Sermon Illustrations

Tag: obedience

  • Freedom from debt

    Freedom from debt

    There is a clear biblical procedure for getting out of debt, for staying out of debt, and for becoming financially independent. The biblical definition for financial indepen-dence is being in the place where you never have to make a decision based on financial considerations, but simply on the revealed will of God. This is the…

  • Acts of obedience

    Acts of obedience

    One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons. Dietrich BonhoefferClick to Tweet

  • Prayer for revical

    Prayer for revical

    Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late — and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. A.W.Tozer – American Author (1897-1963)Click to TweetFrom the book “Developing Prophetic Culture: Building…

  • Standing on your head!

    Standing on your head!

    As she left a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, a woman was praying, “Lord, I’ll do anything for You. I’ll do anything. Just tell me what You want me to do, and I’ll do it.” In that moment she sensed something and realized, I’m supposed to turn left. It almost felt like a whim, but desperately…

  • Intimacy, simplicity and obedience

    The ability to hear what God is saying, to see what God is doing, and to move in the realm of the miraculous comes as an individual develops the same intimacy with and dependence upon the Father [as Jesus had]. How did Jesus do what he did? The answer is found in his relationship with…

  • Calling and obedience

    If you know you’re living out your calling, financial security, location, notoriety, applause&power become increasingly less important. Obedience becomes the primary issue. Let others build fortunes & empires; calling leads you to surrender to God.” Gordon Macdonald Gordon MacdonaldClick to Tweet

  • common sense tells us that

    common sense tells us that when Paul commands Timothy to “endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ,” that is a command that I should seek to obey whenever I face hardship like Timothy. It transfers to me in principle. But when Paul commands Timothy, “Come before winter, bring my cloak, and especially the parchments,”…

  • The crime novelist, Agatha Christie,

    The crime novelist, Agatha Christie, was married to the archaeologist, Sir Max Malowan, and she used to say that being married to an archaeologist had a certain advantage: because the older she got the more interested he became in her! To love someone is to seek to get to know them better and better. And,…