🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌
We've been asking God for a particular miracle for a long time. Last week, another "not yet" hit hard, so I searched "miracle" on my old website. I borrowed hope from my own stories as I re-visited scenes where God met me. Today's call to worship is a miracle lesson I wrote to myself from the mission field in 2011.
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We started feeding orphaned and vulnerable children in a nearby community- a handful became hundreds in eighteen months. Last week, an unspeakable amount of hungry children came for hot food and hope. A visiting missions team knew the meager amount of food we'd prepared and began petitioning God to multiply it. Jesus had done it before - with leftovers! Why wouldn't He do it again? HE DID! Children went home with mincemeat mustaches and leftovers! It was a bonafide miracle.
Even more children came the following week. Our food budget hadn't increased, and there was no multiplication miracle. The pots were empty, and 67 tummies growled with hunger pains. We scrounged up enough money to buy bread for the 67. But it didn't feel the same.
God, why would you send them when there's not enough? Why not another miracle?
While I wept, He whispered, "I AM enough." I looked, through tears, with I AM's eyes, and I saw. The miracle is a Father who so loved us that He gave His one and only Son to lay down His life. He deposited miracle-love and forever family in those who believe. The living, loving God entrusts us to release heaven's miracles on earth.
Over 300 children witnessed the women, who live in the same poverty as them and who'd spent the day cooking, dig deeper to feed the last 67 from their own lunch money. One generation watched another one serve with their whole selves. They didn't even know what had happened the week before.
Multiplication miracles point us to God's unlimited power. Daily bread miracles empower us to share it with others.
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Let's praise the God who held nothing back for us. He gave us the keys to the Kingdom so we don't have to hold back either! Listen to Isla Vista Worship's "Sing Praise".