Journey to Obedience - Daily Scriptures (NIV)

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DAY 1 - Wed. (2/18)

DEUTERONOMY 5:33  

Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

DAY 2 - Thurs. (2/19)

JOSHUA 1:7-8

Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

DAY 3 - Fri. (2/20)

1 SAMUEL 15:22

But Samuel replied:

“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the Lord?
To obey is better than sacrifice,
and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

DAY 4 - Sat. (2/21)

DEUTERONOMY 11:1

Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.

DAY 5 - Mon (2/23)

PSALM 119:60

I will hasten and not delay
to obey your commands.

DAY 6 - Tues. (2/24)

ISAIAH 1:19

If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat the good things of the land;

DAY 13 - Wed. (3/4)

MATTHEW 26:39

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

DAY 14 - Thurs. (3/5)

ROMANS 5:19

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

DAY 15 - Fri. (3/6)

DEUTERONOMY 28:2-2

If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.  All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:

DAY 16 - Sat. (3/7)

ISAIAH 48:18

You have neither heard nor understood;
from of old your ears have not been open.
Well do I know how treacherous you are;
you were called a rebel from birth.

DAY 17 - Mon. (3/9)

JEREMIAH 7:23

but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you.

DAY 18 - Tues. (3/10)

LUKE 11:28

He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

DAY 19 - Wed. (3/11)

JAMES 1:22

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

DAY 20 - Thurs. (3/12)

PSALM 112:1

Praise the Lord.

Blessed are those who fear the Lord,
who find great delight in his commands.

DAY 21 - Fri. (3/13)

JOHN 15:10-11

If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

DAY 22 - Sat. (3/14)

ROMANS 7:15-20

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.  And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.  For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.  For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.  Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

DAY 23 - Mon. (3/16)

ROMANS 8:7-8

The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

DAY 24 - Tues. (3/17)

GALATIANS 5:16-17

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

DAY 25 - Wed. (3/18)

2 CORINTHIANS 10:5

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

DAY 26 - Thurs. (3/19)

1 PETER 1:4

...and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, ...

DAY 27- Fri. (3/20)

EPHESIANS 6:6

Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.

DAY 28 - Sat. (3/21)

HEBREWS 13:17

Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

DAY 29 - Mon. (3/23)

DEUTERONOMY 30:16

For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

DAY 30 - Tues. (3/24)

JOHN 14:21

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

DAY 31 - Wed. (3/25)

JOHN 15:12

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

DAY 32 - Thurs. (3/26)

1 PETER 1:14

As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

DAY 33 - Fri. (3/27)

1 JOHN 3:24

The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

DAY 34 - Sat. (3/28)

1 JOHN 5:3

In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, ...

DAY 35 - Mon. (3/30)

2 JOHN 1:6

And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

DAY 36 - Tues. (3/31)

MATTHEW 7:21

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

DAY 37 - Wed. (4/1)

MATTHEW 28:20

...and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

DAY 38 - Thurs. (4/2)

HEBREWS 10:36

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

DAY 39 - Fri. (4/3)

REVELATION 3:10

Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.

DAY 40 - Sat. (4/4)

REVELATION 14:12

This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.

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