DEVOTIONAL VIDEO: “In Order to Hear God and His Will for You, Often, You Must Focus on the Needs of Others First”

DEVOTIONAL VIDEO

 MESSAGE SUMMARY:

Feeding of the 5000 (St. Andrews Episcopal Church; Ft, Worth, TX)

No matter where we are or in what context of life’s involvement in which we find ourselves, we need to be willing to be broken vessels for use by God for His purposes. In Mark’s teaching, regarding the miraculous feeding of “The 5,000” (Mark 6:34-37a), we see that Jesus’ compassion for the people overroad His personal need to grieve for the death of John the Baptizer and to rest. Rather, Jesus began to, immediately, minister to the people: “When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, ‘This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late. Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.’ But he answered them, ‘You give them something to eat.’”. Like Jesus and in order to receive what God knows that we require, we need to move our focus away from our personal desires and perceived needs onto the real needs of others. When we move our focus away from ourselves and to a “outward focus”, we become free to hear and to receive from God. After Jesus saw to the needs of “The 5000”, He went away, alone, to listen and pray to God (Mark 6:45): “And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray.”.  As in Jesus’ feeding of “The 5,000”, God desires that we look to Him; to take what He has given us; and to give to those in need.

 

TODAY’S AFFIRMATION: Because of who I am in Jesus Christ, I will not be driven by Loneliness. Rather, I will abide in the Lord’s Presence. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5).

 

SCRIPTURE REFERENCE (ESV):  Mark 6:31; Mark 6:34; Mark 6:41; Mark 6:43; Psalms 73b:15-28.

 

THIS SUNDAY’S AUDIO SERMON: You can listen to Archbishop Beach’s Current Sunday Sermon: “Turkeys and Eagles, Part 5: Following Jesus Changes Everything in Our Families", at our Website: https://awtlser.podbean.com/

 

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