Quotes about Submission

If you have a heart for living God's way, you will want to ensure that your life is answerable to him (Ps. 25:4-5).

Christians arrange their lives based on the revelation of God, regardless of whether it makes sense to them. God does not ask for our opinion about what is best for our future, our family, our church, or our country. He already knows! What God wants is to get the attention of His people and reveal to us what is on His heart and what is His will, for God's ways are not our ways! (Isa. 55:8—9).

But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do -- remember that -- and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

God is awesome; he doesn't need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.

God has a right to interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

Jesus wants us to love Him in a way that gives Him full leadership over our lives.