Leadership Connexion: Issue 4

PENNDEL WOMEN | LIZ DEFRAIN | 484.686.4554 | liz@penndelwomen.com | penndelwomen.com
LIVING and GIVING for
EXPONENTIAL RESULTS
When I think about the year 2020, I take a deep breath
and internally say, “stay calm.” Our nation, along with
the entire world, not only faced a pandemic, but we
in the USA plowed our way through a national election that was
anything but calm. How will history record this year?
How will you remember 2020?
Personally, at times I felt broken as nothing seemed familiar to me.
Questioning what I had to give and how to give it to those I serve
became a focal point of my life. As I look back this year, I realize
that the miracle of exponential growth is in the giving of what you
have. Let me explain what I mean.
In our lives, there is a principle of presenting what we have to
Jesus and allowing Him to handle the multiplication. We all
know the story of the little boy with his lunch, who gave it to the
disciples to feed the multitudes. Was the miracle in the multiplying
OR the giving? Indeed, one could not have happened without the
other. We can read it in John, chapter six. People kept following
Jesus as he taught and healed the sick, and now the crowd was
vast and hungry. Jesus, knowing this, wanted to feed them, but
there was no food available. Jesus asked Philip where they could
buy bread, even though the Bible says, “Jesus knew what He was
going to do.”
Philip answered, “Well, I suppose if we were to give everyone only
a snack, it would cost thousands of dollars to buy enough food!”
But just then, Andrew, Peter’s brother, spoke up and said, “Look!
Here’s a young person with five barley loaves and two small
fish . . . but how far would that go with this huge crowd?”
“Have everyone sit down,” Jesus said to his disciples. So on the
vast grassy slope, more than five thousand hungry people sat
down. Jesus then took the barley loaves and the fish and gave
thanks to God. He then gave it to the disciples to distribute to the
people. Miraculously, the food multiplied, with everyone eating as
much as they wanted! John 6:5-11 TPT
Below are a few photos from our
RECLAIM LIVE and VIRTUAL Event,
a result of 2020.
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The disciples fed more than 5000, people that day, using a little
boy’s lunch, and there were leftovers for them!
When everyone was satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, “Now
go back and gather up the pieces left over so that nothing
will be wasted.” The disciples filled up twelve baskets of
fragments, a basket of leftovers for each disciple.
John 6:12-12 TPT
We have learned this year that though we have little, if we give
what we have to God, He will multiply what we offer. Fear will
keep us from sharing what we have, but faith will launch us into
new possibilities. 2020 has proven to be the year of possibilities.