FAITH CAPSULE: Get to know that obedience and thanks offering before God will provoke a miracle. 

John 11:17-57

With obedience and thanksgiving to God, the miracle of lack shall convert to abundance.
At the feeding of 5,000, Jesus asked His disciples not to let the people go away with an empty stomach. 
In a desert with no provision to meet the need of the people, “Jesus asked Philip, where shall we buy bread that these may eat?” (John 6:5)
His disciples informed Him that a lad is with five barley loaves and two small fish, which was not enough to feed the population in the desert.
Just like disciples, are you speculating meeting your needs? 
Are you at a juncture of life experiencing a representative of desert life in your life?
This day, gain understanding and knowledge in the word of God that there is always possibility out of impossibility. 
Jesus responded to the answer of doubt to the lack of bread for the people at the desert 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.” 
For the miracle of provision of abundance in the desert, the people obeyed the command of Jesus for them to sit down. 
Also, Jesus gave thanks to the Lord for the provision (five barley and two small fish) for thousands of people to be fed. 
The people obeyed, and thanks offered to God provoked the miracle of abundance for the population. 
The combination of obedience and thanksgiving brought Lazarus out of the grave of life. 
John 11:41-44 documents a demonstration of obedience to the command in the word of Jesus and thanksgiving before God.
The people responded to the command to take the stone away from the tomb of dead Lazarus. 
In addition to the moving stone in obedience, Jesus lifted 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!” 44 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.”
At the tomb of Lazarus, the obedience of the people and the thanks offering replaced death with life.
Giving obedience to the word of God and giving thanks will always provoke provision and restoration, the evidence of undeniable miracle in the face of life challenges.
Give yourself to obeying the word of God and offering thanks for the miracle of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be living a life of obedience and thanks offering to God.