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Surrender to God: 5 Things to Let Go
by Alisa Hope Wagner
How to Surrender
Surrendering control is a daily, moment-by-moment choice. Like every discipline in life, we must learn to surrender and give it to God. The enemy seeks every new day to cloud our mind with worries, doubts, and fears. The devil wants there to be no room left for God in our lives. Surrendering to God becomes a lifestyle of daily giving it all to Him.
Whenever negative thoughts seek to invade our space, we must cut them off and give them to God immediately. God’s mercies are new every morning, so what happened yesterday, last year or a decade ago is completely gone. Carrying the past around will only take up space for God’s goodness, grace, and favor. Renewing our mind in Christ means letting go of all the burdens He died to take from us.
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV)
Letting Go - Worry
Worry adds not a single day to our lives. In fact, worry oppresses us every second. Worry can literally affect not only our minds and hearts but our bodies too. Worry does absolutely nothing positive. Surrender worry to God and watch your life float in His favor.
“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.” Philippians 4:6 (NLT)
Letting Go - Your Future
We can only change one day at a time. Living in the future robs us from the joy of today. Each day is a gift, and we miss it when we allow our minds to dwell on all the unknowns. We can trust God with our future, so we can focus on today. Trying to control the future is like trying to control the wind. Contentment in today will prevent our eyes from wandering off to tomorrow.
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” Matthew 6:34 (NIV)
https://www1.cbn.com/spiritual-life/surrender-to-god-5-things-to-let-go
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Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light. John 12:36, NIV
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According to His riches in glory refers to a biblical promise found in Philippians 4:19, which states that God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. This verse emphasizes God's provision and generosity towards believers.
The part of this writing that is very interesting and helpful to me is where it says "living in the future robs us from the joy of today."
I never thought I have been spending my time living in the future and I actually have. I look at the future so much that it scares me to the point of not being able to do things that can help bring future positive things.
Last week was a hectic week for me with too many doctor appointments for the three of us and me being the only driver in the family. By Friday morning before heading out to another appointment at the bank where my daughter and I were going in to open a new checking account for my daughter to replace the one someone did the fraud in, I felt like I was going to break down totally from the stress. As usual, I prayed to God for His strength, healing and joy, and He answered my prayer. At one point in the day, my daughter and I went into a new self-serve frozen yogert shop (restaurant). It is a nice small place with comfortable seats. We enjoyed the yogert and being the only two customers in there at a talbel (not having to worry about the covid). My daughter said "Today went very well." I was exhausted but agreed that it was a good day and I was thankful for it. I was happy to see my daughter enjoying herself at the yoyert place.
I pray God give everyone in this group a nice rest of the weekend and a good new week.
[Letting Go - Your Future
We can only change one day at a time. Living in the future robs us from the joy of today. Each day is a gift, and we miss it when we allow our minds to dwell on all the unknowns. We can trust God with our future, so we can focus on today. Trying to control the future is like trying to control the wind. Contentment in today will prevent our eyes from wandering off to tomorrow.]