Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair. As a kid growing up in Sunday school I was very

familiar with a section of Mark 6. You see Mark 6 holds the only miracle to be recorded in all four Gospels, that is the feeding of the 5,000.

This miracle was a great Sunday school story.

Jesus takes a small amount of food, multiplies it, and feeds a whole

lot of people in need. The takeaway? God will provide for you when you need it, even if you

can't see away. It sounds great, all tied up nice and neat with a bow on top.

Except what happens when he doesn't do that? When you need money for rent and you have no idea

where it will come from and you pray about it and it still never comes

when you need God to provide a miracle to heal you of your chronic illness, and no matter how hard you ask, you still face day after day of pain.

You ask God to provide reconciliation and a relationship remains broken.

You ask God to provide food on the table and your family continues to go hungry.

You ask him to provide you family and you continue to face singleness or infertility.

Does it mean that God isn't really a provider?

Does it mean he isn't as powerful as you thought?

Does it mean you just don't have enough faith

for the miracle to happen in your life?

Here's the thing, some people might answer yes to that last question, but I believe

that those people are greatly misunderstanding the point of the miracles in the Gospels.

You see, Jesus performed miracles to show us that he's the divine Messiah and to show his

people what his coming kingdom will look like.

And so while God may answer your prayers miraculously,

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