Obedience - November 13
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we focus this week on growing in trusting God, today we’ll explore the concept of obedience. Trust and obedience are directly related. Willing, joyful obedience comes from a place of deep-rooted trust in the character and intentions of your God. When we learn to trust the heart of the Father, obedience is a natural response to whatever he asks. May you grow today in your willingness and excitement to quickly obey the Lord as you learn of his love and goodness.
Our Scripture for today comes from Isaiah 1:19, and today's worship is Carry Me by Rita Springer.
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| 0:00.0 | As we focus this week on growing and trusting God, today we'll explore the concept of obedience. |
| 0:11.0 | Trust and obedience are directly related. |
| 0:14.0 | Willing joyful obedience comes from a place of deep-rooted trust and the character and intentions of your God. |
| 0:21.0 | When we learn to trust the heart of the Father, of your |
| 0:25.0 | questions of God. |
| 0:28.0 | may you grow today in your willingness and excitement |
| 0:31.0 | to quickly obey the Lord as you learn of his love and goodness. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Isaiah 1 verse 19. |
| 0:57.0 | Scripture says, if you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. |
| 1:05.0 | Throughout our lives we are commanded to obey. |
| 1:08.0 | Whether it's a parent telling us pick that up or don't do that, |
| 1:12.0 | or a government laying down a law we acknowledge |
| 1:15.3 | obedience as a necessary part of life and so often because we grow up with some |
| 1:21.0 | sense of the purpose of obedience. |
| 1:23.8 | We apply our worldly notions of obedience to our relationship with God. |
| 1:29.1 | We see the commands of scripture or feel a prompting from the spirit and sense a similar tone of command. |
| 1:37.0 | But the problem with carrying a worldly notion of obedience into our relationship with God is that no one, no matter how loving |
| 1:46.7 | can or will fully care for us the way our Heavenly Father does. |
| 1:52.1 | No matter how good the lawmaker, parent, friend or teacher, no one truly |
| 1:57.6 | knows the future like God does. Isaiah 119 promises us, if you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. |
| 2:11.2 | God asks for us to be obedient to him because his plan is always for our betterment. |
| 2:17.6 | He sees what lies ahead of us. |
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