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"Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends." George Muller.

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Read: Mark 8
Key Verse: Mark 8:2-4

2 "I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. 3 If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance." 4 His disciples answered, "But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?"

Here we find Jesus with a multitude of people that had come to hear Jesus speak. For three days they had sat and listened to Jesus speak, not caring about anything around them or caring for their own personal needs. They had not eaten in days and Jesus, seeing this, felt compassion towards and wanted to help them...He wanted to provide for them. So Jesus shared his concern for the people with his disciples and told them that he basically wanted to feed them before sending them on their long journey back home. The disciples after hearing this basically told Jesus "we hear what you are saying, but what can we do? We are in the middle of nowhere and we only have seven loafs of bread!" But Jesus saw past what the disciples saw. He saw plenty of food, enough to fill all who where in need. He told the disciples to bring the bread and after Jesus blessed it, he gave it back to the disciples and had them give it to the people. Guess what? All who where there received bread and were filled --and not only that, but after all had taken to eat the disciples collected seven baskets of bread that were left over. That day 4,000 were fed.

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You see when we think about our different situations big or small, when we are confronted with obstacles and circumstances that we see no way out, no solution to the problem, Jesus always sees a way out. He is always there willing and able to come to our rescue. It doesn't matter how big or how small our situation might be there is nothing impossible for God... all it takes is a little faith. Faith in the one and only one that can deliver us from situations that humanly we have no control over. God wants to glorify himself in your situation and he wants to show you that all things are possible through and by him.