Quotes About Surrender

We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

So this is what love is. It's like bein' tied to a big, mad train.

While he agonized in the Garden of Gethsemane on the eve of his Passion, he resisted the devil's onslaught with the prayer to his Father: "Yet not as I will, but as you will" (Matthew 26:39). Christ is the Lord, and humility is his scepter.

God is seeking those who hear His call to a life of worship. Those who heed are those who will walk in His presence. They will know Him intimately as He will manifest Himself to them.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

True worship is revealed by who we obey, not who we sing to.

Worry and worship are mutually exclusive.

We should always remember," Candy concluded solemnly, "that what we are is not what we plan for ourselves, but what God plans for us.

When we let go of insisting that we are who we think we are and that the world should give us exactly and only what we want, all things shine forth.

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Any place in our lives and heart where we are exerting our will and ways over God's will and ways will inevitably drain us of energy and resources. Exertion=Exhaustion. On the other hand, death to self requires only that we lay down at the foot of the cross and give up the right to run our lives. We say with Christ, "Not my will but Yours be done Father." The Crucified life is the entrance into true rest. #ComeAndDie

Our hope is that the Lord will intervene in our lives, but if not, we will discover whether our faith is real, or only something we hold onto when it appears to be working for our benefit.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask of him.

If we are not our own, but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all our deeds must be directed. We are not our own, therefore neither our reason nor our will should guide us in our thoughts and actions. We are not our own, therefore we should not seek what is only expedient to the flesh. We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests in as far as possible.

Believers are also trained in obedience by means of the cross. For thus they are taught to live according to God's will rather than their own. If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.

He who lives by faith does not have life in himself; he flees to God because he does not possess it. The

unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

Anyone who cannot bear to lay hold of God as he comes down to him will still less soar up to him beyond the clouds.

First of all, then, in striving for either convenience or tranquility in this present life, Scripture calls us to resign our wills and everything that is our to the Lord, and to turn the affections of our hearts over to Him to be tamed and bridled.

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is   enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone.

Whoever wishes to have the half of Christ, loses   the whole.

We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests as far as possible.