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	• Surrender: The Heart God Controls (Revive Our Hearts) Nancy Leigh DeMoss Moody Publishers, 2005 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

exceptional and insightful

Addresses very specifically the needs of tramatized and inocent victims who are searching for emotional, spiritual, and practical answers about where they have been. It will bring spiritual wholeness into view without preaching down, judgement, or self-rightous indignation. May many who have been hurt seek out these books.

Surrender: The Heart God Controls

This is an excellent book. I haven't read it all yet, but if you have asked Jesus to be your Savior, you should understand that He also needs to be your Lord - and that's Lord over everything! This book gives great insights to some of the things we hold back from God which really need to be relinquished. I highly recommend it.

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Be ready to be challenged in your relationship with Jesus!

Excellent little book. Some of the concepts that challenged me was the excerpt written by a communist supporter and his commitment to his cause and how the author compared that to our commitment to our Gospel cause. It really made me examine my passion for Christ. The second was the contrast between being a slave for Jesus vs. being a servant. Take your time and absorb it in.

Excellent!

I love it when God sends the right book at the right time, and that is exactly what happened with "Surrender". I think there are times in my life that I understood what surrendering to Christ meant, and I think I have given Him all. While reading "Surrender", I realized that surrendering is a journey. There are always deeper levels of selfishness to overcome. Surrender doesn't necessarily mean giving something up outwardly first, but it it starts with the bowing of the knee so to speak in our heart to Christ. I also realized that the more I try to hold onto and control even the smallest of things, that I ultimately come under bondage to it, and it becomes one more burden to carry. Christ wants to carry our burdens, and live in a life of peace. Surrender is the only answer.

I will definitely recommend this book to my friends, and keep a copy for myself to look at in the future. It is truly a valuable book. I would also highly recommend "Surrender" for a small group, or a book club. DeMoss has a discussion guide at the back of the book for each chapter. It is a fairly easy read, that could be covered in eight weeks.

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convicting

DeMoss does an excellant job of using Gods Word to "...penetrate even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow...". I loved her specific examples of behavior and then scripture applications for it, such as:

"When your flesh wants to pass along a critical report about another believer, and the Spirit says, "Speak evil of no one" (Titus 3:2) bow your head and surrender to God."
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"When your flesh wants to lashout in anger, and the Spirit says, "Clothe [yourself] with compassion,kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with one another..." (Collosians #:12-13 NIV), bow your head and surrender to God."

Asking personal questions like: "Have you devoted to Christ "the whole of your life, " or are you merely giving Him your "spare evenings"?
Or Have "you chose friendship with God over all human relationships, earthy attachments, and visible security"?

She gives an excellant example of what surrender looks like by going through the song My Life by Frances Ridley Havergal, the one that starts with "take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee..." This alone is worth reading the book for.

It's great convicting stuff even for wonderful mature-in-the-Lord Christians (which I am not compared to the friend who gave me this to read). It's a book I'll read again and save for my daughter.

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If you've been fighting a losing spiritual battle, it's time to give up. Bow the knee. Wave the white flag. And turn yourself over to the King of kings. The truth is, your salvation,your initial 'surrender' to Christ,was just the starting point. You will never know real joy, real peace, real success until you learn what it means to live a fully surrendered life,to continually say 'no' to self and 'yes' to God.Choosing the pathway to full surrender will transform your perspective, set fire to your soul, revolutionize your life, and give the spiritual victory you have sought for so long.The Revive Our Hearts Trilogy - Now in Paperback!This bestselling series by Nancy Leigh DeMoss has sold well over 80,000 copies! All three titles now include study questions at the end of each chapter, making them ideal for personal or small group study.

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