Please take this time to silence your cell phone. Glimpses of Godliness For Today’s Woman

Make Up Your Mind To Obey God!

Why?  It’s God’s best for you

Psalm 111:10 “To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.”

Mt. 7:24-27 “Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”

Make Up Your Mind To Obey God! Why?  It’s God’s best for you  You love the One who loves you so

John 14:15 “If you love me, you will obey my commandments.”

1 John 5:3-4 “For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down, because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world.”

Make Up Your Mind To Obey God! Why?  It’s God’s best for you  You love the One who loves you so  It opens channels of blessing Submitting to earthly authorities as God commands

1 Peter 2:13-15 “Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme or to governors as those he commissions to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do good. For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.”

Make Up Your Mind To Obey God! Submitting to earthly authorities as God commands unless it conflicts with doing what is right.

2 Samuel 8:46-51 “The time will come when your people will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by. When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray; we have done evil.’

2 Samuel 8:46-51 When they return to you with all their heart and being in the land where they are held prisoner, and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

2 Samuel 8:46-51 Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them. After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.”

Make Up Your Mind To Obey God! Submitting to earthly authorities as God commands unless it conflicts with doing what is right.

Make Up Your Mind To Obey God! Appeal if necessary and possible Acknowledge that all authority comes from God Pray for favor with those who hear the appeal Position yourself with humility Entreat them with respect Ask for a trial period if possible Leave the consequences to God