Quotes About Surrender

For an action to be truly obedient to God, it must be done from a motivation of genuine love and gratitude to Him.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

God had brought a "crooked" event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only He could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not He

God had brought a "crooked" event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only He could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not He straightened my "crook" and relieved my distress?

Could I trust Him even if I didn't understand?

Yet, I acknowledge it often seems more difficult to trust God than to obey Him.

we reduce God's control over our lives to a stop-and-go, in-and-out proposition.

victory is a byproduct of obedience.

Paul acknowledged what we must acknowledge if we are to trust God. God's plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand.

The prayer of a Christian is not an attempt to force God's hand, but a humble acknowledgment of helplessness and dependence. When we are on our knees, we know that it is not we who control the world; it is not in our power, therefore, to supply our needs by our own independent efforts; every good thing that we desire for ourselves and for others must be sought from God, and will come, if it comes at all, as a gift from His hands.3

Regardless of the nature of the circumstances, we must learn to trust God if we would glorify God in them.

So we should never ask why in the sense of demanding that God explain or justify His actions or what He permits in our lives.

No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.

In fact, there is no such thing as grudging obedience. For an action to be truly obedient to God, it must be done from a motivation of genuine love and gratitude to Him.

The main thing is our attitude. We can pray earnestly to God for relief and still be submissive to Him regarding the outcome.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow" (Matthew 6: 34).

to stop asking why.

If we think about it, we realize that obedience that is not delighted in is not perfect obedience.

we are just as dependent on God when the physician diagnoses a routine illness and prescribes a successful medication. We are just as dependent when the paycheck comes regularly and all our material needs are met.

We might agree with what the Bible says about a certain sin, "and even make a commitment of sorts to put it out of our lives…..We would like to be rid of that sin, and even pray to God to take it away, but are we willing to say no to it?

We cannot receive half of God's grace. If we have experienced it at all, we will experience not only forgiveness of our sins but also freedom from sin's dominion.

One of the speaker's main points was that if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God's agenda. He pointed out that we tend to live under two agendas, ours and God's, and that the tension between them sets up stress.

His agenda for our lives that God will guard, protect, and advance. We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.

Just as we should learn to stop asking why, or searching for rational explanations, or seeking to discover what "good" there is in our own adversities, so we must also learn to quiet our hearts in regard to God's government of the universe.