Surrender to God! James 4:7 instructs us. I personally struggle with this. How about you? Can you relate? My struggle with God is this: I want to have control but God wants me to surrender control to Him. God wants me to choose to trust His plan. And I want to trust God if He reveals to me what His plan is... So, we fight and argue me and God. And ... God always wins! https://AnnaSzabo.com/surrender-to-god-james-4-7 Today, let’s discuss how to surrender to God and let go. Thanks so much for tuning in today. My name is Anna Szabo. I am the founder of OnlineDiscipleshipforWomen.com and my life’s purpose is to help YOU create a joyful life by embracing God’s word. This podcast for Christian women is all about living for God! If you’d like to support my work, donate from the heart. James 4:7 says: “Submit yourselves to God.” It says:c “Subject yourselves to God.” The Bible is clear: we must step out of our own power, strength, and wisdom and step into Christ’s power, strength, and wisdom . How? Through faith-based action. It’s hard to do. What is so hard about it? It requires complete surrender of control. We must lean not on our own understanding in life. We must trust in the Lord with everything. This requires giving up control. And it is scary... it is hard. Surrender feels like falling backwards into the arms of God trusting that He’ll be there to catch you from crushing. This is very difficult. In 2014, I fell on my knees in the middle of my living room late at night, wept, invited God to take control, and gave my life to Christ that night. I asked Jesus to be my personal Lord and Savior; and I surrendered myself to Him completely. God controls my life. God is the source of my blessings, faith, and strength. I am here alive and productive today not because of my own power but because of the power of Christ in me. Submit to the authority of God - James 4:7 tells us. Place yourselves under God's authority! I pondered and questioned everything when it comes to God. Today, I know that God is my creator, that I am God’s child, made in His image, here on earth to do His work, the work He prepared in advance for me to do, and once I do His divine work, I will go to heaven to spend my eternity with Jesus when my time here is up. These truths about myself and my life I received from God’s word. After understanding that Jesus, who was fully man and fully God, came here on earth to surrender His life so that I could have mine, I was overcome with gratitude for my salvation . Once I fully - intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and wholeheartedly - understood what happened on the cross, that Jesus was sacrificed for my sake... I wept, fell on my knees, and surrendered my life to Christ. What happened? I accepted God’s grace. Not in theory but in practice. I understood how broken and weak and powerless and hopeless I am on my own and how much I need a Savior - Jesus Christ. I surrendered myself to God. Still, God and argue because I am human. God took me from a lost and confused addict to a woman of God, a disciple of Christ, a helper to Jesus Himself. Surrendering everything I had (my life, my habits, my identity, my desires, my control...) surrendering it all to God allowed me to become a woman of God. Thanks to God’s saving grace, I am who I am, how I am, and where I am. I live a sober ad simple life of peace and joy. God’s grace is sufficient for me in all my circumstances and helps me endure adversity, persevere through challenges, and share my testimony with you to encourage and empower Christian women. Biblical faith requires strength from us. Don’t be strong in your own power, be strong in Christ. Biblical faith guarantees that we will have trials in life and asks that we surrender our own power and live in the power of Christ, through whom all things are possible. To be strong during hard times, you must surrender your own power, admit that you are weak, and ask God for help because in your weakness His strength is displayed and perfected. Here’s what I know from my own experience and experiences of those who received Christ: When you truly understand who Jesus is and you genuinely believe that He died an unimaginably cruel death on the cross for your sins so that you can live a free life, you will fall on your knees in the act of surrender from a place of heartfelt gratitude for your salvation and redemption, and you will weep. Have you surrendered to God?
