Surrendered to Submit, Submitting to Obey

July 5

“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise” (John 5:19).

Jesus was completely submitted to the will of the Father; He only did what He was instructed to do. We should strive to achieve the same level of obedience in our lives.- Creflo Dollar

submitting

SUBMIT'TING, ppr. Surrendering; resigning; yielding; referring to another for decision.

obedience

OBE'DIENCE, n. L. obedientia. See Obey.

Compliance with a command, prohibition or known law and rule of duty prescribed;

the performance of what is required or enjoined by authority, or the abstaining from what is prohibited, in compliance with the command or prohibition. To constitute obedience, the act or forbearance to act must be in submission to authority;

the command must be known to the person, and his compliance must be in consequence of it, or it is not obedience.

Obedience is not synonymous with obsequiousness; the latter often implying meanness or servility, and obedience being merely a proper submission to authority. That which duty requires implies dignity of conduct rather than servility. Obedience may be voluntary or involuntary. Voluntary obedience alone can be acceptable to God.

I have surrendered my heart; my soul; by body; my mind and my spirit use me Lord as you please, make me invisible; when they meet me I want your sweet perfume to saturated my being; I surrender to you my life, for I will walk by faith and not by sight. Blindfolded, I will rely on the Holy Spirit to decide my steps and submit to your direction and your will. Lord Jesus I submit my talent, I submit to you my relationships, I submit to you my time, I submit to you my energy, I submit to you everything that I am unsure of about myself; I submit it to you for you to decide what I should do with it for you are the head and have ultimate authority of my life. I submit to you to obey. I want to be obedient; Obeying you is the desire of my heart, help me to be obedient Holy Spirit; guide me to obey Gods commands so that I can be pleasing unto him. Open my ears so I can hear the commands crystal-clearly so I will know the path of which Christ will'd me to be on. Open my eyes to see and understand that obedience is a sacrifice of what you want for me and not what I think I need. Through my obedience bless me to be a blessing to others.

" Lord Jesus I surrender to you my heat, soul, body, mind and spirit, by my act of surrendering i submit to you my talent, relationships, time energy and everything in my life for you to decide; by submission I obey your word and wait on your command for your word says For God alone my soul waits in silence for him comes my salvation. Lord Jesus use me as you please, Amen."