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Loaves and Fish

Matthew 14:16 (NIV)
Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat."

Give and it will be given

Luke 6:38 (NIV)
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

Immeasurably!

Ephesians 3:20 (NIV)
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

Motivation for the work ahead

1 Thessalonians 1:3 (NIV)
We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Deuteronomy 7:9 (TNIV)
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.

2 Kings 7:4

2 Kings 7:4 (TNIV)
If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”

1 Chronicles 29:10

1 Chronicles 29:10 (TNIV)
David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, Lord, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.

Psalm 37:4

Psalm 37:4 (TNIV)
Take delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Isaiah 41:8

Isaiah 41:8 (TNIV)
“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham my friend,

Jeremiah 17:5

Jeremiah 17:5 (TNIV)
This is what the Lord says: “Cursed are those who trust in mortals, who depend on flesh for their strength and whose hearts turn away from the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:30

Ezekiel 22:30 (TNIV)
“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.

John 3:20

John 3:20 (TNIV)
All those who do evil hate the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

John 17:21

John 17:21 (TNIV)
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

Romans 3:26

Romans 3:26 (TNIV)
he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Romans 4:18

Romans 4:18 (TNIV)
Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Romans 5:3

Romans 5:3 (TNIV)
Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;

Romans 6:23

Romans 6:23 (TNIV)
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31

Romans 8:31 (TNIV)
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 10:9

Romans 10:9 (TNIV)
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 16:20

Romans 16:20 (TNIV)
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

2 Corinthians 12:10

2 Corinthians 12:10 (TNIV)
That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Galatians 3:7

Galatians 3:7 (TNIV)
Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham.

1 John 1:7

1 John 1:7 (TNIV)
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.