Quotes About Submission

As long as you have a male covering, were words I'd heard over and over again, and I believed them to my bones. A male covering was the key to a woman being blessed by God in ministry.

Think of marriage as a three-legged stool. The legs are a submissive wife, a loving husband, and Christ.

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.

Lord, make me a student and take me not home, until You look in my face and see the reflection of Your own.

taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5

obedience comes from faith.

That's what humility is in a nutshell: bowing down before His power and majesty.

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

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

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

Bow down to him, for he is your lord. Psalm 45:11

I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and who trembles at My word. Isaiah 66:2

Who are you— anyone who talks back to God? Romans 9:20

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the lined face and chiseled squint of the veteran. Even his submissions to terror, the very shit with which he paints his thighs under fire is trophy to him; he points it out to his comrades, laughing in the aftercourse of action as if it were a decoration for valour, for it makes him a salt, a veteran, an old hand.

Then there's the third way proffered by the Lord of Discipline, which is beyond both hierarchy and territory. That is to do the work and give it to Him. Do it as an offering to God.   Give the act to me. Purged of hope and ego

Praying is not telling God what to do. It's trusting that God knows what to do.

Prayer is not telling God what to do. Prayer is partnering with God to see that His will is done. You don't have to fully understand what God's will is in order to pray that His will be done.

Lord, show me anything in me that is not right in Your eyes so I can confess it before You, because I choose to live Your way." P

Lord I submit my body to You. Help me to be disciplined in the way I care for it. Help me to choose health-filled and life-giving foods and be able to resist eating what I should not have. Enable me to make the right choices with regard to what I eat.

When you pray, God reveals anything in your personality that is resistant to His order of things.

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

We are faced with the need to communicate, compromise, submit to one another, and be unselfish. A tall order, to be sure. Either God has a tremendous sense of humor, or a desire to keep us continually growing. Probably both. God

God's ways are always better than ours, and obedience to His Word clears the path for our prayers to be heard.