We have been talking about the process of change. How sometimes we get to those moments in our lives when we stop and rest and then stay. I have found that when I am in a place I don't want to be and that "itchy" feeling comes over me to move ahead in the purposes of God, there is a process even to responding to God's calling.
I believe that there are 2 types of obedience:
1)response required immediately- These are the moments when God asks you to walk across a room and touch someone's life. Or when there is a clear command to stop and change. If God speaks to you and expects IMMEDIATE response, to not respond is the same as disobedience.
2)obedience to change: this is a call to a major paradigm shift in your heart. A new direction or calling. Like someone who feels the call of God to the mission field. There is a whole long process that has to be undertaken in order to do that well. To suddenly get on a plane to Africa with no passport, medication, financial support or even a landing place would be stupid.
Sometimes, I think that we hear the Voice of the Lord leading us into major life changes without putting in the homework required to do that life change well. There was a Message that Jay preached about this very subject. The biggest take away for me was that God is always more interested in changing our hearts than our behaviours. If God is prompting you to lose weight, it is because there is a heart issue that could be keeping you from the fullest relationship with God. To short change the process for a heart issue and deal only with the behaviour can be frustrating and cause us to need to revisit that place to learn the heart issues.
Are there pending acts of obedience that require a process?
1)response required immediately- These are the moments when God asks you to walk across a room and touch someone's life. Or when there is a clear command to stop and change. If God speaks to you and expects IMMEDIATE response, to not respond is the same as disobedience.
2)obedience to change: this is a call to a major paradigm shift in your heart. A new direction or calling. Like someone who feels the call of God to the mission field. There is a whole long process that has to be undertaken in order to do that well. To suddenly get on a plane to Africa with no passport, medication, financial support or even a landing place would be stupid.
Sometimes, I think that we hear the Voice of the Lord leading us into major life changes without putting in the homework required to do that life change well. There was a Message that Jay preached about this very subject. The biggest take away for me was that God is always more interested in changing our hearts than our behaviours. If God is prompting you to lose weight, it is because there is a heart issue that could be keeping you from the fullest relationship with God. To short change the process for a heart issue and deal only with the behaviour can be frustrating and cause us to need to revisit that place to learn the heart issues.
Are there pending acts of obedience that require a process?
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