Quotes about Obedience

Strategy 6—Against Your Calling He amplifies fear, worry, and anxiety until they're the loudest voices in your head, causing you to deem the adventure of following God too risky to attempt (Josh. 14:8).

We deceive ourselves if we claim to want to hear His voice but neglect the primary channel through which it comes. We must read His Word. We must obey it. We must live it, which means rereading it throughout our lives. —Elisabeth Elliot

Run the race not only with endurance and diligence, but also with careful, watchful submission to His Word.

If we confuse legalism and discipline, we do so to our soul's peril.

How could she say anything other than "yes"? The only question she really had to answer was this: Was she going to do it begrudgingly or could she do it with a servant's heart?

At this point God taught me another important lesson: He would do for me what I could not do for myself, but He would not do for me what He required me to do for myself. God had responded to my cry and delivered me from the spirit of heaviness, but after that He held me responsible to exercise scriptural discipline over my own thoughts.

We are rebels at war with God. We cannot make peace with Him until we lay down our rebellion—

Someone has said, "Either God's Word will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from God's Word.

In Psalm 37:5, David said, "Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it." More literally, the verse says, "And He is doing it." Two things are here required of us. The first is an act: "commit." The second is an attitude: "trust." The act of commitment leads to the attitude of trust. David assured us that, as long as we continue in this attitude of trust, God "is doing it.

Once you have placed your body on God's altar in total surrender, your body no longer belongs to you. It belongs to God. You no longer decide what happens to your body. God does. You do not determine what kind of job you are going to do with your body. God does. You do not choose where you are going to live. God does. But it is wonderful when He takes the responsibility.

Romans 14:23, which says, "Whatever is not from faith is sin".

When you commit yourself to God's will without reservation, God becomes responsible to provide for you.