Surrender is a
big thing to me. As I explained in my book Apprehended & Apprehending, I
have no idea how to live the Christian life without complete surrender and
honestly, I would not want to know it either because it would not be true
Christianity.
Surrender
Faith, as Paul saw
it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the
commandments of Christ.
Author: A.W.
Tozer
Just as a servant
knows that he must first obey his master in all things, so the surrender to an
implicit and unquestionable obedience must become the essential characteristic
of our lives.
Author: Andrew
Murray
Unless you have
made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if
you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records. Author: Billy
Sunday
God has landed on
this enemy-occupied world in human form. The perfect surrender and humiliation
was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation
because He was man. Author: C.S. Lewis
The degree of
blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of
God's victory over him. A. W. Tozer
I surrendered unto
Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it
meant to have real power.
Kathryn Kuhlman
Kathryn Kuhlman
The love-slave has no pleasure like that of serving his master. this is his joy, and his very "crown of rejoicing." The love-slave is altogether at his master's service. He is all eyes for his master. He watches. He is all ears for his master. He listens. His mind is willing. His hands are ready. His feet are swift to sit at the master's feet and look into his loved face, to listen to his voice and catch his words; to run on his errands, to do his bidding, to share his privations and sorrows, to watch at his door, to guard his honour, to praise his name, to defend his person, to seek and promote his interests, and, if needs be, to die for his dear sake; this is the joy of the slave of love, and this he counts his perfect freedom. Samuel L. Brengle
God often takes a
course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow
views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and
prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts. John
Newton
Many refuse to
accept the reality of a personal God because they are unwilling to submit to
His authority. Kurt Bruner
Will is the whole
man active. I cannot give up my will; I must exercise it. I must will to obey.
When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what
He will do, but what we will do. To be successful in God's work is to fall in
line with His will and to do it His way. All that is pleasing to Him is a
success. Henrietta C Mears
I saw that the
kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of
ideas, and not one of brute force; that His rule is over hearts, not over
places; that His victories must be inward before they can be outward; that He
seeks to control spirits rather than bodies; that no triumph could
satisfy Him but a triumph that gains the heart; that in short, where God really
reigns, the surrender must be the interior surrender of the convicted free men,
and not merely the outward surrender of the conquered slave.Hannah Whitall
Smith
If you look up
into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment
He'll flood your Life with His presence and power. Alan Redpath
Few souls
understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves
unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mould them
accordingly. Ignatius
What are you
afraid of? Let God act. Abandon yourself to Him. You will suffer, but you will
suffer with love, peace and consolation. You will fight, but you can
carry off the victory, and God Himself, after having fought with you, will
crown you with His own hand. You will weep, but your tears will be sweet, and
God Himself will come with satisfaction to dry them. You will not be free any
longer to give yourself up to your tyrannic passions, but you will sacrifice
your liberty freely, and you will enter into a new liberty unknown to the
world, in which you will do nothing except for love. Francois Fenelon
Today, even
amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give
as little as possible to the Lord, and yet to get as much as possible from Him.
The prevailing thought today is of being used, as though that were the one
thing that mattered. That my little rubber band should be stretched to the very
limit seems all important. But this is not the Lord's mind. The Lord wants us
to be used, yes; but what He is after is that we pour all we have, ourselves,
to Him, and if that be all, that is enough. Watchman Nee
Let this be thy
whole endeavour, this thy prayer, this thy desire,--that thou mayest be
stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only. Thomas
a Kempis
“Now we
cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very
hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will
always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we
shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to
God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another
sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying
leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must
do this. I can't.” ― C.S. Lewis,
“The reason why
many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is
because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to
give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ” ― A.W.
Tozer
“No enthusiasm
will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one
thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone
through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I
am here for God to send me where He will.” ― Oswald Chambers
“I wish Thy way.
But when in me myself would rise
And long for something otherwise
Then, Holy One, take sword and spear
And slay.”
― Amy Wilson-Carmichael
But when in me myself would rise
And long for something otherwise
Then, Holy One, take sword and spear
And slay.”
― Amy Wilson-Carmichael
“The proper good
of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually,
volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere
fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.” ― C.S.
Lewis,
“It is easy to use
the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even
disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my
life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my
life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender
to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or
decision in our lives right now.” ― Francis Chan,
“No one
should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his
life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus.
Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his
behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your
ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him
when at some point in your life you are running away from him?” ― Dietrich
Bonhoeffer,
"My lord, O king, according to thy
saying, I am thine and all that I have" (1Kings 20:4). [Ahab's
fearful words to King BenHadad.] The condition of God's blessing is
absolute surrender of all into His hands.
Andrew Murray
God does not ask
you to give the perfect surrender in your strength, or by the power of your
will; God is willing to work it in you. Do we not read: "It is God
that worketh in us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure" (Philippians
2:13 ).
...learn to believe...Andrew Murray
Abraham... God
raised him up and prepared him as an instrument for His glory. Did not God say
to Pharaoh: "For this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in
thee My power" (Exodus 9:16 )? And if God said that of him, will not
God say it far more of every child of His? God comes and offers to work this...
He desires to help you to get hold of Him entirely. Andrew Murray
Look at the Lord
Jesus Christ in Gethsemane . We read that He, "through the
eternal Spirit," offered Himself a sacrifice unto God. The Almighty
Spirit of God was enabling Him to do it. ...And when you do yield yourself in
absolute surrender, let it be in the faith that God does now accept of it. That
is the great point, and that is what we so often miss... be occupied with
God... look up to God... remember there is a God present that takes note of it,
and writes it down in His book...Andrew Murray
...there is a God
present who at that very moment takes possession of you. You may not feel it...
but God takes possession if you will trust Him. When God has begun the work of
absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender, then God
holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it. Will you believe that? In
this matter of surrender there are two: God and I-- I a worm, God the
everlasting and omnipotent Jehovah. Worm, will you be afraid to trust yourself
to this mighty God now? God is willing. Do you not believe that He can keep you
continually, day by day, and moment by moment? ("Sing unto the Lord, bless
His name; shew forth His salvation from day to day" -- Psalm 96:2.)A ndrew
Murray
And why have you
not experienced it? Because you have not trusted God for it... believe that God
will maintain it. ...that aged saint who, on his ninetieth birthday... --I mean
George Muller. What did he say he believed to be the secret of his happiness,
and of all the blessing which God had given him? ...two reason. The one was
that he had been enabled by grace to maintain a good conscience before God day
by day; the other was, that he was a lover of God's Word. ...Such a life has
two sides-- on the one side, absolute surrender to work what God wants you to
do; on the other side, to let God work what He wants to do. Andrew Murray
Say: "Lord
God, not a word upon my tongue but for Thy glory, not a movement of my temper
but for Thy glory, not an affection of love or hate in my heart but for Thy
glory, and according to Thy blessed will."
Andrew Murray
...separate from
the world; we are called to come out from the world that hates God. Come out
for God... given up... by divine grace... acknowledge that you have grieved the
Holy Spirit by your self-will, self-confidence, and self-effort. Bow humbly
before Him in the confession of that, and ask him to break the heart and to
bring you into the dust before Him. Then, as you bow before Him, just accept
God's teaching that in your flesh "there dwelleth no good
thing," and that nothing will help you except another life which must
come in. You must deny self once for all. Andrew Murray
...self must every
moment be the power of your life, and then Christ will come in and take
possession of you, ...bow our knees to the Father to ask that He would
strengthen us with all might by the Spirit in the inner man, and that He would
fill us with His mighty power. And as the Spirit reveals Christ to us, Christ
comes to live in our hearts forever, and the self-life is cast out. ...bow
before God in humility ...confess before Him the state of the whole Church,
...Oh, we want to confess the sins of God's people around us, and to.. Andrew
Murray
...humble ourselves. ...There is deliverance.
...death was the path to glory for Christ... --death to self, and fellowship
with Christ. ...and... Andrew Murray
...then the Holy
Spirit will bring the whole Christ-- Christ crucified and risen and living in
glory-- into your heart. Andrew Murray
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