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Kingdom Talk
2019-03-30 01:17:06 (UTC)

Fear and Surrender

It appears to me given how fear-based our culture is regarding surrendering to the Lord and how much unnecessary suffering results from our belief that we have to control life, spiritual surrender is a core part of letting the fear cure YOU.
Essentially, the process of spiritual surrender is about taking that thing you’re afraid of or that problem you think you have to solve or that unmet longing in your heart for that thing you want but don’t yet have—and making it an offering to Jesus . It’s about taking all of it—your fears, your desires, your need for control—and turning it over to the arms of Love, trusting that you will be protected and guided to take any inspired action necessary, being led by the Holy Spirit of course. Then, having offered this with deep trust, you wait. This waiting process may take awhile but what it does is more special, it shows your passion for the Lord. The part that requires courage is the part that asks you to follow the guidance, even if you don’t like it, which that will show an obedient heart for the Lord.
Someone said, “I’m afraid I won’t be brave enough to give up what I want and say yes to what the holy Spirit is asking of me.”
Ay! There’s the rub!
We are afraid we’ll fall back into old patterns of having to control life, managing it to make sure we get what we want. Here’s the thing. I no longer trust my ego/flesh to be at the wheel. Sure, I might be able to “manifest” what my natural mind wants. But it doesn’t fulfill me to the depths that following the Holy Spirit yearnings does. When my spirit man takes the wheel, yes, it tends to take me on a rollercoaster. My spirit asks me to do crazy things! But the payoff is worth giving up what I think I want.
The reward is freedom and my friends that is Priceless.
When you master the art of surrendering to the Father's heart, you come into right relationship with uncertainty, develop a healthy relationship with your desires, watch your fear dissipate, and become naturally brave. You no longer depend on man made fear to keep you safe, because you trust that something bigger than you is on it already. Then you can let go of the safety bar and make yourself a vessel in service to the highest good, our Lord Jesus Christ.

It’s hard to break this all down into some “how to” process, but in case you need help learning to surrender Jesus's hearts desire, I’ve distilled several steps in order to help you call in your God given gift of courage.
1. Name Your Desire
Whether you’re applying this process to your desire to be less afraid, your desire to get healthy, or your desire to find love, the process of surrender begins the same way. In spite of what you might have been taught in Sunday school, desire is never wrong. It’s a signpost pointing toward what lights you up, feeds your spirit, sparks your enthusiasm, and makes you feel alive. Sometimes we’re misguided in what we think we desire. You might think you want your best friend’s husband or wife, but what you really want is the kind of soulful connection you feel when you’re with him or her—which you’re likely to find in someone else in a way that doesn’t threaten your integrity and lead you into betraying your best friend. Desire is simply information. It’s feedback about what sparks your Inner Pilot Light. That spark is The love Jesus can provide, the one who will not threaten our integrity, because he helps build it. He is that spirit filled connection we all hunger for, whether we realize it or not. The great I am, The God who always sparks your enthusiasm, who will feed your spirit with his word, and will bring you into how alive you really are, and where he can take you.
2. Surrender Your Desire
The minute you identify your desire, turn it over to Jesus. Want to become brave? Surrender to the arms of who will carry it away. Afraid your husband is cheating on you? Surrender to the most High, The Bride Groom. Usually, in our culture of individuals who present a fear in knowing what a true relationship with Jesus looks like, we end up usually skipping this step—or come to it on our knees, as a last resort, when everything else we know how to do has failed—but really it’s the first thing we should do.
How do you surrender a desire? The Small Self will always try to take control of the process of surrender, the self controlled by the world and its indoctrination . But that’s not what surrender is about. It’s not about teaching your Small Self how to surrender so you can get what you want. It’s about making an offering to Jesus and being genuinely willing to accept whatever is in the highest good, even if it flies in the face of what you think you desire. Surrender is about unburdening yourself from the weight of your longing. It teaches us to see the desire like a 100-pound box pushing heavily on the heart. Visualize this, then visualize giving the weighty box to Jesus. The longing is no longer yours to force into being. The problem is no longer yours to solve. I at one point loved “Change Me” prayers, because they bypass the attachment of the Small Self. For example, “Change me into someone who can surrender to your love, instead of someone who has to always be in control.”
“Attention. Intention. No tension.” The key is releasing attachment to the specific outcome you desire. Let your prayer be “This—or better.” Be open to miracles.

3. Get Wordless
This is an energetic step, which requires dropping into a certain state of consciousness. Getting Wordless, which activates both sides of your brain, Carl Jung called this Wordless state the “collective unconscious,” and I call it to tapping into the spirit realm that allows you to hook into something larger than little ol’ you. Getting Wordless can be facilitated by , pulling your senses into “open focus,” following your own bloodstream in the spirit, “sense-drenching” (letting yourself experience the world through all five senses at once), connecting deeply with Jesus in a place of quietness, and with no distractions. Lastly, waiting upon the Lord with expectation and with a sanctified imagination will bring you into a place where the fear of the lord can be more understood, and a whole new understanding of what Jesus has had for you since we were created into our mothers' wombs.
4. Tap into Oneness
Tapping into Oneness is about getting out of the Small Self and becoming One with all that is—allowing the separation between you, other life forms, and what you desire to dissolve. When this happens, it’s as if you’re bringing the essence of what you desire closer to you, which is the point. Don’t forget that what gets closer may not be the thing you thought you desired. It may be a feeling state you think you’ll get when you have a certain thing. Perhaps you think you want a million dollars, but what you really desire is the feeling of ease that accompanies your idea of having a million dollars. It may be that ease shows up in other ways, minus the money. Just remember its always about Jesus and understanding your oneness with him.

5. Imagine Your Intention into Being
Imagining yourself being brave and Although it may seem similar to fantasizing, this process is vastly different. Fantasy has a quality of grasping about it. It almost hurts to fantasize because you’re afraid you’ll be disappointed if you don’t get what you’re dreaming of. Fantasy often has an unachievable feel about it; Imagining feels as though, in some dimension, what you desire has already come to be. Imagining is about sensing what yearns to be created, rather than merely getting what you want. Imagining you are exactly who Jesus says you are; You are a king, an ambassador, a coheir, Sons', prophets, intercessors, watchman on the walls, prophetesses, teachers, evangelists, apostles, your In Christ, Bottom Line, and their is no greater force in the world then that.
6. Be On the Alert for Guidance

Now that you’ve gotten clear on your desire, turned it over to Jesus, practiced Wordlessness and Oneness, and Imagined what you desire coming into being, it’s time to let yourself be guided with the Holy spirit in you. Practice radical listening, The Lords Sheep know his voice. Watch for signs from God that supernatural change is happening. Pay attention to your intuitive knowing, or in other words your spirit man. The signs are everywhere, and they’re trying to get your attention, but you’ll miss them if you’re not on the lookout. Anticipate guidance and then tune in. Be aware of the tendency to misinterpret guidance, especially when it is guiding you away from what you desire. This is where nonattachment is especially crucial. Remember, it’s not about getting what you want; it’s about surrendering and aligning with who wants to become in you.

7. Take Inspired Action

When you’re paying attention to guidance, at some point you will be called to DO SOMETHING. this stage can be defined as “Forming.” I suggest paying attention to Spanda at this point in the process. Spanda is a Sanskrit term that means “to move a little.” In other words, surrendering doesn’t equal passivity. Sometimes you’ll be called to inspired action. Can’t tell whether or not to act? Then use your body as a compass, dial down and ask the Holy spirit what he is doing. If you’re considering taking some action in the direction of your desire, do you feel a full-body/ Holy spirit YES that makes you leap up with enthusiasm? Or does it feel like a “should” that leaves your body exhausted at the mere thought of it? Inspired action feels energizing and easeful, while ego-driven striving or wanting what the world wants can leave you feeling drained, stressed, or overwhelmed with dread. Inspired action may require you to put your butt in the prayer chair, hitting the streets, raisiing the dead, casting out demons, or doing some spiritual warfare and maybe to do something challenging, but it will still have the feeling of play about it.
8. Be Patient
This is the hard part. You may wish you could become brave overnight or be the best disciple of the Lord in one night. You may wish you suddenly had what it takes to ditch false fear and let courage take the lead in all your decision making. But sometimes what you desire doesn’t show up exactly when you want it in exactly the form you want it in. This is when people have a tendency to get frustrated, blame themselves for not “manifesting” correctly, or get angry at God for not delivering the desire on a silver platter. Once you’ve practiced the other steps, be willing to wait. And wait. And wait. Trust God's timing. And be willing to change course if guidance leads you to do so.
9. Practice Gratitude
Maybe you got what you desired and fear is a thing of the past for you. But maybe, if you’re like most mere men, you’re still afraid from time to time, but you do not have to be. Either way, find the perfection in it. Be grateful for the learning the Holy spirit has engraved in you. If your desire came into being, let yourself be awash in the grace of it all. If it didn’t, be grateful that something even better—whatever wants to become—is on its way. Even if you only feel a little more faith in inspired action is on its' way, at the end of this journey, express thanks.
Thank your courage—or whatever else you may have called into being. Trust the process. Lather. Rinse. Repeat because Jesus is wanting a a real relationship with you.




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