Have You Surrendered or Have You Made God Your Opponent By Resisting His Authority? - August 18, 2015

Have you surrendered?   Have you given it all to God?   To surrender means to cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and to submit to authority.    The first thing we must realize is that God is not our enemy and He is not our opponent.  An opponent is someone who opposes you.   We tend to make God our opponent because of our desire to walk according our flesh and not according to His Spirit.   We have to learn how to cease and to resist.    To cease means to stop and to resist means to withstand the effect of something.    In other words, to endure and to stand.  

It's time to surrender and to submit.   It's time to start following the desires of the Spirit and not the lusts of our flesh.   A desire is a strong feeling of wanting something.    It is the desire of the Spirit to please the Father and it is the desire of the flesh to please self.   We have to stop being self motivated or should we say selfish.   It's time to be God motivated.   It's time to completely surrender.   In other words, it's time to stop resisting God so that we can submit completely and fully to His authority.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Galatians 5:16-17

¹⁶ [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
¹⁷ For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ...

"I Give Myself Away"

Ministered By William McDowell