Life's biggest battles aren't being fought around you—they're being fought within you

Demands reveal selfishness but humility grows in surrender.

You can have the right position and still have the wrong heart

Charles Spurgeon
If you may have everything by asking, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is, and I beseech you to abound in it… Do you know, brothers, what great things are to be had for the asking? Have you ever thought of it? Does it not stimulate you to pray fervently? All heaven lies before the grasp of the asking man; all the promises of God are rich and inexhaustible, and their fulfillment is to be had by prayer.

We don't use God and His church to get what we want; we surrender what we want to serve God and His church.

Pride demands favor based on our merits - grace deposits favor in spite of flaws

We Submit to God Because...
He created us
His rule is good for us
All resistance to Him is futile
Submission is absolutely necessary to salvation
It is the only way to have peace with God

You are daily submitting to something - it is just a matter of "what" or "who", not "if"

Demand reveal selfishness but humility grows in surrender

Where have I been demanding my own way?

Let's lay down the mantle of demand and pick up the mantle of humility, giving God the glory and blessing those around us.