Testimony – Obedience and blessings
Praise God that He continues to persevere and have patience with me. Praise Him for His never ending love. Blessed be the Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord.. Thank you for sacrificing yourself for my sins. I love you too. He’s teaching me that obedience is very important. He has allowed satan to sift me, repeatedly, on the same topics in my life. I have found that these repeated areas are the lesson, that must be learned. Now don’t get me wrong, we must not look at obedience in a fashion to gain blessings.. That’s selfishness and not a heart for God. When I speak about received blessings, a blessing is a result of having a right heart for God.. Having a right heart for God will result in obedience, out of love for Him and reverence.. which results in blessings. If the blessings are first then it is the me-first mentality versus God first.
I have had a challenge with a certain sin that has repeatedly come up in my life, a lack of obedience. I was quenching the Spirit because I like what I did more than I liked obeying Him. Thank you for forgiving me Lord. I found that it boiled down to just heeding His voice. It was a matter of choice.. Choose obedience to God or disobey. He has been trying to teach me this over and over.. He has given me the “outs” every time. And even though I have noticed the outs almost single time, I chose to grieve the Spirit.. I did this cuz I loved what I was doing more than Him. Ugh, that’s hard to confess, but I had to confess it to Him. It’s Truth.
At any rate, here is a testimony or 2. I was going through the same cycle of this sin. My self-talk said “You’re good now. You’re more filled.. You’re stronger now. He’s with you. You can do this.” Ah, then the sword of the Spirit came into my thoughts..”Take heed lest you fall…” Then I heard the Lord say… “Remember…. Remember all of these previous times… You said the same thing and sinned every single time. These are memorials and they are there for a reason. What makes you think this time is any different that the previous ones?” DING, the light went off. I have continued to sin in this area because I kept deceiving myself into thinking I was strong enough to overcome. This time, I knew better, with the Helpers help. Blessed be our Guide. So, I chose obedience. Bam, the very next morning, 3 prayers were answered. Blessings.
This happened a couple of weeks ago, and I don’t remember all 3. 1 was for a brother in-Christ who helped me come to the Lord. He was falling and then he ended up MIA. I couldn’t reach him for around 6mo. I kept praying for the Lord to help bring him back to Him. Bam, 6:30 the next morning, he called. “Joe. I’m back with Christ.” Praise God! The other, also for months, I was praying for a family member to draw near to the Lord. I talk to this family member that day, bam, he starts talking about the Lord.. about faith, etc. I didn’t have to do anything.. God did it (that’s another topic on its own). I don’t recall the 3rd one, i should have blogged about it when it was fresh. I do remember 3 prayers answered the next morning.. Obedience and blessings.
This happened again last week. An email went out to the Body at our church. A brother in-Christ who cannot see needed a ride to the dentist. I’m laid-off and had the time.. but I didn’t want to do it. The Lord showed me that if it’s something “I” don’t want to do, then do it. lol. The night before the dentist appointment, I was convicted.. I called him out of obedience “Do you still need a ride?” He said “Praise God! Yes I do.” The next morning, I pick him up. He was going to a community college to have his teeth cleaned. I told him that I’ve tried to get in there for a cleaning but they are so backed up and are not returning my calls. I dropped him off and decided I would go in and talk to them when I came back to pick him up. As I drove off… I get a call from the receptionist at the clinic from my friend’s cell phone: Blessings: “We have an opening today at 3pm.. If you can make it, we’ll knock $10 off”. Praise God! But He’s better than $10 off.. I said blessings.. not a kind gesture, haha: 
I show up, they do the initial examination.. and then the instructor comes over. She checks out my teeth and said that they are having a hard time filling 24 slots for the student’s final exams. They only have 12 filled. She said my teeth perfectly fit the criteria for one of these slots. She said that if I agree to it, all of the xrays they just took and the cleaning will be free of charge. Of course I accepted.
Obedience (hearing a doing) results in blessings. Hearer and a doer. See somewhere around James 1:24. When I disobey the voice of the Lord, I separate myself from God. When I hear His voice and know what He wants me to do… I have to force myself to be in obedience, regardless of what I want to do. That’s a heart towards God and we will surely receive blessings. He says so.
Is He good or is He good? I so love you Lord.. thank you for helping me. This testimony of how obedience and blessings work can be witnessed in a real-life situation here as well: Faith in God’s provision
God bless you and yours,
joseph
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hello! what can i say that you havent heard before,my lord god has been there for me when i did wrong he stopped me! he was there when i was scared he comforted me, he was there when my life was on the line at least 4 times i remember, his angels protected me,when i showed serious weakness he did not block me out, he did not take his love out of my mind,while my past haunts me he has comforted me,he has not tossed me away he seems to gove me merit thru the blood of the lamb,i know in this life i am nothing, a sinner, a commandment breaker, but yet he sees something in me that i cannot, otherwise just like saul he would remove himself from my mind. but i do love him, adore him,want to praise his holy name,and definately when i see the lord jesus i want to drop to my knees and praise what ever way pleases him, in him i am somebody, in him i have a family, thru him my life is not a waste and thru him i have been made whole,thru his blood i am cleansed of all sins and what a god who does reveal himself to you thru your life and experiences, i do truly love him and get very sad when i sin even when i dont want to! for me saying bless his holly name gives me ultimate joy that who reads this will feel the same and give all lifes concerns to christ and let him help you forgive yourself!
when you look at all the riches of life, good and bad, thru christ you have become rich, christ who lives in you flows thru your mind soul,and spriit, the real you! you hear many say they have been forgiven which if you asked christ for forgiveness it is true, but take a next step check out his personality,once you truly see who he is, how he is, and why he is the way he is,you are truly blessed, the love of the creator who loves and care and knows my name how can you not be totaly amazed. god the father, creator,car giver,blessed one,wants to shower you with his totalism, his meaningness,like job,moses,david,paul, peter, and many more he wants to reveal himself to you!
the whole creation,earth and all thats in it,galaxies and all thats out there,heaven and to all his bright glory,it was all for his glory but a gift to one of his most prize possensions man. the real church knows him, his people hear his words and try and do them, those that seek him find an unexplainable comfort and yes they know from who, lift up your hearts, mind, eyes see his greatnesss,listen to his voice of the heavens,smell his greatness it has a aroma of calmness and trust,feel his amazing love, how else can you explain sending your son from heaven who loved it there,who was and seen gods glory in all aspects,to come to a world that did not want him,then and now! but to all wh do want him are the richest to leave and go to him. in my heart he is the life blood that flows thru my veins, his creations blow my mind,and his love for a rebellious creation unexplainable!
if you can just sit and allow your mind to let him reveal himself to you, your conscience will reveal good and evil in which lucifer is known for,his hope to swallow all mankind into his evil realm,thanks for christ who nips his hopes, that he has a different plan to save the ones who hear him and love him,in the final days save as many as will listen, give them the real light of the world,give them the gold for the soul,lift them up, praise them up thru prayer, forgive all anger, let the lord give them all they need in him,let thwm have merit in themselves thru gods holy gift the lord jesus christ!
Amen, amen, amen and amen brother!
Amen! to all of the testimonies given. I am getting closer to “GOD” every day, and it feels so good to me, to be able to have a “GOD” that loves me and and gives me the blessings that I ask for little by little. I don’t have the words to explain what he is doing and has done for me. I know the relationship problems that I’m having right now, the “LORD” will make everything right..I just need patience and my blessings will come. “PRAISE THE LORD”
Praise God that you’re drawing near to Him. Keep pressing in and be watchful.. He is who He says He is and will do what He says He will do (as long as we do our part!). He will not disappoint. He always says.. “If you will ___, then I shall ___.” We have a part to play in this..
I’m not sure what the relationship is that you mention. It could be a relationship with a family member, wife, co-worker, etc? He wants us to have peace with each other. But if it’s a sinful relationship, then blessings are found in obedience – confession and repentance.
Keep in mind that His way of making it right almost always differs from our ideas (unless we have the mind of Christ) –
Proverbs 3:5-8 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Keep on keepin’ on Nathaniel.. God bless you. Ok, one more thing. :)
These “problems” that you see.. The problem may be a blessing in disguise.. I recommend studying this closely. Peace be with you –
Jas 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Jas 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Jas 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Jas 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Jas 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Jas 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Jas 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Jas 1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
Jas 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Jas 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Jas 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Jas 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Jas 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jas 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Jas 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Jas 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jas 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Jas 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
Jas 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Jas 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Jas 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
Jas 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.