Quotes about Surrender

God, inconvenience me … so that I might constantly be reminded to draw near to You. Interrupt me, Lord. Shake things up in me, Lord. Reveal what's in me that's not of You, Lord. O Lord, more than anything, I want more of You.

Experiencing life change is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice, choosing God's ways instead of your own.

To love God is to cooperate with His grace. And

He's into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling—all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace.

growing closer to God has a whole lot less to do with any action we might take and a whole lot more to do with positioning our hearts toward His.

The posture is the lowest possible position in which we can put ourselves with empty hands and eager hearts.

If the very downfall of humanity was caused when Eve surrendered to a temptation to eat something she wasn't supposed to eat, I do think our struggles with food are important to God.

We don't need to understand God to trust Him.

Sometimes hardship happens not because of what you've done but because of something God is doing.

simple but very profound truth, "How can you let God down when you weren't ever holding Him up?

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).

Operating in the flow of God's power is so much better than working against the flow of God's power.