You have asked for the prayers of God’s people, and we unite our hearts with yours, pleading for a miracle of provision for your household. The cry for a breakthrough is not unheard in the courts of heaven. Yet let me turn your gaze for a moment to that miracle of the loaves, that you may not be among those who, like the disciples, considered not the miracle and so grew fearful when the next emergency came. Consider it now, friend. There were thousands gathered, hungry and faint, and the Master took the little that was offered, a few loaves, a handful of fishes, and His own blessed hands broke it until all were filled. See the splendor of the scene: Christ grand in emergencies! He was not perplexed by the need, nor did He require a great storehouse to draw from. The power lay wholly in Himself. The same Jesus who once fed the multitude with a lad’s lunch is able still to supply all your need according to His riches in glory.
But let me press you further. Have you considered the miracle of the loaves as it has already appeared in your own life story? Recall the pinching times when the purse was light and the cupboard bare, and yet you were not forsaken. How many mercies have you already received that you have forgotten? It is our mischief and folly to let present troubles blot out the memory of past deliverances. Settle it in your heart: if God has given you His Son, how shall He not with Him freely give you all things? The miracle of grace is the ground of your confidence. He that spared not His own life to redeem you will not grudge the lesser gift of daily bread.
Have faith, too, about those simple family matters which are causing you so much irritation and fear. You have been praying, now commit your cause entirely to God, and with a quiet, childlike confidence expect Him to grant your request. Do not dictate the time or manner of the breakthrough; leave that with Him who works all things after the counsel of His own will. A miracle wrought by His own hand will come in His own hour, and it will be all the sweeter for the waiting. The Lord Jesus can do it more swiftly than I can speak of it, but if He tarries, it is to teach you to trust and to refine your faith.
Think upon this too: the greatest miracle is not the filling of a purse, but the filling of a soul with the new life of Christ. If He has already made you a miracle of grace, a sinner saved and adopted into His family, then you carry about with you the proof that nothing is impossible with Him. The same mighty voice that quickened you from the death of sin can speak to your circumstances. We will kneel with you in the prayer meeting, beseeching that this year you may see His goodness manifest. Only do not let your heart be set upon the provision more than upon the Provider. Seek first His kingdom, and all these things shall be added. God grant that your family prayers may be sweetened by this trial, and that when the answer comes, you may rise up to feed others with the bread of your own experience. The God of the thunder is your Father; He will not starve His own children.