Go Fish: The Pattern of Provision
Offering Message
THE TEACHING
After Jesus' resurrection, Peter went back to what he knew: fishing. He and six other disciples fished all night and caught NOTHING. These were professional fishermen who knew the waters and the techniques. They worked hard through the entire night. Result: Empty nets.
When morning came, Jesus stood on the shore and asked, "Children, have ye any meat?" Their answer was simple and painful: "No."
This represents earth's economy. You can work hard, use all your skills, and labor through the night, yet still come up empty when operating in your own strength.
Jesus didn't tell them to try harder, fish longer, or get better equipment. He simply said: "Cast the net on the RIGHT side of the ship, and ye shall find."
Same sea. Same boat. Same disciples. Same nets. The ONLY difference was which SIDE they fished on.
They cast on the right side and caught 153 fish, so many they couldn't even draw the net into the boat. The left side produced NOTHING. The right side produced OVERFLOW.
The left side represents earth's economy: human effort, your own wisdom, self-reliance. The RIGHT side represents Heaven's economy: divine direction, obedience to God's Word, Kingdom investment.
Here's the explosive revelation: This wasn't the first time Peter experienced this exact miracle. Years earlier in Luke 5, at the very beginning of his journey with Jesus, Peter had fished all night and caught NOTHING. Jesus told him, "Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets." Peter obeyed and caught so many fish that his nets began to BREAK and his boats began to SINK.
Peter experienced the SAME miracle at the BEGINNING of his journey with Jesus and after the RESURRECTION. First time: Fished all night, nothing. Jesus spoke, overflow. Second time: Fished all night, nothing. Jesus spoke, overflow.
This is not a random story or one-time event. This is a KINGDOM PATTERN. This is God's established principle for supernatural provision. When you operate in earth's economy (wrong side), you labor and lack. When you operate in Heaven's economy (right side), you obey and overflow.
God gave Peter this miracle TWICE to establish it as a perpetual pattern in his life. God wants to establish the same pattern in YOUR life with your finances.
Jesus said in John 12:24: "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." The fish had to be caught (released from the water) to produce provision. Your finances have to "die" (be released into Kingdom purposes through sowing) to multiply back to you.
If Peter had kept fishing on the left side, he would have stayed empty. Your breakthrough is waiting for you to cast on the RIGHT side.
The wrong side means hoarding out of fear, self-provision, human effort without divine direction, working harder but getting less. Result: empty nets. The right side means sowing in faith, Kingdom provision through obedience, divine direction over human wisdom, obeying God's instruction about your money. Result: full nets and overflow.
The question isn't whether there's provision available. The fish were in the water the whole time. The question is: Are you fishing on the right side? When you sow into the Kingdom of God, you're not giving money away. You're casting your net on the right side where the blessing is.
This pattern worked for Peter TWICE. It's a proven, established Kingdom principle. The fish are waiting on the right side. Your overflow is there. You just have to cast your net.
Scriptures to Read
John 21:3-6 (KJV) "Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing. But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No. And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes."
Luke 5:4-6 (KJV) "Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake."
John 12:24 (KJV) "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."
Philippians 4:19 (KJV) "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."
2 Corinthians 9:6-8 (AMPC) "Remember this: he who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to someone] will also reap generously and with blessings. Let each one give as he has made up his own mind and purposed in his heart, not reluctantly or sorrowfully or under compulsion, for God loves (He takes pleasure in, prizes above other things, and is unwilling to abandon or to do without) a cheerful (joyous, prompt to do it) giver [whose heart is in his giving]. And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation]."
Prophetic Declaration to Speak Over Your Finances
Speak this out loud over your financial life:
I declare that God is saying GO FISH over my life, and He is showing me which side to cast my net on. The pattern of provision is being established over my life right now.
I have been fishing on the wrong side, laboring in my own strength and operating in earth's limited economy, and I have been coming up empty. But that season is OVER.
Right now, in this moment, I am casting on the RIGHT SIDE. As I sow into the Kingdom, I am moving from the left side to the right side. I am moving from earth's economy to Heaven's economy.
What has been empty is about to be FULL. What has been lack is about to be OVERFLOW. What has been limitation is about to be MULTIPLICATION.
This is not a one-time blessing; this is God establishing His PATTERN over my finances. What worked for Peter at the beginning of his journey and what worked for Peter after the resurrection will work for ME again and again.
The fish are already in the water. The provision is already prepared. It's not about working harder; it's about obeying the instruction to cast on the right side.
I break wrong-side thinking off my life. I break the spirit of fear and hoarding. I release FAITH to sow boldly into the Kingdom.
My nets are filling RIGHT NOW. The 153 fish breakthrough is coming. What couldn't be pulled in by human strength, God is bringing to me by His supernatural power.
As I release my finances into the Kingdom, I am casting on the right side. Heaven's economy is opening over my life. Supernatural provision is being released.
Empty nets are DONE. Full boats are HERE. My pattern of provision is established.
I declare that my income, my business, my investments, and every financial door are now operating on the RIGHT SIDE. I am no longer laboring in lack. I am walking in overflow.
What I sow into the Kingdom multiplies back to me. What I release in obedience returns in abundance. The right side is my position. Heaven's economy is my operation.
My pattern of provision is locked in, in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen!