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🗓️ 9 January 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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In this inspiring message, Lead Pastor Erwin McManus challenges us to see our capacity with new eyes. Many of us struggle with feeling as though we’ve been shortchanged with the set of talents we’ve been given and it may seem as though we don’t have what it takes to create the life we desire. But Pastor Erwin proposes a different perspective. Is it possible that what we have in our hands is exactly what God wants to use to expand our capacity?
In Matthew chapter 15, Jesus and his disciples are surrounded by thousands of hungry people with no way to feed them. After the disciples suggest that the crowd should be turned away, Jesus instead invites the disciples into a moment where their capacity is expanded and their perspective shifts. Jesus asks the disciples to gather the food the crowd does have, and after Jesus prays, the disciples are left with more than enough provision to feed the entire crowd.
In this story, Jesus clearly showed the disciples that they had all of the resources they needed. Pastor Erwin challenges us by asking how often we push away the resources that God wants to use in our lives because we don’t believe they’re enough. Pastor Erwin encourages us to expand our capacity by utilizing the gifts we do have in partnership with Jesus. When we give God what is in our hands, it always turns out to be enough. If you have been focusing on what you lack instead of the abundance you have been given, this message will encourage you to see that what you have in your hands is always enough for God!
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, I want to welcome you to the Mosaic podcast. |
0:11.8 | I'm Pastor Erwin, I'm Phil McManus, and I just wanted to thank you for listening. |
0:15.5 | In case you didn't know, I just released a new book, it's called The Genius of Jesus, |
0:19.7 | The Man Who Changed Everything, and you can order it today at TheGeniusOfJesus.com. |
0:25.8 | Because we dive into a new year, it's always, I think for me, the sense of opportunity. |
0:34.6 | That's why I like transitions. |
0:36.8 | I like those moments where I can put the things in the past that I really want in the past, |
0:41.4 | and begin to create a future that I always wanted to be my present, but wasn't quite there |
0:45.6 | yet. |
0:47.6 | And I feel like sometimes I've been given a curse. |
0:52.5 | I have bigger dreams than I have a bigger me. |
0:54.7 | How about you? |
0:56.7 | I feel like sometimes the match between my aspirations and my talent were not considered |
1:02.7 | ahead of time. |
1:04.5 | You ever feel like you're trying to cash in a dollar check, but all you have is $0.38 |
1:08.9 | in the bank, and you're like, I'm just trying to figure out how to make up the difference. |
1:12.5 | I think it's one of the reasons we come to moments like this. |
1:14.8 | I know we're supposed to be searching for God, but I don't know if we're actually searching |
1:19.5 | for God, I think we're searching for us. |
1:22.1 | They were trying to figure out our lives, figure out ourselves, and whether it's in a context |
1:28.4 | like church or whether it's in a business environment, whether you're reading a book or inspired |
1:34.6 | by a film, I think all of us have the sense that we've been in short change, that there's |
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