Mark 6:35-44 NLTLate in the afternoon his disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. [36] Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.” [37] But Jesus said, “You feed them.” “With what?” they asked. “We’d have to work for months to earn enough money to buy food for all these people!” [38] “How much bread do you have?” he asked. “Go and find out.” They came back and reported, “We have five loaves of bread and two fish.” [39] Then Jesus told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups on the green grass. [40] So they sat down in groups of fifty or a hundred. [41] Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people. He also divided the fish for everyone to share. [42] They all ate as much as they wanted, [43] and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftover bread and fish. [44] A total of 5,000 men and their families were fed.

Has Jesus ever spoken to you about meeting a seemingly impossible need?

In times Jesus will speak to us to move in impossible ways, and on the surface, all we see is the wall in front of us. In this passage of scripture, something jumped out at me that I had not noticed before that shows us that we need to understand the process to achieve the impossible.

Mark 6:37 has an amazing statement that has always gone over my head when reading about this amazing miracle, “We’d have to work for months to earn enough money to buy food for all these people!” the disciples understood what it would take to accomplish the miracle and even had a time frame in the natural to achieve it that didn’t meet the schedule of Jesus.

Other translations say it like this, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?” still, we see that they had an understanding of what it would take to meet the need Jesus placed before them. It would have been extremely costly and difficult to achieve. Jesus then asked an important question, “How much bread do you have?” followed by an action, “Go and find out.”. Jesus said, I see you working the process, and that is GOOD, so continue in the process, but listen for what Jesus is asking, then follow His action plan!

The disciples witnessed a miracle of Jesus speeding up the process. They needed both time and money to accomplish the request, and Jesus stepped into a natural need to perform a supernatural miracle.

Don’t stop setting up the process to achieve the things God has put in your vision. Listen to Jesus and be ready to answer the question, then take steps in the action plan and watch him perform the miracle of speeding up the process.

The real miracle to me in the story was not the need being met, but rather Jesus speeding up the process to meet the need.