FAITH CAPSULE: Obeying God and giving thanks opens man to abundance.

John 6:1-14

The combination of obeying the word of God and giving thanks to God is what delivers abundance and phase out lack in any area of life. It does not matter where you are located; it does not matter how lack is causing pain; it does not matter what the challenge is about, whenever obedience and thanks giving is engaged one is set to experience abundance.
Once there was a need for Jesus to feed the multitudes that followed Him. The number on ground for Him to feed was five thousand. Evidently, 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 the provider; the one that delivers; the one that make a way where there is no way was in place to do the miracle that cancels lack. At a point of seeking for need, Jesus gave a command by and asking 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, “Jesus asked Philip, where shall we buy bread that these may eat?” Jesus’ disciples informed Him that a lad had five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many? Do you wonder how your pressing needs shall be met?  What you have on hand can never make up for what you need without Jesus. You have found yourself on a deserted ground. With Jesus there is a way out, because nothing is impossible for the maker of all things. Jesus turned lack into abundance. It is written in John 6:10-11, “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.” There was obedience in the people’s response, and there was a thanksgiving offering unto the Lord for the little (five barley loaves and two small fish) that became much. Giving thanks and being obedient results in abundance. John 6:12, “So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.” Your lack will be converted into abundance if you engage genuine thanksgiving and obedience according to His direction.
On the journey of life nothing can substitute for obedience and giving thanks to our God. God that answers prayer sees all in our obedience to Him and our sacrifice of thanks giving to Him.

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