The Seven Steps of Surrender
To know God a person needs to do three things every day. First, he needs to repent every day of all his sins. this means a willingness to give up any habit, any addictions, any sin, and God will provide the help and power to quit. the second thing a person needs to do to find God in his life is to take THE SEVEN STEPS OF FULL SURRENDER, giving Christ everything.
Those SEVEN STEPS are:
1. I surrender my family and friends. I do not give up on them, I simply surrender them to the will of God, lest when their will conflicts with the Father's will, He knows I will do only that which He calls me to do.
2. I surrender my ambitions, my job, my career, my future. This means a willingness to go anywhere He wants me to go and take on any tasks He wants me to take on.
3. I surrender my reputation, what people think of me and say about me. we must be willing to care more about what God thinks of us than what any man or woman thinks of us.
4. I surrender my pocketbook, my possessions, and all that I claim as mine. I am willing to give Him control over 100 percent of all that I have. I can say then that I don't own anything anymore. I have given it all up. Everything that I have and own is His.
5. I surrender my social life. I surrender my recreations, my pleasures, my amusements, as well as my relations with the opposite sex.
6. I surrender my daily schedule. I give Him not only my days and hours, but my total life, all of my time so that He has control of my schedule.
7. Most important of all, I surrender my will, my very self, the perpendicular pronoun " I." If I can do this, I don't have to worry about the first six steps. this one takes in all the others.
The Bible says we must do three things every day to know God. We must repent, and we must surrender. Then third, we must accept God by childlike faith.
Faith means: FORSAKING ALL I TAKE HIM __Dr. Phillip Hinerman
1. All to Jesus I surrender; all to him I freely give; I will ever love and trust him, in his presence daily live. Refrain: I surrender all, I surrender all, all to thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all. 2. All to Jesus I surrender; humbly at his feet I bow, worldly pleasures all forsaken; take me, Jesus, take me now. (Refrain) 3. All to Jesus I surrender; make me, Savior, wholly thine; fill me with thy love and power; truly know that thou art mine. (Refrain) 4. All to Jesus I surrender; Lord, I give myself to thee; fill me with thy love and power; let thy blessing fall on me. (Refrain) 5. All to Jesus I surrender; now I feel the sacred flame. O the joy of full salvation! Glory, glory, to his name! (Refrain)
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