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This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.

Adrian Rogers

Prayer is surrender - surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

E. Stanley Jones

278. Prisoners of Hope

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... with is nothing and nobody. Then, as Paul describes in Romans, chapter seven, we become prisoners of despair, exhausted and overloaded. Who can save us from this hopeless situation? It is only Jesus, the one who offers the “great invitation” in Matthew, chapter eleven. Our only option is surrender; to give it all up to Jesus; to lay all of our burdens down at the foot of his cross and admit that we can’t handle life on our own. When we come to Jesus, take his yoke upon us and find rest, then we become ...

279. The Sawdust Trail

Colossians 3:1-4

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... any kind of material reward attached to them. The prosperity gospel encourages people to look for things on earth, and Paul is very clear our focus must be heavenly. Paul goes on in Colossians to list those earthly things that we must surrender. Paul wrote: “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy ...

280. Trusting God When You've Been Hurt

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... them in this life (see Romans 8:28). That’s faith.” (3) Did you hear that? Our job is to believe God. Can you do that when you are surrounded by troubles? Through those long years of slavery and imprisonment, Joseph believed in God’s promises and surrendered himself to God’s will. And all those years later, he could look back and see how God had turned his troubles into triumphs. Rev. Alan Cross tells about a couple in his church who serve as an example of faithful, joyful obedience to God in all ...

281. Love Lives

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

... a carpenter and then moving into his role as preacher, teacher, and minister to the people, Jesus was fully human. Yet, for Jesus, this was not the end. He humbled himself even further to be arrested and scourged. And as if that humiliation were not enough, he surrendered himself to be crucified and hung on a cross like a criminal. That was not to be the end, however. From the cross he was raised, resurrected from the dead, and given authority so that at the mention of his name, all on earth and in heaven ...

282. Take Up Your Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... has to leave it behind. The person who lives frantically, trying to get all of the pleasures out of life, may finally discover that he dies from just plain dissipation. The person who is the most diligent about health care must also finally surrender even after the most exotic surgery and most sophisticated electronic medicine have done their parts. However, the person who comes to understand that life is something other than all of what we can do with our physical existence discovers that in the death ...

283. Easter Understanding

Luke 24:36-49

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Harry N. Huxhold

... by Romans as the absolute worst of death sentences. Yet his death was perfect because he died trusting his Father, who had commissioned him to suffer what he must for the trespasses of the sinful and unbelieving world. It was a perfect death, because Christ did not surrender to death, but in perfect trust offered himself to his Father when death came. And God raised him on the third day. For Forgiveness Jesus did not leave it at that. He said, "The Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third ...

284. The Open Hand

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... you are asked to open your tightly clenched fists and give up your last coin...You feel it safer to cling to a sorry past than to trust in a new future. So you fill your hands with small, clammy coins which you don't want to surrender.4 We cling to resentment or revenge so tightly that we make ourselves sick and cannot worship or pray. Stubborn resistance to the spirit of forgiveness inhibits our worship and our prayers. In clenched fists we hold tightly to wrong ideas about God, other people, and ourselves ...

285. A New Kingdom Coming

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... Likewise in the kingdom of God. We all build our provincial kingdoms of corporations, professions, families, houses and lands, over which we preside like feudal lords on manorial estates. But God's sovereignty is established only when, through his judgment and kindness, we surrender ourselves to his lordship. God knows when we put our own hearts and minds and spirits under his control, he then will have access to all we possess -- our money, our abilities, our time. And Jesus is his vice-regent who bids us ...

286. Kneeling And Redirection

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... what we all get after kneeling before Jesus: we are redirected. That different direction after kneeling before Jesus means that your joy in life will not be in seeking happiness and fulfillment directly, but in intentionally walking the way of service, sacrifice, and surrender. The new direction involves finding the holy in the least expected places, the very places we would most like to avoid. I. Different Way Of Pain Jesus redirects us by inviting us to face pain head-on rather than avoiding it, which is ...

287. Named And Claimed

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Tony Everett

... us. God has chosen us. God did not abandon the exiles. God will not abandon us. We are baptized! There certainly will be times when it seems as if the blazing fires of family problems or work or school conflict are about to consume us. It would be easy to surrender. But God is with us. We are baptized! The Lord has called us by name. The Lord has chosen us. We belong to the Lord. Like the exiles in Babylonia, we cannot save ourselves. But God has. God does. God will. "For I am the Lord your God, the Holy ...

288. Extreme Measures

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... are toppled, where people murder loved ones to get the insurance payoff, and where others do anything to satiate their lust for greed. The land was invaluable to Naboth because it was a gift from God and a family inheritance he did not want to surrender. But Ahab, annoyed with Naboth's decision, and after returning home from rebuke, moaned and complained to his wife Jezebel of the matter. She, with her devious heart, created a plot to have Naboth destroyed so his land might be confiscated. This story is a ...

289. The Sponge And Wine

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... as Jesus sensed that moment when he had to enter the final judgment of God, death. It was then, Mark says, after three hours of darkness, that Jesus realized the awful abandonment of God in death. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" By faith, by trust, by surrender to God his Father, he would not be abandoned even in death. God was still his God. By faith he remained the Son of God. By faith he would not let go of God. By faith he would not be separated from God. In that terrible moment as Jesus was ...

290. No Apology

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... Jesus did it! Must be saved: As if the source of salvation wouldn't have been enough of a stumbling block for proud Jews, Peter remains bold until the end, not by saying, "You can be saved," or "You may be saved," but you must be saved. To surrender to the Son is a divine necessity. All people must respond. Why? We all must respond because we are all like the lame man Peter healed, except that we are crippled spiritually. The crutch for spiritually lame people is the wooden cross where Jesus shed his blood ...

291. Coping With Heartache

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... developments in the region made the situation more difficult for Judah. As Babylon began to flex its muscles, Judah stood in its way. There was no way Judah could stand up to the mighty Babylonian Empire, so in 597 B.C. the king of Judah surrendered. In what was the first wave of deportation, the king and much of the nobility were taken to Babylon, and the Temple and royal treasuries were plundered. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, installed Zedekiah as the new king of Judah. He was the last member ...

292. Possession Is Nine-tenths Of The Law

Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... and oppressed, afflicted and tyrannized. As a nation we have not had those kinds of experiences. We are so blessed as a people. We have not had a foreign army on our soil since the War of 1812. We've never really lost a war, nor have we had to surrender to an enemy. We've never had a foreign power come in and tell us that we can't worship the way we want to, or impose a system of religion on us. The beasts of Daniel's vision find no political or military equivalent in our lives. But that ...

293. God Works Wanders

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... we think, if we don't venture forward, we can't ever be rejected again, or fail again. Still, God says, "Go to the place I will show you." An Arab proverb says, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." With modest beginnings we surrender our wills and our lives to God. A small company of travelers leaves one little village of an unknown name in a forgotten country. And yet, from that quiet beginning, of which the world took no notice, began the story of God entering history by his covenant ...

294. Down A Garden Path

Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... . Or gradually we retreat into the small spaces of our lives, believing if we shut out the world around us we can avoid the pain within us. Let it be the task of our Lenten journey this year to seek by repentance, fasting, prayer, and the works of love to surrender our lives. Why should we seek to be in control of our lives when we have such a good and gracious God offering to be our Lord? That's the faithful and needed response in both the garden and the desert: to let God be God. To let God be ...

295. To Bow The Knee

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... Fair Lady -- "Show me!" And so, Jesus came to show us. A free, in-home demonstration of what love can do. "Greater love has no one than this: that I lay down my life for my friends," Jesus says. And then he goes ahead and does it. He surrenders himself to the authorities, principalities and rulers, a sign of God's tremendous love for us. Isn't that amazing? In Romans, Paul comments that a person might sacrifice himself for a good person -- but for a bad person? For sinners? For me? What kind of love are we ...

296. The Peace Treaty

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... bomb ready to use, for example), but God has no reason to fear us, no matter what we do, or what threats we could make. So here is the unbelievable, prodigal nature of God: Hat in hand, God's ambassador approaches us, telling us that God has surrendered. Although our lives are nothing of what we had hoped and expected, lacking any great accomplishments to show for our time spent here, and although we have refused to take seriously the claim God has on our lives, God does not want to be our enemy, but ...

297. Memorial Day

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . However, war alone can hardly be the answer to the world's plight. And, in the end, it might well be our undoing. General Douglas McArthur stood on the deck of the battleship U. S. S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay in 1945 to receive the formal surrender of the Japanese Government. At that time he made a penetrating observation. He said: "The problem is basically theological in nature. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh." That from a professional soldier. Just outside the city of Atlanta, Georgia ...

298. Flashing Lights

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... not forget God's call to Jonah. He heard the voice of God, and started running in the opposite direction! So being open to God's leading does not come easily for most of us. In fact, those who hear God's voice the most clearly are those who will surrender their own stubborn wills, and thus are open at last to hearing what God wants instead of what we want! So often it is in those moments when we sit among the ashes of our own burned out dreams that we begin to hear God's voice, and our lives ...

299. Citizenship

Philippians 3:1-11

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... in the greatest nation on Earth! This is God's nation. We are his chosen people -- at least the Christians are. If only all those other people, those people who claim to be Americans but refuse to admit that this is a Christian country, would stop misbehaving and surrender to his rule, we would really have something going here, something that no other nation on Earth could hope to stand against. We would have God on our side. As we already do, of course. But if they don't stop all this sinning, God is going ...

300. Let Our Kids Pray

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Carl B. Rife

... prayers in church, as important as those kinds of prayers may be. It is that intensely personal conversation, that intensely personal wrestling that Jesus does in the hour of his greatest need. Jesus' prayer is a real prayer, the opening up of his entire life, that surrendering of his being to the one he called Father, or more precisely Daddy. That kind of prayer depends upon a context of faith, a community of faith. Again I say prayer grows out of a faith understanding that is a by-product of a community ...

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