Quotes about Surrender

Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you.

if God doesn't answer the way you want, you still need to praise through. That is when it's most difficult to praise God, but that is also when our praise is most pure and most pleasing to God.

Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma.

Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.

God is big enough. He's big enough to speak through doors and dreams and people. He's close enough to speak through desires and promptings and pain.

until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply.

All of us want to do amazing things for God, but that isn't our job; it is God's job. Our job is simply to consecrate ourselves by yielding our will to His will. And if we do our job, God will do His job.

God wants us to get where God wants us to go more than we want to get where God wants us to go.

When we pray, we relieve ourselves of responsibility. We let go and let God. We take our hands off and put our concerns into the hands of Almighty God. And trust me, He can handle whatever we put in His hands.

We need to work like it depends on us, but we also need to pray like it depends on God. That's what consecration is all about. It's letting God do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. And that's how God gets all the glory. Consecration is a complete surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ. We relinquish everything to God - our time, talent, and treasure. It's a complete divestiture. But the exchange rate is unbelievable.

What do you do when God's logic doesn't line up with yours? When the will of God doesn't add up? When you think you know better or know more than God?

Prayer is the way we let go and let God. Prayer is the way we take our hands off and let God put His hands on. Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you.