Detailed Instructions

"Storytime"
my grandkids and me, 2009

"Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction...Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go." (Joshua 1:7)

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely, but from the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it, you will surely die." (Gen. 2:16-17)

And God said to [David], "It shall be when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then you shall go out to battle..." (1 Chron. 14:14-15)

The angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus." (Luke 1:30-31)

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyratira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." (Rev. 1:10-11)

          From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible records God speaking detailed instructions to both male and female individuals; and with their obedience, came monumental blessings; however, with their disobedience, came disastrous calamities.

                   I strongly believe that God continues, even to this day, to give detailed instructions to those who will listen. (In 2011, I believe the Lord said, "Jill, it's time to write a story," and four books later, He said, "Go to schools and libraries and daycare facilities and nursing homes and wherever I send you to read these stories to children and adults, whom I love.")

Beloved, God still gives detailed instructions. Are you listening? More importantly, are you obeying?

"Take hold of My instructions; don't let them go. Guard them, for they are the key to life." (Prov. 4:13)