Friday, July 6, 2007

SWEEP


SWEEP stands for Social work Exposure and Enhancement programme. It has been a great challenged & experienced that I've had. To opened up my eyes to c dat there is a GREAT NEED in the society which i chose to be ignorant and care about. Imitating Christ in His footsteps dat he had shown me thru meeting needs of the people dat is around me especially those who are havin some kind of disability.

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

14:13-21 pp—Mk 6:32-44; Lk 9:10-17; Jn 6:1-13; 14:13-21 Ref—Mt 15:32-38

When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns.
When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them f and healed their sick.
As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food."
Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat."
"We have here only five loaves h of bread and two fish," they answered.
"Bring them here to me," he said.
And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. i Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and

This passage speaks to me da most. It's a normal response from da disciples to send da crowds away because it was gettin late n da number is overwhelming. There wouldn't be enuff food for all of them. But wad was interesting was when Jesus asked the disciples to give wad they have n notice EVERYTHING! It was only 5 loaves of bread n 2 fishes but it was enough to satisfied da 5000 of them, not including da women and children2. Today, God is not asking us to give everything wad we do not hav but wad we hav. God is tellin me "U go n giv wad u hav to this people(physical, emotional or spiritual needs) n I AM goin to bless them more than wad u can imagine".


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