FAITH CAPSULE: Obey to experience the miracle hand of God.

Deuteronomy 28

Obedience is to believe and do what God says. 
The character of obedience will demonstrate having trust and hope in God.
To obey is like gaining access to the door of blessing as stated, “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God…” (Deuteronomy 28:2) 
One having trust and hope is like having the key to the opening door of blessing. 
Jeremiah 17:7 buttresses, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” 
Obedience demands hearing to do the word of God. 
Philippians 4:9 records the importance of hearing and doing as obedience to God, “The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.” Are you obeying God to have the blessing of having the peace of God?
One that hears and heeds the word of God shall see a miracle. 
Acts 8:5-8 records, “Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. And there was great joy in that city.” 
Philip preached Christ (the Word of God), and many heard him heed and see the miracle hand of God.
With obedience by hearing and heeding, seeing the miracle of the hand of God answers in the life of obedience.
Understanding the blessing of obeying the word of God also demands the need to understand the consequence of disobeying the word of God. 
In life, not hearing and heeding is taking the route of curses. 
The book of Deuteronomy 28:15 records, “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.”
No one can deceive God.
James 1:22-23 admonishes, “But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror.” 
Know that sacrificial service to God is good. 
However, sacrificial service is not enough if hearing and doing the word of God is not a way of life before God.
Attend the word of God to know, “…to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.” (1 Samuel 15:22)

Prayer for today: Ask that hearing and doing the word of God shall be your way of life.