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Nov23— Week Two: Walking in Obedience

Mandi
Nov 23
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

Marcus 6:6-10:

With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" He has told you, O man what is good' and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

John 15:9-10

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love.

Reflection

By the end of the week, it’s easy to think obedience is about doing big things for God.Micah corrects that quickly. God isn’t impressed by performance. He isn’t moved by your ability. He isn’t honored by spiritual theatrics.

He wants your walk.Your daily rhythm. Your humble willingness to stay close. Obedience is not a moment, it’s a posture. It’s how you treat people. How you speak. How you respond when conviction hits. How you handle what’s yours, and release what isn’t. Remaining in His love, like Jesus says means living in alignment with His heart.

Obedience is not about earning God’s approval. You already have that. It’s about walking in the kind of life that keeps you close enoughto recognize His voiceand willing enoughto follow when He whispers.

Obedience is intimacy. It’s trust.It’s staying near. This is the walk He blesses.