Quotes about Obedience

If we choose to turn left when God wants us to go right, we cannot expect God to support the plans we made on our own.

Whatever God approves of comes first. Whatever grieves him has to go.

What has become of standing unashamed for the gospel of Christ? No one is smarter than God. When he says to do his work in his way, we can be assured that he will produce his results for his glory. We don't need to get "creative" on him. God knows exactly what we need to do and expects us to trust and obey him in childlike simplicity.

You and I have not been commanded to be successful as we tell others about Jesus. We have not been commanded to lead others to place their faith in Him. We are commanded simply to be faithful in declaring the truth. Praise God! The burden of responsibility belongs to the Holy Spirit when it comes to convincing others of the truth of their own sin and need for a Savior.

Neither Abraham or Sarah consulted God.

God, how do I do that? What would You have me to do? What is the message You would have me act out?

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

"Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own kurios (master) he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Kurios (Master or Lord) is able to make him stand" (NIV).

It becomes clear that whereas life in Christ results in obedience, this "obedience of faith" (Rom. 1:5; 16:26) is not accomplished by a human choice of one of two ways. There is a decisive difference between a call to obey and a transfer to a new world.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.