FAITH CAPSULE: God that answers prayer sees all in our obedience to Him and our sacrifice of thanks giving.

John 6:1-14

Living life by obeying and giving thanks to God is the combination to have life of abundance. With the combination of obeying the words of God and thanking God will be phasing out lack in any area of life. Challenges can be the source of discouragement to be disobeying the word of God or be the source of not giving thanks. In the face of challenges, be focus on God by obeying His word; be thanking Him for all He has done, all that is doing and all that He will do.
Once, at a ground of lack for five thousand Jesus demonstrated what the combination of thanking and obeying can do. Evidently, no provision from any store at the hour of meeting for the needs of five thousand but the combination of obedience and giving thanks led to the provision of abundance for thousands.
At the feeding of five thousand, Jesus gave a command by 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? Are you being pressed by your lack? 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 as the thousands responded by sitting down at the word of Jesus, and there was a thanks offering by Jesus 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 to 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 sacrifice of thanks giving.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of deliver from spirit that hinders obeying and giving thanks to God.