The Blessing is in the Breaking | Jentezen Franklin

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when god allows you to go through a

storm it is not to destroy you

it’s to show you who he is on another

dimension and level that you’ve never

seen him move

before everybody give god a praise for

just a moment hallelujah

open your bibles with me to the book of

mark chapter

6 mark chapter 6. so i want to talk to

you for a few moments about this story

because

it’s interesting how that they go from

one miracle

to a storm they go directly from jesus

feeding the 5 000 right into the

greatest

test and storm that they would ever face

five thousand men gathered women and

children besides

in a desert place in desperate need

of the word of god as a matter of fact

deuteronomy said man does not live by

bread alone but by every word so they

didn’t have

food they had the word of god jesus was

teaching

listen to this and these people had

rather have had

the word than bread if they had to

choose

they said i’ll take the word over the

bread

to eat it shows a tremendous hunger for

the word of god if you’ve got a hunger

for the word of god

god will always supply your needs and

the bible said

that when the disciples told them how

weak they were how hungry they were the

people hadn’t eaten and they were

concerned jesus said they need not

depart

they don’t have to leave me they came

for the word but i can give them word

and bread

and jesus said to them what do you have

point number one the miracle always

begins

with what you have when you recognize

what you have

then god can multiply it’s not

in what you don’t have you have to

recognize

notice the pattern that jesus is showing

us he’s saying the first

key to receiving my provision for your

life no matter what kind of storm or

season

you’re going through or facing is

recognize

what you have because when you recognize

what you have

then god can multiply it the bible said

that it’s ironic that they did not

count the women and the children i i

think it’s very ironic

because the one that they didn’t count

was the one that god used to bring the

miracle

no they counted 5 000 men and in their

mind they said the women and the

children don’t count

but notice something about your god god

uses people that other people don’t

count

god uses people that other people

discount

god uses people that other people say

are unimportant

so unimportant they don’t even count but

that’s the very one

the little lad that had five loaves and

two fish

he was the one that nobody counted that

everybody discounted he’s just a kid

with five slices of bread and two fish

but the one

that people didn’t count was the one

that god counted

i want to tell you that’s the truth

about our god

he counts people that other people

discount people may look you

look at you as unimportant may write you

off as unimportant

but god says i count people that other

people

don’t count what do you

have when you recognize what you have

i can multiply it and always remember

that i

count people that other people don’t see

anything

worth counting in that’s the kind of god

we serve

jesus then gives a strange command when

they bring the boys food

jesus said to them separate into groups

of 50.

now this is going to take a while you

got 5 000 men plus women plus children a

minimum of 15

20 000 people you got to count out 50

people

separate them put them over here in a

small group and then do another in a

small group and then another

and then another and in another do you

know how long that would take the people

are already feigning the people are

already hungry the people haven’t eaten

all day

in the sun and the sun is setting and

why in the world would you take the time

to separate them into groups of 50

because sometimes the best miracles take

time

sometimes we need to understand that

god’s best miracles

are not driven by need or necessity or

hunger

that when god is doing something big

in your life you can’t rush

what god is doing that’s why the bible

said you have need a patience

that after you have done the will of god

you might obtain the promise

the bible said you and james you heard

of job of

of job’s patience and one of the fruits

of the spirit is patience and what i’ve

learned and what you’re going to learn

is god’s best miracles take time

sometimes you have got to have order and

structure

he said divide them up into 50. give me

some

order out of this mass crowd give me

some structure

because it takes order and structure to

receive the magnitude

of the blessing that god wants to give

you many times we’re saying god blessed

me with more

and we’re mishandling what we have

god doesn’t god doesn’t give you more

according to what you ask for

he gives you more according to what you

can manage

and if you can’t manage what you’ve got

right now why would god give you more to

squander

and he said i want you to have a

structure that can maintain

the magnitude of the blessing that i

want to pour

into your life and the bible said that

they brought jesus the bread

they gave him what they had and jesus

took it the bible said and he blessed it

he’s blessing what is not enough

he’s blessing five loaves of bread

and two fish it’s obviously not enough

to feed 5 000 men

plus the women plus the children it’s

not enough

but he’s giving thanks for what is not

enough

when you learn to be grateful even when

what you have

is not enough then god can begin to

multiply

not enough into more than enough until

you can be thankful for something that

is not

enough you cannot be multiplied

into more than enough god i thank you

for this job

it’s not the one that i really want but

i’m thankful for it and i praise you for

it

god says that’s what i can take and

multiply

into something greater god i thank you

for this house

it’s not what i hope for it’s not what i

really need this tiny apartment

i really need a house but you know what

when you’re thankful when you have

gratitude for what you do have

when you start thanking god he’s lord i

thank you for this little bit even

though it’s not enough

you have a spirit of gratitude and

thankfulness

that’s when the miracle begins you’ll

never see the multiplication as long as

you’re ungrateful

but when you become thankful for what he

has given you

as little as it is little is much

when god is in it i wish somebody would

just right now

say lord i’m thankful i don’t have

everything that i wish i had

but i’m thankful for what i’ve got

that’s when the miracle starts

and the bible said that when he took it

and he blessed it gave thanks for it

blessed it

that he had the correct inventory two

fish

five loaves nothing had multiplied

nothing had increased it wasn’t until he

did something the bible said he then

took the bread

after he blessed it he broke it

and when he broke it and started handing

it to the disciples to distribute

as he broke it he began to lose count

the blessing is in the breaking

it wasn’t until it was broken that it

began to multiply

that which refuses to be broken refuses

to be blessed

it is in the breakings of life that

produces the blessings of life

some of the most blessed people that you

will ever meet

have gone through something that broke

them before they got to the blessing

because it’s the blessing

is hidden in the broken the more

that he broke it the more it multiplied

the more he broke it that’s when it

would multiply he would break it

and break it and break it and it would

multiply

every time he broke it it multiplied in

his hands

now that’s a spiritual law that if god

allows you to go through breaking

it is not to destroy you it is

to bless you because the breaking

is what brings the blessing now i want

to ask you a question

have you thanked the lord for every time

he broke you

every time he snapped you every time he

put you through a season of brokenness

he wasn’t killing you he was blessing

you

every time he was breaking you

every time you were rejected every time

you were alienated

every time you were disappointed every

time you were cursed

every time you were told no every time

your heart was broken

broken homes broken hearts broken

families broken hopes

the greatest blessings come out of the

hardest

breakings and that’s why we don’t get

discouraged

we understand if god’s allowing me to go

through a plan

that i never dreamed would happen i

thought it would be a straight shot to

success and the goodness of god

but instead i’m walking through a season

of brokenness

like i never dreamed i would be good

that’s a sign

god is on your case and if he’s blessing

you it’s because

he’s do you hear me if he’s breaking you

it’s because he’s going to bless you

don’t give me a little golf clap clap

your hands like you believe

he knows how to bless us out of the

breaking

didn’t come until it got broken didn’t

multiply

didn’t increase until it got broken

the very thing you’re cursing is the

very thing god’s going to use

to multiply and bless your life

he fed the multitude through the

breaking process

i’ve never heard a preacher preach that

had a message that touched my heart

that hadn’t been through the breaking

process

you cannot feed other people the bread

of life

without going through brokenness again

and again and again and just when you

think

everything’s good god says i really need

to use you again

and in order for me to use you again to

make that word that i’m going to give

you have effect

i gotta get you in another time of

brokenness

so when you say god use me

you think that means he’s gonna give you

a suit and a microphone

and let you he’s gonna break him

you have no idea what ministry cost

it’s a continual now what you really

have

it’s a continual breaking it never stops

jesus does not feed the multitude

directly

he breaks it and gives it to his

disciples

his friends and he says you go feed them

notice that the blessing passes through

your hands

not from your hands many of you have

been blessed there’s some blessed people

under the sound of my voice but i’ve

come to remind you

that the blessings that you’re

experiencing do not come from your hands

they come from jesus hands they come

through your hands

and don’t ever get it mixed up be

careful to give god the praise and the

glory because

any blessings that you are participating

in

is not your doing it came from the hand

of jesus and is flowing through your

hand

you need to learn to eat god’s blessing

even if he brings it through somebody

else’s hand

he’ll even feed you and bless you

sometimes to people who don’t even like

you

through the enemy’s hands prepare a

table before you

in the presence of you they’ll say

things like this i don’t know why i’m

doing this

hallelujah

now here’s a big point about this little

lesson

he god is a good chef

and he he he’s very good at math he has

a book in the bible called numbers

and when he cooked for the children of

israel and he did

he spread a table in the wilderness the

bible said for 40 years

they had nothing to eat except what god

personally

provided for them from the bakeries of

heaven

every morning when they got up there was

something called manna that god had

cooked up

and it was so precise god is such a good

chef

you know a good chef you can just tell

them how many people are coming and they

know how much stuff they’re gonna need

and god is not a wasteful god so when he

would provide

food for the children of israel in the

wilderness he would give them just

enough to eat that day no leftovers

none so matter of fact if they didn’t

eat all their meal for that day

they couldn’t store it up for the next

day if they did the bible said it had

worms in it

because god was teaching them you’re

gonna have to depend on him every day of

your life

and so and so here’s my point when god

cooks

he knows how many people he’s cooking

for and he knew

if he wanted to he could have just

supplied exactly

enough meal for the 5 000 men and he

knew how many women he knew how many

children

and it would have been enough to feed

everybody and stopped

he knew the exact number but he

purposely designed

it so that there would be leftovers

jesus could have been precise he could

have stopped

on the last person in his mind he knew

when he got

to the last person who needed to be

served a meal and he could have stopped

but he kept on breaking off

more than was needed he chose

to give them overflow

don’t you ever let people tell you that

god just wants

to give you enough god doesn’t just want

to give you

enough that sounds real religious when

people say that

but the truth is god does not his name

is el shaddai not el chipo el

shaddai means in hebrew more than enough

a god whose name is more than enough

will never stop at enough david said

my cup runeth over he is the god

of overflow he doesn’t just want to give

you

enough he wants to give you more

than enough god says i’m not blind

i’m just a god of overflow and i want

you to understand that my blessing

is greater than your capacity to contain

it my blessing

is not limited to what your little glass

says you can hold

but when i pour out my blessing i’ll

pour out

a blessing you won’t have room enough to

receive

it’ll be pressed down shaken together

running over

shall men give unto your bosom i know

what i’m preaching is the truth

and i don’t know what people have taught

you but don’t you dare believe that god

just wants you

to have enough he’s the god of more than

enough

he’s the god of overflow and he’s not

limited to the size of your container

hallelujah

it’ll flow over to your children it’ll

flow over to your children’s children

it’ll flow over to the poor and the

needy it’ll flow

over to people who are going through a

hard time it’ll come through your hand

not from your hand

because he’s a god of abundance somebody

give him a great

shout of praise i believe it

hallelujah hallelujah

this is so important what i’m about to

share with you

the bible said in another place and in

this

particular text too that he

so over provided

that they had to pick up the leftovers

and it was 12 basket fulls

12 basketfuls of leftovers

i mean lord 12 of them

god never intends for you to go through

a trial

and not have something left from it

and the bible said when they immediately

after gathering those fragments

and putting them in 12 baskets

jesus constrained them right after a

miracle

to get in the boat without him

and go to the other side constrained

means i’m ordering you

i’m giving you divine instructions do

what i’m telling you to do

and they didn’t know it but jesus knew

he was sending them right into the path

of the storm

it’s so important to understand that

they were

following divine instructions when they

encountered the storm

the enemy will tell you when you go

through a storm this is the judgment of

god

the enemy will tell you when you go

through the storm and through the flood

that god’s getting you back for your

past but i’m here to tell you the truth

of god’s word

jesus constrained them didn’t give them

a choice

said if you’re my disciple under my

authority you obey my voice get in that

boat

and i’m god he knew the storm was coming

and he put him right in the path

i’m telling you today that if you’re

going through a storm

you’re in that storm by divine

instructions

and god does not intend for you to go

down

he det he intends for you to receive

something in the storm there was a lot

of people the multitude

were burping on blessings they had just

eaten fish and chips

and they were happy and the disciples

wanted to stay there

but jesus was about to show 12 of them

what they would never see on the shore

some of you are about to see

things in the storm that other people

burping on the blessings on the land

never get to see when god allows you to

go through i’m preaching right now i am

i’m telling

when when you when god allows you to go

through a storm

it is not to destroy you it’s to show

you who he

is on another dimension and level

that you’ve never seen him move before

everybody

give god a praise for just a moment

hallelujah

[Applause]

hallelujah

see when jesus came walking on the water

the wave walker

walked out to the boat and he got on the

boat he was not upset at them because

they were in a storm

he said i’m disappointed you did not

consider the miracle

of the fish and the loaves he’s saying

why didn’t you

i had you loaded down with 12 baskets

so while you were fighting the storm you

would be reminded

god is faithful god can do it

god can make a way and i’m saying to

every one of you

you need to what is that on your coat

it’s it’s bread crumbs from the last

miracle that you just came from

and you’re freaking out because you got

a bad doctor’s report or you’re freaking

out because

you got a financial crisis well let me

give you a news flash

you didn’t have nothing when god found

you he gave you the job he gave you the

opportunity

and if you go back down to nothing if

you’ve got gods you can get it all back

[Applause]

your power is not in where you are your

power is in where you have been

and he did not want them to forget

the miracle of the fish and the loaves

the only reason he gave them leftovers

was so they would remember

where he brought them from if you’re

going to survive the storms of life

you have to constantly remember where

god brought you from

and so today

the leftovers the if you would reach

back and get some breadcrumbs from the

previous miracles

of how god opened doors of how god

provided

how god healed you the previous crumbs

the crumbs of previous miracles

if you would just reach down in the bag

because you you didn’t get in the storm

without some

testimony and nobody can tell your

testimony like you can

but remember where he brought you from

and where he’s able to take you to

and don’t let what you see defeat you

he has not given you the spirit of fear

but a power and of love and of a sound

mind and he’s saying reach back and

remember what i’ve done for you

i will not fail you

now i want you to give god a great

praise if you believe i’m preaching the

truth

[Applause]

great is thy faithfulness great

is thy faithfulness stand to your feet

at every campus and give jesus christ

a great great praise i want you to thank

him

for what is not enough right now knowing

that he’ll multiply

into more than enough

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