have probably gone home after Jesus and the apostles left, but not this crowd of people. These people had a "by any means necessary" mentality. They didn't know where they were going they just knew they had to get to Jesus. Some of us need to get their mentality. We need the "by any means necessary" mentality. I can imagine that the crowd of people was so engulfed in the things Jesus spoke of that they didn't even realize that they hadn't even eaten. They sought God and God provided what they needed without them even knowing they needed it.

I don't know about you, but I want to be so intentional in following Jesus that I forget about the things. I forget about the worldly things because I realized that all I need is a revelation from God. The good thing about being so embedded in God's Word is that His Word says all things will be added unto you (Matthew 6:33). Meaning everything else aligns when you focus on Him. When your only desire is to seek Him everything else is a done deal. The scripture says, “And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all. And they did all eat, and were filled (Mark 6:41-42 KJV)." God is the only one who can truly fill you. He will fill you until you overflow. Let's gets so involved in God that it consumes us. Let's make Him our focus just as this crowd of people did. If you can shift your focus on Jesus I promise that God will feed you with everything you need until you're full. 

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