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Abba, God, Holy Spirit, Living in Jesus, nourishment, obedience, Prayer, strength, sustenance
Obedience is a word where you can almost “see” and “feel” the blocks automatically going up, but that is because the prince of this world is against all things pertaining to our Creator, the Great I Am, our Abba. And as we live in the flesh, or physical world, we will experience the struggle. But through your deepening relationship with Jesus you realize the beauty, strength, and pure Divine sustenance wrapped up in that one word. And strip down bare, the word “obedience” says in a profound way: My Beloved Abba, I trust you and what you want for me more than anyone or anything else, and only you can provide that. What matters to you, matters to me; you created me and only you know what I need to live and flourish.
And when you focus only on Jesus, nourishing and nurturing a moment by moment relationship with Him, you are allowing the Holy Spirit to carve upon your heart and mind the Truth that only your Abba truly knows what you have need of. That simple, but profound truth will intimately be used to guide you, remind you, and instill a depth of strength you may never have experienced before. It shows you what you physically can’t see, and it whispers limitless instruction while you continue to dwell in this limited world. And what becomes a soothing oil, healing and strengthening your self-control, as He adds profound strength towards helping you to be actively obedient to Him through all things, is when you realize in a deep and meaningful way that what matters to you, matters to Him.
Being an obedient Japanese wife the word can, for me, have negative connotations, but I understand that being obedient to God is being mindful of the laws that govern this world. Being obedient in this way we are apt to flourish.
That isn’t completely correct, with that type of thinking there is still a major block, and it isn’t flourishing in how your Abba, God, wants His beloved child to flourish. He wants more for us. Our focus must not be on the laws, nor the laws that govern this world, that is limiting God. But our focus must always be on Jesus, the mystery of the “Gospel, Christ within us,” the Fulfiller of God’s law and the Laws. As you focus, inwardly on hearing from Jesus even more, the Holy Spirit works deep within you so that you begin to become more aware of Jesus than anything else. Moment by moment, as you begin to speak more and more to Jesus, He guides you, and what even you may think you have to do, the Lord may say, “No.” and hold you back. ONLY the Holy Spirit can correctly teach us His voice, and as Jesus leads you, from deep within, you will find that only through Him can you have healed relationships, etc. You are correct in that we must be more aware of our obedience to God, but the Holy Spirit guides us, comforts us, and strengthens us to allow that to happen. Jesus is the only one who can truly guide us, and our steps will always follow in with God’s laws, because our Savior has fulfilled them. It is Christ within us, and as we, individually, privately, nurture our relationship with Him, we become more aware of Him than anything else, and His way is the ONLY way, and you will find that also perfectly lines up with respect to the laws that govern this world. Praise Jesus! :) Have a great day & week!