Day 7: Come in Surrender

Come Before Him in Worship: Lift your heart in praise to our Father who holds us in his hand! Wait before him, understanding the need to yield to his forming. He is the one who will mold us into something beautiful! Offer your heart into His careful hands.

Reflect: We have just spent 6 days pondering our Father’s heart and what he wants for us. He wants our lives to be ones of victory, rest, and abundance, that he is glorified in and through. If a person went to a world-renowned physician for an illness that no one else could cure, he would gladly put his life in the physician's hands and follow his directions explicitly. Like this patient, and the clay, for God to be able to do his work in us, we must be totally surrendered to Him, we must put ourselves totally into his hands, to will and work in us to his good pleasure. We must turn over our lives, spirit, soul, and body to do as he pleases. The will of God for us is better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity. Can you trust him enough to give yourself entirely to him?

Respond in Prayer: Father, what are your thoughts toward me today? Show me your heart of love. Jesus, it is your kindness that leads me to repentance. Your love is a proven love. You displayed the fullness of your love for me in that while I was still sinning, you died for me. I ask you to lead me into the depths of your love today. Heal every wound that tempts me not to surrender completely to your leadership in my life. Your kingdom come, your will be done in my life. Thank you for continually extending your hand of mercy to me. Your love is better than life.