What Does God Say to You?

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02:27 Here we are reading chapter eight in Mark. In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat.

02:41 Jesus called his disciples unto him and said unto them, I have compassion on the multitude because they have now been with us three days and have nothing to eat.

02:54 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way, for many of them came from far.

03:02 So we know that these people came to see Jesus speak. They definitely came with a backpack filled with stuff to eat and something to drink.

03:19 But I don't think they realized how much they were gonna love what he had to say and that they were just going to stay put.

03:29 So most people, I'm sure, did not have more than three days worth of food. And they came from far, you know, this was a long time ago.

03:39 So it was like there weren’t restaurants on the way, and it was very hot where they were. So Jesus was concerned, they're gonna leave now and some of them are gonna be way too weak to keep going.

03:53 So the disciples answered him, can a man satisfy these men with bred here in the wilderness? I mean, have you ever had like six people stop by the house to say, “Hey, how are you?”

04:06 “Here's me, my wife and my six kids we're gonna come in and say hi.” Like we would panic. What? And we'd be like, oh my God, I don't have enough to feed these eight people.

04:16 Well, this is 5,000 men. I believe this is the one that it says.

04:27 And if that's the case, then that didn't count the women and children.

04:33 Because when you read the gospels, you think it's the same story, but it's not. He did this twice. He or he might have done it way more than twice.

04:43 It's documented in The Word, two separate times that this happened where he fed people with fish and bread, okay? His disciples answered him can a man satisfy these men with bread, hence, and the wilderness, what, what do we even have?

05:03 And he asked them, how many loaves have you? And they said seven. And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground.

05:13 And he took the seven loaves and he gave thanks and he break and gave it to his disciples. And he set before them, and they did set them before the people and they had a few small fish and he blessed and commanded to set them also before them.

05:35 So they did eat and were filled and they took up the broken meat that was left. Seven baskets. God is a God of abundance.

05:46 You know how sometimes we feel like, oh, I can't do that. That's wasteful. God didn't just give them enough. God gave them more than enough.

05:59 And they then had eaten. There were about 4,000. And he sent them away and straight away he entered into a ship with his disciples and came into the parts of

06:13 So this is this one specific time. It says there were about 4,000. If it would've been 4,000 men, it would've said 4,000 men.

06:26 That it, this was literally about 4,000 people. And now think of this too, like really be in the moment here, be there with them.

06:37 4,000 people showed up by foot, camel, and mule, & walked, God knows how long and where in the wilderness it says, so there are all of these people there to hear Jesus.

07:00 It had to be just the most surreal experience. And then it's time to go. They had me thinking too, what are we gonna do?
07:13 Like we definitely didn't bring the food. What, what are we going to do? I never dreamed that I would be here for three full days.

07:23 This is craziness. And then suddenly they hear the disciples saying to them, I guess at the apostle saying to them, okay, listen, you guys sit down on the ground and we are going to give you something to eat before you take off.

07:39 They had to be like, what? Like, think about it, right? And then suddenly Jesus breaks the bread, blesses the fish, and it multiplies before their eyes.

07:53 They just keep pulling it out. It just keeps replenishing over and over again. It had to be nuts. Now you figured that even though the apostles and the disciples, those that followed him, even though they had seen incredible miracles, they still were just body and soul.

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00:01 Hey, this is Kathy Roberts, and you are listening to the What Does God say to You, podcast. God put this on my heart to do, and so I'm doing it imperfectly, but consistently, I believe that there is so much more to the Bible and to what God has in store for us than we are walking around and acting like. I believe that churches have really let us down, and that there are so many people that do not know the power of God, the love of God, and the freedom and abundance that we have in Jesus.

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00:47 I thank you in advance. Now on with the podcast. Okay, so here we go. Peter walked on the water. They were, they were out hanging out somewhere.

00:57 Jesus was teaching people and whatnot. And in verse 22 of,chapter 14 of Matthew, it says, “and straight away Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitude away.”

01:18 So he was with the multitude. He sent them away and he told the disciples, you go take off while I go and do this.

01:28 and he said, “when he had sent the multitude away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray.”

01:36 “And when the evening was come, he was there alone, but the ship was now in the midst of the sea and tossed.”
01:45 So there was a big multitude. Jesus was ministering to these people. He told the apostles, you get on a boat, you take off, I'll meet you.

01:55 So he sent the multitude away, and then he went to recharge and to be with God. And so now it says that “the ship was now in the midst of the sea that the apostles were on and tossed with waves for the wind was contrary.”

02:13 So it was very, very windy. It must have been hurricane territory, hurricane situation going on. And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went onto them walking on the sea.

02:26 So now it's late and there's a storm going on. There's wind, there's waves, there's rain, and it doesn't affect Jesus.

02:38 He's walking on the water, going to them, the surroundings do not affect him. He's our example. “And when the disciples saw him walking on the seat, they were troubled saying it is a spirit, and they cried out for fear.”

02:55 So this is what the apostles did because now you know, they're scared for their lives to begin with. And now there's a storm and there's this, this storm that's going on, and here comes this.

03:08 What they think is a spirit, a ghost, something. They're really freaked out walking on the water and they cried out for fear.

03:18 And straight away, like right away, immediately “straight away, Jesus spoke unto them saying, be a good cheer,” be happy. “It is I be not afraid.”

03:32 He just wanted to let them know, don't be afraid. It's me. “And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be you, bid me to come out on the water.”

03:47 Like what a big, bold step this was. He, immediately did drop the fear, obviously, and he wanted to do what Jesus did.

03:58 “And then Jesus said, come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.”

04:10 He did it. Peter did it. He walked on the water to go to Jesus. But then what happened next? Peters took his eyes off of Jesus and put it on what he saw around him.

04:23 He must have suddenly been in a place thinking, wait, what the hell am I doing? Like, you know, in the moment when he saw Jesus walking on the water, he elevated himself to a place that's like, holy crow, what is possible?

04:37 What is possible? And he was elated with it. Then he actually did it, and his mind got in the way.

04:45 His thoughts started coming in. And instead of him casting the thoughts out, he embraced them. “But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid.”

04:58 So he saw what was around. He was like, wait a minute. Look at what's going on. Like, you could walk on the water when it's not boisterous?
05:05 Oh, if it was really nice out today, this would be fine. I'd be able to walk on the water. Right?
05:11 Doesn't make sense. But when he saw fear, fear never makes sense. When he walked, when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid and beginning to sink.
05:24 So, you know, do you ever begin to sink being on the water? If you get in the water, what do you do?

05:29 You immediately go down. Right? Do you ever just slowly go down? But that's what was happening here, because it was to the level of his belief that was keeping him where he was so much to learn.

05:42 Here, when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid. And beginning to sink, he cried saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him.

06:01 Can you just picture ...

We're going to read Ephesians. It's really a beautiful book.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, who at two to the saints, which are at the thesis and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

So that, so it's written to us, and it's written to the church of Emphasis Grace be to you and peace from God, our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Whenever I read that, it's so, so comforting to me.

We could gloss over it, but really what it is, it's like if you were with your mother and father and you were on the phone with your sister, you'd say, “Mommy and daddy said hi.”

That's what this is:

Grace be to you. And peace from God, our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with many spiritual blessings in heavenly places.

So we are blessed with many spiritual blessings in heavenly places. If we aren't living that way, we're missing something.

According as he has chosen us in him... He's chosen us.

He's chosen us in Him before the foundations of the world.

Before the world was even made, He chose you before the foundations of the world.

That we should be holy and without blame before Him in love

We should be holly without blame. Without blame.

So that's a big deal. Do you know how many times we put ourselves down?

Well, according to God, we're without blame before him in love.

Having predestinated us.

So he Predestinated us. He in his foreknowledge put us somewhere.

He predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will.

This what we are his, according to his good pleasure.

We're talking about God. To the praise of the glory of His grace, we are in.

He has made us acceptable in the beloved. We are acceptable in the beloved, in His family. We're acceptable.

He made us that way in whom we have redemption.

Redemption! Redemption means you've been brought back, redeemed, brought with a price.

You are probably too young to know about S and H Green stamps.

You would go to certain grocery stores and certain gas stations and they would give you these green stamps and these books, and you would take these stamps, and depending on how much you purchased when you were at the store or the gas station, you would get a sheet of stamps and you would take these stamps ad to add them to the book.

Well, at a certain point, whenever you got enough, you could redeem that book for certain things.

If you had a little bit, you can get, I don't know, some groceries or something.

If you had a lot, you can get a tv, you can get a radio, you could get a knife set.

See you redeemed them. You'd say, Okay, here's this. I'm giving it to you. Now you give me that.

And that's what we've been, we've been redeemed. Jesus said, Okay, I gave my life. Now you give me that (us)

Who have we been redeemed from? From the devil. Because He's the God of this world.

Until Jesus came to buy us back, God had to put his spirit on us.

Now we can be children of God. We've been redeemed. We've been bought back. We are his!
In whom we have redemption through his blood. The forgiveness of sins.

Forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace

Do you remember when Jesus was walking on this earth and he would say to somebody, who needed healing, rise up and walk and sin No more. Your, sins are forgiven.

Well, that was blasphemous back then because only God could forgive sins. They used to have to do things that would cover sins for the year.

Every year they had to do a ritual and, and have their sins covered. But they weren't gone. Jesus came and now our sins are gone.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace, wherein he has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence.

With all wisdom and prudence having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed in himself.
So this is all because He wanted to. That's it. That in the dispensation of the fullness of times.

That means after time had gone by and certain things were fulfilled and the dispensation of the fullness of times...

He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in earth, even in Him in whom also we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things after the council of his own will.

So this is all according to God, God made this happen and all of that, we should be to the praise of His glory.

Who first trusted in Christ. God, first trusted in Christ, in whom you also trusted.

Because we're born again, we've decided, I'm going to believe in the Son of God.

I'm gonna b...

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Now, this verse is Psalm 1, 18, 24. And it's, This is the day the Lord, which the Lord has made.

We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Now, just so you know, I always use the King James version. So if you're used to the new international version or anything else, then it might sound a little bit different to you.

So this verse is something that actually I have a little song for. I taught my kids this when they were growing up so that we could learn the scriptures.

I used to teach children's church, and this was one of the songs. So it goes like this If you wanna learn this verse because it's really good to put the word in your heart because then it manifests out in your life. The Biblse says “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” So, we wanna always have the word in our minds, in our ears, and in our eyes.

And to do that, we meditate on it, but we have to know it to meditate, right? So this is a great verse for that.

This is not the lesson for today or, the topic for today. Ready? (Then I sing the verse)
Now, the reason I did that was because I really feel like that if today is difficult for you, because it is Valentine's Day, and if you're listening to this in a replay and it's another day in, in your life, and you know, maybe it's a different holiday or you could just reflect on this when it is a holiday that comes up, that if you start to feel bad because things aren't as they should be, you know, “He should have given me this!” or “They should have cared about that!” “I should have gotten this.” And we kind of feel sorry for ourselves because we have this perception of the way things are supposed to be.

Then we can bring this verse in and we could just say, “This is the day that the Lord is made.

I will rejoice and be glad in it.”

There's no reason that we need to stay in a place that's not good just because of what we think things should be.

Now I'm gonna move on with the verses, but I'm definitely gonna share from my heart about something that I learned through Alanon.

Alanon is a group, there's Alcoholics Anonymous, that's AA and then there's Alanon. Alcoholics Anonymous for the people who are alcoholics. They have an addiction problem to alcohol.

And then Alanon is for people who have been affected by the person who had an addiction. It turns out we are sicker than they are.

So, one of the things I learned in there, which I'll talk about a little bit later, is a Plan B.

So it really, it revolutionized my life. And I'll go on a little bit more about how I always, only went to the church for help.

I always went to the church and to the bible, to the church, and to the Bible, and I never went outside of that.

And it wasn't until I listened to that voice in my heart. You know, the Bible says that Jesus is the healer. That's what it says. Jesus is the healer, right? It talks about laying hands on people, and praying for people that they'll get well, right?

But does that mean we don't go to the doctor? Like if you have a heart attack, if you're having heart pains, if you're having some kind of issue, don't you run to the emergency room?

Are we not using our faith because we have a physical problem and we're not going to God? This is the thing, okay?

Bring Jesus with you. Yes, you're gonna run to the hospital and it's a really good idea to bring Jesus with you.

You're not doing one or the other, you're doing both. So for so many years, I refused any help that was outside of going to a pastor or somebody where I could get counseling and the Bible.

I would dig into the Bible and ignore everything else. It seems like the church are very willing to go anywhere for physical health, but nowhere else. Not for mental health and that's messed up because there are people that God put out there that are specialists, right?

You're not gonna run to the orthodontist when you have a heart attack, right? There's a specialist for that.

Whatever specialists there are. Years and years ago, this was probably the first year I was married. I saw a television commercial and the commercial was an Allon commercial.

And it was a woman who was sitting at a table. They did it in black and white. It was very good. it was done very well.

She was sitting at a table, she had coffee. It was a depressing kind of look to the commercial. There was a man in the background who was coming in and going out, of the shot.

And you could see there was yelling, she was distressed. She said nothing. And then you saw him dash out.

And then, she just put her head down in her hands. And the caption was, “You can see what the alcoholism is doing to him, but can you see what it's doing to you?”

God needed me to see that because this is 40 ...

So we're reading about Blind-Bartimaeus

He was a beggar that sat on the side of the road and begged.

At that time people with disabilities used to do that and they had garments that they wore to show that they were beggars.

We are reading Mark chapter 10, verse 46.and we're gonna read down to verse 52, Which is the end of the chapter.

And they came to Jericho and he went out of Jericho. So they (Jesus and his disciples)they came to Jericho and as he went out of Jericho, he (meaning Jesus) with his disciples.

So we know that it was more than just his 12 apostles and a great number of people.

The son of Tim Timus was sitting on the side of the highway begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth...

So what does this mean? This means that blind Bartimaeus, (this is what they called him). They didn't just call him Bartimaeus. They called him Blind Bartimaeus.

That was his 100% identity Blind Bartimaeus. So, he obviously heard of Jesus because it says when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazarus. So you know, that he heard of the miracles that Jesus had done, you know, that he had to have been thinking if only he can come by me if only I could get by him!
When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, Jesus, that son of David have mercy on me!

So it says he began to cry out. Doesn't say that he just started saying,”Jesus have mercy on me!” “He cried out, have mercy on me!” and when he heard that it was Jesus. He so said, “Jesus son of David mercy on me!”

Verse 48, and many charged him that he should hold his peace.

In other words, they said, shut up Blind Bartimaeus, Jesus doesn’t wanna bother with you. They were telling him to shut up! Shut up! Many, not just a few told him this, but many.

Now, what would you do if you were in a situation where you needed something, you were calling out for it, you know, there's all lots of things that come to our mind.

Lots of unworthy, lots of who do I think I am, lots of, what do you think you're doing? And then you have other people saying “Shut up!” right?

They charged him that he should hold his piece, but he cried the more, what did he do? He cried the more!

It didn’t slow him down. It made him even go get louder.

“And he cried the more, a great deal. Thou son of David have mercy on me!”

So now he's saying, I know who you are. I know who you are. You are the son of David. You are the one that we've been waiting for. You have been prophesied as to coming! And then what happened?

“Jesus stood still. Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called.”

Get that guy.

“And they called the blind man saying unto, unto him. (Now, all of a sudden, the people that were saying shut up, Bartimaeus shut up!. Now they're saying, “Be of good comfort. He's calling for you.”

You know, they changed their tune quickly, and he Blind Bartimaeus casting away his garments.

What does that show that showed that he was walking away in faith.

He believed he had his answer already. Was he still blind? Yes. What did he do? He took off the garments.

The garments were his begging clothes. The garments were the items of clothing that people wore to identify themselves as a beggar.

He cast them off. He took them off. Jesus, God says that. We need to believe before we receive. So here we go. Call things that be not as though they are, that's in somewhere. I forget where it is. Hebrews maybe.

“And Jesus was still and commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man saying unto him, be of good comfort. He calls for thee, and he, he cast away his garments rose, and came to Jesus. Jesus answered and said to him, what will thou that I should do unto the?”

Now don't you think that's kind of funny because here it is, Jesus seeing this blind, man, what do you think you want to be done? Well, there are lots of principles here asking you'll receive, right? That's one of them.

Plus you need to stand out and step up in the faith. He needed to say it.

There's another verse, I think right after this, where we could see that Jesus said in verse 23 of 11, “for verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be there removed to be thou cast of the sea and not down in nine heart, but shall believe that those things that you say will come to pass, you will have whatsoever you say. He was requiringBlind Bartimaeus to say, what he wanted.

“What that I should do unto thee, the blind man said unto, unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.”

“And Jesus said, unto him go thy way. Thy faith has made the whole, and immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the way.
Now there was another time when Jesus, healed a blind man. He didn't get the deliverance immediately.

For that man, Jesus spits on mud and made clay and put that on the man’s...