{"id":6272,"date":"2016-04-07T16:48:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=6272"},"modified":"2016-04-07T16:48:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:48:43","slug":"incomplete-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=6272","title":{"rendered":"INCOMPLETE OBEDIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong> Before God, incomplete obedience is a full complete disobedience.<\/p>\n

1 Samuel 15<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Obedience demands commitment but denies convenience. Obedience is often demands agreement or submission. Think of it, obedience is sacrifice. The word of God demands full obedience without any excuse or compromise. Rising in response to the word of God is not enough without rising and moving in direct of the word of God.
\nKing Saul was an example of rising in obedience to the word of God but could not answer fully in direction of the word of God.
\nGod sent Samuel to Saul, \u201cThus says the Lord of hosts: \u2018I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. 3\u00a0<\/sup>Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.\u2019\u201d (1 Samuel 15:2-3)<\/em><\/strong> King Saul rose up in obedience but failed to fully answer to the word of direction. Saul spared some and destroyed as decided on his own against the word of God. Saul failed and was rejected by God.
\nRising in obedience to the word of God is not enough without rising and going in the direction of the word of God. Many are failing to fully answer in the direction of God\u2019s word. Jonah answered but failed to fully answer. It is written, \u201cNow the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 \u2019Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.\u2019 3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.\u201d (Jonah 1:1-3)<\/em><\/strong> Jonah responded by hearing but followed the dictates of his heart.
\nDisobedience of Jonah led him in the belly of a fish. It was a dark place; an unfamiliar ground for Jonah. An act of disobedience is to be disoriented just as it was like Jonah\u2019s incomplete obedience. So many have started in the calling of God but failed as incomplete before God.
\nJonah knew he entered self-affliction; He called on God. Jonah 2:1-2, \u201cThen Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish\u2019s belly. And he said: \u2018I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, and He answered me. \u201cOut of the belly of Sheol I cried,\u00a0and You heard my voice.\u201d\u201d<\/em><\/strong> God answered Jonah and his repentance to God delivered him from incomplete obedience. Full obedience is all that counts before God. Excuse for disobedience could not deliver King Saul. Before God, incomplete obedience is a full complete disobedience.<\/p>\n

Prayer for today:<\/strong> Ask God to help you and not be a failure.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE: Before God, incomplete obedience is a full complete disobedience. 1 Samuel 15 Obedience demands commitment but denies convenience. Obedience is often demands agreement or submission. Think of it, obedience is sacrifice. The word of God demands full obedience without any excuse or compromise. Rising in response to the word of God is not … Continue reading INCOMPLETE OBEDIENCE<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6273,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions\/6273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}