The Difference Obedience Makes

I am preparing a special message for Sunday. I have the privilege of preacing at Yellowstone Baptist Church in Cody, Wyoming for their 10th anniversary. It was just a little more than 10 years ago when my family visited Cody and YBC the first time. I preached for them at a Mexican Restaurant. By October I was the first pastor of a small group of believers meeting in a storefront. What a wonderful four years it was.

The Scripture God has taken me to is to contrasting passages in the OT. The first recounts the children of Israel failing to go Canaan after the majority of spies said "We Can't." But forty years later the spies (only 2 this time) said it was a sure thing, let's go, AND the people went. What a difference it made when the people of God, hear the voice of God, and in the power of God, OBEY God!!!! If (when!) any of us as individuals or a church fail to follow God in obedience we miss God's best. What to do? OBEY.

God has a plan to bless us. He has given His promises. All that we need to do is Obey. Like the priests that bore the Ark - we must step out by faith, expecting God to make a way when there seems to be no way. Do you want to see God work in a greater way in your life, in your church? Listen to Him and Obey.