(Excerpt from Cheryl Gnagey's Spiritual Healing: The Surrender That Brings Victory, Chapter 12)j
"Obedience is required in order for us to fully put to death our gods and sins. Without our fully following God's commands, we will never kill those things that can kill us spiritually, and possibly even physically. If we really want to become fully obedient to the Word, we will have to get to the place where we are confessing our sins as they come to our attention, and turning away from them by repentance. We can no longer allow them to slide by for the moment while giving God our 'I'm sorry.' God isn't as interested in our apologies as He is in our brokenness and true repentance of the heart. If we do not grasp the severity of our willful disobedience and how much it hurts God's heart, we will never see the need to turn away from those sins, giving them up for good. Instead, we will return over and over to our idol worship.
If you choose to continue in sin, you must remember that God will let your sin find you out! In case you have never been there, removing sin from your life as the Spirit reveals it to you is far easier than have to remove the sin that you have been caught in! Humiliation is a tough teacher, but she is highly effective! Our surrender is the only weapon that can be used to dispossess the idols that remain in our hearts, and the sins that trips us up. And remember, surrender is not waving the white flag to the enemy. It is giving ourselves up totally to the power and control of the God who loves us with a holy passion. It is our surrender that will bring spiritual victory to our lives.
Let these definitions of scriptural surrender guide you in your own surrender.
SURRENDER is choosing to:
- walk in the control of the Spirit, instead of in the control of your own flesh
- die to your selfishness and become a new creation
- worship God through your love for Him that is displayed by your crucified flesh and obedience to His Word
- be humble before God in order to pray to Him, seek His face, and turn from the things that you do that are evil in His sight
- allow your flesh to be crucified and die every day so that you can walk through the veil and into His glorious presence
- focus on God's will as your only priority instead of what your flesh desires
- be broken by God for sin you have left unattended for too long
- be willing to make a 180-degree turn in an action, thought, or word
- be open to the Spirit taking control of your entire life so that He can gush out of you
- die for the glory of God!"
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