Multiplying your loaves

Multiplying your loaves - III

As I share on the final part to multiplying your loaves, I will bring to light a very crucial point in sustaining the increase that God brings your way through the process of this multiplication. This is one area that I believe that those whom God has helped to experience this multiplication must watch closely, least Satan should take advantage of them.

Back to our example from John’s gospel chapter 6. When Jesus had fed the multitude from the initial five loaves and two fishes that had been multiplied, He commanded His disciples to gather the fragments so that nothing will be wasted. Amazingly, the scripture records that a whooping twelve full baskets of fragments were collected. Think about that for a moment; twelve full baskets of fragments from an initial five loaves and two fishes!

Why will Jesus be interested in collecting fragments seeing that He could always perform another miracle of multiplication whenever it was needed. His purpose is made clear in the instruction given – that nothing be wasted.

God does not appreciate waste and you can’t be a wasteful person and expect God to continue to bring you increase. Some people have been so deprived in life that the moment God begins to lift them, they begin to indulge in excesses and they become wasteful. Don’t let that be you, if God has found it good to increase you, then He expects you to be a good manager of the resources he has put at your disposal, and this means nothing goes to waste.

Don’t despise the fragments littered all over your place, they may appear insignificant, but they could also mean someone else’s starting point. As you put these things in proper perspective as God multiplies you, then you will see no end to how far God will take you in this journey of multiplying your loaves.

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