Nov18 — Week Two: Walking in Obedience

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

Jonah 1:1-3

“Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and call out against it for thir evil has come up before me. But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going tto Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down to it, to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of the Lord."

James 4:17

“So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."

Reflection

Jonah heard God clearly and went the other way, buying a ticket to anywhere but obedience.

We do this more than we realize. We call it "thinking it through", "waiting for confirmation", "getting our ducks in a row". But heaven calls it what it is, disobedience dressed up as delay.

God isn't unclear. We are often unwilling.

Obedience is not agreement with God's plan after it makes sense, obedience is movement because He spoke.

Delayed obedience costs more than immediate surrender. It costs time, peace and often the very people we are called to love.

The call today is simple and strong. Stop running in circles and start walking in faith.

God's commands are not punishment; they're protection and positioning.

Remember, when He says "go", He's already prepared the grace you'll need when you get there.

If This Spoke to You

Reply/comment below and tell me which part you’re waiting on right now. I’d love to pray specifically over you this week.

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Wishing you a Great Day Ahead,

Mandi 🤍