FAITH CAPSULE: What matters does not matter, and will not deny the doing of God.

John 6:1-14

The combination of obeying the word of God and giving thanks to God delivers abundance and phases out lack in any area of life. 
It does not matter where you are or who you are, and it does not matter how lack is causing pain; it does not matter what the challenge is about having a place, but obedience and thanksgiving are engaged shall experience the promise of God.
There was a need for Jesus to feed the multitudes that followed Him. 
The number on the ground for Him to feed was five thousand. 
No provision from any store at the hour of meeting the needs of five thousand could have been abundantly enough.
At the feeding of five thousand, Jesus took the place of provider, one that delivers, that makes a way where there is no way.
Jesus was in place to do the miracle that cancels lack. 
At a place of lack, Jesus commanded His disciples not to let the people go away with empty stomachs. 
It was a deserted area, a place that could never produce enough supply for the demand that was at hand. 
John 6:5 records, “Jesus asked Philip, where shall we buy bread that these may eat?” 
The disciples informed Him that a lad had five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many? 
Are you wondering how lacks shall be met?
What you have on hand can never make up for what you need without Jesus. 
You have found yourself on a challenge posed as a represented deserted ground for you, not having what to meet your needs.
With Jesus, there is a way because nothing is impossible for the maker of all things. 
Jesus turned lack into abundance. 
John 6:10-11 records, “Then Jesus said, make the people sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted.” 
The people were obedient, and there was a thanksgiving offering unto the Lord for the little (five barley loaves and two small fish) that became much. 
Are you with the character of giving thanks and being obedient to God to experience abundance in the place of lack?
John 6:12 states, “So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.” 
Engage in genuine thanksgiving and obedience according to His direction. 
On the life journey, nothing can substitute for obedience and giving thanks to God. 
God that answers prayer sees all obedience to Him and sacrifice of thanksgiving. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from any spirit that hinders man from obeying and giving thanks to God.