Its late at night where I am, and I have to go to work tomorrow, but I want to briefly write about something which I hope will be of benefit to others in the future.

I want to speak about the miracle of multiplication.

Its interesting that God always seems to start small. He only made two humans at the beginning, and during the Great Flood, he arranged for just two animals of each kind to come into the ark, so that the earth would be repopulated.

When Jesus came to earth, He came in Mary's womb first of all! What a small beginning for the Son of God!

The church was born with a few men and women gathered in an upper room, praying. It has grown since that time, through multiplication.

At times we are faced with tremendous needs and challenges. If we were to merely ADD solutions to the problems faced, we would never be able to overcome them all. The needs are vast, but God is greater than all these things. Yet God has chosen to work through the kind of fruit which contains in itself the seeds of further multiplication.

In the story of the feeding of the five thousand, we see God at work through Jesus to meet the needs of an assembled audience. Today when we have large conferences we send people off to the local restaurants in order to cater to their need for food, but when Jesus ministered out in the remote places there were no nearby restaurants.

You can read the story in Matthew 15:14-21.

Jesus and his disciples fed the multitude using 5 loaves and 2 fishes. It is worthy of note that Jesus started with something that the people already had. You could say that what they had was not much for so many people. You could say that God could have just created food out of nothing. But the story unfolds in a way that shows how God works - it reveals something of the ways of God. Its interesting that the pattern in this story is repeated several times in the New Testament. One of these times is at the Last Supper.

To meet a great need, God always starts with what we have. Its easy to despise the small resources that we have many times when we start on a project for God, but God usually begins with such small things. The key is to surrender what he have into the hands of the Lord.

The boy who brought the five loaves and two fishes to Jesus had more than enough for himself, but not enough for the needs of the multitude. So it is many times with us.

I look at my own situation, and the scope of vision that I have received from the Lord and the sense of call that I have in my heart. Sometimes I feel like the disciples to whom Jesus said, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat".
Perhaps you feel the same way also about your own call. You know that what you are called to do requires far more than what you currently have in your hands. But really, this is no obstacle to God. What God is looking for is people who will take the first step, and surrender what they have to Him.

The boy in the story had to be willing to give up his lunch, and put it in the hands of Jesus. I suppose he might have kept in for himself, but then he never would have been involved in the miracle.

God has a plan for your life to make you a blessing to multitudes. To fulfil that plan, the first thing you need to do is to surrender yourself to God.

Surrendering to God goes against our carnal nature. Something in our very nature rebels against the idea of fully trusting God. But really, such a thought is not logical. If God was evil, He could easily force us to give Him our wills and mock us. But He never does that. He made us with the capacity to give ourselves to Him, but He never obliges us to do so by force.

There is an unfolding of the goodness of God that is only known by those who give what they have, including their own lives, to God.

What does God do with our lives once we give them to Him? He does the same as He did with those five loaves and two fish. "He blessed them".

When you give your life to God, He will bless your life. Whether it be in healing, or deliverance, or in restorati

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