2 Kings 4:42-44
42 A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. "Give it to the people to eat," Elisha said.
43 "How can I set this before a hundred men?" his servant asked. But Elisha answered, "Give it to the people to eat. For this is what the LORD says: 'They will eat and have some left over.'"
44 Then he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.

Elisha, who became the successor of a powerful prophet Elijah, was powerful too. He got a special blessing from God, the double portion of Elijah’s spirit (Traditionally, the first child gets double portion of what other children receive at those times). Elijah used to stay in the wilderness, he came to people when they were faced with threats, once he deals with the situation goes back to the wilderness. While Elisha, as we see, stayed among the crowd, he got involved in the day to day life aspects of people. Elisha had done many things that looks similar to what Christ Jesus did. (Mark 6:34-44)

When God does miracles, he gets men involved in it.

In Jesus time, the five bread and two fish the boy had, was given into the hands of Jesus. After praying Jesus divided those bread and fish to give to people. A large crowd contanig 5000 men ate to the full, and twelve basketful of left overs was collected. Here Elijah told the men to serve the 20 barley bread and some ears of corn, those men about 100 in number had a full meal, with some left overs, just like he told it would be.

When we are skeptical about what we have, our faith is weak. But when we give what we have over to God, it is truly a heroic effort of faith.

Today let us pray, that God would make our weak faith into a mighty one.

Prayer idea

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