Bread in the Deserted Place

“In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.” His disciples answered him, “From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?” He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.” He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude. They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also. They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over. Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.” (Mark‬ ‭8:1-9‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

Jesus had compassion on those who followed Him and were hungry. They were in a deserted place.

Many believers are experiencing lack in this season. Some are losing their jobs, others are losing their businesses, seeing a decline in income, and economic prospects seem bleak. You could say it is like looking for food in a deserted place.

Abba God whose heart is compassionate just as Jesus is, wants you to be well-supplied.

He can feed you with more than enough bread, even in the deserted place. Nothing is impossible for God.

When His supply comes, it is not going to be a trickle. It will be more than you need!

Have a good opinion of your Heavenly Father. He is not trying to teach you a lesson by making you starve. He is the one who has compassion on the hungry.

Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes is a miracle that appears in all four gospels. God knows that we tend to worry about provision, and He wants us to believe that He will surely supply our needs, no matter how huge the demands upon us seem to be. God will still make a way for us.

Go ahead and thank Him for multiplying your provision. In His perfect timing, you will surely see His goodness in the land of the living!

The 37 recorded miracles of Jesus Christ in the four gospels show us God’s heart of love and Grace towards us. As you explore them in “Messiah’s Miracles”, faith will arise in your heart to receive miraculous breakthroughs in your own life: https://bit.ly/messiahs-miracles

《美國路易斯安那州風暴，16年前卡翠納悲劇幾乎重演》

週日，颶風艾達 (Ida) 以強風洪水襲擊路易斯安那州，紐奧良的大部分電力供應中斷，至少一人死亡。

颶風以強大的 4 級風暴登陸，周日晚上減弱為 2 級風暴，最大風速為每小時 105 英里。

卡翠娜颶風在 16 年前登陸路易斯安那州至今，這個完全一樣的登陸路缐，令人毛骨悚然，數十萬人爭先恐後撤離，無數人為生存做準備。

週日上午，艾達的中心在路易斯安那州富爾瓊港附近登陸，最大持續風速為每小時 150 英里，略低於每小時 157 英里，5 級風暴的風速。颶風強大從風暴中心延伸50 英里，Ida風暴在下午向西北移動，穿過海灣、湖泊和濕地地區，威脅著巴吞魯日和紐奧良。

風暴的軌跡和強度對該地區構成了高風險的雙重威脅。

在卡翠納颶風過後，紐奧良周圍加強了防洪堤、水泵和其他颶風防禦設施，但強風豪雨太大了，擋不住。

隨著路易斯安那州目前還是全美最嚴重的冠狀病毒爆發之一，醫院系統已經處於緊張狀態。

由於風暴在夜間靠近紐奧良，因此無法確定週日的破壞程度和潛在的生命損失。

但是來自整個地區的場景和報導，顯示情況並不樂觀。

州長愛德華茲週日在新聞發布會上說：“毫無疑問，未來幾天和幾週對我們州來說將非常困難，我們只能接受測試。”

愛德華茲州長警告說，情況極其危險——而且還在惡化——漫長的夜晚及痛苦可能就在眼前。

“沒有人應該期待，今晚，官方能夠接聽求助電話，”他說。

據阿森松教區警長辦公室表示在巴吞魯日東南約 30 英里的路易斯安那州普雷里維爾，一棵樹倒在一處房屋上，已經造成一人死亡。

根據 PowerOutage.us 編制的公用事業公司的報告，截至週日晚上，路易斯安那州超過 近八十萬、789,000 家庭斷電。

路易斯安那州的一家大型電力公司 Entergy 在周日晚上發給居民短信，報告紐奧良所有地區都斷電了。

“由於災難性的傳輸損壞，所有紐奧良電區目前都斷電，”Entergy New Orleans 在 Twitter 上表示，此次停電是由於輸電和發電之間的負載不平衡造成的。

國家氣象局的氣象學家凱文·吉爾摩 (Kevin Gilmore) 表示，隨著風暴登陸，報導稱路易斯安那州格蘭德島墨西哥灣一個沿海城鎮，因為靠近風暴中心登陸的地點，大風將一大堆房屋的屋頂掀掉了。

“希望那裡真的沒有人——這是我惟一希望的，”吉爾摩先生說。

更糟的是伴隨而來的龍捲風。Ida風暴在路易斯安那州西部的部分地區以及密西西比州南部和阿拉巴馬州的部分地區，引發龍捲風警告。

氣象官員警告Ida颶風可能為該地區的大片地區帶來大浪潮，從富爾瓊港向東北方向到密西西比州的海洋泉。某些地區水位可能漲潮16 英尺以上。

紐奧良和附近城市共超過 980,000 人，接到山洪暴發警告。

聖伯納教區官員證實，颶風已導致紐奧良以東查爾梅特附近的 22 艘駁船鬆脫並且飄走，順流而下。

教區沿海業務執行主任約翰·萊恩 (John Lane) 表示，官員們不認為該地區的堤壩處於危險之中，人們更擔心取水口，尤其對附近煉油廠等重要石化、煉油設施的影響。

*在紐奧良的街道上，狂風以每小時 70 英里的可怕陣風襲來。

除了偶爾呼嘯而過的急救車外，幾乎沒有車輛在街道上行駛。市中心，一些無家可歸的人，已躲在建築物的門廊裡。留在紐奧良的人大多都躲起來了，城市空盪，只有恐怖風雨佔據一切。

尤其入夜，沒有燈光，只有風雨呼嘯聲，它們隨時可能擊垮人們庇蔭的房屋？

“現在是待在室內的時候了，”市長拉托亞·坎特雷爾 (LaToya Cantrell) 說。 “不要冒險出去。”

美國國家氣象局專家斯科特說，週日下午，風暴向北移動，在紐奧良以西停滯，這使紐奧良面臨更大的危機，每小時降雨量達到 3 到 4 英寸，增加大洪水的風險。

*風暴來臨之際，路易斯安那州正努力應對另一場新冠病毒危機。

最近幾天，全州有超過 2,500 人因 Covid-19 住院，接近之前最糟糕時的記錄。這種情況，使災難計劃變得複雜。

“疏散這些大型醫院不是選擇，因為沒有任何其他醫院有能力接收它們，”。

加上Ida迅速且來得太快，又增強，醫院幾乎沒有時間撤離感染的病患。

*形成Ida的大氣條件：附近海灣異常高溫的海水，為風暴提供能量，使風暴的速度和強度都變得比以前更大更強：而變暖的水域，主要受到全球氣候變遷暖化的影響。

*這場風暴激起了人們對卡翠娜颶風在 2005 年造成的死亡和破壞的痛苦回憶，那場災難在城市留下了仍然深切的傷痕。

卡翠娜颶風造成 1,833 人死亡，造成超過 1,000 億美元的損失，並淹沒了紐奧良的大片地區，幾乎摧毀了整個城市。

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/29/us/hurricane-ida-live-updates-new-orleans-louisiana/the-storm-made-landfall-on-the-anniversary-of-hurricane-katrina

* 週日下午，颶風艾達Ida的狂風席捲紐奧良，大雨襲擊了整個城市的街道和建築物。

在阿爾及爾角附近，與法國區直接隔著密西西比河，窗戶震動，樹枝搖晃。

歐珀盧薩斯大道兩旁的橡樹，皆是鋼鐵般的灰色天空。街道上，佈滿了樹葉和折斷的樹枝。

許多居民在風暴登陸前已撤離了這座城市，但有些人留下來，決心在自己的家中或朋友或親戚的家中度過風暴。

大多數房屋都沒有用木板封起來，但居民們似乎很重視官員的建議，將垃圾桶拉進，讓街道空無一人。

早晨，隨著風暴靠近向南的海岸，風開始上升。可以看到鄰居們帶著他們的狗在街區周圍快速散步，或追趕街道上的垃圾桶。居民走上門廊採摘室內植物和風鈴，預計在傍晚時分，當風達到最大強度時，他們判斷這些植物和風鈴可能會被吹走

長時間停電，將對留在城市的人們產生最大的影響，食品和藥品在無電冰箱中變質，炎熱的天氣使每個人的日常生活都變得不舒服，並導致一些人中暑。

週日，阿爾及爾的燈光閃爍並熄滅，然後是第 7 區，然後是第 9 區。

下水道和水務局在中午前發出通知，整個城市正在斷電，居民必須減少淋浴，減少排入下水道系統的廢水量，否則可能會導致下水道倒流，冲進每個人家中。

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/29/us/hurricane-ida-live-updates-new-orleans-louisiana/winds-whip-through-new-orleanss-deserted-streets-as-the-storm-bears-down

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Doing our best to stay socially distant, Katherine and I hop on our bikes and head out of the city, to the nearly deserted streets of Guanmiao, Taiwan. This is a small town located west of Tainan, and is home to the Guanmiao Painted Village. Though not a large village, the beautiful murals on the buildings are great for taking pictures, and the clean air will calm you. Unfortunately, we happened to get caught up in a tropical storm in our mission to find the region's famous homemade noodles.

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?? This is Mong Cai central market. It may look like a normal market from the outside and inside, but trust me, this market is one of a kind. According to recourses I read before visiting this market, most of the stalls used to have two workers - 1 Vietnamese and 1 Chinese, in order to communicate with the large number of both Vietnamese and Chinese tourists. Many of the workers speak Cantonese as well, due to Mong Cai being on the border with a Cantonese speaking province of China, Guangxi. However, the market is now almost deserted due to covid, since Vietnam isn't allowing any foreign tourists to enter. Still Max and I found some interesting people and had some funny conversations in English, Chinese, Vietnamese, French, and some random alien language. Come with us on this market hunt.

Check out Max's new channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0tiaCChXRF_XpU5TmlWSQ

Subtitles made and translated by the awesome Loan. Check out her drawings on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucielittlethings/
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