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Nov17 — Week Two: Walking in Obedience

Mandi
Nov 17
3 min read

Because healing is more than what we eat, it’s who we become.

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Introduction

Healing is often talked about in terms of food, supplements, routines, and protocols. Those things matter. But they are not the whole story.

Chronic illness affects more than the body. It affects confidence, identity, hope, and faith. It changes how we see ourselves and how we relate to God.

For many of us, the hardest part of healing isn’t what we eat, it’s learning how to keep trusting when our bodies don’t cooperate. It’s learning how to stay hopeful when progress feels slow. It’s learning how to feel safe in a body that has scared us.

That is why these devotionals exist.

Daily Bread is a space to check in with your spirit — not just your symptoms. It is a place to remind yourself that God is near, that you are not alone in what you’re walking through, and that healing is not something you have to force.

This Week’s Focus: Walking in Obedience

This week, we are focusing on obedience, not as blind following, but as trust in motion. It’s choosing to move even when the path ahead isn’t fully clear.

You don’t have to see the whole plan to take the next step. You don’t need to understand everything God is doing to follow what He’s asking.

God isn’t calling you to figure everything out He’s calling you to follow Him.

As we walk through this week’s Scriptures, I encourage you to listen for His voice in the small things, take the step in front of you, and believe that obedience always leads to blessing even if it first leads you out of your comfort zone.

Today's Scripture

Genesis 12: 1-2

“Now the Lord said to Abrahan, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing."

Hebrews 11:8

“By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to recieve as an inheritance, And he went out not knowing where he was going."

Reflection

God didn't give Abraham a map, He gave him the word. He told him to go. No details, notimelines, no garuntee of how anything would turn out.

Abraham did as he was told.

That's obedience. That is faith in motion.

So many of us want to walk in obendience, but we also want clarity first. We want the full plan laid out, the reassurance garunteed, and the outcome secured.

But faith doesn't work that way. Faith requires movement before understanding.

When God asks you to take a step, He's not testint your knowledge, He's building your trust.

Obedience isn't about knowing the "how". It's about believing in "Who" has your back and is guiding you to opportunity.

You may not see the whole path, but you can trust the One who does. And like Abraham, you'll find that blessings aren't waiting at the finish line, but rather,they begin the moment you take the first step.