The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible by Batterson Mark

Author:Batterson, Mark [Batterson, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.to
ISBN: 9781441221131
Amazon: B00LENNHSY
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2014-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

The Manna Miracle

Ten years ago, National Community Church purchased an old crack house and converted it into Ebenezer’s coffeehouse. And it took a miracle just to get the contract. Not only did we purchase it for $325,000, less than one-third of the original $1 million asking price, but we also discovered that four people offered more money for it than we did. So we celebrated the miracle, but not for long, because we needed another one! We had thirty days to come up with the 10 percent down payment or the contract would be null and void. Twenty-nine days later, we had exhausted all options and we were $7,500 short.

I have a core conviction: when God gives a vision, He makes provision. But He often waits until the last moment. The day before our deadline, we received two checks in the mail that totaled exactly $7,500. The amazing thing is that the people who gave those gifts didn’t even know the need. Both couples had moved away from the area but continued tithing to NCC until they found a new home church. I later discovered that one of those gifts was larger than normal because it was a signing bonus from a former Supreme Court clerk who had taken a job with a law firm halfway across the country.

When God miraculously provided manna for the Israelites, Scripture says that He provided just enough. The language describing God’s provision is extremely precise. Those who gathered a lot “did not have too much” and those who gathered a little “did not have too little.” God provided just enough. Then He gave them a curious command: not to keep any of it overnight.3

Why does God provide just enough? Why would God forbid leftovers? What’s wrong with taking a little initiative and gathering enough manna for two days or two weeks?

Here’s my take: the manna was a daily reminder of their daily dependence upon God.

Not much has changed. We still need a daily reminder of our dependence upon God. So while we may want a one-year supply of mercy, His mercies are new every morning. If God provided too much too soon, we’d lose our raw dependence upon God, our raw hunger for God. So God usually provides just enough, just in time.

I have scribbled the initials JEJIT in the margins of my Bible at various places where God provides just enough, just in time. He does it with the widow who is down to her last jar of olive oil.4 He does it when the Israelites are trapped between the Egyptian army and Red Sea.5 He does it when the boat is about to capsize on the Sea of Galilee during the perfect storm.6

He does it again with two fish and twenty thousand hungry people.

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