Quotes about Obedience

One of the marvelous results of obedience is that we actually get to receive and experience the "everything good" that is from God to us.

Pride comes when we distance ourselves from God's Word, God's presence, and God's will.

But in each step of the Passion, we don't see a Jesus who is led, but a Jesus who leads. He is the Lord of life. My friends, in our own lives, let's continue to discover the peace and power that comes through following the lead of Jesus in willing obedience.

Imagine a church filled with people who simply live to do the will of God and always treat others the way He intended.

Being Spirit led is simply hearing from God and obeying what he says. Sounds simple, right? It is, but it's also incredibly challenging.

Abba is best translated "Dear Father." It is a term of intimacy, but it also contains a sense of obedience.

When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.

God is holy, and to see His holiness means to do it His way.

Placing evangelistic mission above the mission of God's glory is the single most destructive error in the church today and the one from which many other errors fall out. God's own glory as the priority for your church, and every church needs no reflection on our part, only obedience. Glory is not a threat to reaching lost people but is actually the most biblical and God-honoring way to get there.

Tell them," God said through Isaiah, "hard times are coming, but don't give up—now or ever. Don't let them underestimate My power to reorder the universe. Tell them to keep trusting Me and living the way I told them to in spite of what's coming.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Because it is address, attending always on the response of the addressed, infinite speech has the form of listening. Infinite speech does not end in the obedient silence of the hearer, but continues by way of the attentive silence of the speaker. It is not a silence into which speech has died, but a silence from which speech is born.