Obedience

First15 Devotional

First15

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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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.

Thanks for listening to today’s First15 Podcast. If you haven’t downloaded our brand new First15 app, make sure to click the link in today’s show notes to check it out! One of the new features that you can enjoy when you download the app is our Guided Prayers. We are adding new prayers to our library every month, so if you need a moment of peace with God, let these prayers be your guide!

In today’s First15 Podcast, we want to offer an excerpt of a new Guided Prayer that our friend Peyton Garland wrote, titled, “Anxious About Life’s Extras.” Peyton reminds us of Matthew 6:30, when Jesus encourages his followers to remember that if he clothes the flowers of the fields, he will provide for his beloved too. Today’s fast-paced society often leaves us anxious about finances and future plans, but this prayer encourages believers to not be consumed with pursuing overabundance and trust God’s perfect, balanced provision instead.

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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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