Quotes About Surrender

Lord, show me how to pray for this child. Help me to raise him Your way, and may Your will be done in his life.

Although I have these problems, I know that You, Lord, are greater than they are. You are my heavenly Father. You are a good God. In You is everything I need for my life, and I choose to exalt You above all.

Submission is something you give from your heart, not something demanded of you.

after the initial pain of releasing our children there comes joy and peace, both for them and us.

When we come to a place where we trust that God's timing is perfect, we can be content no matter where we are because we know that God will not leave us there forever. Maintaining a passion for the present means embracing the light we have where we are at this time and trusting that it is enough.

Until we have aligned ourselves properly with God, nothing in life will fall into place as it should.

También aprendí que no debía intentar imponer mi propia voluntad sobre mi hijo durante la oración.

Dear God, help me to have faith enough to believe You will answer my prayers. Give me the patience to wait for the answers to appear. Keep me from giving up and taking matters into my own hands. Instead, enable me to trust that You have heard my prayers and will answer in Your perfect way and time. Help me to rest in peace during times of waiting.

God is always waiting for us to come to Him, so we can be set free from anything that keeps us from becoming more like Him. To the children of Israel in bondage in Egypt, God said He saw their oppression, heard their cry, and knew their sorrows, so He came to deliver them (Exodus 3:7-8). Know that He will do the same for you.

in the grocery store. Our obedience to God is evidence

While you may not be able to understand exactly what God is doing, you can trust that He is doing something. He has your best interests at heart. And He will make everything in your life beautiful in His perfect time.

Lord, I know Your timing is not the same as mine. I want all the answers to my prayers right now. But You want me to be patient and wait on You. I lay my concerns before You and leave the outcome in Your hands. Help me to rest in the knowledge that Your timing is perfect, just as everything You do is perfect.

Señor, muéstrame cómo orar por mi hijo. Ayúdame a educarlo a tu manera, y que tu voluntad sea hecha en su vida.

When we pray, we bring that power to bear upon everything we are praying about, and we allow the power of God to work through our powerlessness.

that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness

When you get up every day, put on your protective armor. Don't leave your day to chance. Take possession of it and surrender it to the Lord. Don't let it get out of control and give the enemy an invitation to have input. You need this armor to stop any onslaught of the enemy's destructive arrows into your life and the lives of those you care about—both now and in the future. P

prayer is not telling God what to do. It's partnering with God to do what He wants.

The most important thing is not to get what we want in prayer, but to accomplish what God wants.

God doesn't want us carrying anything that is unnecessary because it will weigh us down and hinder what He has called us to do. And we must not go to battle without the things we need in order to win.

We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by clutching them to ourselves and trying to parent them alone.

When you get up every day, put on your protective armor. Don't leave your day to chance. Take possession of it and surrender it to the Lord. Don't let it get out of control and give the enemy an invitation to have input. You need this armor to stop any onslaught of the enemy's destructive arrows into your life and the lives of those

Cuando oramos, nos humillamos a nosotros mismos delante de Dios y decimos: "Necesito tu presencia y tu poder, Señor. No puedo hacer esto sin ti". Si no oramos, es como decir que somos más que suficientes para enfrentar situaciones y que no necesitamos a Dios.

People can hold out just so long and then they fold.

Sometimes when you try too hard," Aqamdax explained, "things get tangled, and the only way to untangle them is to let go.