A's Happiness Blogs

How many blessings do we miss out on because of our disobedience to God?   God gives us instructions on things that concern our lives. He tells us what to do, but because it’s not what we want to do, or it’s not the way we feel like it should be done we disobey God. Have you ever considered that God tells us specific things to do, because there is something that he is trying to accomplish in our lives? But because we don’t understand we decide to do things our way because it’s is comfortable for us, or we feel like it should be done a different way.   I have learned in my walk with God, that sometimes God gets us out of our comfort zone, because he has something greater for us, but we must learn to be obedient to his instructions.  When we are not obedient to what God says, even if it’s uncomfortable for us, we are outside Gods will and we loose out on whatever blessings he has for us.  Proverbs 3: 5 & 6 will always be one of my favorite scriptures. It says ...

  I started attending a new church, and they have a daily bible reading guide. Each day has a different scripture to read as we are trying to read through the whole Bible.    As I was doing my bible reading for this morning, it has me in 1 Samuel. As I was reading the scripture, I was able to read something that I never had before.   In 1 Samuel Chapters 11-15, it shows two incidents that Saul, who was made king at the time, disobeyed what the Lord had told him to do. But the situation in chapter 15 is the one that got me.   “Thus, saith the Lord of host, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came from Egypt. Now go and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass” I Samuel 15:2 &3 (KJV)   So, the Lord told Samuel to tell Saul to go kill everything in Amalek. He wanted EVERYTHING destroyed. All the men, women, child...