Women of Faith - Giving God Your All

Have you ever said what Ive said: Girl, I cant give everything to God. I dont know what He would want me to do. He might want to send me to Africa, and I dont like flies. Okay, Im not proud I said that. But when I said it, I really meant it. Fear had me boundthe fear of God telling me to do something that I either did not want to do or something that was not convenient. Shame on me.

Im glad God is a merciful God. He just let me go on with that nonsense until my spirit could take it no more. One night in 1955, the Holy Spirit of God convicted me to the point of falling on my face and surrendering all of me and mine to God. When I got up from the floor, I knew without a shadow of a doubt that God had accepted my repentance and my submission. And yes, He did send me to Africa, but I was not bothered one bit by flies. From that night to this day, I have attempted to lay it all on the altar before God and to submit to His will for my life.

This courageous study will help you to become willing to trust God with your everything because He is the God of everything. Whatever youre going through, God knew about it before He divided the water from the land, flung stars in space, and grew mighty trees. Its true. He is the Alpha (the beginning) and the Omega (the ending) of your experiences in life.

After I gave God my all, I was sitting around talking to some other womenpresidents of companies, entrepreneurs, computer gurus, and power brokers. They asked each one in the meeting to share their goals for the coming year. I listened to them talk and share their financial goals, career goals, personal goals, and so forth. When they got to me without any shame, I said, I have no goals for next year. In the past, every time I made goals for the coming year, I noticed that by February God had changed them. That was frustrating and fulfilling for me. Frustrating because I had spent valuable time, energy, and resources to develop my goals that went out of the window when God changed them. Fulfilling because when I turned my life over to God and gave Him my all, I realized that whatever He had for me to do was His will for my life. I no longer had to figure out what to doI just had to do it when I was told to by God. So my goals for the year became deadlines for what I had to do.

It sure makes life a lot easier to handle when all the responsibility of planning your future is left up to the Master of the Future. Deadlines without self-imposed duties are less stressful and more manageable. It requires knowing who our Leader is, understanding the causes and effects of our unwillingness to give God our all, throwing away our alibis, accepting the promises of God, trusting the only One who knows all our stuff, and saying bye-bye to our desire to control our lives.

Its hard but it can be done. Just ask Miss I Cant Surrender Everything to Godme. Once I did it and saw the benefits from it, I was hooked on the only Stronghold in my life now, Almighty God. Im glad His ways are not my ways and His thoughts are not my thoughts. Thank goodness for that, cause this world would be a plum mess if it were left up to me. At the end of this study, you will be able to say with conviction, All to Jesus I Surrender.

Thelma Wells