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God expects absolute surrender from His children in order to work His work in their lives.
Andrew Murray emphasizes that God desires to bless us beyond our expectations, but this requires our complete surrender to Him. He illustrates that just as nature is fully surrendered to God's will, so too must we be if we wish to receive His blessings. Murray argues that God, being the source of all goodness and life, cannot work through us unless we are wholly yielded to Him. The lack of total surrender is what hinders God's work in our lives, and He calls us to give ourselves entirely to Him. Ultimately, God delights in sharing His life and blessings with those who are fully prepared to receive Him.
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God Expects Your Surrender Yes, it has its foundation in the very nature of God God cannot do otherwise. Who is God? He is the Fountain of life, the only Source of existence and power and goodness, and throughout the universe there is nothing good but what God works, God has created the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the flowers, and the trees, and the grass; and are they not all absolutely surrendered to God? Do they not allow God to work in them just what He pleases? When God clothes the lily with its beauty, is it not yielded up, surrendered, given over to God as He works in it its beauty? And God's redeemed children, oh, can you think that God can work His work if there is only half or a part of them surrendered?
God cannot do it.
God is life, and love, and blessing, and power, and infinite beauty, and God delights to communicate Himself to every child who is prepared to receive Him; but ah! this one lack of absolute surrender is just the thing that hinders God. And now He comes, and as God, He claims it.
Sermon Outline
- God's Nature Demands Surrender
- Creation Surrenders to God
- Human Surrender is Essential
- God cannot work if only half is surrendered
- Absolute surrender is required
Key Quotes
“God has created the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the flowers, and the trees, and the grass; and are they not all absolutely surrendered to God?” — Andrew Murray
“God cannot do it. God is life, and love, and blessing, and power, and infinite beauty, and God delights to communicate Himself to every child who is prepared to receive Him;” — Andrew Murray
Application Points
- Recognize that God's nature demands absolute surrender from His children.
- Understand that surrender is essential for God's work to be done in our lives.
- Prepare to receive God's communication of Himself by surrendering fully to Him.