Obedience in all things is key in this season. I am asking you to lean into My voice, trusting My timings. Don’t get stuck in the timings of the past, but focus on the fresh timings of this season.
I am asking you to yield to Me, and as you do so, you will experience closeness, intimacy, and an ability to discern My leading like never before. Lean into My voice, not relying upon your own understanding.
I am asking for your full trust, your full submission, and your full surrender in all things. Will you live your life on the altar for Me? Will you submit and surrender the things that are most precious to you? Will you choose Me above all else in your life?
I gave Abraham his heart’s desire when I blessed him with his son Isaac. When I asked for his obedience in sacrificing his precious son to Me, he was willing to give me both his son and his “yes.” I am asking you for both at this time as well. Will you give Me what is most important to you and will you give Me your full obedience?
Activation: Sit with Holy Spirit and allow Him to highlight the areas or things in your life that you have been holding onto but He wants you to submit to Him. Speak out loud:
“Lord, you have my full obedience and I will yield and surrender to you all that you ask. I give you access to all areas of my life and I give you my “Yes.” Amen.”
The Call of Abram
1 Now the Lord said[a] to Abram, “Go from your country[b] and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[c]
Genesis 22:1-3 (ESV)
9 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
Genesis 22:9-12 (ESV)
A Living Sacrifice
1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers,[a] by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.[b]
2 Do not be conformed to this world,[c] but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.[d]
Gifts of Grace
3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
4 For as in one body we have many members,[e] and the members do not all have the same function,
5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
7 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;
8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads,[f] with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Marks of the True Christian
9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit,[g] serve the Lord.
12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.[h] Never be wise in your own sight.
17 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it[i] to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
20 To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:1 (ESV)
Footnotes
[a] Romans 12:1 Or brothers and sisters
[b] Romans 12:1 Or your rational service
[c] Romans 12:2 Greek age
[d] Romans 12:2 Or what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God
[e] Romans 12:4 Greek parts; also verse 5
[f] Romans 12:8 Or gives aid
[g]Romans 12:11 Or fervent in the Spirit
[h]Romans 12:16 Or give yourselves to humble tasks
[i] Romans 12:19 Greek give place
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