Quotes About Surrender

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.

Consecration is going all in and all out for the All in All.

Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.

It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.

We want everything God has to offer without giving anything up.

there is nothing you possess that wasn't given to you by God. It's His prerogative to give. And it's His prerogative to take away. But there is one thing that can never be taken from you, and that is Jesus Christ. And if you have Jesus, then you have everything you will ever need for all of eternity. Everything - Jesus = Nothing Jesus + Nothing = Everything It's that simple.

God doesn't always call us to win. Sometimes He just calls us to try. Either way, it's obedience that glorifies God.

if you give all of yourself to God, you can ask and expect that God will give all of Himself to you because that's precisely what He wants to do. We have not because we ask not, and we ask not because we're not all in!

Jesus proclaimed the favor of God in His very first sermon. Then He sealed the deal with His death and resurrection. Favor is a function of surrender. If we don't hold out on God, God will not hold out on us.

All of us want to do amazing things for God, but that isn't our job; it is God's job.

You don't have to live in fear that God is going to take away what is most important to you. After all, Isaac was God's gift to Abraham. But if the gift ever becomes more important than the Gift Giver, then the very thing God gave you to serve His purposes is undermining His plan for your life. God is no longer the End All and Be All. And when God becomes the means to some other end, it's the beginning of the end spiritually because you have inverted the gospel.

The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility. It takes all the pressure off of us and places it squarely on God's sovereign shoulders.

Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.

the purpose of prayer is not to get what you want; the goal of prayer is to discern what God wants

It's not about doing great things for God; it's about God doing great things in us.

God loves it when we fight for Him. But God loves it even more when we let Him fight for us!

Prayer is the way we take our hands off and place our children in the hands of God.

It's trusting God's heart even when we can't see His hand. It's understanding that sometimes the obstacle is the way!

If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

La razón por la que Dios no responde a nuestras oraciones, no es que no estemos orando con suficiente fervor; en la mayoría de los casos, la razón es que no estamos dispuestos a hacer todo el trabajo que sea necesario.

Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you.

if God doesn't answer the way you want, you still need to praise through. That is when it's most difficult to praise God, but that is also when our praise is most pure and most pleasing to God.

Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma.

Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.