TOTAL SURRENDER I

  Wed Feb 08, 2023  

Memorise:
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.Romans 12:1

 

Read:   Matthew 16:24-27

 

Bible In One Year:
Numbers 3-4

 

Hymn:
I Am Thine O Lord

 

Prayer point:
Father, please grant me the grace to totally surrender my life to You, in the name of Jesus.


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Message

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 2:20, 'I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."

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 When he arrived, he explained that he had the stroke upon learning that a contract had been withdrawn from him at the stage when he should have been paid.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.


King James Version

Matthew 16:24-27

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. [25] For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. [26] For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? [27] For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
RCCG Hymn

Our hearts are full of joy today

  1. f Our hearts are full of joy today
    We have found the golden way
    Its light is shining on our way
    We have found the golden way
    It's long our hearts have craved for
    In all the changing scenes of life
    We have almost entire failed
    In finding the golden way.

    2. Then sing, ah, sing a song of joy
    Sing from a joyful heart and shout
    The light has come and we are home.
    f We have found the golden way.


  2. We were called from this sinful world
    We have found the golden way
    Our friends and neighbours are still there
    f We have found the golden way
    We have answered the call divine;
    May we ne'er miss that heavenly place
    With Jesus, we are going home
    f We have found the golden way.
  3. p Our light afflictions are all past
    We have found the golden way
    The joy of home makes us forget
    f We have found the golden way
    The storm and mist will soon be past
    Our storm tossed hearts will take their rest
    We set sails, our boat comes to shore.
    We have found the golden way.
  4. With hearts of gratitude to God
    f We have found the golden way
    Sometime, before, we have lost it
    We have found the golden way
    We will soon be wdth the Saviour
    Jesus will gladly receive us
    But only by His grace alone.
    f We have found the golden way.
  5. f We give thanks to our God on High
    That we found the golden way
    Give glory, praise, thanks and honour
    To the Father and the Son
    And also to the Holy Ghost,
    To the eternal Trinity
    We shall praise Him world without end
    f That we found the golden way

    6. Thanks be to thee thou Elshaddai
    Praise be to Jehovah Rovai
    Halleluyah sing songs of praise
    To the blessed three in one.

 


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