The Bible says obedience combines inward heart attitudes and outward actions.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Doesn't just say if you're willing to obey God's commands, you'll be blessed.

It's as if you're willing to obey and you actually obey.

It's not just saying, I'll do it.

It's doing it.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Wednesday, September 25th.

Thank you. If you ask your child to start cleaning up and he just stands there, there's a word for it,

disobedience. It doesn't really matter if he was thinking about cleaning up or intending to clean up.

Obedience involves some sort of action.

We'll consider this continuing in a series called Obedience, the acid test of love.

Several years ago, after I'd finished speaking at a conference, I got a letter from one of the

ladies who had been at that conference, and she was sharing with me how God was continuing to work in her heart as a result of what she had heard that weekend. And in her letter, she said, several times during the conference, you used the phrase, wave the white flag of surrender. It's a phrase I love. It's a visual image. It's a great word

picture. And I had used that phrase during the conference. And if you've heard me any length of time

on Revive Our Heart, you've heard me use it a number of times. I just challenge people and I

challenge myself, wave the white flag of surrender. Say, yes, Lord, to whatever God is saying to you.

She said, so when I got home from the

conference, I went to my husband's closet, and I got out one of his big white handkerchiefs.

She said, it's now in the front of my Bible. And when I begin reading the word in the morning,

I literally wave it before the Lord, declaring my intention to submit to what he has to say to me.

Now, before she reads the scripture, she takes that, she waves at his white flag, and what she's saying is, Lord, whatever you have to say, I will obey.

I'm waving the white flag of surrender.

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