Can I obey?

As parents, it seems like we're constantly trying to get our kids to obey. It's simple. Obedience brings peace. Sometimes there are even rewards for obedience. What happens then when we are challenged as adults by our Heavenly Father to obey Him? Now it doesn't seem that simple. We have agendas of our own and His doesn't seem to fit. This has been me recently.

About a month ago, I was enjoying my Facebook account (as usual) when I felt the Lord telling me to close down my account. What? Did He really say that? Couldn't be. Facebook is wonderful!! Why would He want me to give up something so great? So, that repeated itself several times over the past month. I kept giving Him reasons as to why it's so good for me: I'm reconnected with people that I haven't seen in a LONG time (as well as people I get to see frequently) and I've been able to share with people about what a WONDERFUL God I serve (which I thought would win Him hands down).

Last week, I was doing the dishes with my 11 y.o. and I started crying out to the Lord about our finances that we need and I felt the Him again tell me to close down my account. Immediately after, I heard this question in my head: "Are you willing to miss the Lord's blessing b/c of being disobedient about Facebook?". Wow. My answer was of course, "NO!" and I went to the computer and immediately shut it down. Then I began to pray that my delayed obedience would be forgiven and that He would bring the blessings back that I may have missed during my period of disobedience. God is good and even though I was slow in obeying, I believe that He has forgiven me and is extended grace and mercy to me .

Well, last night during dinner, the doorbell rang. It was our postman delivering a package for us. We weren't expecting anything, and we saw that someone wrote on the side of the box, "Be Blessed"!! Oooh, I just LOVE those kind of boxes!! :) Anyway, inside was a NEW CAMERA!!! Well, not entirely new, but so beautiful just the same!! It's a Canon Power Shot and it's AMAZING!! :) I still can't believe it!! We were just talking a few weeks ago that wouldn't it be great to get a camera for the family and then use the old slow one for Chris' work. I just can't believe it!! :) God is SO good!! :) And you better believe that we're praying for HUGE blessings for the individual/people who obeyed the Lord!!

Also in the package were 2 CD's by Jesse Duplantis. It has already changed my way of thinking and we've only listened to one of them! It was titled, "Hey, that's MY Harvest!". It's on how we need to bring our tithes AND offerings. And when we bring our offerings, we need to NAME our harvest so that when it comes, we recognize it. Otherwise, the enemy will steal it from us! This is for people who are in alignment with God's Kingdom of course. He is not a genie in a bottle that we can tell Him what to do. Oh no. He's THE God of the universe and King of Kings and best of all: MY (YOUR) ABBA (DADDY)!!!

I want to be in a place of TOTAL obedience ALL the time. I don't want to let Him wait on me any longer. I don't want to miss a SINGLE thing that He has for me. How about you? What are some ways that you could obey Him? It may be simple, or it may be more complex. But one thing is for sure. He is faithful through ALL things. When we are faithful with the small things, we will be faithful in the big things. (Luke 16:10). Yeah for Jesus who trusts me to obey Him!! Can't wait to post more soon!!

Be BLESSED!!