After Jesus had multiplied the provisions,  loaves of bread and fishes, for 4,000 and then again for 5,000, He addressed His disciples with these questions:

Mr 8:17 But Jesus, being aware of [it], said to them, “Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened? 18  “Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

His disciples had reasoned inside their minds that when Jesus had warned them about the Leaven of the Pharisees and the Leaven of Herod, that it was about not having brought bread with them on the boat headed across the Sea.  How could they have possibly missed the entire gist of His warning to them?

I know how they could have missed the main point of His warning and come up with the lame answer that it was about not having any bread.  They had been following this man Jesus, whom they have seen and believed that He must be the Messiah or some major prophet in their midst. He warns them about the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod and their minds begin to race. Some of them must have wondered ‘What on earth is He saying?? And this wasn’t the first time they had been asked something that their natural minds couldn’t possibly have comprehended. For example: When Jesus asked them to feed the 5,000 they reasoned that they couldn’t possibly accomplish that with the little money they had; And the distance they were from any market whereby they could purchase the food. But that was not what Jesus had asked them.

Lu 9:13 But He said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

He simply asked them to give them something to eat. Had they simply obeyed and not reasoned they would have seen a miracle. Not one performed by Jesus alone, but one in which their very hands would have been used to achieve. It would have been something to see those disciples take those five loaves and two fish, break them and break them and break them…..until all had been fed. What a missed opportunity?

Oh, yes, I know how they felt when He warned them about the Pharisees and Herod. They were probably thinking’ What does He want us to do or say now?’ I have been there many times when He has impressed me to do or say something that I had no idea what was going to happen. Haven’t you ever felt like He wanted you to do something beyond what you could perceive or comprehend?

I believe most of us have and we either ignored it (hoping it would go away) or couldn’t reasonable figure out how to do what He had just asked. You see that is where the disciples were. They couldn’t perceive nor understand because it was beyond what they had ever experienced or known. God wants us to be challenged to walk in things that will stretch our ability to believe. If we never dare to believe that He is able to do whatever He asks us to do, then we will never be able to see the miracles that await us.

Joh 14:12 ¶ “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater [works] than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

Dare to believe this scripture. Don’t reason it away just because it goes beyond your own experience or your reason to believe. He said that he who believes in Me, the works I do he will do also; and greater works than these…. Does that make your mind race to find an answer that will help you understand why this isn’t happening in your life? Don’t reason away a miracle today. Please open your heart and let that word sink in and the Holy Spirit will do the rest. It is possible to do what Jesus did, the early church of believers did do them and greater.

Please choose to believe that you can do what Paul the apostle said: Php 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Have a Great Day!!