FAITH CAPSULE: One that rises to obey shall move as directed by the word of God,

1 Samuel 15

Obedience demands commitment with no promise for convenience. 
Obedience demands agreement or submission.
Think of it and know that obedience is sacrifice.
The word of God demands to obey with no excuse or compromise. 
Rising in obedience to the word of God is not enough without moving as commanded by the word of God.
King Saul was an example of rising in obedience to the word of God but could not move forward to do according to the word of God.
For example, God sent Samuel to Saul, “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and attack 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.’” (1 Samuel 15:2-3) 
King Saul rose in obedience but failed to move according to the word of God.
Saul spared some and destroyed as decided on his own against the word of God. 
Disobedience to God will always provoke the rejection of disobedience by God.
Rising in obedience to the word of God is not enough without moving obediently to God. 
Many are failing before God, not obeying according to the word of God.
Are you one with a disobedience lifestyle before God?
Jonah, a servant of God, answered but failed to move according to the word of God. The Bible records, “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) 
Jonah responded by hearing but followed the dictates of his heart.
The disobedience of Jonah was half-obedience.
The disobedience of Jonah led him into the belly of a fish, a dark place, on the unfamiliar ground for Jonah. 
An act of disobedience will dislocate you unfailingly.
Disobedience to the word of God is not complete obedience. 
Many answers to God obediently but do not obey in the journey of the calling by God.
Jonah, by his disobedience, entered self-affliction.
Jonah called on God, “Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish’s belly. And he said: ‘I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, and He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and You heard my voice,” (Jonah 2:1-2) 
God answered Jonah, and his repentance to God delivered him from incomplete obedience. 
To be fully obeyed is all that counts before God. 
Excuse for disobedience failed King Saul. 
One disobedient to God despises God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you not to be a failure in His calling over your life.