What You Have is Enough

What is in your hands is enough to be multiplied.

Matthew chapter 15 tells us how Jesus fed four thousand men with just seven loaves and a few small fish (Matthew 15:34).

Despite all the miracles Jesus had done in front of his disciples, they still didn’t grasp the full measure of Jesus’ power. The crowd needed to be fed but rather than the disciples presenting to Jesus what was available for use, they asked him, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?” (Matthew 15:33).

Many of us today are like the disciples when Jesus says He will bless us in a specific area. But because of what we see, rather than presenting what we have in our hands and trusting him to multiply it, we begin to question, saying “Where in the world am I going to find enough money, strength etc to feed the things you want me to do?” (Just as the disciples questioned in Matthew 15:33).

And just as Jesus asked the disciples in Matthew 15:34 “How many loaves do you have?” He is also asking us today “What’s in your hands?”. He is also saying to us “Give me what you have and I will multiply it”. He is asking us today “What do you have that I can bless?”.

Another revelation that came from reading this passage (Matthew 15:32-38) is that a lot of us keep waiting on God to bless us with something extraordinary and something amazing. While our God can do much more than this, the majority of the time, the blessing and the overflow will come out of the gift and out of what He has placed in our hands.

We can never be fulfilled when we try to feed off someone else’s blessings. It is what is in our hands that will be multiplied.

The issue sometimes is that we tend to ignore and neglect what God has placed in our hands and pursue something else that was destined for us to begin with. We will never be satisfied when we seek what God has not put in our hands.

God can multiply what is in our hands. We first need to recognise it as valuable and useful for the glory of God. Because just as the seven loaves and small fish were valuable and useful in feeding four thousand men besides women and children, what is in our hands is also enough for God to use, it is enough for him to multiply and for it to produce an overflow of blessings for us.

Stop looking in someone’s else hands and wishing you had what they have and hoping that one day you will work extremely hard to get what’s in their hands. No, look at what’s in your hands. Look at what God has placed in your hands and really recognise and acknowledge it.

Once you have recognised and accepted what has been placed in your hands is for a reason, then lift it up to God and give thanks. Doing this and giving thanks to God for what is in your hands, multiplication will come.

In conclusion, God has placed something in each of his children’s hands. Now our role is to;

• Recognize it
• Acknowledge it
• Give thanks for it
• Use it to God’s glory.

Jesus followed these steps according to the revelation given in Matthew 15:33-38. Apply this principle and watch how you will flow in the overflow.