In Partnership

Luke 9:¹⁶ “Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread and fish to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people.” (emphasis added)

To multiply you have to organize, it has to be blessed, and it has to be given away for it to multiply.  The fourth lesson on multiplication is you must collaborate with people if you want to multiply. Jesus kept giving the bread and the fish to His disciples. Jesus could not do it by Himself. Jesus needed to collaborate with His disciples so that they would distribute it to the people. The miracle did not happen in Jesus’ hands, the miracle happened in the hands of His partners, the disciples. At the wedding in Cana of Galilee, the miracle did not happen in Jesus’ hand. The miracle happened in the hands of the servants who took the wine to the master of the ceremony. Your miracle of multiplication is going to happen in the hands of the people you collaborate with, the people you link up with, the people you partner with. None of us is stronger than all of us.

It has been discovered that IQ is a negative correlation to financial success. Many people who are very intelligent are actually not very wealthy. Very few are wealthy because intelligence does not guarantee wealth. What they discovered is that there is another quotient called the connectivity quotient (CQ). The CQ is positively correlated to financial wealth. So, when someone with a high IQ like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs has a good CQ like Bill Gates you have the richest men in the world. But on average, people that have low IQ’s but are people – people, they know how to be nice to people, how to treat people, how to connect with people, they are usually very wealthy, they are never in lack. The more disconnected you are from people, the less healthy, happy, and wealthy you will become. Fact! The converse is also true; the more connected you are to people, the healthier, happier, and wealthier you become. First, organize, second it has to be blessed otherwise it will diminish. That will not be your portion, in Jesus Name. Thirdly, it has to be given away and you have to collaborate.

2Kings 4:^42-44 “A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing food from the first fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.” But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred people?” So he repeated, “Give it to the people and let them eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”  He set it before them, they ate, and had some left, according to the word of the Lord.” (emphasis added). It will be to you according to the Word of the Lord. Everything that has been prophesied into your life by you and from this devotional, will be according to the Word of the Lord. Even if it appears impossible, as you take steps and set it before the people, it will be multiplied. As you take that step, you will secure the garden. You will be planted and secure, take root downwards, bear fruit upwards, grow and you will multiply.

Prayer: Father, by Your Spirit, orchestrate the right partnerships for me and as I collaborate, cause the partnerships to be abundantly fruitful, in Jesus Name. Amen!