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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Be – Hebrews 13:7 – A Joy – Growing As Disciples

Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you. Hebrews 13:17 (NIV)

Keep Watch

I have placed spiritual leaders to help keep watch over your soul. I have placed you as a spiritual leader to watch over the souls of others. You should not remain distant and aloof from others. I have made you to live in community with others so that you can watch over each other’s soul. This is an important responsibility that I have given to you.

How can I faithfully fulfill the responsibility that you have given to me? That is a very good question. You have two different responsibilities. Two responsibilities? Yes, you have two very different responsibilities. First, you have the responsibility to allow yourself to be watched over by your spiritual leaders. What responsibility does allowing myself to be watched over by my spiritual leaders require. What do you think? I think I need to show up. I need to make myself available. I need to live in a close relationship with my spiritual leaders. I can’t go my own way and do my own thing. I need to submit myself to the leadership of those you have placed over my life. I need to listen and put into practice what I hear from my spiritual leaders. I need to listen to their wisdom and receive their guidance. I need to make it a joy for my spiritual leaders to keep watch over my soul. How will you do that? I will obey them. I will submit to their leadership over my life. That will be very good. Is there something you need to stop doing? I thought you might ask that. I need to stop setting myself up a judge, evaluator and critic of the spiritual leaders you have placed over me in my life. They will have no joy when I do that. That’s right.

You also will have the responsibility of spiritual leadership over those I have placed in your life. What must you do with those who I have placed under your spiritual leadership? I must provide spiritual leadership. I will watch over those you have placed under my care. I will involve myself in their lives. I will invest all my gifts, talents, abilities and resources to help those who under my care. I will pray for those under my care. I will provide wise counsel and give good direction. I give strong encouragement and solid support. I will do whatever is needed to help those you have placed under my care. This is my plan, others will keep watch over you as you keep watch over others. I will follow your plan I will watch over others as others watch over me. That will be very good. 

Lord, thank you for placing spiritual leaders in my life to help watch over my soul. I will obey the wise counsel and good direction you give me through my spiritual leaders. Help me to make it a joyful experience for my spiritual leaders to watch over my soul. Amen

Key Question… Who will the Lord use as a spiritual leader in your life if you remain distant and aloof from everyone?

Living It Out… Obey your spiritual leaders so that it will be a joy for them to keep watch over your soul.

Seeing It Happen… Have faith that the Lord has given you spiritual leaders to keep watch over your soul.

Get Ready To Share… Share with another person or your small group how you are obeying your spiritual leaders.

Prayer To Bless Others… May you obey your spiritual leaders and make it a joy for them to watch over your soul.

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Their Work Will Be A Joy

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – So That – Hebrews 13:17-Their Work Will Be A Joy – Growing As Disciples

Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you. Hebrews 13:17 (NIV)

Know It All

You don’t know it all. You don’t have it all. There is a reason that I have placed leaders over you. Why is that? You need to hear from those who are wise. You need to listen to those who are more experienced. You need to follow the examples of those who have gone before you in the faith. Don’t live as if you were a full glass that nothing more can be poured into. Live with a humble and open and listening heart to those that I have placed in authority over you. Let others speak into your life so that you can hear all that I have to say to you. Will you submit yourself to those that I have placed over you? Will you obey all that I am teaching you through Godly men and woman? Yes Lord, I will submit myself to those you have placed over me. I will obey what you are teaching me through the lives of others. That will be very good.

Your leaders are keeping watch over your soul. They are helping to guard and guide your life. Their job is not easy. Their work is very difficult. You can encourage them. You can help spur them on. How can I encourage and spur my leaders on? You can either make their job a burden or a joy. How can I make their job a burden or a joy? If you obey your leaders their burden will be light. If you rebel against your leaders their burden will be heavy. If you put into practice what you are being taught their work will be a joy. If you do not put into practice what you are being taught their work will be a burden. Your leaders will rejoice when they see fruit for my kingdom being born in your life. Your leaders will be discouraged if they do not see any fruit for my kingdom being born in your life. Will you listen and put into practice what you are being taught? Yes Lord, I will obey all that you are teaching me through my leaders. That will be very good.

A day will come when your leaders will give account for how they have watched over your soul. Do you want them to succeed? Do you want your leaders to be able to give a good report about how their work has born fruit in your life? Yes, I want them to be abundantly successful. That will mean that I have born an abundance of fruit for your kingdom. That will mean that they and I have both served you well. That is what I want. That is what I will do both as a follower and as a leader. Help me to also be able to give a good account to you. Help my leaders to watch over my soul. Help me to watch over those you have placed in my care. Yes, I will.

Lord, thank you for the leaders that you have placed over me. They have helped guard and guide the course of my life. I will obey and submit myself to the leaders that you have given to me. I will work to help make it joyful for them to watch over my soul. Amen

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So That – Hebrews 13-17 – Their Work Will Be A Joy – 4 Page Discipleship Devotional Study Guide

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