The idea of obeying God sounds like a fairytale, but if I can be honest, obeying God isn’t fun.
Obedience requires you to change your mind, actions, and beliefs. It requires you to start something new and stop something old. It’s uncomfortable, awkward, and a struggle.
The good news is that God does not expect us to be perfect in our obedience. Instead, God wants to see progression. In this blog, we will talk about five steps you can consistently take in your obedience journey.
1. Get Clear
One of the biggest challenges in obeying God is overcoming your doubt.
Doubt may sound like:
- Did I really hear from God?
- Did I make the right decision?
- What if I’m wrong?
🚨 Unchecked doubt will always lead to disobedience.
Getting clear on what God is calling you to do will help you to overcome your doubts.
✨ FYI: Being confident you heard from God is not the same as being confident in your actions. Obedience will always require faith, but knowing that you heard from God will give you confidence to obey.
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2. Overcome Resistance
Next, you have to identify and fight against what’s stopping you from obeying God. There will always be a natural resistance to obeying God because obedience requires you to go against that grain. That grain may be social norms, your mindset, or habits.
By identifying the issue, you’re able to recognize and fight against anything that comes against your obedience. This step is really important because you cannot fight something you do not identify.
✨ So, what’s stopping you from obeying? Fear, insecurity, the opinion of others, doubt, etc.?
3. Ask God For Help
Obedience is meant to be done in partnership with God, not through human strength. 💪
When God calls us to obey him, he’s calling us to take his hand and walk with him, day by day and moment by moment. Your strength is not strong enough, but you + God will always be enough.
🚨To obey God, you must ask God for help.
Prayer to welcome God in: “God, I desire to obey you. Please help me obey, in Jesus’ name, Amen.”
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” Philippians 4:13 NKJV.
4. Stay Connected To God
To consistently obey God, you have to stay connected with him. He is the only person who can keep you on track.
✨ God will give you the power, discipline, and mindset to obey him, but you have to stay connected with him.
Ways to connect with God include:
- Obeying
- Reading your bible
- Praying & talking to God
5. Restart
Sometimes we mess up. Obedience isn’t a linear journey. It’s full of ups and downs. And, the good news is that God doesn’t expect or require perfection.
😌 When you mess up, he is there, waiting for you. All, you have to do is pray, “God, I’m sorry, please help me. In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen.
Receive God’s grace and love. Then start over! You can do this! 💖
That’s A Wrap 💗
Today, I want to encourage you to start or continue your obedience journey. I know that obeying God is hard, but you are capable of doing hard things with God! It will get easier! 💖
Encouraging Scriptures ↓
Here are a few scriptures that can help you as you obey God:
- “…If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31 NIV)
- “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” (Romans 8:37 NKJV)
- “The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.” (Deuteronomy 28:7 NIV)
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