Quotes about Submission

doesn't it all come down to that? Trust. Trading our will for "Thy will," because we know He will.

An interesting fact about the Garden of Gethsemane is that it sits at the base of a known escape route from the city over the Mount of Olives toward the Judean desert. This is the route David took when running from his son Absalom. Jesus would have known this. But instead of running, He turned to His Father and said nine hell-shattering, demon-shaking, Devil-killing words: "Yet not what I will, but what you will" (Mark 14:36).

My job is to be obedient to God, to apply His Word, and to walk according to His ways — not according to the world's suggestions.

Trust. Trading our will for "Thy will," because we know He will.

Do not put the LORD your God to the test. (Deuteronomy 6:16)

The Torah itself sets obedience in the context of trust.

The challenge to Jacob-Israel is to turn to Yahweh and be willing to submit to his intention regarding the fulfillment of his purpose, rather than continuing to insist on working with its own ideas about how that should work out (Is 55:6-13).

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

Requiring all things to recognize and yield to that authority, announcing that the authority of Jesus Christ is now in effect here.

I give the Self Life to you, God. I abandon it, release it, deny it, turn it over to you. I'd much rather have you.

Jesus, I surrender the Self Life to you.

I am surrendering it, turning it over to Jesus, relinquishing its every right.