Nov22 — 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

Genesis 22:1-14

"After these things God tested Abrhahm and said to him, "Abraham!" and he said "Here I am". He said "Take your son, only your son Issac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you, "So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Issac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. On the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place from afar. Them Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you." And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on ISsac his son. And he took his hand the fire and the knife. So they went, both of them together. And Issac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am my son. "He said, "Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering my son." So they went, both of them together. When they came to the place of which God had told him Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Issac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham" And he said, "Here I am." He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him for now I fear that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me" And Abraham lifted his eyes and looked and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called the name of the place "The Lord will provide" as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord. it shall be provided.

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also within him graciously give us all things?

Reflection

One of the hardest truths in Scripture is that sometimes God asks us to lay something down before He shows us what He will provide.

Abraham wasn’t being tested for cruelty he was being invited into deeper trust.

God already knew the ram was coming. Abraham didn’t.

Some obedience feels like loss at first. A relationship. A habit. A coping mechanism. A timeline. A version of life you thought you needed.

But every time God asks you to put something on the altar. it’s because He has something better waiting in the future. Obedience rarely feels easy, but it always leads to provision you couldn’t see from where you started.

The ram wasn’t visible until Abraham lifted the knife.Some miracles don’t appear until obedience is in motion.

Trust that God never takes without giving more. He never empties without filling. He never closes a door without preparing a better one.

What you lay down in obedience,you will receive back in a way that is fuller, safer, and more aligned with God’s heart for you.

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 🤍