Tag Archive | surrender

Believing Surrender

Jan6

Mary, the mother of Jesus, was visited by the angel Gabriel just as Zacharias was six months earlier. The angel told Mary that she had found favor with God and that she would conceive and bear a son. You shall name Him Jesus.
Mary asked how this can be since she was a virgin.
Luke 1:26, 30-31, 34 paraphrased

and the angel answered:
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.”
Luke 1:35 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.1.35.NASB1995

🌹And Mary said, “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
Luke 1:38 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.1.38.NASB1995

What did it take for Mary to surrender to God’s will?

Ask yourself,  “What will it take for me to do the same?”

🌹And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.”
Luke 1:45 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.1.45.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Trusting Surrender

Jan5

Zacharias, a priest in the days of Herod, was married to Elizabeth. They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.
They were childless due to Elizabeth being barren. Both were advanced in age.
While Zacharias was in the temple of the Lord an angel appeared to him. The angel told Zacharias that his prayer for his wife to conceive was heard and Elizabeth would bear a son and he was to be named John.
Zacharias was told, “You will have joy and gladness and many will rejoice at his birth. He will be great in the sight of the Lord and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb. He will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God.”
Luke 1:5-16 paraphrased.

John was the forerunner of Jesus to make ready a people prepared for His coming as a Savior.

Zacharias’ response:

Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years.”
Luke 1:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.1.18.NASB1995

How often in our lives do we lack the power of Almighty God to fulfill His plan because of our focus on our own human abilities? Are we trusting in our ability or in God’s power to accomplish what He has planned?

Will we surrender?

🌹Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.3.5.NASB1995

🌹For nothing will be impossible with God.” Luke 1:37 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.1.37.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

New Year’s Resolution #2

Dec30

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:8-11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.8-11.NASB1995

All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.
Isaiah 53:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.53.6.NASB1995

New Year’s Resolution #2
Surrender and Follow Jesus

🌹For you will go out with joy And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.12.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Surrendered Obedience

Dec4

The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.
And Mary said, “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
Luke 1:35, 38 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.1.35-38.NASB1995

How wonderful it would be if we answered the call to be used of God with full surrender as Mary did.

How willing are we to answer the call of God to be used by Him for His purpose and will?

Continually Seeking Him,

🌹Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Show Yourself Thankful

Nov20

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Colossians 3:15-16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.3.15-16.NASB1995

Let the peace of Christ act as arbiter in your heart. He is the One who holds the absolute power of judgment in your life. Surrender your life and be part of the body of Christ and show yourself  thankful.
Let His word dwell in you and join in joyful singing with others, overflowing with thankfulness to God for the blessing of the fellowship of His saints together.

Are you thankful for the body of Christ? Are you participating with the body of Christ for the purpose and glory of God?
Are you a member of the body of Christ.

* If you desire to be a believer, a member of the body in Jesus Christ, please seek out a believer you know and talk with them. You will be thankful you did.

🌹Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.
Colossians 3:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.3.17.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Christ in You & Me

Oct28

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?
2 Corinthians 13:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.13.5.NASB1995

Christ in you. Christ in me.
Do we take advantage of this treasure living in us? Jesus Christ moving in us to sanctify, strengthen our faith, molding us into His image for His glory and His purpose? Do we walk daily in His way? In His truth? Is our life surrendered, sacrificed for His purpose?

Salvation, believing faith in Jesus Christ, is so much more than saying a prayer. It is a call to sacrifice our life for His purpose.

🌹And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
Mark 8:34 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mrk.8.34.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Equipped To Do God’s Will

Apr24

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord,
equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:20-21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.13.20-21.NASB1995

God working in us to be pleasing in His sight! Are we surrendering to the equipping of ourselves for the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ?

Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;
Hebrews 12:28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.12.28.NASB1995

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.
Romans 11:36 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.11.36.NASB1995

🌹Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Romans 15:33 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.15.33.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Sacrificial Surrender

Jul30

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
Matthew 16:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.16.24.NASB1995

What did Jesus do on the cross?
He gave His life (surrendered, sacrificed) for you and me.

What does it mean to take up my cross and follow Jesus?
To deny (sacrifice) myself for His purpose and glory.
To surrender my way for God’s way.
To surrender my truth for God’s truth.
To surrender my life to God so He lives through me.

In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
John 14:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.14.20.NASB1995

🌹Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
John 14:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.14.6.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Is God Still Speaking?

Jul12

“The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue.
2 Samuel 23:2 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/2sa.23.2.NASB1995

The Holy Spirit is a gift given to the those saved in Christ Jesus. So the saved in Christ will be filled with joy and peace. The Holy Spirit speaks in and through the surrendered believer.
Acts 2:38/Romans 15:13/Mark 13:11

And He lives in you, believer.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
1 Corinthians 6:19 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.6.19.NASB1995

The Holy Spirit is our helper.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
John 14:26 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.14.26.NASB1995

“All that I have said to you” He will bring to remembrance. This is where the Bible plays a very, very important part in our walk with the Lord. We need to read – eat, digest – the Word of God so the Holy Spirit who lives in us will bring to remembrance His holy word when we need to speak it. The Spirit of God spoke and His word was on my tongue.

Is the Spirit of the Lord speaking through you?

🌹for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
Luke 12:12 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.12.12.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Pressure

May20

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.
Exodus 3:7-9 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/exo.3.7-9.NASB1995

The Lord God sees you, hears you, knows the sufferings you face from the pressures of life. Just as God sent Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt to a promised land; the Father sent His Son, Jesus, to lead mankind through the pressures of life to the promised land of eternity abiding with Him.

‭“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:16 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.16.NASB1995

God made a way for you to be released from the pressures of your affliction – sin. Jesus. Jesus will lead a surrendered heart out of the pressure of sin and release you from bondage by following His lead. There is one way only for the pressure release — follow the
Leader — Jesus.

What does that mean?
Surrender your life to Jesus –> His way. His plan. His will.

Our need here is to follow a faithful, trustworthy leader.

‭🌹Who is your leader in life?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
‭https://indasharonjesus.org