Nov21 — 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

Jeremiah 1:4-10

"Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations". Then I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth. But the Lord said to me, " Do not say, 'I am only a youth' for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to delicer you, declares the Lord."

2 Timothy 1:7

“for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control."

Reflection

Jeremiah’s first reaction to God’s calling wasn’t excitement, it was fear.

“I’m too young.” “I’m not ready.” “I can’t do this.”

Sound familiar?

Fear loves to disguise itself as honesty .It tells you you’re being “realistic,”when really you’re just being ruled by insecurity.

Jeremiah wasn’t disqualified. He was intimidated. And God didn’t wait for fear to leave before He called him. God called him right in the middle of it.

Obedience isn’t the absence of fear. it’s refusing to let fear sit in the driver’s seat. God touched Jeremiah’s mouth before Jeremiah felt confident.He equipped him before he felt ready.He spoke identity before Jeremiah felt qualified.

Obedience is simply saying:“Lord, I’ll go… even if I am scared.”

Fear doesn’t disqualify you. It just reveals where God wants to show His strength.

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 🤍