THE LIFE of aDISCIPLE…Trust and obeyFor there’s no other wayTo be happy in JesusThan to trust and obey

ISAIAH (chapter 55)

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,    neither are your ways My ways,”

declares the Lord.“As the heavens are higher than the earth,

    so are My ways higher than your ways    and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

NOAH (genesis 6)“Make yourself an ark of gopher wood…And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.” Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's

house to the land that I will show you…So Abram went, as the Lord had told him.

ABRAM (genesis 12)

God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac,

whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt

offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” So Abraham rose early

in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men

with him, and his son Isaac.

ABRAHAM (genesis 22)

ABRAHAM (genesis 22)

And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which

God had told him. On the third day Abraham

lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and

the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.”

MOSES (exodus 14)

The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.”

JOSHUA (chapter 3)

Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.

And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all

the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan,

the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down

from above shall stand in one heap.

JOSHUA (chapter 6)

Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel.

None went out, and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have

given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor. You shall march

around the city, all the men of war going around the city

once.

JOSHUA (chapter 6)

Thus shall you do for six days. Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns

before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the

priests shall blow the trumpets. And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn,

when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout…

GIDEON (judges 7)

And the Lord said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.”

ISAIAH (chapter 20)

…At that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the

sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from

your feet,” and he did so, walking naked and barefoot. Then the Lord said,

“As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign…”

EZEKIEL (chapter 4)

“And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. And put siege works against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it,and plant battering rams against it all around.

And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city…

EZEKIEL (chapter 4)

and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siegeagainst it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment. For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years…

EZEKIEL (chapter 4)

…of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel. And when you have completed these, you shall

lie down a second time, but on your right side,

and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year. And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall…

EZEKIEL (chapter 4)

…prophesy against the city. And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.

JONAH (chapter 1)

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their

evil has come up before Me.”

HOSEA (chapter 1)

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”

HOSEA (chapter 3)

And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods…

ANANIAS (acts 9)

And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house

of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying…” But Ananias

answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man,

how much evil he has done to Your saints at Jerusalem.” But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he

is a chosen instrument of Mine to carry My Name before the Gentiles and kings and the

children of Israel.

PETER (Acts 10)The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.

And he became hungry and wanted something to eat,

but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending,

being let down by its four corners upon the earth.

PETER (Acts 10)In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles

and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” But Peter

said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten

anything that is common or unclean.” And the voice came to him again a

second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.”

This happened three times…

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SO WHAT’S THE POINT ?!1. “Trust & obey” RARELY – if ever – means doing what is “safe” or the most “logical”

SO WHAT’S THE POINT ?!1. “Trust & obey” RARELY – if ever – means doing what is “safe” or the most “logical”

2. “Trust & obey” USUALLY – but not always –

means doing so in the little things