BOTTOM LINE: Living in the Kingdom supplies all I need for living.

1. There is a natural longing for what the Kingdom supplies.

2. Earthly resources can’t really meet the need.

3. Kingdom resources more than meet the need.

4. Nothing is wasted in the Kingdom.

5. The Kingdom points to the King.

START TALKING

What experience have you had where you just knew that what you needed would be provided? Was it growing up, knowing you would always have food and a place to stay? Was it a job that you never had to worry about paying you or giving what you need to succeed? Or maybe it was a friend who was always there for you no matter what?

START THINKING

Read John 6:1-5. Why do you think the crowds were looking for Jesus? How did they know about him? What do you think this means for us that should be happening around us?

What can you see in the world around us that proves there is a longing for what we know only the Kingdom can provide? What are needs that people are always looking to get met? What are the ways that you see people looking to meet those needs?

START SHARING

Read John 6:5-9. When have you felt like Phillip and Andrew? When have you felt like, "I could work for months and never meet this need in my life"? Or when have you felt like, "I have just this or that, and that's not enough"?

How does this kind of thinking serve as a sign that you are looking to the wrong Kingdom? How can this or how has this kind of thinking kept you from seeing what Jesus wanted to do in your life?

Read John 6:10-13. When have you seen Jesus take what little bit you have, maybe even the scraps that you thought were worthless, and he used it to meet a need in a way that you would have never expected?

When have you seen this truth in your own life: nothing is wasted in the Kingdom?

START DOING

Read John 6:14. What can you do this week to point people toward Jesus and his Kingdom? What are steps you can take so that they see, "Surely this is what I've been expecting"?

What is the Holy Spirit telling you to do from this story? What are you going to do about it?

START PRAYING

Pray for each other to do what the Holy Spirit is telling you to do. Pray that you will each see through Kingdom eyes to see that nothing is wasted and the Kingdom supplies everything truly needed in life!