Message: Feel the Fear and do it anyway: Obedience Date: 6th March 2019 Ministered by: Davina Yorke

1. Feel The Fear
& Do It
Anyway:
Obedience
By Davina Yorke

2. WHAT IS OBEDIENCE?
GENERALLY:
– compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's
authority.
BIBLICALLY:
– To hear God’s Word and act accordingly;
– Hearing or hearkening to a higher authority;
– To submit and surrender to the Word: to trust.

3. EXAMPLES OF OBEDIENCE
– Abraham: ‘father of faith’
– Jesus: ‘obeyed unto the point of death’ Philippians 2:8
– Noah: obeyed in creating Noah’s Ark
– Daniel: refused to bow to the King

4. DISOBEDIENCE
– 1 “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai,
saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against
it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” 3 But Jonah arose
to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down
to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare,
and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the
presence of the Lord.”
– JONAH 1:1-3

5. WHY DO WE DISOBEY?
FEAR
– Insecurity and fear can take hold of us and make us feel less than
what God has called us to be.
PRIDE
– We may think that we are better than what God is calling us to do
or to say.
– Indirect pride

6. DISOBEDIENCE
– Partial obedience is disobedience!
– Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven
for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for
that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will
follow my instructions. Exodus 16:4
– Delayed obedience is disobedience!
“Without delay I hurry to obey your commands” Psalm 119:60

7. WHY DO WE DISOBEY?
1 Samuel 15
3 Now go and attack[a] Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not
spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep,
camel and donkey.’ ”
9 “But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the
fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy
them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.”
22 So Samuel said:
“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the
voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat
of rams.

8. THE STORY OF SAUL
Acts 8:3- As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every
house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to
prison.
Acts 9:6- So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You
want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the
city, and you will be told what you must do.”

9. HOW CAN WE BE OBEDIENT?
1. Have a relationship with God
Jeremiah 29:13; James 4:8
2. Accept that we are flawed
Isaiah 64:6; Romans 3:23
3. Be transparent and open
Luke 16:15
4. Find accountability
Ecclesiastes 4:10; Provers 27:17
ABOVE ALL- GOD’s WORD.

10. Feel The Fear: Do It Anyway!
– Genesis 12:1-3
“Now the LORD had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and
make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all
the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And
Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.”