{"id":3290,"date":"2014-10-25T05:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T05:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2014-10-25T05:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T05:55:44","slug":"obey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/2014\/10\/25\/obey\/","title":{"rendered":"OBEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably seen items from the OBEY clothing line. \u00a0This line while rooted in pop culture considers itself quite counter culture.<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me of Jesus&#8230;a sensitivity to the issues of the day yet taught the first shall be last and the last shall be first.<\/p>\n<p>The call to OBEY doesn&#8217;t come from a clothing line but comes directly from The Lord himself.<\/p>\n<p>Walking the straight and narrow line of obedience accelerates our growth and maturity. Psalm 84:11 tells us<em> \u201c<\/em><em>For the LORD God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The LORD will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right.\u201d<\/em> Your Father in heaven is looking to accelerate your personal, spiritual, emotional, social, and physical well being but He needs you to work in concert with him, closely following him and being swift to obediently carry out his commands.<\/p>\n<p>In order to do this, we must be strong and courageous. But no need to fear. He\u2019s taken care of that too. Joshua 1:7-8 promises \u201cOnly be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s desire is to give YOU His absolute best, but He needs YOU to do your part; to cheerfully, swiftly obey Him.<\/p>\n<p>In my obedience to God I have surrender material possessions, my job, my womb, my husband, my children, my emotions and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>So tell me, what will you do today to delightfully, cheerfully, obey God? \u00a0This is not a rhetorical question. \u00a0I want to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably seen items from the OBEY clothing line. \u00a0This line while rooted in pop culture considers itself quite counter culture. That reminds me of Jesus&#8230;a sensitivity to the issues of the day yet taught the first shall be last and the last shall be first. The call to OBEY doesn&#8217;t come from a clothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[81,79,78,77,80],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life","category-spiritual-life","tag-courageous","tag-growth","tag-obedience","tag-obey","tag-strong"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredtolivefully.com\/staging\/4119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}