"And He left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side. Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf." Mark 8:13-14 (see also vss. 15-21)

The more I see of the world and this generation, and the more I reflect on the TRUTH through and in Jesus Christ, the greater grows my conviction that the paramount, that the ALL-important message for the world of today, is the present reality of the spiritual Kingdom of Jesus Christ right here and now; and soon to be invested by His personal return to earth.

...There is no possible arising contingency for us here and now (the wilderness), which is not fully within the power of His Hand and well within the bounds of His grace to us-ward to fully deal with to our joy and to His praise forevermore....

The above statement presupposes that we are His children and living as His Law-abiding citizens. Yet you have the right to suffer now, and trust you get Pie in the Sky – after you die....

...In the wilderness, I can imagine how He might have said: How dare you suppose My Father's Hand has grown weak and His arm shrunk short? Under Moses in the wilderness, He provided bread daily, and when they carnally lusted for flesh He caused quail to drop about their camp to last a month. When water failed them, He split the rock so that rivers gushed for their cattle and streams for men. Then the armies of Pharaoh snapped at their heels, He split the sea for His Own and drowned the rats.... HOW dare you limit My Father's Hand – for our here and now?

Having crossed the Lake, He rebuked them for thinking first of earthly bread – as if the contingency might arise for which the Father's Hand was not fully equal. How grossly insulting to the Father's Love!

Chat 5/1966