Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are picking up with day four of our

the miracles of Jesus' devotion on the Bible app. There's a link to that in the description of

the podcast if you guys want to fall along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture

then Tori is going to pick it with the divo. Let's do it. The scripture is Matthew chapter 14

verses 15 through 18 and it says this. That evening the disciples came to him and said this is a

remote place and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away so that they can go to the villages

and buy food for themselves. But Jesus said that isn't necessary. You feed them. But we only have

five loaves of bread and two fish they answered. Bring them here he said. The devotional is titled

feeding the five thousand and it says this is one of the most famous miracles that Jesus performed

so much so that it's recorded in all four gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Before we dive into

it we need to understand what had just occurred that broke the heart of Jesus. John the Baptist a

cousin of Jesus and the one who prepared the way for him had just been killed. Once Jesus heard

this sad news he withdrew by himself but in typical fashion the crowds heard that he was near

so they followed him. Even in the midst of his own grief Jesus had compassion on these who came

to see him and healed the sick among them. Matthew tells us that the crowds stuck around for most of

the day. So the disciples came to Jesus and suggested that he, quote, send the crowds away

so they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves. Instead he told the disciples to give them

food but they claimed to have very little only five loaves of bread and two fish. The people were

brought to Jesus and then he blessed this small food offering. He gave the twelve disciples some

food to pass out. We read that the people got more than just one helping. They ate as much as

they wanted and the most profound part is that there was still some leftover. What started out as

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