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Quotes about Surrender

It's trusting God's heart even when we can't see His hand. It's understanding that sometimes the obstacle is the way!
- Mark Batterson
If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.
- Mark Batterson
Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you.
- Mark Batterson
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.
- Mark Batterson
Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma.
- Mark Batterson
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.
- Mark Batterson
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.
- Mark Batterson
until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply.
- Mark Batterson
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.
- Mark Batterson
God wants us to get where God wants us to go more than we want to get where God wants us to go.
- Mark Batterson
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.
- Mark Batterson
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.
- Mark Batterson