By Reverend Alex Titus
Pastor, Fedha Church KAG
Obedience is compliance with an order, request, law, or submission to another authority.
It's also doing another person's instructions.
It's obeying God fully and following his law carefully.
Deuteronomy 28:1
If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
Obedience is the key to greatness. It can make you a greater person than any other person in the whole world Deuteronomy 28:1b.
When we obey we gain God.
God requires our obedience not sacrifice.
We cannot substitute obedience with sacrifice. That's why we are going to prophets and prophetess and give big sacrifices ati akuonee mambo yako (seeking them to see your issues for you).
When we live in obedience God doesn't have a problem with us: if you obey me you will eat the fruits of the Land.
Isaiah 1:19
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;
What happens when we obey God?
1. Wealth and prosperity follow in our life
Isaiah 66:12
For this is what the Lord says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.
2. Poverty and barrenness are destroyed
Deuteronomy 28:4
The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
Genesis 12:2
I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
Genesis13:16-18
16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.
18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:10
10 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
3. It brings blessings in all we do
Deuteronomy 28:12
The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.
4. It gives us victory
Deuteronomy 28:6
You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
Deuteronomy 20:1-4
When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you. 2 When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. 3 He shall say: “Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. 4 For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”
5. Puts us in a place of power and authority
Deuteronomy 28:13.
The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.
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