(Excerpt from Cheryl Gnagey's Spiritual Healing: The Surrender That Brings Victory, Chapter 10)
"I would like to close [this chapter] with a prayer that I found many years ago. It is a powerful prayer and has led me in my own surrender on more than one occasion. To pray it without conviction will not yield the fruit of repentance. But this prayer prayed with a broken and contrite heart will help you to humble yourself before the Lord. Once humbled you can bring in the heavy machinery of surrender and repentance so that the Spirit can be unleashed in you and out of you! There is now no need for prayers that beg, 'Give me strength, Lord.' The Holy Spirit is all the strength you need, and He lives inside of you! His strength is already ours if we will yield to Him and die to the fleshly emotions of fear, doubt, and dread. If you are ready now to begin the deep drilling process of repentance and surrender, then pray this prayer out loud . . . on your knees or on your face before the Lord God.
Lord, I'm Yours. Whatever the cost may be, may Your will be done in my life. I realize I'm not here on earth to do my own thing. or to seek my own fulfillment, or my own glory. I'm not here to indulge my desires, to increase my possessions, to impress people, to be popular, to prove I'm somebody important, or to promote myself. I'm not even here to be relevant or successful by human standards. I'm here to please You.
I offer myself to You, for You are worthy. All that I am or hope to be, I owe to You. I'm Yours by creation, and every day I receive from You life and breath and all things. And I am Yours because You bought me, and the price You paid was the precious blood of Christ. You alone are worthy to be my Lord and Master. I yield to You, my gracious and glorious Heavenly Father; to the Lord Jesus who loved me and gave Himself for me; to the Holy Spirit and His gracious influence and empowering.
All that I am and all that I have I give to You. I give You any rebellion in me that resists doing Your will. I give You my pride and self-dependence that tell me I can do Your will in my own power if I try hard enough. I give You my fears that tell me I'll never be able to do Your will in some areas of my life. I consent to let You energize me . . . to create within me, moment by moment, both the desire and the power to do Your will.
I give You my body and each of its members . . my entire inner being: my mind, my emotional life, and my will . . . my loved ones . . . my marriage or my hope for marriage . . . my abilities and gifts . . . my strengths and weaknesses . . . my health . . . my status (whether high or low) . . . my possessions . . . my past, my present, and my future . . . and when and how I'll go Home. I am here to love You, to obey You, and to glorify You. O my Beloved, may I be a joy to You. Amen and amen!
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