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is for the person that always say they don't have enough. Yeah, that's it, I'm kidding. They don't have enough. And this can be enough of anything. Like I'm just making an example. If you ever got to a place where you say you don't have money to start a business, this is the person I'm talking about this is for the person who who said what is it in front of them that they think they don't have enough of not enough money to make it to the month end this is the person I'm talking about not enough time for what is being asked for you to do Not enough strength left, like you are weak. The one who is sure there is little of everything. And yet they cannot do anything about the little that they have. It's like almost anybody that sits with a hundred rent, knowing between the 100 rent and the 100 rent being gone, there's nothing left for you after that. You just have to go and die. That is all that is left. After this 100 rent is finished, me and my kids can go die. The person with a small gift, a small business, a small start, who feel embarrassed how little it is, this is for that person. This is the message for that person. The believer who think that God can only use the big people with the big screen, the big followers, that person that have all the 20K followers on Instagram and yet they don't even have one or two followers, this is who the message is for And I would like you to go to your Bible and let us read Matthew 14 And I'm going to read from 13. Matthew 14, 1-4. And I'm going to read from 13. Now when Jesus heard of it, he departed and thence by ship into a desert place apart. And when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. And Jesus went forth and saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion towards them. And he healed the sick. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves victuals. But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart. Give ye them to eat. And they say unto them, We have here but five loaves and two fishes. He said, bring them hither to me. And he commanded that the multitude to sit down on the grass and took the five loaves and the two fishes and look up to heaven. And he blessed and break and gave the loaves to his disciples and the disciples to the multitudes. And they did it all. And were filled. and they took up the fragments that remained 12 baskets full. Picture this. Instead of Jesus asking the people now, knowing that after he'd given them such a great word and for them to go away, something can happen on their way, wherever they need to go. As the disciples says, send them away to go and get themselves victuals. Now my question to you is if you looking at this Jesus knowing that somewhere there must be something because he said it so much in faith that he said they need not depart give them to eat without him knowing what is there to eat and sometimes what we have in our hands sometimes makes us to think that it's not enough for all of us together and I need to take you to a time where I was I think I just finished school and all I had left was oh yeah, I was finishing school and after that I started I started working there by what's that place? Score, Score Supermarket. And after I started working in Score Supermarket, I left the work there as well and they gave me my UIF and I think the UIF was something like about 300 rent or something like that, but it was not a lot. And you know what I decided at that time? Instead of taking this whole UIF money, let me rather go and buy something that I can sell and to make this amount to be more. That's a speaker there. You can try to mute. You know what? on the right yard there. And you speak or what? Yeah, it's a minute. Come on, Come on, come on. So, I decided then to go in, to go in and buy wine. Now, Skor supermarket used to sell a five liter of wine, and then you get two in a box So the box I can remember how much it was And I decided I will take this Instead of selling them by one liter I sold them by the glass And I used to sell one rented glass. I can't remember how much I got, but I just remember that it was so much profit that I made that I actually had enough of selling for quite some time. Although there was only one customer I had at the time, I could make more money out of that one customer. And I remember him used to sit late nights with all the one rent that he had, bringing it and me and him would sit for hours and hours while he drank his little one one cup at a time but when I looked at my profits for the day the next day I could buy another again and I kept making more money out of this small amount of money that I got from UIF Sometimes what we have is that we have pride. Now, pride makes you not to want to do smaller things like that. And you end up losing out on a lot of things. Instead of you, then just decide, no man, I can make one, two or three of this one, two and three. and I can make more money out of it. Not just more money, but more of what I have. So my message today, I want to put the emphasis today on what Jesus did. Now, Jesus took this, you can almost call it a little lunchtime, a small fish. A small fish and five loaves of bread or is it the other way around? Let me just make sure. Two fishes and five loaves of bread. Now, what stands out of this is the fact that there was multitudes, because if you can remember a few passages before, time now passed, send the multitudes away that they may go into the villages and buy themselves victuals. If you're looking at that, the disciples wanted to send away this multitude while Jesus then said, give me this five loaves of bread and two fishes. And what he did would surprise you. Instead of him immediately just taking this bread, what he did is he first his first thing he did is he looked up to heaven. Now, when we look at our lives today, the small that we have, the only way we can multiply this is to look up to heaven. who is the provider of everything on earth, who is sitting there, is the creator of heaven and earth, the creator of everything that has ever been on heaven and earth. And yet, we want to take that small piece and just eat it. He said he gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater. Now, when you're looking at seed to a sower, meaning to say that whatever you have, never just take that whatever you have and eat it. Because then you will become a eater, meaning to say that anytime whatever you get, you will not get anything except for what you can eat right now. But when you take that and change it into a seed, instead of taking a whole cup of seeds or let's call it sunflower seeds, instead of eating all those sunflower seeds, use a few and sow that few. And that will make you to become a sower instead of an eater Jesus took the bread and he lifted up And as he lifted up he looked to heaven and he blesses the bread So the little that we have if you have a little, you first have to make sure that you bless the little that you have. And this is what we sometimes forget, is that we sometimes have a little and yet we don't even bless the little that we have. So he blesses it and then only he started breaking it. Some of us are so hungry, the moment we get something, the first thing is we think of our stomachs first. You're not supposed to think of your stomach first. You're supposed to think first of the blessing that comes from heaven, then move away from there. So we measure the need against what is in our hands. And that is why we see the gap and we panic. You being the person that always look at just what you have and not looking at what it could be, you start panicking and that's where the problem starts coming. Now I need you to understand understand something. If somebody gives you a hundred rent and you're looking at the hundred rent as only a hundred rent, what will happen is it will only be a hundred rent. And if you don't look at it in a sense of seeing that the hundred rent might become a thousand rent if you can just make sure to bless it first. And by blessing it, sometimes it wants multiplying. That is what multiplied. So we read this as a miracle of multiplication The headline is in the big numbers 5 fed That is what we see But yet Jesus did not send more He said bring me what you already have. Now, I want you to look into your life and ask yourself, what do you already have? Now, I need you to do me a favor. If you're looking at, if you are online, you will see there's a little scanning barcode or something scanner here on this side. And when you're looking at that scanner, if you click on it, you can do a test and it will show you exactly where God has wired you to. So what I mean by where God has wired you to is that this little test that you're going to run. So you're going to put your name, your surname and your email address so that the test results can be sent to you. So go to, if you can't use the scanner, you can go to www.fountaingrace.org.org forward slash wired, wired, which is spelled W-I-R-E-D. And this will help you to see where you have already, because this is what people does. People look at people for argument's sake at a preacher who can preach eloquently, but yet they can play a keyboard for argument's sake better than the person that preaching. So now what they does is they look at the wrong measurement on how to measure themselves instead of looking at a measurement that is showing what you really have already and use what you really have already and then make something out of that If I can make an example, there was a time when we had a lot of young people in church and anytime whenever the young people wanted to do something the eldest people would say you are too young no you can't do that as yet you are too young not knowing that those are the people that will be the next apostles the next musicians the next preachers the next teachers If you give them what they already have and work on that, you would find they become better. Jesus did not send the disciples to go and get more food. He uses what they already had. He said, bring me what you already have. so it means the multiplication happens with what you already have the strategic mind you already have you can use that to become someone better I'm looking at I'm looking at a lot of times where we look at our lives and we realize that our lives has become such of a, we always have nothing. We don't say we bless whatever we have at this moment. Now, when the Bible says he blessed, he blessed is a Greek word for eulogio. Eulogio. Now, eulogy is to speak well over. Now let me ask you, when you're looking at your life, you are a great argument maker. So you need to bless the fact that you can make arguments. That's number one. Number two, if you're looking at you are a great dancer, bless the dancing that you can already do. Bless the dancing that you can already do. So speak well of your dancing. Speak well of the thing that you are good at. That is how you blessed what you have. that is how you bless what you have what is it that you think that you are good at and one thing that i don't understand is that most people who are for argument's sake playing a sport they look at at who is the let me make an example of of a hockey player looking at somebody who is very fast not knowing that you are a bigger goalkeeper or a better goalkeeper than somebody who is faster so that makes you to be a better person in a position that you play sometimes our position that we are in we just need to bless it more and tell people more what you are blessed with. Before the bread multiplied, Jesus spoke well over that little. Jesus spoke well over that little. That's how it became more. And I need you to understand one thing. the miracle starts with we don't have enough and I need you to understand something there when you stand on your own you will forever not have enough we always think of ourselves smaller than what we actually are because the less you have the more you can give to God to give praise to Him because by giving it back to him That is What makes you to realize that You cannot rely on yourself You can only rely on him. So see. That you don't have enough. Yet knowing. That he is enough. So the miracle doesn't start with. The fact that there is. bread, the fact that there is fish. The miracle starts with the fact that it's not enough. And therefore you can rely on Jesus the more. God is not waiting for you to have enough. He's waiting for you to have that little. that little faith, that one day, that little hope, that one day, that little, the fact that I know I can speak, although I'm not good in English, I still can speak my mind. That little he can make use of to give you even the more. To give you even the more. But do you know how something multiply? Something multiply only when you start giving it. That sounds counterintuitive. Doesn't it sound counterintuitive? intuitive. Nothing multiplies while the bread was in the disciples' hands. The bread was within whoever had the bread, the boy that had the bread. But the moment it multiplied, after it was handed over to Jesus. Now, what is it there that you would like to give over to Jesus today so that he can multiply it? Is it the talent that you have? The talent of you knowing that you can play a better sport than somebody but yet knowing it not enough Give it to Jesus and he will multiply it. According to the scripture in 2nd Corinthians 9 verse 8. I want us to read 2nd Corinthians 9 verse 8. 2nd Corinthians 9 verse 8 says, And God is able to make all grace abound towards you that he always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work. Can you hear what he says? All things, not just one or two in all things. and then if you go to the the first kings 17 where elijah said unto her oh first king 17 verse 13 and 14 first king 17 first kings 17 13 and 14 and elijah said unto her fear not but make me there of a little kick first for thus saith the lord god of israel The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruise of oil fail. So when the man of God says, make me something first, the woman did not wait. Yet it was multiplied. So sometimes you don't have to hold on to things for it to multiply. You have to let go of it for it to multiply. And when you let go, you will have more than what you had before. So there is more left over than what you started with. They started with five loaves and ended with 12 baskets of left over. You do not run out when you give to God you overflow So don think that whatever you will give to God it will be finishing It will You will even have left over You will even have left over. Zechariah 4 verse 10 says the following. Zechariah 4 verse 10 says. For who had despised the day of small things, for they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the land of Zerubbabel. So can you understand when you have a little and you give of that little and you don't despise the small beginnings, you will become a better person. You will become a better teacher. Teach in small units. Teach one person at a time. If you want to become an apostle, apostle one person at a time. Remember what I said last week, what is an apostle? Apostle is somebody who was sent out. So now, when you become an apostle, don't think that you are sent out to the multitude. think of you are sent out to at least one person at a time. At least one person at a time. And that is how God can take the two fishes and multiply it that even 12 baskets were left. Because of the fact that you've given it over to God. Give that talent of you over to God. What is that talent that you have that you need to let go of, that you need to give to God? What is that talent? Because by giving that talent, God can multiply it. God can multiply it. Now, Matthew took up fragments that remain 12 baskets full. So picture this. If somebody asks you Look, I understand that you only have a 50 rind. Can I ask you that you give that 50 rind so that we can make a plan to multiply it? Imagine. What do we think? It's my last 50 rind before I go hungry. it's literally what the lady was saying in Kings you remember the lady said in Kings that this is only the small that we have left after we finish it me and my boy will go and die but yet they so much believed in the man of God that they gave it to the men. And after that, it multiplied. And after that, it multiplied. So today, I don't want you to think that God has given bread to the eater and you keep on understanding why keep I, why am I always only able to eat? Why am I always able to just eat and after that I don't have anything left? Because he gave bread to the eater and seed to the sower. So meaning to say that if you have nothing left it means somewhere something you have to sow. It means something that you have to give back to Jesus for him to bless it. And like I said, blessing is to speak well of. So when blessing is to speak well of, I want you to take a moment and think of a few places. that you can speak well of. A little skill. The ordinary things you can do What is a little skill Let me talk about cooking When you can cook, use that to cook for multitudes of people. And don't just take whatever you have given them, what you have cooked, just to give them. Use that to make money off so that you can have more to buy next time and sell it again. That is what restaurants do. Isn't it that what that is what restaurants do? Or am I wrong? Let me let me ask you, you know, when you go to Spur, is the same food that they can cook at home for themselves most. They can cook it for themselves. They don't have to, but they're selling it. And here you think that business is only, I have to have 120,000, 20,000 and million rent and 60 cents and what. No, no, no. whatever you have, the small skill that you have, do that. Let me ask you, the small amount of knowing what you know now, if you can sing just one song and charge somebody for it, you become Beyonce. I'm not saying you can sing maybe as good as Beyonce, but with practice, anybody can become better. I can guarantee you now, anybody can become better with just enough practice. Bishop, when you started to do the cutting, you didn't start by knowing what a block or what an engine or what a person is. You didn't know. You had to start with knowing this is... Because remember, this is what we used to struggle with. Which side do you open the nut? Left or right? Do you remember we used to struggle You turn that thing you fasten it more and you think it loose In the meantime, you had to learn, no, it's the other way around. You start with that thing, that's how small it is. And I can guarantee you now, even now in the morning, Lytton was asking, come and help you. He turned the tap on the opposite side. In the meantime, opening it more and more and more, instead of him thinking that it will close. What skill? A little skill, the ordinary little thing. You call it nothing. Bless it and hand it over to God. Because the moment you can hand it over to God, it can feed family and carry ministries. The little space. Let me talk about the little space. A room, just a small space in the yard. Maybe a car with an empty seat. Yeah, let me talk about that space. A car with an empty space. Every day you travel to Joburg, you come back. You go and work there in Joburg. Just yourself alone. You come back. Don't you know that that little space that you can use there can become an Uber or just a love club? It doesn't have to be an Uber. The same place where you go to, somebody can pay you for driving with you. You become an Uber. That's a small little space in your car. Thank God for it. And open it. Bless it. Bless it. Let talk about a little time because remember this was probably some people call it it was a small boy scuff tin A small boy scuff tin the same container that kept it was not enough to keep the same. When we're talking about fish and bread. Twelve baskets was left. Is it twelve, right? Yeah, twelve. fragments that remained 12 baskets full. Somebody's lunch tent becomes something that when they give it up to God and blesses it, it becomes more. And here we're looking for, for, for, you can almost call it bigger things, but yet the smaller things can become more of a blessing to you. A little time. The spare hour you waste feeling guilty about. Thank God for it and give it away. It becomes a time for Bible study. Bible study. That could have been the time where somebody went through a lot and you just take that time to go and visit them. And that's the exact time when that guy says, if nobody comes into my house today, I will commit suicide. And here you walk in thinking, let me just go and greet. And you greeting them, giving it back to God and God says thank you you just open up somebody's eyes to what God can do little time little space a little circle let's call it a little circle because when you're looking at it the Bible says where two or three are gathered is there two or three. Now, somebody was once saying this, when you see me speaking to myself, Me and myself and I have a meeting because I'm self-employed. Now, when you are self-employed, having a conversation with yourself, already, I can tell you now, it's a circle of ideas that can come from there. An idea that nobody had before. Not a crowd. Just a few. Give thanks for them and pour into them. Now, I want to actually come to a place where I can say to you, if I give you a message for this whole week, the only message I can give for you for this whole week is just to do the small part and God will do the rest. You know what is the small part? the small part is not you going to preach on a big stage the small part is you telling one person do you know God love you that's it you don't have to do anything more only thing you say hey my brother the way I look at you God really loves you That's it. You don't have to say anything else. And the Spirit of God will make multitudes out of that one person. The Spirit of God will make multitudes out of that one person. I need you to for this week go and look at your life Name the little that you have been hiding behind you feeling it too small Just a little Hand it over back to God. Hand it over back to God. What is a business? A business is an exchange you can do for something else. If I look at the Jewish people for argument's sake, the way the Jewish people work is that nobody takes nobody else's job. Each and everyone have their own job. I am a shoemaker. That's it. I go and get my clothes from the clothes maker. And that is how you bless each other. Because you are the shoemaker, you give to the clothemaker. That's an exchange of something. And sometimes when you realize, but I have too much clothes already. I can't take more. That's where the exchange rates becomes money. Because you can't take the shoes and give it to somebody and you already have enough clothes. Now it becomes money. And that is how business is. What is it that you can trade for money? Bishop, can I tell you what I can trade for money? Me, specifically. Let me not talk about somebody else. I have teachings that when I look at that teachings, I'm like, somebody will pay a lot of money for these teachings. But yet, I don't give the teachings. I don't. Let me not even talk about the fact that for how many times I actually coached people informally Like what I mean by coaching Do you know what coaching is Coaching you have different type of coaching Let me make an example of business coaching. Do you know what business coaching is? Is whenever I say to someone. Do you remember? There's something you were talking about. The guy who had a car. and I said use that guy and ask him under your name you can run the Uber for him he pay you a fee like he didn't have paperwork to let's call it like I don't know let's call it the South African papers and all you can do is no it's fine you don't have to worry I'll arrange and I'll work the paperwork under you for a fee. It's a business idea. You get my point. Business ideas doesn't have to be extravagant. So I've been coaching people on business for a lot of times for free, just informal. I've been coaching people on relationships for free. and yet when you go out there people get charged millions for the same information that you have and already been using but yet you have not asked for a fee in the name of Jesus Amen Freely you have freely you get it, freely you give it. No more. Freely. Have you gotten it really for free? Because the amount of times you went through so much pain to teach others about that pain, I don't think you got it for free. You didn't get it for free. You got it for free, yes, but it came with pain. As a church people we always get left behind because people of churches think people of churches doesn pay We have made it literally a place of freely you give, freely you got, freely you must give. and for the same counseling sessions that you went through is the same counseling sessions people get paid a lot of money what is that little that you have today that you can use what is that little let me take this moment and ask you if there is something that you can bless and give it back to God. What is that something that you can just little, that little, small two fishes, small fish and small bread that you can give, you can bless it and give it back to God so that he can multiply it for you. If there is something and you think of it use this week and just start with small. Even if it's just that space in your house to start the church with it's enough. Amen. Heavenly Father, I want to take the time and ask you that you might please. And here I'm actually begging you, not just asking. I'm begging you. Open our eyes so that we can see those small opportunities that we have been missing. because of the fact that we we get seen as you going to provide you going to take care of us while others kept on saying yo i'm not going to do it if you can't give me 10 rand first while we say god is going to bless us let us use this time and see the places where we can have value and get paid for the value that we have given. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen and amen. Now, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit, rest and abide with us all until Jesus comes. surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever in Jesus name Amen and Amen
