Sermon: "surrender"

Worship= surrender!

Romans 6:13 Give yourselves to God, surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.



Worship= surrender?

Surrender is a much disliked word; it means losing something and of course knows one likes to be a loser right?

In our world now everyone likes to talk about winning and never giving up or even giving in to something that could mean a lot… So basically surrendering is not thought of that often.

But surrendering to our lord and savor is the heart of worship; it’s like our response to his amazing love for us.

True worship begins when you dedicate your life Christ and offering all of yourself to him.

Which leads into the surrendering aspect of what I talked about earlier it’s really hard to surrender everything to him, a lot of people have problems with fear, confusion, and do I want to get into a relationship like this?



Fear, can I trust god?

Trust is the most important step in surrendering all of your life over to Christ. But how then do you know God loves you? He says he loves you, has good plans for you life, died on the cross for all your sins and he forgives you! God also gives you things to go through in your life to make you stronger in those areas, so that you will pull yourself closer to God and want to surrender absolutely everything to him.



Confusion

Lots of people are not fully aware of what the bible holds or have read it. There is a lot of people out there like that, and or are confused about the bible so are not fully aware of how amazing he is so there lost. Which is another strong factor of why people do not fully surrender there heart over.



Do I want to get in a relationship with him?

This last little barrier, is like people are sometimes not ready to commit there 100% over to him for many reasons and really are having struggles with certain things.



So if you’re surrendered over to God he gives you battles to fight for you and for him you also don’t react to rude remarks and think of something really quick to defend yourself which you see a lot in relationships, which is probably the best example for this.



What do you get out of God when you surrender everything over to him? You get a definite sence of peace, along with freedom, and God’s power in you life which I think is pretty amazing!



So after you heard all this why not surrender everything thing over to him and fully live your life for him, he is loving and caring and wont give you anything he dosnet think you cant handle!

September 4th 2007