1 Kings 3:14 (NIV) "And if you walk in my ways and obey my statutes and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life."
Matthew 13:8 (NIV) Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop--a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
The fruit of the Spirit grows only in the garden of obedience. —Terry Fullam
Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "OBEDIENCE".
