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Miracle is the eleventh studio album by Christian rock band Third Day. This album released on Essential Records label, and it was produced by Brendan O'Brien. The album sold 29,000 copies in its debut week. The lead single from this album is "I Need a Miracle", which has had chart success.

Tai Anderson told CCM Magazine's Caroline Lusk that the album was produced January through June 2012, and that it "'ended up in a great place. It's fresh. It's a place we haven't been before. For us, that's a pretty big accomplishment. There are a lot of good Third Day cover bands out there. We don't want to be one of them. We want to sound new and fresh. It's what our fans deserve.'" In so doing, the band worked with Brendan O'Brien to produce the album after meeting him the year before, and O'Brien said that he "'love[d] the band, love[d] the songs I'm hearing. Let's go make this record.'" Anderson stated that "'We were not excited about making this'...'We were tired, on the third leg of the Move tour. We had songs that people were really resonating with live, but they weren't doing well at radio at all. We couldn't just make more songs like that. We needed to do something different and fresh. We spent as much time praying together as playing together.'" After a while of praying for direction, Anderson noted that the band "'began to see the hand of God working in miraculous ways to bring us together'...'God had protected us and our families on the road. We needed to remember these things and share them.'" Anderson highlighted that as a band "'We don't work with a theme necessarily'...'The only time we did that was Conspiracy No. 5 and that was our least selling record'", so as "'For this one, it was more based on the song. We thought we'd just call it 'Miracle.' We felt like that was just a powerful statement. But Mac fought for the song to be 'I Need a Miracle' so that even if all people do is see the title, it's personal. All of us go through hard times and desperation. We all need a miracle.'" Finally, Anderson gave credit to the producer because he affirmed that "'Brendan really helped us craft a classic album.'" because Tai evoked how he felt "'...like the album shows that God still works and moves in people's lives.'"

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