Do We Have Obedience?

“Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭6‬:‭16‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Obedience to the heavenly father is greater than gold itself, he actually says that “obedience is greater than sacrifice” 1 Samuel 15: 22. For a lot of us this is really hard, and I mean all of us. There’s not a single person on this planet who does not struggle with obedience even in the smallest factor. But obedience in The Heavenly Father is so vital and is so important to our walk, that it shows how much we as his followers and disciples surrender to him. But it doesn’t mean that we wont still have struggle with obedience in The Heavenly Father. In the Bible, the word talks about obedience as who it is that you obey and surrender to has a huge impact on you. If you happen to obey wickedness and darkness you’ll find yourself on the opposite end of The Heavenly Father, who you surrender to is who you end up obeying. When you surrender to something and it’s not from the heavenly kingdom, you are actually in darkness. This is very detrimental to our walk because we’ll find ourselves in a situation where we think we’re doing right, but we’re actually doing wrong. For example, if a person is a giver, people don’t realize you can actually have two different types of giver spirits. One is a giver from the heavenly kingdom where they give out of love compassion and a really do not expect anything in return, not even a thank you sometimes. A person who has a giver spirit from the world, they give but they do expect a thank you every time and actually might get a little hurt and a little insulted if they don’t receive that thank you and self praise. The difference is when someone do something for you in the world the thank you goes to the person, when someone does something in honor of the Lord the thank you goes up to the Lord. This is because when we as Christians and Believers in Christ give something to some one else in need there is an understanding of, what we have to give comes from The Lord not us as the followers. Surrendering to The Heavenly Father is more about surrendering yourself, surrendering your body, surrendering your attention, and who it is that you surrender everything to.

“But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.”

1 Samuel‬ ‭15‬:‭22‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Jonah was a profit of the Lord, who was sent by The Heavenly Father to Nineveh to give a prophetic word to them of a warning. That if they did not turn their ways around and turn from their wicked ways, he was going to overthrow Nineveh. And Jonah decided out of nowhere that he was going to run away from the presence of God. He was going to go off in disobedience in The Heavenly Father and not go to Neva and give that prophetic word to them. Obedience in our heavenly father is so important when we obey him and we are given a task to do. It’s important to do it because Jonah running away from what he was supposed to do was supposed to help a town full of people. Jonah did not want to go and save those people because he felt like as if they didn’t deserve it he thought that they deserve to be destroyed. But very often we do not understand how important it is that a person is saved over trying to just destroy them. That doesn’t mean that there are not consequences for a person sin. But when you know what can happen to a person if they are separated from Yahweh, you would not be so willing to not go and tell them the prophetic word.

When people do not receive the Lord‘s word inside of them and they don’t receive that message that takes them from 0 to 100, they live in perpetual sin continuously without the understanding of what it is that they’re supposed to change from. The word is a double edge sword, not only does it cut down what is attacking, but it cuts down what is in the yields heart also. People also end up in hell when they live in sin, and it is not a vacation. Hell is a place where they torture you and humiliate you over and over and over again. It’s a really horrible place and it’s not something that I would want for my worst enemy. I would rather my enemy to learn from their mistakes, hear the word be changed and become a brother or sister in Christ.

The writing of: Do We Have Obedience?, is actually a video that have come out from my podcast: Bible Study Ministries. If you enjoyed this writing then perhaps you will enjoy the video of this blog post. If you are interested, please click the link and enjoy the video stay tuned for the second episode.

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