This message conveys a conversation the Holy Spirit began with me in our communion time concerning the word “consider.” During communion, the Holy Spirit emphasised the reality that whenever He highlights a particular word and asks us to examine it, He is preparing to reveal a life-changing truth we need to embrace to move forward. His purpose is to move His people from uncertainty, speculation, and wondering about the future into confidence, assurance, and the expectation of the Lord’s promises becoming reality.

The Holy Spirit first directed my attention to Luke 12:24, where Jesus says these words: “Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?” This word consider means to think carefully, deliberately, and seriously with a view toward taking action. Jesus we know never spoke casually, so His command to consider the ravens carries profound spiritual significance.

The ravens possess none of the natural advantages associated with provision. They do not sow, reap, or store harvests, yet God faithfully feeds them. This demonstrates that the Lord’s provision is not limited by natural systems, even though Genesis 8:22 establishes the continuing principle of seed time and harvest on earth. Jesus wants us His followers to recognise that while the Lord honours His established principles, His ability to provide is never restricted by our human limitations or circumstances.

Jesus also went on to emphasise humanity’s immense value before the Lord. Human beings were created on earth by the Lord to rule on the earth in partnership with Him and to establish His Kingdom among men. Unlike ravens, people have been entrusted with proclaiming the Gospel and advancing the Lord’s agenda and purposes. Therefore, if the Lord faithfully provides for birds that cannot fulfil this Kingdom assignment, then we His followers should have an unwavering confidence that He will provide everything necessary for us who He has called to serve Him.

This truth is illustrated by Romans 5:17, which reminds us of the fact that we are called to reign in life through Jesus Christ. So instead of us questioning the Lord’s ability to supply our needs, we should settle in our hearts that we are of far greater value to Him than the birds and so should confidently expect His provision to manifest in our lives. The Holy Spirit then recalled the account of Elijah in 1 Kings 17:4, 6, where the Lord commanded ravens to feed the prophet during a time of severe famine.

Ravens are naturally known for taking rather than giving, yet when the Lord intervened with them, He transformed their nature for His purpose, by causing them to become instruments of supernatural provision. I have been privileged to experience raven provision while ministering in Botswana and Sierra Leone. Although these nations were experiencing financial hardship, the Lord provided unexpectedly through people who were not naturally positioned to give anything to provide handsomely all my needs without me ever preaching about finances.

The Lord moved upon hearts of people to sow generously into my life, thus demonstrating His ability to release supernatural provision through the most unlikely people while simultaneously bringing increased financial blessing and restoration into their own lives. The Holy Spirit then posed an important question concerning provision during a season of famine when people themselves were struggling to survive. Where did the ravens obtain the bread and meat they supplied Elijah in the morning and evening?

This question highlights the Lord’s perspective of unlimited abundance rather than man’s perspective of scarcity. The Lord’s resources are never diminished by earthly circumstances. So just as He used ravens to sustain Elijah, Jesus points to ravens as enduring evidence of the Father’s willingness and ability to provide for His children under every circumstance. The teaching then progressed further to investigate Luke 12:27–28, where Jesus commands believers to consider the lilies.

Though they neither toil nor spin, yet the Lord clothes them with beauty surpassing even Solomon’s royal splendour. If the Lord so carefully clothes temporary grass and flowers, how much more will He clothe and care for His own people? Jesus then identifies the real issue surrounding provision and it is not the Lord’s willingness or ability, but it is humanity’s lack of faith.

The Holy Spirit desires to develop mature faith in us as followers of Jesus to no longer live on the margins of the Lord’s provision but to fully enter into possessing our inheritance of divine supply and all-sufficiency. This is fact is reinforced in 2 Peter 1:3–4, which declares that God’s divine power has already given to us everything pertaining to our life and godliness through His promises.

The Holy Spirit then lead me to look into Romans 4:19–22, to examine Abraham’s response to the Lord’s promise. Although Abraham’s body was nearly one hundred years old and Sarah’s womb was naturally barren, Scripture says that Abraham did not consider these natural impossibilities. Instead, he refused to allow the visible circumstances and natural realities to determine his expectation.

So rather than focusing on the present human weakness, Abraham fixed his attention entirely upon the Lord’s ability to perform what He had promised.He did not waver at the promise through unbelief but grew stronger in faith, continually giving glory to God and becoming fully persuaded that God was able to accomplish exactly what He had spoken. As a result, Isaac was born exactly as the Lord had promised, despite every natural impossibility.

The Holy Spirit spoke of us applying Abraham’s example directly to each of our life circumstances today. We are instructed to consider only what the Lord has spoken concerning our lives and to deliberately reject every contrary thought that questions His promises. Doubt and unbelief must be refused vehemently because they compromise our faith, while steadfast confession of the Lord’s Word must be maintained until His promise manifests.

This message acknowledges the fact that everyone experiences moments of doubt, but we as followers of Jesus are encouraged to repent quickly, to reject unbelieving thoughts, and refocus our minds entirely upon the Lord’s faithfulness and overwhelming ability to perform His Word. So regardless of changing circumstances, even if they threaten the very foundations of life and appear to collapse, we are exhorted to remain immovable in faith, trusting the Lord’s unchanging character as expressed in Psalm 46:1–3.

This revelation concludes by encouraging followers of Jesus to receive the grace supplied through this teaching, by allowing the Holy Spirit to help each of you to focus exclusively upon the Lord’s promises for your lives until signs, wonders, miraculous provision, and astonishing demonstrations of His faithfulness become visible realities in your life. In doing so, your transformed lives will display the glory of God and draw many people to Jesus thus expanding His Kingdom on earth

I declare in the mighty name of Jesus that your heart shall be established upon the promises of the Lord to you alone. Every thought of fear, scarcity, doubt, and unbelief is cast down, and your mind is being renewed by the Holy Spirit to consider only what the Lord has spoken concerning your life. As Abraham was fully persuaded of God’s ability to perform His promise, so shall you stand unwavering in faith until every word spoken over your life is fulfilled.

I declare that the Lord who fed the ravens, sustained Elijah, clothed the lilies, and fulfilled His promise to Abraham is making available all the supernatural provision necessary for you. He will supply every need according to His abundance, by opening unexpected avenues of blessing, and using even unlikely circumstances and people to accomplish His purposes in your life.

May the Holy Spirit strengthen your faith, by establishing your daily confession upon truth, and bring forth signs, wonders, miraculous provision, and go on to fulfil His promises to you so that your life becomes a visible testimony of the Lord’s manifested glory, by drawing many people to Jesus Christ in His mighty name, Amen.