Surrender
Definition of surrender: Surrender is choosing to yield oneself or possessions to another; to cease resistance.
1: Surrender Starts With Trust
2: Surrender Requires Obedience
3: Surrender Leads To An Exchange
Genesis 22:1 ESV After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 22:2 ESV He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.
Hebrews 11:19 ESV He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
Genesis 22:3 ESV So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 22:10-12 ESV Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
Genesis 22:13 ESV And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Philippians 1:6 NIV Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Genesis 15:1b NIV “I am your shield, your very great reward.”
Hebrews 11:6 NIV And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
Isaiah 55:9 NIV As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Ephesians 3:20 NIV Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us
John 3:16 NIV For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.