Quotes About Surrender

But if He should say, ëI do not delight in you,í then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”

David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, got up and went to take hold of the horns of the altar.

When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!”

The messengers came back and said, “This is what Ben-hadad says: ëI have sent to you to demand your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children.

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,

Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.

David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

Then Jehoshaphat bowed facedown, and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down before the LORD to worship Him.

And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

saying: “Naked I came from my motherís womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I pray.

I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness.

Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.