The Secret to Surrendering - Part 1

A while back I was thinking of this line that us Christians use all the time. It's sort of become apart of our Christianeese language. We say it so often we seldom stop to think, "What does it REALLY mean?"

So I asked the Lord, "What does it mean when we tell people 'You just need to surrender it to God!'?"

As I sat there the Holy Spirit reminded me of something in II Corintians 10:1-5. It says,

(1) Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: (2) But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. (3) For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (4) (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) (5) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."

It's in this passage that I found the secret to surrendering, and what it means to surrender something to God. But before we get to that, I want to quickly lay a foundation.

We are in a war. Each & everyone one of us are. We find ourselves fighting daily no matter if we realize it or not. That war that we fight in is not physical. It's spiritual.

Notice that in verse 3 that Paul says that "...we do not war after the flesh." We are at war, folks, but this war that we fight in we do not fight using physical tactics. We must use spiritual tactics because the battle that we're in is spiritual, as you will see here in a moment.

In verse 4 Paul writes that our weapons are not carnal. And our weapons can't be carnal! A physical weapon will not work on a spiritual enemy! Our weapons are spiritual, because our enemies are spiritual!

Ephesians 6:12 says, "...we wrestle not against flesh & blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

Our enemies are not people. Are REAL enemies are spiritual & they are evil, ugly, & demonic!

"Are you telling me that I have to fight against evil, demonic spirits?" Yes - I am. And if you didn't already know this then I'd like to inform you that you've been fighting these things your whole, entire life. You just never gave it any thought before.

The first thing that I'm asking is for you to get any images out of your head that Hollywood's placed in there. This is not like that.

The Bible talks about these things called "familiar spirits." (Click here to see the scriptures.) The job of the familiar spirit is to just simply follow you around, take note of your life. It becomes familiar with those things that terrify you. I becomes familiar with those things that tempt you. It hears the words that come out of your mouth. It sees how you react to certain situations & circumstances. It recognizes patterns in your life. It knows you so well that if it wanted to it could imitate you. (This is one of the reasons why people think they see ghost.)

So, these familiars spirits collect all this information concerning you, and it shares your information with other evil spirits. Such as the spirit of fear. The spirit of fear then comes to you & simply influences your thinking.

"You're not good enough."
"Nobody loves you."
"You're too fat! Nobody wants you!"
"He's going to leave you."
"You don't make him happy."
"You're too ugly."
"How can he respect you? You don't even respect yourself!"
"He's just going to do you like all the others."
"You're always going to be alone!"

I can go on & on & on & on. I'm sure some of you can, too!

But this is what the spirit of fear does. It prophecies to us! It tries to paint a picture of our future by telling us lies & half truths. Fear is a prophet. It's a false prophet. It doesn't even care if it's prophecies come to pass. All it wants is for you to apply your faith in it's words.

And it's easy for us to do that because our emotions are quick to agree with fear. For example: It's easy for us to imagine ourselves always being alone because we feel so lonely! So we attach our faith to that statement & accept it as truth.

However, it's not truth. It's still a lie. We just believe it.

---------> To read Part Two of the "Secret to Surrendering" click here! <--------