I just returned from serving those in need after Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, and I want you to know: we serve a miracle-working God!

The ministry I was serving with was preparing seven thousand meals per day. One day, we were almost out of bread. A volunteer said, “I am going to drive an hour away and buy all of the bread that I can find.” I said, “No, let’s just see; God will send us bread.”

I asked Heidi, another volunteer, to go to the warehouse where supplies were being delivered and see if anyone donated bread. Heidi told me later that night that she found one loaf of bread.  As she walked the distance from the warehouse to the dining hall, she held that loaf of bread and asked God to multiply it. An hour went by and my cousin–who lives a few hours away–walked up a hill, and guess what she was carrying? You guessed it, as many loaves of bread that she could carry! A while later, someone came in with two loaves, and then someone else with another loaf. Thirty minutes later, someone drove up with cases of bread. Then another person with even more cases of bread. About 20 minutes later, a couple walked up with cases of bread; then another man drove up with a truck full of bread. Each time bread came into the dining hall, everyone cheered and gave God the glory.

Just as we were about to start making plates for supper, a man came in with another truckload of bread. We could not stop cheering as we were running out of places to put the bread. The guys bringing in the food (who cook at disasters all over the country) said, “we have never been to a site where there has been so much bread.”

The God who performed the miracles that we read about in the Bible is the same God that we worship today. I want to encourage you today and remind you that God sees you and He hears you. The Bread of Life gave us bread, and more bread than we needed. What is it that you need today? Ask God. He already knows and is waiting for you to ask Him.

James 4:2: “You have not because you ask not.”

 

By Shannon Easley. wife of Pastor Willis at Christ’s Community Church