{"id":2034,"date":"2020-01-28T09:12:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2020-01-28T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:12:05","slug":"devotion-luke-11-28-obey-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"Devotion        Luke 11.28       Obey God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNormal\"><b>Luke 11:28<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<i>He replied, \u201cBlessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4textexposedshow\">Yesterday I posted a post stating \u201c<i>I\u2019m learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 I thought I would like you to know what I was thinking.\u00a0 The post below, which I hope you will read and which I did not write, wonderfully states what I meant by the previous post.\u00a0 Family, we are called by God.\u00a0 Do what God calls us to do.\u00a0 If he says \u201cgo\u201d, then go.\u00a0 If He says \u201cdon\u2019t go,\u201d then don\u2019t go. Either way, \u201cgo\u201d or \u201cdon\u2019t go\u201d follow God despite what others say, even the well intentioned.\u00a0 Obey God, even despite what we think is reasonable.\u00a0 Follow God.\u00a0 If God leads us to it then He will see us through it.\u00a0 Follow God, listen to the guiding of His Spirit.\u00a0 In doing that, the lives around we will be blessed, and of course, we will be blessed. \u00a0\u00a0Follow God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\">This is the post by\u00a0<b>Charmane Macombe<\/b>r that I read today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The little boy put on his clothes for the cold and then told his father: &#8220;Ok dad I&#8217;m ready&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">His Dad, the pastor, said: &#8220;Ready for what?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Dad, it&#8217;s time to go outside and distribute our flyers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dad replied: &#8220;Son, it&#8217;s very cold outside and it&#8217;s drizzling.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The child looked surprised at his father and said: &#8220;But dad, people need to know about God even on rainy days.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dad replied, &#8220;Son, I&#8217;m not going outside in this weather.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">With despair, the child said: &#8220;Dad, can I go alone? Please!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">His father waited for a moment and then said: &#8220;Son, you can go. Here&#8217;s the flyers, be careful.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Thank you dad!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">And with this, the son went out into the rain. The 11-Year-old walked all the streets of the village, handing out the flyers to the people he saw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">After 2 hours walking in the rain and in the cold and with his last flyer in his hand, he stopped in a corner to see if he saw someone to give the flyer too, but the streets were totally deserted. Then he turned to the first house he saw, walked to the front door, touched the bell several times and waited, but no one came out.\u00a0 Finally the boy turned to leave, but something stopped him. The child turned back to the door and began to touch the bell and pound the door strongly with his knuckles. He kept waiting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Finally the door was opened gently.\u00a0 A lady came out with a very sad look and gently asked:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;What can I do for you, son?\u00a0 With radiant eyes and a bright smile the child said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Lady, I&#8217;m sorry if I upset you, but I just want to tell you that God really loves you and that I came to give you my last flyer, which talks about God and His great love The boy then gave her the flyer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">She just said, &#8220;Thank you, son, God bless you!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Well, next Sunday morning, the pastor was in the pulpit and when the service began he asked:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Someone has a testimony or something they want to share?&#8221;\u00a0 Gently, in the back row of the church, an older lady stood up. When she started talking, a radiant and glorious look sprouted from her eyes: &#8220;Nobody in this church knows me. I have never been here, even last Sunday I was not Christian.\u00a0 My husband died a while ago leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday was a particularly cold and rainy day, and it was also in my heart; that on that day I came to the end of the road, since I had no hope and didn&#8217;t want to live anymore. Then I took a chair and a rope and went up to the attic of my house. I tied one end of the rope to the rafters of the roof; then I climbed onto the chair and put the other end of the rope around my neck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I then stood on the chair, so alone and heartbroken, I was about to throw myself off the chair, when suddenly I heard the loud sound of the door being knocked.\u00a0 So I thought: &#8220;I&#8217;ll wait for a minute and whoever it is will go.&#8221;\u00a0 I waited and waited, but the door knocking was getting louder and louder every time. It got so loud that I couldn&#8217;t ignore it anymore.\u00a0 So I wondered, who could it be?\u00a0 No one ever comes close to my door or come to visit me!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I released the rope from my neck and went to the door, while the bell was still ringing and the door was still being knocked on. When I opened the door, I couldn&#8217;t believe what my eyes saw, in front of my door was the most radiant and angelic child I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 His smile, ohhh, I can never describe it! The words that came out of his mouth made my heart, dead so long ago, come back to life, when he said with the VOICE OF CHERUB: &#8220;Lady, I just want to tell you that God really loves you.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;When the little angel disappeared between the cold and the rain, I closed my door and read every word of the flyer.\u00a0 Then I went to the attic to remove the chair and rope.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t need them anymore. As you see. Now I am a happy daughter of the King<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As the directions of the boy, when he left, was to this church, I came personally say thank you to that little angel of God who came just in time and, in fact, to rescue my life from an eternity in hell. And replaced it with an eternity in God&#8217;s presence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Everyone cried in the church.\u00a0 The Pastor came down from the pulpit to the first bench of the front, where the little angel was sitting; he took his son in his arms and cried uncontrollably.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Don&#8217;t let this message die of cold; after reading it, pass it on to others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Remember, God&#8217;s message can make a big difference in someone&#8217;s life, never be afraid to spread it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<i>He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7885057478ydpae136cd4MsoNoSpacing\"><b>Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 11:28\u00a0\u2013\u00a0He replied, \u201cBlessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.\u201d Yesterday I posted a post stating \u201cI\u2019m learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.\u201d\u00a0 I thought I would like you to know what I was thinking.\u00a0 The post below, which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[106,94,1874,17],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-luke","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}