God's power must be matched with our ____ our ____ and total ____ to His lordship.

• A. faith; obedience; yielding
• B. hope; loyalty; devotion
• C. trust; discipline; surrender
• D. confidence; faithfulness; submission

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is that God's power calls for a threefold response: faith, obedience, and yielding to His lordship. Faith is trusting in who God is and in what He can do, so His power is received with conviction. Obedience then moves that belief into action—doing God’s commands and living in alignment with His will. Yielding completes the pattern by surrendering our own plans and submitting wholly to His authority, letting Him steer our lives under His lordship. Together, they show a believer not only trusting in God’s power but also committing to follow and submit to Him completely.

Other groupings soften the response or shift the focus. Hope and devotion, or loyalty, don’t spell out the concrete obedience and total surrender that the relationship with God’s power demands. Trust and surrender may come close, but discipline isn’t as direct a fit for expressing obedience to God’s commands, and confidence with faithfulness doesn’t capture the explicit submission to His lordship as clearly as faith, obedience, and yielding do.