FAITH CAPSULE: Are you one that is giving thanks to God without your obedience to His word?

John 11

Obedience with thanksgiving to God is a powerful combination to gain life in the place of death.
At the time of Jesus’ arrival to Bethany, Lazarus was dead, Mary and Martha were into mourn and with no hope for Lazarus to come out of his death.
Jesus’ response for Lazarus’ death was His command for the people to obey and His thanksgiving before God, to bring Lazarus back to life.
Bible records, John 11:38-44, “Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. “Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
Are you one as Martha, with lack of hope and not obey God’s word of command?
Jesus responds to the unbelief of Martha:
“Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” Martha does not believe, but the people obeyed Jesus, “then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
Obediently, the people took away the stone as Jesus’ thanksgiving gave life to Lazarus in the place of death.
Obey God continually, give self to giving thanks as a way of life before God, and live life for the glory of God.
In your journey of life, through the wilderness where there is no provision, where lack persists, look into God’s word with obedience for the direction to convert lack into plenty.
When Jesus was approached in the wilderness to feed the multitude, there was no enough but with obedience to Jesus’s command, and thanksgiving, the lack was converted to plenty.
Mark 8:6-9 records, “So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and they set them before the multitude. They also had a few small fish; and having blessed them, He said to set them also before them. So they ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets of leftover fragments. Now those who had eaten were about four thousand. And He sent them away.”
In the life of lack, when the combination of obedience and thanksgiving is engaged with understanding, lack will be converted to abundance.
Giving thanks without obedience to God’s word is the evidence of a lack of understanding that will not deliver manifestation for expectation.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s righteous hand upon your life to be living right before Him.