[NOTE: In healing ministry, we require that prior to the first ministry session the suppliant recite out loud this Prayer of Surrender every day for seven days. It needs reiteration and time to sink in. Please be intentional and deliberate in your recitation. These are serious words and I assure you will not be taken flippantly by the Lord, so best not to approach them flippantly…]

PRAYER OF SURRENDER

Dear Father, God of Heaven and Earth,

I come before you today to confess the following:

I have not surrendered all to you.

This must mean that I do not trust you with all of my life, that I have remained the god over all or part of my daily life – my choices, my actions, and my reactions to the circumstance facing me.

Moreover, since I was born into the Kingdom of Darkness, as every other child of Adam, every part of me that I fail to surrender to you remains in agreement with the Enemy of God (Satan) and under his domain and rule.

In addition, you know how I have often resented the problems in my life, and reacted with fear, frustration, anger, and despair, and you know how I have tried so often to fix them myself, and in doing so resisted your call to surrender all. I confess that I am tired and worn out trying to fix them myself. I have had enough. It doesn’t work when I try to do your job.

I have suffered not only emotionally, but physically because of this, as I have given the Enemy a place in my life.

Today, I want to give it all over to you. All of it – the good things, the bad things, the problems, and “the fixes.” I never want to deem you unworthy of my trust, and I never want to put myself in your place in my life, as Jesus said that a man cannot serve two masters.

And whatever I encounter going forward, I never, ever want to limit in any way the Holy One of Israel as the Israelites under Moses did and perished in the Wilderness.

Father, I also acknowledge your Word which says “All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight but the Lord weighs the motives.” (Prov. 16:2-3) And “There is a way which seems right to a man but the end thereof is death.” (Prov. 14:12) I fear that too often I may perhaps have excused myself while demanding perfection from others, or that I have acquitted myself when perhaps I should have asked you to “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts…” And so today, Father,  I do ask for you to “search me,” lead me to repentance where necessary, and give me a revelation of the extent of your grace and forgiveness towards me, that I may freely and always grant the same to others rather than hold them to a higher standard.

You also know that I’ve asked you many times for an explanation for circumstances and problems that seems never to come, and the frustration and discouragement that troubles me because of that.

Today, I want to walk wholly on the path of trust. I don’t need to “understand” everything. I just need to know you. Because then I can trust you with everything I am and have, and everything I don’t understand.

I want to surrender to you anything and everything I have held back from your hand, including my need to “understand” and “agree” with all that occurs in my life. Reveal in me any lack of surrender so that I may surrender it.

To the extent I am unwilling to surrender in my deep heart, I declare that I am willing to be made willing.

I choose today to replace all lack of surrender with “rest and trust”. I believe in my deep heart that you are good beyond measure, that you can be trusted with all, and that you will always treat me gently and lovingly. You are not like earthly fathers who can lie, and fail and hurt their children.

Most importantly, I will attribute evil to Satan, and all good to you. And I will take confidence in your turning the tables on Satan’s evil, as you did for Joseph, David, Esther, and Daniel and so many more of your people in Scripture.

As your Word says, you truly are my ‘Abba’ – Daddy! I so rejoice in that revelation!

Today, I open my heart to you – fully, and I ask you to take all the hurt and pain, all lack of trust, all resentments and unforgiveness, and all fear, depression, anxiety, and all unbelief from me, Lord, that I still have in my deep heart. I don’t want to hold on to it anymore. It is prison, bondage, and death. I give it to you now and see in my mind’s eye it all floating up to the cross of Jesus and resting upon Him.

Please take me at my word, and I will take you at yours.

And your Word says You will never leave me nor forsake me. I quote Psalm 34:5 – “They looked to Him and were radiant, and they will never be ashamed.”

I do know and declare this: I am a sinner and have rebelled all my life against your call to me to repent, turn from my independent ways, and surrender. Today, I confess all my sins to you – anger, hate, dishonesty, lying, greed, sexual immorality… [Note: take time to name these.] I also confess, however, that I believe that Jesus has already paid the penalty of death on the cross for all my sins, and my old life or rebellion was joined to and died with Him, for this is what You and He did for me, Father. In joining me to Him in the spiritual realm, you could both judge my sin righteously (against Him) and show mercy toward me (in Him).

And because of this fact, His life is now my life and I belong to Him. I now stand before you in His righteousness and His blessing, for that is what your Word says. Fill me, Lord, now with this wondrous revelation! I gave my life to Him, and He gave His eternal life to me, to be free forever from condemnation and judgment and hell, and to inherit all the promises of blessing, affirmation, love, and rescue from the Living God!

Finally, I will never be disappointed when I look to you, Lord, with my whole heart and choose to believe your Word, regardless of what my rationalism or emotions are telling me. This is because you do not disappoint – you rescue, you heal, and you deliver me out of the hands of my enemies, and you lead me and guide me in the path of righteousness. That is how you describe yourself over and over again in your Word.

I will therefore now choose to believe that this is exactly what you will do when I trust in you – with my choices, my finances, my children, my marriage, and indeed all of my life. I now choose, Lord, to trust in your loving care when things don’t make sense. I now choose to trust that you are a very, very good God and a wonderful Daddy, and that you always, always have my best interest at heart.

Today, I make an unconditional surrender of all my life to your loving care and control. I give up trying to run and control my own life and the lives of others. I’m done. I’ve had enough.

Please give me clarity here, I pray, Father, and where there is not clarity, help me trust, and please reveal in me your strength and wisdom and peace and purpose, all of which you gave me when you gave me the Spirit of Jesus.

I love you, Father, and I choose forever to trust you with all I have and all I am. In Jesus’ Name I pray…Amen.”

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