{"id":472,"date":"2009-05-15T00:11:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=472"},"modified":"2009-05-15T00:11:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T16:11:03","slug":"from-the-500-guests-to-the-5000-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/from-the-500-guests-to-the-5000-men\/","title":{"rendered":"From the 500 guests to the 5000 men, &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thank God for being patient with me. As I was preparing to teach about prayer, many things happened, and it sit back and ponder. He is not God in history, or of history, or out of history&#8230;.but He is a present God. He who presented Himself to Abraham, Moses, Peter, also the same God who now presents Himself to me. As it&#8217;s written, &#8220;I am who I am&#8221;. He was, is, and is to come, God.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of all the constraints i&#8217;m facing, i can give thanks because only in this circumstances I could see &#8230; things otherwise I could never see. The story of Jesus feeding the 5000 with 2 fishes and 5 loaves of bread&#8230;.is it too hard for Him to provide for my 500 guests? He even provided meat and bread for one nation of 3 million Jews! I could share the feeling of Philip maybe, how to feed these people&#8230;.we don&#8217;t have money. Yet Jesus knows what he&#8217;s to do. It is 8 month salaries to feed these crowd&#8230;.yet He had already the answer. Again on the bread and butter issue, Jesus was the man who resists the temptation&#8230;he&#8217;d rather starve in hunger than fulfilled his own desire transforming stone to bread. At the end, man&#8217;s life is not in abundance of his possession, nor in physical food he eats, but life in the feeding of God&#8217;s Word&#8230;.which transcend understanding.<\/p>\n<p>I could say at the end, from the\u00a0500 guests to\u00a0the 5000 men, He knows what He is doing. God is great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thank God for being patient with me. As I was preparing to teach about prayer, many things happened, and it sit back and ponder. He is not God in history, or of history, or out of history&#8230;.but He is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/from-the-500-guests-to-the-5000-men\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,51],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-providence","tag-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":656,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/dealing-with-evil\/","url_meta":{"origin":472,"position":0},"title":"Dealing with Evil","author":"clay","date":"October 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I notice there's few ways dealing with Evil (Evil people, Evil One, Evil time, etc). 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