Believing Believers

After Jesus transformed a lad’s five barley loaves and two small fish into enough food to feed 5,000 men, the people remarked, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

They asked Jesus, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” [1]

Jesus simply directed them to believe in Him. He was the One who just provided a miraculous provision of food for them. But while they were willing to embrace Him as a prophet, they were not willing to believe that He was the Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew).

Jesus said to them, “This is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.” [2]

How hard is it to believe that God’s Messiah can give those who believe in Him eternal life? Especially after He transformed five loaves and two small fishes into enough food to feed 5,000 men! Men tend to eat a lot. In fact, there were twelve large baskets of bread leftover after everyone had eaten their fill.

Peter and the other disciples who walked with Jesus did believe in Him. Peter spoke on behalf of them all when he said to Jesus, “We have come to believe and know that You are the Christ (Messiah), the Son of the living God.” [3]

On January 12th, 1995, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke gave a message to the believers that I was discipling in Guangzhou City, China. He is with the Lord now. But previously to preaching the Gospel to the disciples in Guangzhou, he had held large crusades in thirty-three countries. His meetings often exceeded 100,000 people in attendance. He preached in every major city of Rwanda just before the massacre took place there. He reported that 10,000 people converted to Christ in every city where he preached in Rwanda. We had just over sixty people present at our service in Guangzhou. He preached on Mark 16:14-16 about believing believers.

God does amazing things in and through believing believers in His Son, the Messiah.

My resolve in life is to be a believing believer in Jesus and to help others to believe in Him as well. Please pray for me to lead many people to faith in Jesus. This is my prayer for you as well.

[1] John 6:14, 28-29
[2] John 6:40, 47
[3] John 6:69