This is “The Blessing is in the Breaking.” When Jesus broke the bread, he was multiplying the miracle. Many times our breakthrough will come out of our brokenness. In this message we see how God uses what we have and what we’ve been through to deliver the miracle we’ve been waiting on.
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whenever hurricane Harvey finally
stopped raining on Houston and we saw
all the devastation I asked God how in
the world are we going to be able to
help all these people who have been
devastated it was about that time that
my phone rang and I looked and it was
pastor Jentezen Franklin he told me free
chapel is stepping up I’m stepping up
and we’ve got your back
pastor Jensen’s always been one of my
favorite preachers but the best sermon
I’ve ever heard him preach was in a
phone call when he simply said we’ve got
your back I’m standing right now in our
humble campus foyer and behind me here
as well as at our other three campuses
we’re running a 24/7 Resource Center for
families in the area who are devastated
and need basic supplies to make it
through another day your generosity is
making this thing happen you know when
the storm hit we jumped into action just
to do whatever we could do now we’re in
the recovery phase we’re cleaning out
houses it’s messy it’s dirty it stinks
but it’s got to be done helps coming
from all over the nation work crews
coming in we’re a warehousing Center
literally we’ve got over 60,000 square
feet of warehouse and as quick as trucks
come in from all over the nation we’re
unloading them and on the other end
we’re loading up a truck and sending
hope out to someone in need the local
church is the hope of the world if we
save a pastor save a church we can save
the community so I thank you for your
prayer I thank you for going above
prayer in your generosity
god bless you richly for what you’ve
done
for Texas when you give to rescue and
bring relief and restoration to
hurricane victims you can be confident
that your gift will be sewn directly
into the lives of hurting people with
your gift of any amount this month you
may request Jenson Franklin’s powerful
audio teaching make room for a miracle
in with your generous gift of $45 or
more you may request the finding your
way in the store
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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 5,000
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 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 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
Ben gives a strange command when they
bring the boys food jesus said to them
separate into groups of 15 now this is
gonna take a while
you’ve got five thousand men plus women
plus children a minimum of fifteen
twenty thousand people you got to count
out fifty people separate them put them
over here in a small group and then do
another in a small group and then
another and in 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 in James
you’ve 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 gonna 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 meant many times we’re saying God
blessed me with more and we’re miss miss
handling what we have God doesn’t God
doesn’t give you more according to what
you asked 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 push the children
it’s not enough but he’s giving thanks
for what isn’t 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
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 to 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 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’ll ask you a question
have you thanked the Lord for every time
he broke you every time he snapped you
every time he puts 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 curse 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 in 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 didn’t calm until
it got broke didn’t multiply didn’t
increase until it got broken the very
thing you’re cursing is the very thing
God’s gonna use to multiply and bless
your life he fed the multitude through
the breaking process Jesus does not feed
the multitude directly he breaks it and
gives it to his disciples his friends
and he says you go feed him 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 it’s
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 I’m getting they’ll say things
like this I don’t know why
doing this hallelujah
now here’s a big point about this little
lesson he God is a good shelf and he
he’s very good at math he has a book in
the Bible called numbers if he wanted to
he could have just supplied exactly
enough meal for the 5000 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 cheapo el shaddoll means
in Hebrew more than enough a God whose
name is more than enough will never stop
at enough David said my cup runneth 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 over flood
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
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 into 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
fall 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 when I’m about to share
with you and the Bible said when they
immediately after gathering those
fragments and putting them in twelve
baskets
Jesus constrained them right after a
miracle to get in the boat without him
and go to the other side constrain 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 them right
in the path I’m telling you today that
if you’re going through a storm you’re
in that storm by the
on instructions and God does not intend
for you to go down he did 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
with 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 moved before everybody give God
a praise for just a moment hallelu
halleloo
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 in the
loaves he’s saying why didn’t you
I had you loaded down with twelve
baskets so while you were fighting the
storm you would be reminded God is
faithful God can do it God can make away
and I’m saying to every one of you you
need to what is that on your coat 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’ve got a financial crisis well let
me give you a newsflash 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 God’s you can get it all back
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 gonna 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 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 is not giving you
the spirit of fear but of power and of
love and of a sound mind and he 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
great is thy faithfulness great is not
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
it
bound every eye closed at every campus I
know I know there are people going
through storms the very thing you’re
going through could be the very thing
that Jesus comes walking on top of to
rescue you and he knew you would be
facing this storm right now and he
brought you here today to hear this
message to let you know there’s a peace
speaker a wave Walker this waiting for
you to cry out and if you’ll cry out
he’ll come and get on your boat you’re
not gonna go under you’re going over to
the other side because of Jesus and this
is your day if you’re here today and you
would say pastor I don’t know that I’m
right with God and I want to get right
with God today I’m in the storm of my
life category five I don’t know what in
the world I’m going to do the truth is
most of us had it been sunshiny days
would have never found Jesus the truth
is most of the time if God’s allowing a
storm is so you can encounter Jesus in a
life-changing way this is your day the
blessing is in the breaking you’ve been
broken and that’s the very thing God
will use to bring the blessing
pastor pray for me I’m not right with
God I want to get right with God pray
for me if that’s you boldly raise your
hand right where you’re standing I want
to see it all over this room raise it
high and unashamed bless you raise it
high and unashamed something will break
off of you the moment you say Jesus help
me the Bible city would have passed them
by but somebody cried out and he got on
their boat he will pass you by if you
don’t cry out this is your cry out when
you throw that Hannah you’re saying help
me help me God sees you as of great
value so much so that he hung on a cross
for you just like you are not when you
get it together he loves you now let’s
pray this prayer everybody say these
words out loud at every campus Lord
Jesus I confess with my mouth Jesus
Christ is the way the truth and the life
he died on a cross carry my sins in his
physical body he bled and died and rose
on the third day he conquered death he
conquered sin he conquered demons he
conquered Satan’s power and I am free I
am delivered I am a child of God
down and overcomer the storm will not
kill me the storm is what Jesus is going
to use to come to me and I receive him
say it I receive him as my Lord and
Savior from this day forward
Jesus is in my boat I will make it I can
take it I’m not going under I’m going
over in Jesus mighty name let the church
rejoice I know today that there are many
who are facing storms in their life
where you just feel hopeless and you
feel like tearing the garment but I want
to preach to people today a message of
hope and I think I have I want to say
thank you for helping us be a blessing
to people in Houston and the whole Gulf
Coast we’re sewing tens of thousands of
dollars we’re believing God for hundreds
of thousands that we can pour two
ministries on the ground ministers and
pastors and churches that are sheltering
hundreds of people that are feeding them
on a daily basis that are reaching out
in love and compassion and making a
difference they just need resources and
so you know us you trust us we give
everything we say we give to who we say
we give it to and when you give to this
cause we’re going to make sure that
every penny that you sin is going right
back out to minister to the needs of so
many hurting people so we decided to
partner with many ministries and we’ve
been through the rescue phase now we’re
into the relief phase and ultimately we
want to go to the restoration phase of
seeing homes rebuilt seeing churches
rebuilding who’s going to rebuild
hundreds of churches many of them
smaller churches of maybe a hundred or
200 people they matter just as much as a
big mega church they need financial help
I promise you that if you help us we’re
going to funnel that money into the
hands of real people in those
communities who have
who will pastor the people and reach the
people and rebuild these churches and
these lives thank you so much
remember to pray pray and do what you
can do to make a difference for hurting
people Lord we pray today for our nation
we pray today for those who are still
their lives are so disrupted and in
disarray but you see them you know where
they are they don’t have to tear their
garment you you’ve got people who are
going to help them and we believe that
we’re part of that people in Jesus
mighty name I want you to help me help
them we’ll do it together thank you when
you give to rescue and bring relief and
restoration to hurricane victims you can
be confident that your gift will be sewn
directly into the lives of hurting
people with your gift of any amount this
month you may request Jenson Franklin’s
powerful audio teaching make room for a
miracle and with your generous gift of
$45 or more you may request the finding
your way in the storm set featuring two
encouraging messages and a study guide
that will help you as you walk through
the storms of life visit us online at
Jenson Franklin TV
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