GOD USES UNEXPECTED SOURCES

Matthew 17:27 NLT … so go down to the lake and throw in a line. Open the mouth of the first fish you catch, and you will find a large silver coin. Take it and pay the tax for both of us.”

We all know God thinks and does things on a higher plane than we do. How amazing it is that He has now placed us in the higher realm as well, seated in Christ beside Him at His throne, where all things are possible, and made His wisdom and abilities available to us too, through His Holy Spirit. Just think about that for a minute. It’s mind stretching but true!😊

Even though we know God says that, we sometimes sit down in a puddle of doubts or fears because we forget we’re seated with Him. Instead our eyes are on the things around us and not on who we are, and where we are with Jesus, with the enemy beneath our feet. The revelation of that truth will give us an ‘all things are possible’ mindset, a hope mindset.😊

Jesus and Peter had a tax bill due which neither of them had the money to pay for, but He didn’t say, “What can we do?” No, He listened to His Father’s instructions, and He told Peter to do something totally ‘out there”! -  to go fishing, because the first fish he caught would have enough money in it’s mouth to pay the tax bill for both of them! Can you hear what some of us would have said, “Yeah, right!” and rolled our eyes?

So can we all go fishing? Yes, in the sense that whatever it is Jesus tells us to do, no matter how ‘out there’, just go and do it! Jesus told Peter He was supplying their need from an unexpected source - a fish! Some of us would not have gone because we didn’t believe it was possible, but Peter knew to just obey the last instruction and all would be well. 

God can use an unexpected, unlikely source to help us too! He has ways far above ours, but He wants us to work with Him even if it is unexpected.😊

Has the Lord told you to do something that seems a bit strange, or to go somewhere, or asked you to believe that if you’ll do a certain thing, you’ll get a certain result? Whatever it is, can I encourage us all to just do it and obey His instruction. Believe that if Jesus can use one fish to supply Peter’s needs, don’t discount anything as impossible to supply your needs too. In Jesus name. Amen.

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