YIELD YOURSELF TO THE LORD!

 

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

THURSDAY OCTOBER 22, 2020.

SUBJECT : 

YIELD YOURSELF TO THE LORD

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Memory verse: 

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Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you

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 (Second Chronicles 30 vs 8.)

READ: Romans 6 vs 12 - 19:

6:12: Therefore Do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should it in its lust. 6:13: And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

6:14: For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under law but under grace.
6:15: What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
6:16: Do You not Know that to whom you present yourselves servants to obey, you are that one’s slavery whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

6:17: But God be thanked, that though you slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were  delivered.
6:18: And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
6:19: I speak in human terms because of the weaknesses of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as selves of uncleanness and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.

INTIMATION:

To yield to the Lord means obey Him first, submitting our bodies, minds, wills, and emotions to Him. His Holy Spirit must guide and renew every part of us. Only then will we be able to temper our stubborn selfishness. Yielding to God is sacrificing your life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed. Yielding to God is for soldiers of Christ, not for cowards. Likewise it does not mean giving up rational thinking. God would not waste the mind He gave you! God does not want robots to serve Him. Yielding to God is not repressing your personality. Rather than its being diminished, yielding enhances it. The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become, because He made us. He invented all the different people you and I intend to be. 

God wants us to yield completely to Him; being totally devoted to Him. He desires that we daily lay aside our own desires to follow Him, putting all our energy and resources at His disposal and trusting Him to guide us. This is because He has good, pleasing,  perfect, and best plans for us. Therefore, devoting yourself to Him is reasonable, and the most proper thing to do. Also, for Him to have given His only Son to make our new life possible, we should joyfully give ourselves as living sacrifices for His service.

God is the Owner and Sustainer of your life. He designed it for worship to Him, and if you fail to worship Him, you will eventually create things (idols) that are gods to you, and you give your worship or life to them. God also allowed the freedom of choice. You are free to choose what to yield to, but you are not free from the consequences of that choice. There is freedom before worship, but no freedom from the consequences after worship. 

Remember, when you yield to the Lord, you become a living sacrifice, and the problem of a living sacrifice is that it can crawl off the altar, so you may have to re-yield your life several times a day. You must make it a daily habit. Don’t be tired or ashamed. He understands you, and sympathizes with your weaknesses (Hebrews 4 vs 13). Jesus said, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." 

Yielding to God is best demonstrated in obedience. You say, "yes, Lord" to whatever he asks of you. To say, "no, Lord" is to speak a contradiction. You can't call Jesus your Lord when you refuse to obey Him. Yielded people obey God's word, even if it doesn't make sense. For instance Peter demonstrated the act of yielding to the Lord when he obeyed the instruction of Jesus: after a whole night of toiling without success, "Master, we have toiled and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net." (Luke 5 vs 5.) 

God requires our obedience with the whole of our hearts. To obey from the heart means to give yourself fully to God, to love Him “with all your heart, will all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matthew 22 vs 37). It’s noteworthy that our efforts to know and obey God’s commands can best be described as”halfhearted.” However, God wants to give you the power to obey Him with all your heart. And counts such obedience to us for righteousness. How do you rate your heart’s obedience? 

Prayer: Abba Father, I completely yield my whole heart to You. Do with me whatever pleases You. My utmost heart desire and prayer is to be a vessel of honor for your use as it please You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!