Season 1- episode 10

Beautiful Surrender: He Has My Yes

Part 2: The Role of Surrendering.

Chapter 9- Eyes To See And Ears To Hear

"When we are positioned in Christ, we are placing ourselves in a posture of hearing from Him clearly. I will talk more about hearing from God in the book's section called results of surrendering. For now, I really want to stay in this stream of practicality of the actions that follow with the act of surrendering. Posturing ourselves rightly before God is something that is impossible without Jesus. Through Jesus Christ and what He fulfilled and accomplished through His life we now are able to have a right position and posture with God our Father. The very act of surrendering is the act of posturing yourself before God in such a way where you are able and willing to align yourself fully with His will for your life. Surrendering is enacted by a physical posture and a spiritual one, willingness before our Father for His will to be done regardless of ours. Jesus asked the crowd many times if they had eyes to see and ears to hear that which was being revealed to them. Being positioned and postured before God is being in a state of readiness with eyes to see and ears to hear. The question that follows in my mind is, are there practical ways to be both position and postured before God in surrendering? I believe there is. One example is the one I discussed in the previous chapter with finances through tithing/generosity. I would like to highlight four practical examples of ways we, as followers of Jesus can be positioned and postured in Christ: prayer, singing praises, fasting and being connected to a community of followers of Jesus. This chapter is not highlighting these acts in any particular order of significance."

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