Obedience
Obedience is the sacrifice that I demand from you. Don’t chase down things that preoccupy your time, but instead be obedient to my commands over your life. Your obedience will open the gates wide open for you, allowing you to come further into my courtroom. You will hear my voice clearly and you will learn to walk in the ways of YAHWEH.
Your stubbornness and lagging are what is keeping you from moving forward. You struggle on a daily basis because you haven’t fully surrendered unto me. What is it that you desire so greatly? Have you fully surrendered your life to me? Do you trust me enough to see you through things my way? What are you so afraid of? What holds you back from diving head first into all of me?
Your fears hold you back from gaining all of me. You only see the version your enemy has planted in your head. Your vision of me is diminished by the lies you have believed and have faith in him instead. Corrupted truths are a lesser version of me and those lies keep you from being all that you were created to accomplish for my Kingdom. By you believing those lies the enemy keeps you from taking the territory that needs to be taken by you and only you.
You have a territory that is all your own. No one can do what you’ve been appointed and called to do. No one can alter the outcomes of the people you touch all around you except you, who were made in the image of me. Your very personality can reach others that your co-workers cannot. Only you can reach the people I’ve orchestrated and called you to minister to each day. It is up to you to make a difference in their lives day to day. Do not disregard your significance that you make each day, for you have been called for such a time as this.
I appoint all kinds of people to come into your life and I am calling you to be who I’ve called you to be to each one of them. No one can speak as you do and no one else can minister in the way I’ve created you to do. You are one of a kind and I desire you to be special just like me. You are not meant to be like everyone else because you have my special purposes carved into your heart.
Don’t expect me to work through you as I do someone else. Why would I need a replication of what they do? I just desire you to accomplish the tasks that I’ve set before you. You have no idea what I have for you around the corner, so your first step is to be obedient to what I’ve placed upon your heart. Who are you to tell me your plan is better than mine? Your stubbornness and pride will be your downfall if you continue to live in disobedience to me. Turn your heart towards me and the light that I am shining into your heart and live in obedience to me.
1 Samuel 15:22 The Voice
22 Does the Eternal One delight in sacrifices and burnt offerings
as much as in perfect obedience to His voice?
Be certain of this: that obedience is better than sacrifice;
to heed His voice is better than offering the fat of rams.
Proverbs 29:1 New International Reader’s Version
29 Whoever still won’t obey after being warned many times
will suddenly be destroyed. Nothing can save them.
Matthew 7:21 New Century Version
21 “Not all those who say ‘You are our Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven. The only people who will enter the kingdom of heaven are those who do what my Father in heaven wants.
1 Peter 1:2 New International Reader’s Version
2 You have been chosen in keeping with what God the Father had planned. That happened through the Spirit’s work to make you pure and holy. God chose you so that you might obey Jesus Christ. God wanted you to be in a covenant relationship with him. He established this relationship by the blood of Christ. May more and more grace and peace be given to you.
Jeremiah 29:11 The Voice
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Eternal, “plans for peace, not evil, to give you a future and hope—never forget that.