Prayers for surrender and obedience
Obeying when it's hard
For loosening your grip and following where he leads.
Also for obedience · obey god · hard to obey · costly obedience · doing what god says · don't want to · following jesus · sacrifice · what god asks · reluctant · stepping out in faith
Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”
If you love me, keep my commandments.
Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
A prayer
Original writing, not a quotation of Scripture.
Lord, I know what you're asking, and I've been dragging my feet. It doesn't make sense to me, and part of me hopes you'll change your mind. Peter fished all night, caught nothing, and still said, because you say so, I will let down the nets.
Give me that kind of trust. Work in me both the wanting and the doing, and let me find joy on the other side of obeying you. In Jesus' name, Amen.