Obedience
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 10 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 I Have Decided by Forerunner Music feat. Jaye Thomas.
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We just launched Vol. 7 of our First15 Devotional Series, Trust. And I couldn’t be more excited!
Trust is one of the devotional books I’ve been most anticipating, because of how critical trust is to our ability to thrive in and out of life’s difficult seasons.
This year has been arguably the hardest year we’ve faced globally in a generation. The pandemic has quickly taken its toll in every corner of our society, and every corner of the human heart. And the effects of systematic racism, and our lack of true racial reconciliation across the U.S. and beyond has brought us face to face with the mountain of division we’ve yet to overcome.
Personally, when life is good I find it easy to trust God, to be grateful for the ways he’s providing for me. But when my circumstances get hard, I find myself taking my life back in my control, and suffering as a result.
In Scripture, so many of God’s promises of peace, of provision, of safety are linked to our trust. Trust is like the “yes” that empowers God to move in deeper and more profound ways in and through us.
So I want to sincerely encourage you to get Trust today, to immerse yourself in this 5-week guide that will help you genuinely and wholeheartedly trust God. Because when you give God your trust, you’ll find an abundant peace and life that can carry you with unshakable joy through even life’s hardest challenges.
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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. |
| 0:12.7 | Trust and obedience are directly related. |
| 0:15.9 | Willing joyful obedience comes from a place of deep-rooted trust in the character and |
| 0:21.5 | intentions of your God. |
| 0:23.2 | When we learn to trust the heart of the Father, obedience is a natural response to whatever |
| 0:28.3 | he asks. |
| 0:29.6 | May you grow today in your willingness and excitement to quickly obey the Lord as you learn |
| 0:35.4 | of His love and goodness. |
| 0:37.6 | Welcome to the 1st 15th Podcast. |
| 0:44.9 | Throughout our lives, we are commanded to obey. |
| 0:48.2 | Whether it be apparent telling us, pick that up or don't do that, |
| 0:52.4 | or a government laying down a law, we acknowledge obedience as part of life. |
| 0:58.1 | And so often because we grow up with some sense of the purpose of obedience, |
| 1:03.0 | we apply our worldly notions of obedience to our relationship with God. |
| 1:07.5 | We see the commands of Scripture, or feel a prompting from the Spirit, |
| 1:11.6 | and sense a similar tone of command. |
| 1:14.6 | The problem with carrying a worldly notion of obedience into our relationship with God |
| 1:19.4 | is that no one, no matter how loving, can, or will, fully care for us the way our heavenly |
| 1:25.0 | Father does. |
| 1:26.5 | No matter how good the lawmaker, parent, friend, or teacher, no one truly knows the future |
| 1:33.2 | by God does. |
| 1:34.6 | Isaiah 119 promises us, if you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. |
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