You never know how big of a threat you are to the enemy’s plans until you start doing the will of God.
obedience
Spiritual maturity
Spiritual maturity isn’t measured by how high you jump in praise but how straight you walk in obedience.
Obedience is the outward evidence
Obedience is the outward evidence of the true fear of the Lord. -John Bevere
No healthy Christian
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. Oswald Chambers
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to. — Elisabeth Elliot
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Faithfulness requires courage
Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives. — Brennan Manning
