{"id":1364,"date":"2014-07-02T22:33:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T03:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2014-07-02T22:33:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T03:33:17","slug":"106-bring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/106-bring\/","title":{"rendered":"106. &#8220;Bring them here to Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Matthew 14:18<\/em><\/p>\n<p>5 loaves.<\/p>\n<p>5,000 men.<\/p>\n<p>5 words*.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bring them here to Me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lord, what are five loaves and two small fish among so many? Feed everyone? Impossible!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bring them here to Me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lord, You might as well say we don&#8217;t have anything at all in comparison to this great task.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bring them here to Me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lord, I can&#8217;t do this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bring them here to Me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many times I have sighed beneath the load, trying to do something for the Lord, feeling helpless, fruitless, failure. Am I trying to feed over 5,000 with 5 loaves?<\/p>\n<p>Are we trying to do the growing for that little seed we sowed, or are we giving that seed to God and watering it with prayer?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we need to supply those few loaves and fish. God notices the &#8220;insignificant.&#8221; But how many more would be blessed, and how much more glory would we bring to God, if we truly realized it was His work, His miracle, not ours?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bring them here to Me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>*4 in Greek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 14:18 5 loaves. 5,000 men. 5 words*. &#8220;Bring them here to Me.&#8221; &#8220;Lord, what are five loaves and two small fish among so many? Feed everyone? Impossible!&#8221; &#8220;Bring them here to Me.&#8221; &#8220;Lord, You might as well say we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhortation","category-practical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelriver.com\/sharingchrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}