The Prophetic Word - Day 24: We serve what Jesus provides.

“Now the day was ending, and the twelve [disciples] came and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, so that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging, and get provisions; because here we are in an isolated place.” But He said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless perhaps we go and buy food for all these people.””

‭‭Luke‬ ‭9‬:‭12‬-‭13‬ ‭AMP‬‬

When Jesus offered the invitation for us to come under His yoke (Matthew 11:28-30), He didn’t intend for that to be a transient situation. In other words, He didn’t intend that we come under His yoke for instruction and relief and then go out from underneath it for everything else. Then—when we’re so tired we can’t go another step—we come back under His yoke to be refreshed before going back out again.

No! When the Lord bids us to come under His yoke with Him, it is meant to be our permanent orientation, our place of operation.

You see, the yoke of Jesus Christ is the Holy Spirit. Indeed, it is through the Holy Spirit that we are taught and guided, while at the same time, continuing in the rest coming through Him bearing most of the load.

In fact, the only “weight” we should be carrying is our obedience to the Lord’s leading (our cross).

Sadly, many Christians approach life as if they receive instruction under the yoke, but then go out on their own, in their own power, to perform.

Now, many who operate this way would not see what they are doing as coming out from underneath the yoke of Jesus.

However, when we are stressed or fearful about what we need to do, or in following the Lord’s commands, that indicates that we have taken it on ourselves to be able to perform.

Our imperative is simply to give out what we have been given, nothing more, nothing less. And, in so doing, we will also continue on in the rest He gives us from trying to carry the load alone!

In our opening scripture we see that Jesus puts the disciples on the spot in terms of how the multitude was going to be fed. But—as we learn in another telling of this story—Jesus already knew what He was going to do and was actually seeing whether or not they “got it” yet.

“Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward Him, and He said to Philip, “Where will we buy bread for these people to eat?” But He said this to test Philip, because He knew what He was about to do.”

‭‭John‬ ‭6‬:‭5‬-‭6‬ ‭AMP‬‬

Do you “get it” yet? Do you understand how the Lord will operate in and through you?

Remember, you can only give out what Jesus gives to you to serve, just as the disciples fed the multitude with the bread and fish Jesus had multiplied in His hands.

If we can come to see everything we do as being sourced from the Lord, everything we give as being first received from Him, we will be able to live, move, and have our being, as well as operating in the miraculous, without stress and without fear.

Peace to you.

Jesus is coming! Get ready for Him!

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