Nov20 — 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

Joshua 6:1-5

"Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in. And the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor. You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days. Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. And when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.”

Hebrews 11:30

“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days."

Reflection

Sometimes obedience looks nothing like strategy. Nothing like logic. Nothing like what you would have chosen.

Jericho didn’t fall because Joshua had a flawless battle plan.Jericho fell because he obeyed instructions that made absolutely no sense. That isn’t passive, that is spiritual courage.

Most of us don’t struggle with obedience when God’s direction makes sense. We struggle when the steps feel foolish, quiet, or beneath what we imagined faith should look like.

But faith that moves mountains often looks like doing something small, strange, or slow, simply because God spoke.

The walls didn’t fall on day one. Or day two. Or even day six.

Faithful obedience has a timeline you will never see in advance. But heaven sees it clearly. If God told you to walk… walk. If He told you to wait… wait. If He told you to stay silent… stay silent. If He told you to speak… speak.

Obedience may look small to you. But it shakes foundations you don’t even realize are cracking.

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 🤍