we are talking about obedience and love and lori the scripture that you brought up i used to always
hear it wrong i heard it as lisa if you love me you will prove it to me by keeping my commandments
but john 14 15 says if you love me you will keep my commandments see the fact that when we love
jesus it doesn't become burdensome to keep his commandments you know i've been married to john
bevere for 39 years and let's see if i came to him and said john if you love me you'll keep my
commandments you'll keep my commandments but see i don't have to he doesn't keep my commandments
to prove that he loves me he actually wants to walk in sync with me he wants to walk in
harmony with me because he loves me the letter says if i am going to prove my love to god
i have to keep the law i have to do it to the nth degree but i love that jesus when he interacted he
interacted with the rich young ruler and said he looked at him and he loved him and he said
hey this is how it looks this is how it works its way out so because we love god we are empowered
to keep his commandments and the bible says his commandments are not grievous it isn't like he's
laying a burden on us his yoke is easy his burden is light that love relationship connects us with
him and empowers us to walk in obedience uh one of these questions on here was there ever a time
when you had a problem with obedience absolutely absolutely there was a time when lisa bevere had
problems with obedience here's this idea i was sitting i was sitting in the back of a church
service a friend and i had gone to the surface she had just gone through a devastating divorce
and she wanted to get a word and i remember thinking girlfriend you got about another hour
if you don't get your word my milk's letting down and i'm gonna have to go home and nurse a baby
and all of the sudden the guy points to our back corner my friend pops up and she's like i'm ready
give me my word and he was like nope not you her and i'm like wait i'm just moral support here
and he said stand up he said i hear god say to you write right right and you say no no no and i was
like okay that's private conversations between me and god i don't know why you're bringing that up
in front of everybody here and he said i hear you say that i don't want to obey god because
i want to protect my children wow and he said to me i'm telling you right now your obedience
will protect your children wow i believe there is no higher form of spiritual warfare than obedience
and so i remember just feeling so called out and i i just hit my face when i got home after i nursed
of course and i said god show me the areas of my life where i own them where i am disobedient
because we will only be disobedient in the areas where we own our lives and we have not
submitted our will to the lordship of jesus christ anybody else out there have a little
disobedient bent to them no never i've never i've never been disobedient ever okay i'm a liar
you know i think that it's it i and i like how you started i i think it's interesting because
i think we when we think about obeying you know obedience like this commandments obedience we
think it's all about a bunch of rules right but it got it got simplified right jesus simplified it he
simplified all of those rules to two love god and love people and so i think we have to be careful
that we don't put this weight on people about a bunch of rules to follow right
and discount the fact that at the heart of it it's loving god and loving people and
so i just think many times that's what i've done i've i have put this weight on myself and i
i've had to just simplify it back to whether it's with with my husband i mean come on the people you
live with can be the most irritating and after a year of quarantine like there's such a thing as
too much togetherness there just is there it just is we're not supposed to be together this much
and so i think i found myself i know that no one else on this show can relate today um well
actually laurie probably can't because she's perfect but the rest of you probably can't
but so i found myself getting so irritated and snappy right at my husband just like about
ridiculous things i mean he did deserve some of them but just ridiculous things
and there were so many moments when i felt the spirit of god challenge me about holly
what i want you to do right now is is i want you to go and hug your husband
i didn't want to hug him truth is i wanted to no not hug him right but so in that moment that was
like that decision of obedience right and that's kind of a funny one perhaps but i think to your
point lisa it's those when we hear those those promptings from the spirit of god right that's the
benefit of the spirit of god living in us right is he gets to prompt us toward those moments of
obedience and sometimes i think we're looking at the big things like for you lisa was write a book
but oftentimes it's the simple things like go hold your husband's hand right at tbn our mission is
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