Things you need to know about total surrender

Surrender doesn’t mean loss, especially when one replaces bad things for great things from God. Emotional baggage, heartache, fear, and other things that cripple a person’s spirit can be surrendered to Jesus. He has come to give His children a life more abundant than any being can ever promise.

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The heart and the mind battle all the time, and surrender is a battle term. Surrendering to Christ means giving up everything a person could be holding on to, may it be his wealth, emotions, value, and other things that keep one from yielding to the Lord. 

The heart is the most difficult to surrender to Him. A person’s heart can be the most deceiving, and it can be a cause for one to not let God move freely in His life. Christians must learn that their feelings can be subjected to God. 

God demands a total surrender of one’s being; it’s a daily process. The battle happens everyday, and choosing to live for Christ—denying oneself—is the only way to experience His favor and grace. Christians get to walk in the purpose God has set for them, when they let the Holy Spirit work in them and through them. When Jesus was about to be crucified, He asked the Father if He can take the cup away from Him, yet He chose to surrender to the will of the Father. 

His children get to experience the beauty of salvation, the work of Jesus on the Cross, because He chose to surrender His life to the hands of the Father. Christians must choose to surrender their whole being to Jesus, becoming living sacrifices, leading lives that are holy and pleasing to God, to fully experience the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives. 

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