Quotes About Surrender

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.

A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.

When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief - a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all that God promises to be for us in Jesus.

Abre tu corazón para recibir el mejor regalo imaginable: Jesús se ha dado a Sí mismo por ti, muriendo y sirviéndote, para estar contigo por toda la eternidad. Recibe esto. Aléjate de tu pecado y de tu propia justicia. Hazte como un niño. Confía en Él. Confía en Él. Confía en Él con tu vida.

Living to magnify Christ is costly.

Prayer is not for the enhancement of our comforts but for the advancement of Christ's kingdom.

This is the message of the coronavirus: Stop relying on yourselves and turn to God. You cannot even stop death. God can raise the dead.

Whatever it takes, Lord, keep me desperate for You because I tend to wander when I stop feeling my need for You.

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for his ends

God is not looking for people to work for him, so much as he is looking for people ho will let him work for them. The gospel is not a Help Wanted ad. Neither is the call to to Christian service. On the contrary, the gospel commands us to give up and hang out a Help Wanted sign (this is the basic meaning of prayer). Then the gospel promises that God will work for us if we do. He will not surrender the glory of being the Giver.

El amor de Dios es una sensación encantadora y afectuosa de la perfección divina que lleva al alma a renunciar y a entregarse en sacrificio a Dios, a desear por sobre todas las cosas agradarle, a deleitarse más que nada en el compañerismo y en la comunión con él, y a estar listo para hacer o sufrir cualquier cosa por su causa o su placer.

Let all your frustrations with this world throw you onto the Word of God.

Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you" (1Chronicles 29:14). This is the way we should speak of fasting. There is no ground of boasting here. Who am I that I should be able to fast? Nobody. There is nothing in me that would choose this for your glory apart from your transforming grace.

Father, I am empty, but you are full. I am hungry, but you are the Bread of Heaven. I am thirsty, but you are the Fountain of Life. I am weak, but you are strong. I am poor, but you are rich. I am foolish, but you are wise. I am broken, but you are whole. I am dying, but your steadfast love is better than life" (see Psalm63:3). When God sees this confession of need and this expression of trust, he acts, because the glory of his all-sufficient grace is at stake.

Cuando se rinde al tratar de entender completamente por qué Dios hace lo que hace y simplemente confía en Él; entonces esta paz "guardará su corazón y su mente".

The coronavirus calls us to make God the all-important, pervasive reality in our lives. Our lives depend on him more than they depend on breath. And sometimes God takes our breath in order to throw us onto himself.

the path of obedience is the place where Christ meets us as our servant to carry our burdens and give us his power.

entregarte es permitir que la existencia suceda a través de ti».

Se me ocurrió la idea de dejarlo ir todo, y lo hice. Dejé de programar citas de negocios y renuncié a intentar que la gente hiciera lo que yo quería.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!