_{Quit quarreling with God! Agree with him and you will have peace at last! His favor will surround you if you will only admit that you were wrong. Job 22:21 (LB)}

_{The Bible is very clear about how we benefit when we worship God through surrender: “Agree with him and you will have peace at last! His favor will surround you if you will only admit that you were wrong” (Job 22:21 LB).}

_{In surrender, you begin to really live the life God intended: “Only those who throw away their lives for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will ever know what it means to really live” (Mark 8:35 LB).}

_{You are set free, liberated from self-preoccupation: “But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you’ve let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!” (Romans 6:16-18 MSG).}

_{God is able to use you in great ways.}

_{Why did God choose Mary, of all women, to be the mother of Jesus? It was because she was totally surrendered to God. When the angel explained God’s improbable plan, she humbly responded, “I am the Lord’s servant! Let it happen as you have said” (Luke 1:38 CEV).}

_{Nothing is more powerful than a surrendered life in the hands of God.}

Thank you for this Thomas.

It is easy to admit to sin, it's easy to give up your heart to Him, but, surrender is so very hard.

Pray that I can do this.

Roger

Oh how I Love these topics you come up with Thomas; always inspiring! 
And hi Roger!  I think of you...

This word brings to mind a word God gave me once that I never forget....
  "The will of God and the will of man are 2 separate things."

With the thought in mind of the difficulty of "Surrender," I think we often make God's will our will; we reason in our mind how God's will does fit our own desires, wants, and needs.  (Now here we have to remember that we do have an interior struggle that goes on constantly between the mortal nature and the spirit of God or the nature of God in us), and if we are "willing" to admit it, what we are actually doing here is choosing our own mind and wants and beliefs about our life over Gods, and we often do that because we associate God's will with....self sacrifice, which in turn causes our mind to automatically think we will be required to "give up" things in order to surrender to God's will.  

The revelation to see and discover though is that God is actually more on our side than our our mind is often!  In other words, while we, in our efforts, are seeking to provide for the wants and needs of the mortal man, God is always looking after the needs and even desires of the our heart/soul/spirit.  It's logical or atleast acceptable if we will admit it, that we humans do often put our more immediate needs and wants that relate to our senses above the more intangible, long term gains of our spirit/soul.  

So while we have a hard time with Surrender, what we are actually having a hard time with is laying aside our more immediate sensory or worldly wants and needs so that the more invisible and eternal desires and needs of our spirit or heart can proceed, if we have a heart that is alive to God and led by him.

So here is our Encouragement...it is in the "knowledge" that God has made clear in his word...which is, if we hold back or deny often the more sensory and demanding wants and needs of the mortal part which is oriented by the natural senses of this physical world, and Surrender to interior senses of heart which is where God speaks to us via our conscience, we are actually allowing ourselves to move toward not only God's will in us, but the will of our deeper heart/spirit which if connected to God, has our more core or spiritual and eternal interests in mind. 

Further Encouragment is here...if we know the reality of God's Truth/Word...which is...when we grow and prosper interiorally in heart/spirit, and or achieve successes and victories interiorally, what is interior automatically manifests in our physical or exterior life.  So then "Surrender" to God is actually surrender to our Greater wants and needs in life, since God's motive toward us is all about us having "Life" in heart/spirit so that in turn we will have "Life" even in this mortality.   

                                             For the sake of what lies behind "Surrender"
                                                           preachergirl
       

Kim,

Thank you.

I shall read and digest.

I know that an answer will be found in your words.

Roger