Monday March 17th, 2025
« And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all He has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind He will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him »
24 Then Jesus said to His disciples: If any of you want to be my followers, you must forget about yourself. You must take up your cross and follow me.
25 If you want to save your life, you will destroy it. But if you give up your life for me, you will find it.
26 What will you gain, if you own the whole world but destroy yourself? What would you give to get back your soul?
27 The Son of Man will soon come in the glory of His Father and with His angels to reward all people for what they have done.
Everyone who surrenders all to Jesus will enjoy many great blessings.
Unfortunately, many Christians don’t know this, often choosing to do their own will rather than submitting completely to God.
Beloved, don’t be ‘one leg in and one leg out’.
Don’t be lukewarm.
How do you know if you have totally surrendered to God?
- Check your decision-making process.
Do you involve God in the decision on what to do per time?
Apostle Paul said in Galatians 2:20EasyEnglish
« Christ died on the cross on my behalf. It is like I died there with Him. So I do not live my own life any more. Instead, Christ lives in me. The life that I live now in my body, I live because I trust what He has done for me. He has loved me so much that he died on my behalf »
When you are totally surrendered to God, you would be living to do His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).
Have you really surrendered all to God?
The interesting thing is that some people start out in total surrender to God, but as He begins to prosper them, that surrender diminishes.
When they were living in a small apartment, it was easy to surrender their home for use as House Fellowship, but when God rewarded them with a mansion in a highbrow estate, they would claim that the security measures in their community would make that difficult.
- The higher you go, the greater should be your surrender to God.
There was a brother in the Church many years ago who never missed a service, but then one day, a man of God came to preach and prophesied to him that he would soon become a millionaire”. Within six months, this brother’s life had changed dramatically. Before long, he stopped coming to Church, claiming that he had become so busy as his business had expanded. One day, I heard that he had had a stroke so I sent for him. When he arrived, he explained that he had the stroke upon learning that a contract had been withdrawn from him at the stage when he should have been paid. If only he had totally surrendered to the Lord who blessed him!
May you surrender totally to God as He blesses you, in Jesus’ name.
Prayer focus – Father, please grant me the grace to totally surrender my life to You, in the name of Jesus.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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