Daily Inspirational Thoughts
to bless your life.
A Daily Devotional
by
Beth McLendon
The topic this week is:
Obedience is better than Sacrifice
1 Samuel 15:22
Lots of Powerful Insights
on this page.
Monday
Wise words about Obedience.
Tuesday
Obedience explained by teens...
We can learn a lot
from these young people
as we
watch their skit.
Turn your sound up.
How did the teens handle their Dad's instructions
to
"Clean the house"
?
Instead of obeying - they...
Go over and over Dad's exact words and memorize what he said.
Look at the context - What did Dad say before and after that sentence?
Spend time examining Dad's words in other languages.
Look at blueprints of the house to get a better idea of how to clean the house.
Take a long time to analyze where to start. How about the attic? The attic is the top of the house.
Create a song about cleaning and about their appreciation of their Father.
What do You do
instead of obeying Father God?
Are your thoughts
about
pleasing yourself,
pleasing your friends, or
pleasing God?
Many times we have
our personal ideas
of what
we want to do for God;
and those ideas
crowd out
what God tells us to do for him.
Obedience is daily living of God's word.
You [God] have commanded us
to keep your precepts,
that we should observe them
diligently.
Psalm 119:4 AMPC
Wednesday
In God's eyes...
Obedience is > Greater than > Sacrifice
Obedience > Sacrifice
So we need to:
Yield to God as he nudges us
to have
a more willing heart to obey.
The man below shares
great insights
into this topic.
Holy Spirit
Lead Me
I will yield to you.
Thursday
We all struggle with obedience sometimes.
It is not unusual
for people to turn away
from
what God wants them to do
and instead
they give God a sacrifice.
For example -
Instead of obedience, we give God...
a sacrifice of money to the church
or a sacrifice of time to a worthy cause
But God doesn't want a sacrifice.
He wants obedience.
Obedience
Below is a video in which
John Bevere
gives us an example of
when
he chose to
Give God
a
Sacrifice instead of Obedience.
Too many times
we tell God,
"I'll do it..... but I'll do it - later.
John Bevere has followed God for years
and he knew the voice of God telling him to
stop everything and pray.
But he chose to ignore God's voice.
Beth McLendon
of Inspirational Prayers says:
One morning I was laying in bed.
Suddenly I heard an urgent voice
very clearly say in my head,
"Get up!"
!
I knew God was speaking to me.
But
my amazement captured my attention
instead of obedience
capturing my attention.
I lay there and just soaked in the beauty of
hearing God's voice more clearly
than I think I had ever heard him before.
I lay there for at least 5 minutes and just pondered the
blessing of hearing God's voice so clearly.
Then I realized that I was not obeying!
God said, "GET UP!"
Then I began to think....
"What if a tree was coming down right on the bed
and I was too busy
enjoying the beauty of God's voice to OBEY?"
No matter why God wanted me to quickly get up,
his words were important for me to obey.
I asked God
to forgive me for not obeying and
I asked God
to help me remember this event
so that
I will be ready to obey quickly the next time
I hear his voice.
Friday
God doesn't
need
for us to do
what we think we should do
for him...
God is calling us
to obey him.
Obedience doesn't make God love you more
but it does
show
your love for God.
Jesus said...
If a man loves me,
he will keep my words.
John 14:23
Jesus said...
If ye love me,
keep my commandments.
John 14:15
You would think that
the most Powerful Being
to ever walk the face of the earth
would come to earth and do what HE wanted to do.
Instead,
Jesus (God in human flesh)
came to earth to
fully obey Father God
and sacrifice himself
for the blessing of each of us.
Obedience was Jesus Christ's goal.
And it is obedience that
Jesus tells us is our goal.
We take
captive
every thought
to make it obedient to
Christ.
I will say...
"Yes, Lord."
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God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit
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Saturday
Sometimes obedience
is choosing a good attitude
when you want to release a bad attitude out to the world.
If you struggle with obedience
because of sermons you've heard
that play down the idea of sin...
consider our page:
The New False Jesus being preached.
Andrew Murray declares
Obedience is
the very essence of salvation.
Below are quotes about obedience
from
Andrew Murray
1828-1917
First Quote beginning with Scripture
Jesus says:
If ye keep my commandments,
ye shall abide in my love;
even as I have kept
my Father's commandments,
and abide in his love.”
John 15:10 KJV
Andrew Murray says...
How often and how earnestly
we have asked
HOW
to be able to
abide continually in Christ.
We have thought of
more study of the Word,
more faith,
more prayer,
more communion with God,
and we have overlooked the simple truth
that Jesus teaches so clearly,
‘If ye keep My commandments,
ye shall abide in My love,’
with its divine sanction,
‘Even as I kept My Father’s commandments,
and abide in His love.’
"May not a single moment of my life
be spent outside the
light, love, and joy of God's presence."
Andrew Murray
OBEDIENCE: THE VERY ESSENCE OF SALVATION
By Andrew Murray
1828-1917
Here we think
at once
of
our blessed Lord [Jesus], and
the prominence He gives
to obedience
as the one thing
for which He was come into the world.
Jesus who entered it with His
‘Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God,’
ever confessed to men,
‘I seek not My own will,
but the will of Him that sent Me.’
Of all He did and of all He suffered,
even to the death,
He said,
‘This commandment have I received of My Father.’
If we turn to His teaching,
we find everywhere,
that the obedience He rendered
is what
He claims
from everyone who would be His disciple.
During His whole ministry,
from beginning to end,
Obedience is
THE VERY ESSENCE OF SALVATION.
Beth McLendon of
Inspirational-Prayers
says:
In order to create and prepare this page,
I have re-listened to each video multiple times
and re-read each word
multiple times.
The repetition has allowed the wisdom of this page
to sink ever deeper into my heart.
I pray that you would be
inspired and motivated by this page.
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Obedience was first presented January 2022.
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