Hey Besties! You may have heard by now that you need to obey God, but maybe you don’t know how to walk in obedience to God.
Being in a relationship with God requires you to commit to a life of obedience. Obedience means to hear God’s word and act on what he spoke.
Obeying God tells him that you love and trust him. Trust is the foundation of all relationships because it allows you to give the most authentic version of yourself to the other person.
When you trust God, you are allowing him access to you as both his creation and his child.
This post will be all about how to walk in obedience to God along with the importance of it.
Are you ready? Let’s geaux!
What Is Obedience To God
Obedience to God is living your life completely surrendered to his will and his way. Most of us, don’t obey God because we think we’ll lose something.
You may feel like you’ve built a beautiful life and the fear of messing any of that up prevents you from doing what God says.
Can I share something with you? Whatever you have built is not a fraction of the beauty that God wants to give you (Matthew 16:25).
Even if God has given you something in another season and is now asking for it back, you have to give it back.
The thing about obedience is that it’s not easy, but it is simple.
Obeying God is sort of like losing weight. You come into the world and you gain fat from the things that pull you away from your authentic self. Once you get to God, he puts you on a plan to help you to lose the excess fat and even build muscle.
Obedience helps you to get your original physique back. This physique is the one that you’ve always wanted.
The thing you’re trying to hold onto is like keeping clothes that are too big for you.
If you’re having trouble letting go of something that God is asking you for, begin to look into why you are trying to hold onto the clothing that no longer fits.
It’s time to trust God and ask him to take your measurements again.
How To Walk In Obedience To God
Have you ever heard that faith without works is dead (James 2:26 NIV)? To walk in obedience to God, is to consciously make the decision in your heart to do what he tells you. It takes faith to do this.
The definition of faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things unseen.
In order to become your authentic self and walk hand-in-hand with your Bestie Forever, you have to have faith in what God is telling you to do and work to get it done.
If you desire to do anything, you can ask God and he will help you. The Lord your God will change your heart and the hearts of your descendants, so that you will love him with all your heart and soul, and so you will live! (Deuteronomy 30:6 NLT)
There is a quote by Dr. Myles Munroe that says everyone comes to the earth, but you decide how much of you is manifested. Obeying God helps you to manifest yourself and unlock authority.
Also, it’s not just about obeying the “big” things. Truthfully, you won’t even be trusted with big things if you won’t obey the small steps of obedience.
God could be telling you every day to take out the trash, but you don’t think that’s your job. Or he could be telling you to give your coworker a ride to work, but you’re so focused on the car she drives.
You never know what’s on the other side of obedience and your act of obedience really doesn’t have anything to do with the other person. Your obedience is your personal expression of love and trust to God.
10 Importance Of Obedience
Obedience is important for a number of reasons. Here are 10 reasons why obedience is important:
1. Obedience Is God’s Love Language
In a relationship, it’s important to know your own love language as well as your partner’s. Your partner’s love language will almost always be different from yours.
We never think about God in this sense, but he actually does have a love language and it’s obedience (John 14:15 John 14:21, Deuteronomy 7:9 1 John 5:3)
2. Obedience Puts You In Right Standing With The Government
I don’t know what country you live in, but I do know that most people don’t know their President or Prime Minister personally.
In the home country, your Bestie Forever is the King and your family. Bestie, you’re winning winning!
Obedience gives you right standing as a citizen of Heaven plus your Bestie Forever has your back!
When you are obedient, you are also the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT)
3. Obedience Gives You Access To Whatever You Need From Home Country
Heaven is your home country, and your assignment is to make Earth look just like Heaven.
The Lord promise that if you will be his commandments, he will give you prosperity and send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens.
He will bless all the work you do, and you will be so blessed that you willing to many nations and never need to borrow from them (Deuteronomy 28:12 NLT)
4. Obedience Gives You Great Peace
The word peace means quiet confidence. In this world, you need peace. You need peace at your job, in your family, when you’re by yourself, and even with your dog!
With so much going on don’t you want great peace? (Psalm 119:165 NLT)
5. Obedience Helps You To Be Happy
Have you ever said “I just want to be happy”? Obedience to God‘s laws guarantee happiness. (Proverbs 29:18 KJV)
6. Obedience Protects you
Psalm 34:15 says “God’s eyes watch over you and his ears are open to the cries of your help”.
7. Obedience Makes Him Proud To Call You His Bestie
Jesus said you are my friends if you do what I command (John 15:14 NLT). Everything your Bestie Forever tells you to do is for your benefit.
8. Obedience Shows You Who You Really Belong To
At a gender reveal, there are multiple people who say their either team boy or team girl. When you are obedient to God, you are proudly saying that you’re team God and he is team you! (Jeremiah 30:22 NLT)
9. Obedience Helps You To Hear God Clearer
This life can get chaotic. There are so many choices and paths that it can be hard to know which way to go.
When you obey, you begin to hear God with your own ears telling you to go left or right (Isaiah 30:21 NLT).
10. Obedience Helps You To Endure Persecution
Jesus promised that in this life, you have trials and tribulations, but take heart because he has overcome the world (John 16:33 NLT).
When you obey him, you get the cheat code to endure. He never said the weapons wouldn’t form, but he did say they will not prosper (Isaiah 54:17 KJV).
As long as you’re doing what he tells you to do, you are under his covering. It’s kind of like when you’re under an umbrella with someone. You’re standing close by and moving in sync with them so you don’t get wet.
Being in a relationship with God requires you to commit to a life of obedience. It’s not always easy, but it is simple.
Obedience is God’s love language and when you speak his love language, you come out the winner.
This post was all about how to walk in obedience to God.
Remember you’re destined to win because he got up.
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