FAITH CAPSULE: Impossible to follow Jesus and be condemned unto lack.

Matthew 6:25, Mark 8:1-10

Jesus cannot and will not look away from every kind of need in the life of those who follow Him. He is a God of provision and preservation. To Jesus, it does not matter how minor or major your challenge may be, but trusting Him to deliver will always provoke His hand to deliverance. Are you having any reason for concern in Him meeting certain needs in your life? Location or number will not deny or limit the move of His hand meeting your need. It is written, “In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them, ‘I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for some of them have come from afar.’” (Mark 8:1-3) It is not possible to continue with Jesus and be condemned unto lack. The multitude continued with Jesus and nothing possible could have left them uncared for. His disciples’ responded, “How can one satisfy these people with bread here in the wilderness?” (Mark 8:4) His disciples’ response to Him calling for the need of the people demonstrated the level of their care by virtue of the surrounding situation. Jesus alone, no man will violate whatever situation is directly or indirectly set to deny your needs being met.  
What is it that you are worrying yourself about? This is what Jesus has to say in Matthew 6:25: “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” Jesus’ declaration is enough to serve as an encouragement to meeting your need. He met greater need than your need in the wilderness by using seven loaves and few small fish to serve multitudes. The Bible recorded what happened after He made provision for the multitudes stating, “…they ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets of leftover fragments. Now those who had eaten were about four thousand.” (Mark 8:8-9)  As He was, so He is today. Jesus is alive and still doing what He did when He was on the face of this earth as a man. Jesus knows exactly what you need and how soon your need calls for. Jesus will not only meet your need to satisfaction, but He will meet you at the appointed time when it is not too early or too late to serve your purpose. He is a compassionate God who will always be faithful to all of His followers.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace not to look away from Jesus.