Quotes about Submission

Praying is not telling God what to do. It's trusting that God knows what to do.

Prayer is not telling God what to do. Prayer is partnering with God to see that His will is done. You don't have to fully understand what God's will is in order to pray that His will be done.

So while God gives the husband a position of leadership in relationship to his wife, He also requires the price of self-sacrifice from him. The

Lord, show me anything in me that is not right in Your eyes so I can confess it before You, because I choose to live Your way." P

Lord I submit my body to You. Help me to be disciplined in the way I care for it. Help me to choose health-filled and life-giving foods and be able to resist eating what I should not have. Enable me to make the right choices with regard to what I eat.

When you pray, God reveals anything in your personality that is resistant to His order of things.

Submission is something you give from your heart, not something demanded of you.

We are faced with the need to communicate, compromise, submit to one another, and be unselfish. A tall order, to be sure. Either God has a tremendous sense of humor, or a desire to keep us continually growing. Probably both. God

God's ways are always better than ours, and obedience to His Word clears the path for our prayers to be heard.

that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness

The most important thing is not to get what we want in prayer, but to accomplish what God wants.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.