Quotes About Surrender

Quit trying to manage your fears, and face them. Walk right into them— and realize that your control has been an illusion all along. You need Jesus every second.

Worship is the opposite of the scientific method. It's not conquest but surrender. In an experiment, a scientist tests things to comprehend them. In worship God tests us and comprehends us.

She wished, sometimes, that she could trust God, and surrender all her concerns to Him. How much simpler that would make everything.

Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,

Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.

But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ëHow long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.

Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”

“Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”

Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ëMy own hand has saved me.í

And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.

Then the LORD called to Samuel, and he answered, “Here I am.”

So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”

But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.

So the Israelites put away the Baals and Ashtoreths and served only the LORD.

“Hold off for seven days,” replied the elders of Jabesh, “and let us send messengers throughout Israel. If there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”

Then the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Tomorrow we will come out, and you can do with us whatever seems good to you.”

And all those assembled here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORDís, and He will give all of you into our hands.”

Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD, God of Israel, please tell Your servant.” “He will,” said the LORD.

So David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” “They will,” said the LORD.

There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.