When God allows challenging circumstances to enter our lives He’s probing our faith. Those challenges are designed to bring out something in us, that we don’t even know we have, until that circumstance we face activates it. We’ll see how this happened for the disciples through the challenge they faced in John 6, on today’s Treasured Truth.

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Pastor Ford will remind us today that little becomes much in the Master’s hands. If you take the little that you have in your hand and put that in His hand, He’s able to multiply it.  God always likes taking our natural and adding His super to it and doing something supernatural.

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Today, Pastor Ford will challenge us today to consider these questions—Can you worship Jesus, even when you don’t get what you want? If you don’t get the job, if the sickness isn’t healed, if you never get a husband, if you never get a wife, if your children never leave the far country?  Like Job, can you still say, “The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord?”

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Who do you look to when you have a situation or when you have a problem?  Do you look to your intellect? Do you look to your pastor or your church? Do you look to your bank account?  Do you look to your friends or your family?  Or do you look to Jesus?  Pastor Ford will share with us why there’s no reason for us to look to anyone or anything else, but Jesus.

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Pastor Ford will explain today that the best ministry comes out of our pain, comes out of our lack, and comes out of our brokenness. Sometimes we have to be bruised in order to be used.  Ministry is not easy, but it’s worth it!  Because when we go through what we have to in order to minister, we end up bringing more glory to God through our pain, lack and brokenness.  

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As we begin to look at the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, we’ll see how Jesus is going to teach His disciples to minister by providing them an example of what they should do.  Every time Jesus gave a message, He always gave the model.  In other words, Pastor Ford says, Jesus would talk it, then He would always walk it.

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Pastor Ford reminds us today that if Jesus conquered death, then what is our sickness to Him?  He can handle our employer.  He can handle our haters.  If He can conquer death, then He can handle all of our difficulties and our insufficiencies.  That’s because our insufficiency, becomes sufficiency, through Christ’s all-sufficiency.  Jesus can handle all the issues that we have. We just need to trust Him!

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Just as so many people were waiting to be healed at the Pool of Bathesda, too many of us are hanging out at the pools of life where there are no answers.  We’re hanging out at the pool of materialism, the pools of our careers and our jobs, the pool of our family.  We’re hanging out looking for answers in something that will never satisfy, instead of looking to Jesus for our answers and healing.

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What do you do when Jesus doesn’t do what you want, how you ant and when you want?  Today, Pastor Ford will point out that the mother we meet in Matthew 15 decided she was going to go beyond her expectation.  She expected Jesus to help her, but He was silent in that moment.  So, she began an exercise in faith by deciding to sit and wait for Him to respond.

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As we begin to look at the passage in John 5, where Jesus healed the man who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years, we’ll see how everyone waiting to be healed at the pool of Bethesda, was placing their hope in the power of the water in the pool.  Instead, they should have been placing their faith in the Power at the Pool—Jesus.

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