The miracle of the feeding of the five thousand often comes to mind when considering the mighty manifestations of the Lord Jesus. Jesus and the apostles had sought a remote place where they could rest. But the need that the multitudes felt for the Savior was such that they followed Him wherever He went. When they found Jesus, the Master responded to their need by teaching them about many things. Out in their remote location, the time passed quickly as the crowd sat and listened intently to the teachings of Jesus. Jesus had compassion on them and continued to teach them because their spiritual need was so acute. Before long, darkness was approaching. Noting the lateness of the day, the disciples came to Jesus and suggested that He send the people away to the neighboring villages to buy bread, for many of them had eaten nothing all day long. Jesus responded by saying, "You give them something to eat." But the cost to buy food far exceeded the resources available to the apostles. Furthermore, a quick check of this great throng of people, which was comprised of five thousand men as well as untold thousands of women and children, revealed that the total available food supply consisted of five small barley loves and two small fish - the lunch of a single young boy.
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By Benny Hinn
I’m so grateful that our relationship with God is an ongoing one, that He takes us literally “from glory to glory.” And how glorious it is to be in an ever-deepening love relationship with our wonderful heavenly father!
Every day as I spend more time with the blessed Master in the Word of God and in prayer, I become that much more acquainted with His ways, that much more familiar with what is important to Him, that much more motivated to please Him in every way.
And as I become more and more acquainted with His Word, His will, and His ways, I become ever more convinced of the importance of tithing in our lives. Yet I sometimes talk to people---sincere, convinced brothers and sisters in the Lord---who say, “Tithing is part of the Old Testament law and not a requirement for believers today.”
By Benny Hinn
One of the most refreshing and central truths of the whole New Testament is that we are no longer under law but under grace. The apostle Paul asserted:
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, an account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit."(Romans 8: 1-4)