has god rescued anyone besides me do you have any broken pieces of a miracle god once did
because too many of us are looking at the storms and the chaos of the day in which we live
and we're forgetting to look at the miracle working god see a lot of us
we understand the miracles of god but we don't know the god of the miracles
when i think about it i am a living testimony of romans 8 28 the things that happened to me were
not good there is nothing good about abuse ever ever ever nothing but our god is able to work
all things together even the bad things god is able to work all things together for good and for
his glory and for my good and you know every time and nick today even in our break right this day he
was just telling me about 60 people that were rescued in in one of our the countries where
a21 operates six victims of trafficking of human trafficking labor trafficking that were rescued
you know as we try that case and we're going to you know prosecute that trafficker those 60 people
that have been freed the trafficker that's going to go to jail every time someone is set free
every time a trafficker is convicted i think devil you can stick that in your pipe and smoke it
you tried to destroy me and jesus christ not only rescued and restored me but now he uses me
to rescue another generation that's redemption i feel like joseph in genesis chapter 50 verse 20 he
looked at his brothers and he said you meant this for evil against me but god meant it for this very
purpose to save many people alive i want you to know that the very thing that the enemy meant to
take your life out and to destroy you god can turn it around work it together for your good and for
his glory and he can make the devil pay for ever trying to mess with you that's the kind of god we
serve there is redemption in your future if you put your broken pieces in the hands of a loving
and a gracious god and then the bible tells us in verse 41 that not only did they sit down in
groups but and taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven he set a blessing he
broke the loaves he gave them to the disciples to set before the people and he divided the two fish
among them all he gave him to the disciples see god distributes his miracles often through people
that we don't think that he should many people they would have wanted their fish directly from
jesus and they would have got a bad attitude and said i don't want my fish from bartholomew
i don't want my fish from peter and sometimes we don't want to submit to authority because we
think i don't like the vessel that god is using to deliver the miracle so we go i'm going to separate
and i'm going to go and start my own thing and god says knock yourself out because i don't know what
you're eating over there but the food that i'm feeding is being distributed through these people
and we would go a lot further if we understood accountability and anointing and authority
and how god fed people and so the truth is that he used the disciples and sometimes
you might not even like the distribution system where your miracle is coming from
but god is testing do you truly understand who the source of the miracle is and can he trust you to
be on the receiving end of it so then what happens the bible says to us that when it all finished
in verse 42 and they all ate and they were satisfied everyone ate and everybody
was satisfied and then the bible says they took up 12 basket fulls of broken pieces
and of the fish and those who ate the loaves were 5 000 men and immediately jesus made them get on
the boat so jesus said to them i want you to go and pick up all of the broken have you ever
wondered why because see we think the power of the text is in that miracle they all ate they
were all satisfied but the power of the text is not in what they ate it's what it's in what
was left over the power of the text is in the broken pieces that were left over the fact that
they ate and jesus did a miracle that was great but it ended there but jesus was saying oh no
now it's test time now you're going to school now i'm going to see if you understood what i've just
been doing here on the mountain and so he says i want you to go and pick up the broken pieces why
the breadcrumbs why the crusts why the fish heads
do you think jesus couldn't have done the miracle on the other side couldn't he have just stuck his
hand in the sea of galilee picked up a fish and go wow party trick let's do it again why did he
get them and it's not an accident basketball's in these days was like a sack over your shoulder
and so there was 12 disciples 12 basketballs it's not an accident it's a direct correlation
he says i want you to go and pick up the fragments the scraps the broken pieces
and what jesus was making them do because he knew that immediately he was going to send them into
a storm his god is omniscient not all storms are from the devil some storms god is sending us into
to see what we really believe because you will never know what you really believe about jesus
until you're in a storm in the storm you will find out what you really believe not when it's peaceful
not when it's great so he says i want you to pick up these basketballs of broken pieces so they put
the broken pieces in and then they went into the boat and then the bible says that a storm came
so what was jesus trying to do jesus was saying i want you to pick up the broken pieces of the
miracle i just did today because i want you to take the evidence of the miracle i did today
into the storm of tomorrow so when tomorrow's storm hits you can look down and remember the
same god that was with me on the mountain the same god that did the miracle there is the same
god that's with me right here in the boat is the same god that's going to get me to the other side
when the storm comes stop looking at the storm stop looking at the chaos stop looking at the
economy you were never good enough smart enough rich enough talented enough connected enough
equipped enough to do what god has called you to do in your own strength so why are you thinking
because the storm now has come that god's power is any weaker it's not he's saying would you look
down at the broken pieces has god ever rescued you from anything has god rescued anyone besides
me do you have any broken pieces of a miracle god once did because too many of us are looking
at the storms and the chaos of the day in which we live and we're forgetting to look at the miracle
working god see a lot of us we understand the miracles of god but we don't know the god of
the miracles and if we are going to live in this day of darkness of chaos of economic instability
of political instability of moral craziness it is not enough to know the miracles of god you better
know the god of the miracles at tbn our mission is to use every available means to reach as many
individuals and families as possible with the life-changing gospel of jesus christ thank you
for helping make the gospel of grace go around the world without you we couldn't do it god bless you