BLESSINGS DEMONSTRATED

My Dear Precious Child,
   The cousin of Jesus, named John the Baptist, preached a special message of repentance for the Jews which was prophesied as his being the forerunner of Jesus, a prophet coming to earth to announce Jesus' ministry of salvation to the world.  The governor, Herod, erroneously identified Jesus as being John the Baptist who had been raised from the dead because Jesus had done so many miracles.  Herod had previously arrested John and put him in prison because John had accused Herod of unlawfully marrying his brother Philip's wife.  Because of the popularity of John the Baptist, Herod had been afraid to put John  to death because he was afraid what the people would do to him.
    However, when Herod's birthday had come, Philip's wife danced before him and Herod was so pleased that he swore to do whatever the woman desired which turned out to be that she wanted the head of John the Baptist on a platter.  Herod was sorry he had made the promise but he went ahead and ordered that John the Baptist be beheaded.  John's disciples told Jesus about John's fate.  That is why Herod later surmised that Jesus Christ was John the Baptist having been raised from the dead, because he had seen that John was beheaded.
    Regardless of the grief of Jesus at the news about his cousin John's death, He went about with compassion and pity for the huge crowd of people who gathered around Him, and He cured all of their sick.  When evening came, the disciples of Jesus Christ told Him that it was getting so late and that Jesus needed to send that crowd into the nearest town to buy some food because they were in a remote place.  Jesus told His disciples that there was no need to send the crowd away and told the disciples to feed them.  The disciples told Jesus that they only had five loaves of bread and two fish, to which Jesus told them to bring the crowd to him.  He ordered the crowd to sit down on the grass. Jesus looked up to heaven and gave thanks for the loaves and fish.  Then He broke the loaves into pieces and handed them to His disciples which they distributed to the crowd of people.  They all ate and became satisfied.  There were twelve baskets of food left over of the broken pieces of bread and fish.  The five loaves and the two fish fed the entire crowd of 5,000 men and their wives and children, too.  Afterward, Jesus dismissed the crowd and went into the hills to pray.  His power never diminished and His popularity never subsided, yet it was constantly necessary for Him to pray in order to remain filled with My knowledge, wisdom, guidance and power.  
    In that miracle of feeding the multitude of people Jesus was demonstrating that He and I care about My children having enough food and sustenance every time mealtime comes around, and that I care about everything that concerns the daily lives of people in the earth.(Matthew 14:1-23)  I needed to show My concern for the well being and health of people by providing healthy food for people through Jesus Christ.  Remember that He and His disciples were hungry after another teaching session and they walked into a man's corn field and ate corn on the Sabbath, which caused much consternation in the Pharisees and scribes.  (Mark 2:23)  It was in Him and His disciples breaking the laws by harvesting corn on the Sabbath that angered the Pharisees and caused them to plot His death.   
   It was in His doing the supernatural miracles that blessed the people and that caused the people to want to follow Him and observe His miracle working power.  The people in the crowds knew that He had to be My Son or He could not have done the magnificent works that He did in answer to the needs of people.  It was also the kindness and compassion that had shined forth in Jesus Christ that identified My character of love to the people.  It was His confession that I am His Father that caused them to want to demonstrate My desire to provide everything that related to people.  Jesus told them that if they had seen Him that they had seen Me.  Their prior image about Him was that He would be the Messiah but that He would have the character and temperament of their kings, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.  Jesus Christ cleared up that false image in the minds of the common people.  However, the Pharisees and scribes continued in their harassment of Him.  
    My blessings flowed through Jesus Christ to the people as a sign that I am Love and that I am Power.
    Your Father of Blessings and Marvelous Works