Quotes About Surrender

When we set apart our lives unto Him, He will do wonders with us the likes of which we cannot imagine.

To be free in Christ, our high places will have to fall. We must be willing to take a stand against idolatry.

Acknowledge God. Acknowledging God first thing every morning transforms my day. I often begin my day by reconfirming His authority over me and submitting to Him as Lord in advance of my daily circumstances. I try to accept the words of Joshua 24:15 as a personal daily challenge: "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.

I don't believe God allows surrendered hearts to continue to long for things He will not ultimately grant in one way or another. Our disappointment with God is often the result of our small thinking.

He fell facedown and prayed, "My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will." Matthew 26:39

We live sacrificially when we're outside the will of God, giving up all sorts of things that were meant to be ours in Christ. We want to claim those things back, but in the process we're going to be putting a few other things on the altar.

No amount of determination will bring freedom. We're going to learn to be victorious by surrendering our lives completely to the Spirit of God, not by gritting our teeth and trying harder.

If the Word of God is about anything at all, it is about God's will rather than ours. Our liberty is paradoxically discovered through the will of God rather than our own.

He said to them, "If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me." Mark 8:34

Why does God allow us to spend so much of life in the heart of battle? Because He never meant for us to sip His Spirit like a proper cup of tea. He meant for us to hold our sweating hands over the fountain and lap up His life with unquenchable thirst.

TRUST GOD. Plain and simple. Not easy, mind you, but basic and uncomplicated.

Let God have your failures. Surrender to Him your most dreadful moments of captivity, your most humiliating defeats. God and God alone can use them to make you twice the warrior you ever dreamed you'd be.

Life isn't fair. Not from any direction. I live in the inconceivable grace of God every day of my life. That's not fair either.

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

Do you not know that if you offer yourself to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey? Romans 6:16

If you've lived your life looking for someone to take care of you but you always end up taking care of everyone else, your search is over. God has what you need, and you'll never wear Him out.

Wholeness will only come when we give ourselves wholly to God and let Him fill every empty place in our lives.

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. Psalm 139:23

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me. John 6:38

in our Christian lives, success is obedience to God, not results we can measure.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time. 1 Peter 5:6

God's will is always best even when we cannot imagine how. Surrendering to His will does not mean you lose. Ultimately, it means you win. Keep hanging on to that rope and let Him pull you over to His side. One day you'll understand. And you'll see His glory.

My body faints for You in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water. Psalm 63:1

Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 CORINTHIANS 10:31 Let's face it. None of us can do a thousand things to the glory of God. And in our vain attempt we stand the risk of forfeiting a precious thing—EXCELLENCE. Oh, that we might discern the will of God, surrender to His calling, resign the masses of activities, and sell out to do a few things well. What a legacy that would be for our children.