It's Time To Surrender All

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All to Jesus I surrender
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In his presence daily live.
I surrender all, I surrender all;
All to thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.
All to Jesus I surrender,
Humbly at His feet I bow,
Worldly pleasures all forsaken,
Take me Jesus, take me now.
I surrender all, I surrender all;
All to thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.


This song is so significant to so many people. A lot of times we remember hearing it during the Billy Graham Crusades. It is a song that a lot of folks think about when they remember their salvation.

The song has a bit more meaning to me and I would like to explain it to you here. I am able to minister to hurting women because I have known the pain of neglect, abuse of many kinds and betrayal. It would take so long for me to go into all of it and I have tried to put it behind me. Secular counselors often like people to take a long look at their childhood, etc. As a minister of the Lord I simply find it useless to dwell in the past. We can’t change our pasts but when we come to Jesus He can change our present circumstances and the ones in our future.

A lot of times our suffering has to do with the consequences of our own sin and of making the wrong choices. We live with one foot in the world and one foot in hell. The bible puts it very clearly in the following scriptures NIV Revelation 3:15 “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!”

That was me for years after I was saved in 1976. I wasn’t really living in sin completely...just flirting with it and I sure wasn’t living for the Lord completely. But God had a plan. He had called me and knew me, as He does you, in “my mother’s womb”. I would go all out for the Lord for awhile and then someone would invite me to “Happy Hour” after work and there I would go. I told myself it was “ok”, because after all Jesus went among sinners. Looking back on that now I sure see how satan had confused my thoughts the same way he always confuses us. It started with Eve in the Garden of Eden and it still goes on today.

Nothing ever turned out right for me for a long time, because I needed to be broken. I needed to forsake my ways and follow the ways of the Lord. I got in some real big messes and involved with people who said they were Christians but in the end they were no more Christians then going into a garage would make them a car!

The lowest point was when the man I thought was absolutely “the” man God sent for me dumped me. I had been so good to Him, I had done everything to please him and I just couldn’t figure it out. After this painful experience I went through a season of severe depression. I would stay in my bed all weekend and then pick myself up, put a smile on my face and head back to work on Monday. I remember praying on my hands and knees crying out to the Lord and asking Him “Why, why did you let me think he was the one? It was like putting a kid in a candy shop God, and then saying “Don’t Eat Any Candy”..” All of a sudden the Lord spoke to my heart. “This was all for your good, until now you didn’t realize what my UNCONDITIONAL love for you is all about. No matter how good I am to you, no matter how I bless you, you turn your back and run after your idols. Now maybe you see how it hurts me when you throw aside my UNCONDITIONAL love for you!” From that point on I got that lesson, that message from the Lord. I cried for hours that evening just thinking about how much the Lord loved me.

But still I went on in my quest to find “a man”. I had the best man ever made. The man who loved me unconditionally, the man who would never leave me or forsake me and yet I still was in rebellion against Him...against God. I had the “living water” that would never run dry but still I didn’t “GET IT”.

My kids were grown and I lived alone during this period of my life. I would meet people online and then meet for coffee and then sometimes.... well I am sure you know the rest of the story. I always said I wouldn’t sleep with men I was not married to, but I did. The last straw was when I met a man who said and did some unbelievable things to me. Riding down a country road back to my home that evening I cried out to God. I turned on a Christian radio channel and the song that was playing was “I Surrender All”

It hit me like a ton of bricks. The song was still playing when I was home and sitting in my car in my garage. I pulled down the door with my automatic door opener and sat there and threw my arms up in the air and said finally “I do surrender all Father, I have blown it on my own. I can’t choose the right man, I am not where I should be with you, I am having sex with people I am not married to. I am sinning and I don’t want to anymore. All I want is YOU. You are my all! I do surrender all my fleshly desires to you. Take them now Jesus, I don’t care if all I have is you for the rest of my life that will be enough.” I can’t explain to you how the Spirit filled that car. The feeling stayed with me for days. I knew, that I knew, I had made the RIGHT decision. From that point on God controlled my life!

I made a conscious decision not to date anymore. I also made a decision that if God was to decide to send me a Christian husband I would not have sex with him until our Wedding Night. I kept that promise and five years later God sent me my Chuck, my precious Boaz!

(If you want to read that story it’s in my archive on “InJesus.Com”)

I write this tonight because it’s a Friday night and a lot of single people are lonely and wanting company. Just for tonight try spending it with Jesus. Sit down with a cup of tea, and your bible. Start out by praising and worshiping the Lord, thanking Him for all your blessings. Then continue your intimate time with Him with prayer for others, anyone God brings to your mind pray for! Then if anyone has hurt you, pray for them. You will be surprised how that brings forgiveness, and restoration to your life. Then open your bible and get in the WORD! If you truly want to get to know someone you need to spend a lot of time with them. The more time you spend with Jesus, the more you become like Him. Spending time with Him in His presence also makes it easy to spot the “deceivers” satan brings into your life. You will instantly feel that this isn’t the companion for you, they are nothing like your FAVORITE companion...Jesus.

Surrender it all now, if you haven’t done so. What is holding you back? Drugs, alcohol, sex, partying? Surrender it to Jesus and you will be astonished at how wonderfully peaceful you will feel. God isn’t a party pooper, He doesn’t want you miserable. He has someone planned for just you. Someone that won’t hurt you, use you or abuse you.

Raise your hands now and say “I Surrender All!”


In His Unconditional Love,
Pastor Cat

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