i love that we talked about that savior and lord i love that you were talking about
holly um he's savior but then he becomes lord and i think there is something to be said when
he becomes lord it is the not my will but yours be done and what i've discovered in my life i
think this is a constant i think this happens throughout your life i don't think it's a one-time
sacrificial obedience because i could i can know pivotal moments where god asked
me to say no to something and also to pick something up that i didn't want to pick up
that i've had to yield my will because we often look at it well i see this far and we think we
know best about our lives but god has actually ordained every step he's written them in a book
and he's seen them before we even walk them out and so we have to trust that the one who created
us knows us best and what he's doing when he's asking us to surrender number one he we realized
who's actually in charge him not us but also that he knows the best outcome for us and i you
know i've been trying to teach my daughter this because she's 17 you know and she's in this season
of seeing that when you yield and obey that it's a killjoy to your life like god's asking so much of
you but what she what i've been trying to help her understand is that surrender and obedience
actually you gain more than you ever dreamed or imagined and that's what i think the enemy comes
in to lie to us and say well look at the money and look at the influence and look at the opportunity
but god goes but i need to test your heart because actually what i've got for you is greater than
you could even imagine yeah and you've limited yourself to this right and god says actually what
i see for you in the spirit is so vast and great that if you just trust me but if you're willing
and i love that god honors our decision he honors our choices but i've just learned that the the
walk of obedience man it leads to a life that you could never imagine even though at times it's felt
painful and you know limited alex i love that you talked about willing and obedient because you can
be obedient and unwilling or you can be willing and not obedient like i'm will i'm gonna think
about that i'm gonna go along with it and i love that you brought up abraham stephanie because when
abraham is going up to worship he looks at his servant when they said well where's the offering
and he says god will provide and we will come back to you and so he actually had a revelation
that because god is the one who gave him isaac that god was the one who could raise isaac
up if that's what needed to happen and of course we know he saw the ram caught in the thicket
and in that moment he has so it's not only about worship it's not only about love and obedience but
he had a revelation that had never been declared about god before he saw jehovah jireh he saw the
god who sees my needs and provides for them so there is provision in obedience and there is lack
in disobedience even if it looks like maybe at first it might be the way to have money uh it
in the long run it'll end up being disobedient and destruction and loss you know i i also love that
you guys brought up the difference says that holly that's what god said to you i remember
being a brand new christian i was married for about six months and we had a gym membership
and i went to this dance class and all of a sudden i realized we were dancing to music that was the
lyrics were absolutely horrifying and i seem to be the only person in the room that could
hear the lyrics and i said wait a minute did they just say and it's so bad i wouldn't even
repeat it it was so bad i said did they just say that and everybody's like yeah he just said that
and i felt so grieved in my spirit and i'm driving home afterwards and i've heard the holy spirit say
do not go there again he said dance is worship for you and he said so i do not want you
dancing to what diminishes me or my order or those created in my image and so what did i do i go out
to dinner with some of my friends throw it out on the table tell them all they need to they all
need to quit their dance class and to get out of jazzercise they need to get out of aerobics
and and they didn't receive it i'm like you all this is what the lord is saying this is what the
lord is saying and and i thought well my friends are a bunch of disobedient unwilling people
and when i was driving home god said to me i told you that i didn't tell you to say that
to everybody else he said that's the relationship that you and i have do not put your convictions on
other people because it just brings condemnation and bondage so i love that stephanie alex holly
you know we've all been trying to so carefully wrap that around lori's just always sweet but
we have some we have some borderline naughty women in the mix here uh better together so
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