Quotes About Surrender

If God chooses for you never to have physical children, He's calling you to a far bigger family! God purposely placed the dream of fruitful lives in our hearts. Oh, how I love the paradoxical ways our glorious heavenly Father works. Only He can bring gain from loss. Only He can make us more fruitful in barrenness!

I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. Romans 12:1

Help me to be convinced that because One died for all, therefore all died. Help me to realize and fully appreciate the fact that because You died for all, we who live should no longer live for ourselves but for You who died for us and was raised again (2 Cor. 5:14—15).

We are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh. Romans 8:12

Then take me prisoner to Your will Enslaved in Your safekeeping.

Christ can perform astounding wonders when we bring Him all we have. Matthew 14:17

We resist offering ourselves wholly to anyone or anything that has the potential to encroach on our personal desires, and Jesus made clear from the start that God's will and ours would be in conflict at times. Yet our surrender to Jesus is also ultimately our surrender to joy.

Just keep telling God how much you want to give Him your whole heart and mind. The wayward, defeated mind and the willfully depraved mind are not the same thing. Left unchecked, however, the former can lead to the latter.

My eager expectation and hope is that… Christ will be highly honored in my body. Philippians 1:20

If God has allowed something difficult to happen to one of his children, he plans to use it mightily, if the child lets him.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants. The latter is our goal.

I have given Him permission to take every one of my memories captive to Christ, and now I can no longer see my abuses and sins in their own accord or in the hands of Satan. Now I see them in the healing, forgiving, nail-scarred hands of Jesus where He is cleansing them and transforming them into the stuff of mercy.

obedience comes from faith.

We learn to be victorious by surrendering our lives completely to the Spirit of God, not by gritting our teeth and trying harder.

We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet.

Whether we like it or not, a fair amount of going is involved in following.

The most monumental leap we take toward freedom is the leap to our knees—the lordship of Jesus Christ.

If I want him to remain until I come," Jesus answered, "what is that to you? As for you, follow Me." John 21:22

We quench or grieve the Holy Spirit by refusing His authority over us. In other words, by choosing not to yield to Him.

The LORD said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped… . But everyone else is to go home." Judges 7:7

Don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34

empty cup and let Him pour.

We are free when, and only when, we allow Him to be in control.

All the nouns—the people, places, and things—I've believed were inseparable from who I was have been strategically targeted by God. Over the years, He has sought to supplant them with Christ alone. They weren't cast aside as worthless any more than the land was relegated to meaninglessness for the people of God. They had their role, but they simply weren't Jesus.