I have one desire now — to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Surrender
Abandon Yourself – David Platt
We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
– David Platt –
I give up all my own plans and purposes – Betty Scott Stam
Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes. All my own desires and hopes and accept Your will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all, utterly to You to be Yours forever. Fill me and seal me with Your Holy Spirit. Use me as You will, send me where you will, work out Your whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever. To me to live is Christ. Amen.
– Betty Scott Stam –
Powerful surrender – William Booth
The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
– William Booth –
What being filled with the Spirit means – Andrew Murray
Being filled with the Spirit is simply this – having my whole nature yielded to His power.
– Andrew Murray –
Fear of losing something – Leslie Ludy
You can’t fear losing something if you’re completely surrendered.
– Leslie Ludy –
The key to missionary devotion – Oswald Chambers
The key to the missionary’s devotion is that he is attached to nothing and to no one except our Lord Himself.
– Oswald Chambers –
Proof you are crucified with Christ – Oswald Chambers
The proof that your old life is dead, having been “crucified with Christ,” is the amazing ease with which the life of God in you now enables you to obey the voice of Jesus Christ.
– Oswald Chambers –
The True Gospel – John MacArthur
The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
– John MacArthur –