SURRENDER

Snippet

The readiness to relinquish everything is more a painful process than a mystical Zap.  Brenan Manning  A Glimpse of Jesus PG 77

Scripture

During that night he got up and gathered his two wives, his two slaves and his eleven children and crossed at the shallow part of the Jabbok River.  After he sent them across the stream, he sent everything else across.  So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until dawn.  When the man saw that he could not win against Jacob, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that it was dislocated as they wrestled.  Then the man said, “Let me go; it’s almost dawn.”

But Jacob answered, “I won’t let you go until you bless me.”

So the man asked him, “What’s your name?”

“Jacob,” he answered.

The man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel [He Struggles With God], because you have struggled with God and with men—and you have won.”

Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”

The man answered, “Why do you ask for my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there. So Jacob named that place Peniel [Face of God], because he said, “I have seen God face to face, but my life was saved.” The sun rose as he passed Penuel. He was limping because of his hip. (Therefore, even today the people of Israel do not eat the muscle of the thigh attached to the hip socket because God touched the socket of Jacob’s hip at the muscle of the thigh.) Genesis 32:22-32 GNT

Songs

Hold Me Jesus Rich Mullins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gBGGX3yvMo

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all
When the mountains look so big
And my faith just seems so small

So hold me Jesus, I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

And I wake up in the night and feel the dark
It's so hot inside my soul
There must be blisters on my heart

So hold me Jesus, I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

Surrender don't come natural to me
I'd rather fight You for something I don't really want
Than to take what You give that I need
And I've beat my head against so many walls
I'm falling down, I'm falling on my knees

And this Salvation Army band is playing this hymn
And Your grace rings out so deep
It makes my resistance seem so thin
Oh, hold me Jesus, I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

Oh, hold me Jesus, I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

You've been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

Sentence Prayer

May all your Expectations

Be frustrated.

May all of your plans be thwarted.

May all of your desires

Be withered into nothingness.

That you may experience the powerlessness and

Poverty of a child and sing and dance

In the Love of God the Father,

The Son and the Spirit.  Amen

A.dore God’s Power and your Weakness

C. onfess those items you have not yet surrendered

T.hank Jesus for holding you-For being our prince of peace

S. uplication pray for those going through a trial of surrender