Hey, we're so glad you're here with us today. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, and today we're

continuing in an inspiring series when you're hoping for a miracle. Now, in this series, Pastor Rick

is guiding us through God's Word and showing us how to strengthen our faith and live with greater love, peace, patience,

and self-control, even when life feels hopeless.

Now if you've been longing for a breakthrough, you're not going to want to miss this.

All right, now here's Rick with part one of a message called When You Feel You're Sinking.

I want us to look at a miracle that is actually recorded three times in the Bible.

Matthew records it, Mark records it, and John records it.

It is the miracle of Jesus walking on the water.

Now why did Jesus do this? Jesus never did a miracle to show off.

In fact, nobody saw this miracle except the disciples. It was only for them. And he did it

intentionally to teach them about how to trust God in tough times, in a storm, when you feel like you're sinking. Now, the background of

the miracle we're going to look at today is this. That afternoon, Jesus had done one of the greatest

miracles that had spread all over Israel. Everybody knew about this soon. And that was the feeding

of 5,000 people. Actually, it was more like 15,000 because the Bible says that a large crowd had gathered to hear Jesus.

And at the end of the day, they were hungry, and there were no McDonald's around.

And they said, anybody got any food?

And one little boy had brought a lunch, five loaves of bread and two fish.

And it says that there were 5,000 men. Now, wherever you've got

5,000 men, you've got at least 10,000 women and children. So we really should call it the feeding

of the 15,000. And Jesus miraculously breaks the bread and the fish and feeds them and

distributes it. And when it's over, the crowd is going berserk.

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