February 9th, 2021
Heal Devotional Series – Week 1 – Do You Want to be Well - Tuesday - Amie Donovan
Trust = Obedience
Scripture Reading – Luke 11:9-10 (ESV)
Trust and obedience are two parts of one action. To obey someone, you must trust the person giving the command. How can we obey someone we have no trust in, it’s quite hard? The Hebrew word we see in the Old Testament for obey is Shama. It means to listen in a position of submission. I love this because it is almost an expectant attitude. It's saying I'm choosing to hear your words, prepared to surrender at its will. It is expectant because it assumes something will be asked of us.
For so long, when I entered into the hard seasons of life, my sole desire was for God to remove the problem. However, as I grew in relationship with our LORD, I developed this unrelenting trust in His ways. I know my God desires to grow me through each circumstance. In short, if God is allowing me to walk through it, there is something I am to learn from it. My prayer life went from "God, will you take this from me?" To, "God, thank you for walking with me through it. Will you show me what I am to do, or how I am to grow from this? For I trust your ways are good, and your thoughts are higher than my thoughts. I surrender my need to control knowing you are a Faithful God."
Oswald Chambers reminds us:
"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading."
When we are in difficult seasons of our lives, it's easy to pray and ask God to remove something or add something to our lives for healing sake. How often, however, do we ask God to reveal our role in the situation. In the passage below, Jesus' disciples earnestly wanted to know how to talk to their Creator. This question is one that brings our Savior great joy to answer. He responds to them with what we call the Lord's prayer and encourages them with these blessed words:
"And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened."
If you find yourself in need of healing, be Shama. Trust and obey our LORD by asking Him to reveal His truth for your life. Then submit to it. Live joyful, knowing and expecting our Creator will respond and grow you, despite you.
Trust = Obedience
Scripture Reading – Luke 11:9-10 (ESV)
Trust and obedience are two parts of one action. To obey someone, you must trust the person giving the command. How can we obey someone we have no trust in, it’s quite hard? The Hebrew word we see in the Old Testament for obey is Shama. It means to listen in a position of submission. I love this because it is almost an expectant attitude. It's saying I'm choosing to hear your words, prepared to surrender at its will. It is expectant because it assumes something will be asked of us.
For so long, when I entered into the hard seasons of life, my sole desire was for God to remove the problem. However, as I grew in relationship with our LORD, I developed this unrelenting trust in His ways. I know my God desires to grow me through each circumstance. In short, if God is allowing me to walk through it, there is something I am to learn from it. My prayer life went from "God, will you take this from me?" To, "God, thank you for walking with me through it. Will you show me what I am to do, or how I am to grow from this? For I trust your ways are good, and your thoughts are higher than my thoughts. I surrender my need to control knowing you are a Faithful God."
Oswald Chambers reminds us:
"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading."
When we are in difficult seasons of our lives, it's easy to pray and ask God to remove something or add something to our lives for healing sake. How often, however, do we ask God to reveal our role in the situation. In the passage below, Jesus' disciples earnestly wanted to know how to talk to their Creator. This question is one that brings our Savior great joy to answer. He responds to them with what we call the Lord's prayer and encourages them with these blessed words:
"And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened."
If you find yourself in need of healing, be Shama. Trust and obey our LORD by asking Him to reveal His truth for your life. Then submit to it. Live joyful, knowing and expecting our Creator will respond and grow you, despite you.
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