Give It All To Jesus

Give it all to Jesus

Isa. 40:31 NKJ

But those who wait on the Lord

Shall renew their strength;

They shall mount up with wings like eagles,

They shall run and not be weary,

They shall walk and not faint.

But teach me Lord, teach me Lord to wait!

When I read this verse the way I take it is, that it is a declaration of faith in Gods amazing abilities! Completely absent of self effort and self efforts ability!

With our expectations in God’s abilities alone! And if we're willing to bring our needs to the Lord and lay them at his feet. He shall indeed refresh, renew and replace our need with His abundance of every good thing.

Thing is when we normally arrive to this place of willingness and dependency, we normally feel like we have nothing left to give. By this point we normally have spent everything we have, we have exhausted all possibilities and our understanding of comprehension.

But I would contend, saying your ready to surrender the outcome of a need to Gods ability and actually laying everything down including your ability, are two entirely different degrees of surrender.

What I’m getting at here, is if you had never seen God come through for you and meet a need would be one thing as far as a trust issue and retaining your ability to fight. Because you wouldn’t be so sure of the outcome. And if someone never had a relationship with God, I could understand easier there being a trust issue!

But if you have a relationship with God and know Jesus as your Saviour and have read about, studied, witnessed others receive miracles and even experienced and tasted Gods goodness in your own life. You are, or should be fully aware of Gods capabilities!

When you have a need and you expect God to work in your life and to answer that need. Whatever you have, in whatever state you are, you still have to give it over to God! And this includes your abilities!

Mark 6:35-38 MSG.

35-36 When his disciples thought this had gone on long enough—it was now quite late in the day—they interrupted: “We are a long way out in the country, and it’s very late. Pronounce a benediction and send these folks off so they can get some supper.”

37 Jesus said, “You do it. Fix supper for them.”

They replied, “Are you serious? You want us to go spend a fortune on food for their supper?”

38 But he was quite serious. “How many loaves of bread do you have? Take an inventory.” That didn’t take long. “Five,” they said, “plus two fish.”

Mark 8:1-5 MSG

1-3 At about this same time he again found himself with a hungry crowd on his hands. He called his disciples together and said, “This crowd is breaking my heart. They have stuck with me for three days, and now they have nothing to eat. If I send them home hungry, they’ll faint along the way—some of them have come a long distance.”

4 His disciples responded, “What do you expect us to do about it? Buy food out here in the desert?”

5 He asked, “How much bread do you have?”

Both times the expectation was enormous. Both times what did he ask for from them? Both times what did they give Him? They gave Jesus what they had, right? What did they give to Him? A leftover, right? It wasn't a freshly prepared meal, it was a left over from a meal, right?

I don’t really believe Jesus was looking for a stale piece of bread! I believe what Jesus was truly looking for was faith! And when the situation was bigger than what their (ability) faith could produce, they found a substitute in case the way maker, might need help figuring out another way!

Jesus didn’t need the leftover bread, besides the bread wasn’t theirs anyways! When Jesus ask them what they had, He was asking them to lay down their capabilities and lock their faith to His capabilities!

There were two groups of left overs present that day.

1. The tangible loaf of bread

2. The useless abilities of self effort everyone possessed, though maybe even strong in the physical realm, completely useless in the spiritual realm where only faith is required for needs to become miracles!

Matthew 15:21-28 NIV

21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”

23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”