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5:1 \u00a0 <\/span>And Samuel said to Saul, \u201cThe Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, \u2018I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah. And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley. Then Saul said to the Kenites, \u201cGo, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.\u201d So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt. And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.<\/p>\n

The word of the Lord came to Samuel: \u201cI regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.\u201d And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night. And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, \u201cSaul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.\u201d And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, \u201cBlessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.\u201d And Samuel said, \u201cWhat then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?\u201d Saul said, \u201cThey have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.\u201d Then Samuel said to Saul, \u201cStop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night.\u201d And he said to him, \u201cSpeak.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Samuel said, \u201cThough you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, \u2018Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.\u2019 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?\u201d And Saul said to Samuel, \u201cI have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.\u201d And Samuel said,<\/p>\n

Saul said to Samuel, \u201cI have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may bow before the Lord.\u201d And Samuel said to Saul, \u201cI will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Over and over, the Bible tells us that God blesses and rewards obedience.\u00a0James 1:22\u201325<\/span><\/a> says it perfectly: “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.<\/strong><\/em>“<\/p>\n

Obedience enables us to live a life of joy, power, courage, and faith rooted deeply in the Lord and confident in our eternal hope. We can be rewarded by God in a myriad of ways. “Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart\u201d.<\/p>\n

For all true followers of Christ, obedience is never peripheral. At the heart of what it means to be a disciple of our Lord is living in loving devotion to God. But if such love is real, the acid test is obedience. Following Christ does not allow for selective obedience.\u00a0 Selective obedience comes out of neglect of His word in our daily lives.\u00a0 <\/span>Selective obedience falsely allows us to think we are obedient in all things because we have chosen to live without heart and mind deep daily desire to intentionally live and breath in the depth of His word. Daily time in His word will grow our understanding and knowledge of God which grows our devotion and desire to obedience for His honor and glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5:1 \u00a0 And Samuel said to Saul, \u201cThe Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, \u2018I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. … Continue reading “105. For you have rejected the word of the Lord”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2514,668,2108,81,9493,3492,6856,3792,2995,316,9490,8042,9491,1059,164,9502,3047,9501,766,9494,4936,3838,1453,9492,16,9498,9499,9496,9503,9504,1132,3804,962,8804,9497,495,9495,3898,9500,9505],"class_list":["post-61184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-alive","tag-angry","tag-anoint","tag-blessed","tag-came-up-out-of-egypt","tag-consumed","tag-cried-to-the-lord","tag-defeated","tag-depart","tag-destruction","tag-devote-to-destruction","tag-devoted-to-destrution","tag-do-not-spare-them","tag-egypt","tag-evil","tag-feared-the-people","tag-fight-against","tag-i-have-obeyed","tag-i-have-sinned","tag-i-regret","tag-israel","tag-kill","tag-king","tag-lest-i-destroy-you-with-them","tag-listen","tag-little-in-your-own-eyes","tag-mission","tag-no-performed","tag-obeyed-their-voice","tag-pardon-my-sin","tag-samuel","tag-saul","tag-sight-of-the-lord","tag-skilled","tag-spared-the-best-sacrifice","tag-strike","tag-turned-back-from-following-me","tag-voice","tag-you-did-not-obey","tag-you-have-rejected-the-word-of-the-lord"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61258,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61184\/revisions\/61258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}