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John 6:10

  Praise the Lord today's verse is from John 6 verse 10  Jesus said have the people sit down now there was much grass in the place, so the man sat down about 5000 in number.  The three solution the disciples gave did not solve the problem. They could not feed the hungry people, but Jesus comes with the fourth solution. 
As the first step through the solution, Jesus asked the people to sit down, as the good shepherd, Jesus made the sheep to sit down in green pastures. We read in Psalms 23:1, 2 The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 
He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me besides still waters, according to Mark 6:40, the people were seated in groups of 50 and 100.. This made the crowd easy to count, and food easy to distribute. 
This arrangement prevented confusion, and made things orderly in such a big crowd, if this is very important. There were more than 5,000 men. Besides there were women and children. 
Jesus was in no panic or hurry. He had a large cat...

John 6:8,9

  John 6, 8 and 9, one of his disciples, Andrew Simon peters's brother, said to him, there is a boy who has five barley loves and two fish, but what are they for so many?  Here we see Andrew, who found a boy having five loaves of bread and two fishes. The boy would have brought it for himself to eat, but he was prepared to give his lunch to Jesus. 
The problem they faced was how to meet the needs of such a vast crowd of people four solutions were proposed.  First, the disciples suggested that Jesus sent the people away get rid of the problem, but Jesus knew that the hungry people would faint on the way if somebody did not feed them.  Second solution came from Philip in response to our Lord's test question, where do we buy bread so that these people may eat?  His answer was raise enough money to buy food for the people. Philip counted the cost and decided they would need the equivalent of 200 days of wages of one person, and even that would not provide food enoug...