Today I am sharing Part One of my communion time with the Holy Spirit about us being called to believe and live beyond what Is humanly conceivable.

This morning, during my communion time with the Holy Spirit, He spoke to me about the importance of us no longer asking the Lord only for things that are conceivable within the limits of human reasoning. He wants us to graduate into a place where our thoughts, actions, and expectations are governed by the mind of Christ, so that we begin to act as Jesus acts and do the works He desires to accomplish through us.

The Holy Spirit reminded me of the occasion when Jesus fed the five thousand in John.6. On that occasion Jesus did not begin the day by planning how much food would be required, by first calculating the cost of feeding the multitude, or determining whether there was sufficient money available in the coffers to purchase the necessary provisions. Instead, He allowed the Holy Spirit to direct Him concerning how to respond to the situation that arose.

Jesus we are told knew what He would do, even when the disciples could not see a natural solution to the problem before them. So when Jesus asked Philip where they could buy bread to feed the people, He was inviting Philip to participate in something beyond the limits of his ordinary human thinking. Jesus was not asking because He Himself lacked an answer. He was opening the way for Philip to encounter the possibility of witnessing and participating in a miracle that human planning could not have produced.

This mindset of thinking beyond what is conceivable is what the Holy Spirit is emphasizing to me, so that our prayers must graduate beyond what we can naturally conceive, calculate, or accomplish. We must learn to ask for what will cause people to marvel and become speechless as the Lord demonstrates His will and power through us. We must never restrict our expectations to what our finances, experience, abilities, connections, or present circumstances can accommodate.

The Holy Spirit wants us to become so surrendered to Him that He can bring forth through us what originates in the heart and mind of Christ. Consider what Jesus did when He fed the five thousand in John.6. He did not need money to purchase bread for the multitude. All He needed was to trust the Father and cooperate with the Holy Spirit so that five loaves and two fish could become sufficient to feed five thousand men, besides the women and children, with twelve baskets left over.

Jesus did not begin the morning by checking the account with Judas to determine whether there was enough money to cover the expense of feeding the people. He did not spend hours worrying about how the provision would be made available or repeatedly turning the problem over in His mind. Instead, He aligned Himself with the Holy Spirit and remained confident in the Father’s ability to provide whatever was necessary to accomplish His will.

Jesus was never controlled by the apparent impossibility of the situation, because He never allowed the absence of sufficient natural resources to become a barrier to what the Father wanted to accomplish. Jesus remained in praise of His Father’s name, as He spoke the words His Father directed Him to speak, and fully cooperated with the instructions of the Holy Spirit. Through that obedience, a miracle took place that astonished those who witnessed it and ate the bread and fish.

This is the place the Holy Spirit wants us to reach, which is the place where we do not become anxious or overwhelmed when a situation presents us with requirements beyond our natural resources. Instead, we must look confidently to Him for direction and trust Him to show us how His will can be accomplished. Our confidence must never rest in our ability to work everything out beforehand. It must rest in the Lord, who knows what He intends to do and can direct us into the actions through which His power will be revealed.

The Holy Spirit then directed my attention to the words Jesus spoke to His disciples in Matthew.16:9-11: “Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? 10 Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? 11 How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?”

Jesus from this text obviously expected His disciples to learn something significant from the two occasions when He fed thousands of people with what appeared to be insufficient supplies. They had witnessed the feeding of the five thousand and the feeding of the four thousand. So they had seen how the Lord could take a small quantity of food, multiply it, then satisfy the needs of a multitude, and leave an abundance remaining.

These experiences should have developed in them an unshakeable faith and confidence in God’s ability to provide miraculously, even when there had been no prior notice, financial preparation, or natural arrangement to meet the need. Yet, when they later became concerned because they had not brought bread, they were still reasoning from the standpoint of their natural limitations. In Matthew.16:8, Jesus said: “But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, ‘O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread?’”

Jesus was clearly not impressed with their lack of understanding on spiritual matters at that point. They had witnessed extraordinary provision, but they were still struggling with anxiety over a comparatively small matter of provision. They had experienced much greater miracles before, yet they were now allowing the absence of bread to trouble them as though the Lord’s power had suddenly become limited.

The lesson for us is very clear that we must not just merely witness miracles, but we must allow those experiences of the miraculous to transform our understanding of the Lord’s power and ability to such a degree that our faith is fully developed in His ability to act supernaturally again. Remember that what the Lord has done should teach us to trust Him in situations we have not previously encountered.

We must never become prisoners of our natural reasoning when the Holy Spirit is leading us into something greater. The disciples needed to understand that Jesus was not speaking merely about physical bread. He was teaching them to perceive spiritual realities and to trust the One who could provide beyond what their natural resources could supply.

This is also the place to which the Holy Spirit is calling us to occupy in this season, which is the place where the faith of Jesus is demonstrated on the earth again through our lives, so that people can see, marvel, and be converted to serve Him because Jesus has the answers to all life’s questions.

The Holy Spirit reminded me that I have been crucified with Christ which means that the old self-centred life must no longer govern my actions. Christ has taken up residence in me, and He desires to express His life and faith through me so that people may see just how awesome and stupendous His power is. The name of Jesus is far greater than every other name, and His power is not restricted by the limitations that govern natural human thinking. He can accomplish His will at any given time through a life that is wholly surrendered to Him.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I declare that I am crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me (Galatians.2:20).

I refuse to limit my faith, prayers, expectations, or obedience to what is naturally conceivable. I surrender my heart, soul, mind, will, emotions, intellect, and body to the Holy Spirit. I yield my plans, preferences, ambitions, and personal desires to His government, and I give Him permission to direct my life according to the heart and mind of Christ.

I declare that the Holy Spirit is transforming my thinking and teaching me to trust the Lord beyond the boundaries of my natural understanding. I will not be ruled by fear, limited resources, past experiences, or the opinions of others. I will listen for His direction, obey His instructions, and remain confident in His ability to make the impossible possible.

As Jesus fed the multitudes with five loaves and two fish, I believe that the Lord can accomplish His purposes through what appears insufficient in the natural. I will learn from His mighty works and develop unshakeable confidence in His power. I will not allow anxiety over what I lack to prevent me from obeying what He has instructed me to do.

I declare that my life is available for the expression of Jesus. His faith, wisdom, love, power, and purposes shall be manifested through me by the Holy Spirit. I will no longer insist on living according to my own preferences, but will allow the Holy Spirit to lead me into places I would not naturally choose and assignments I could never accomplish by my own strength in Jesus name. Amen.