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\"05-03-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Howdy Prodigal, how is your day today?<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Wonderful, I am out here enjoying the wilderness and spending time with nature.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Looks very peaceful and the perfect setting for a story to encourage you this week.<\/p>\n

Prodigal: What is the subject today about?<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 We are talking about surrender and this is from author Bill Stafford in his book, Spirit-filled Giving.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Until a person is brought to this truth and starts to release his hold on things, there will always be an area of fear in his life that the devil can use to suppress victorious living.\u00a0 Every area of our lives must be opened and surrendered unreservedly to the lordship of Christ, or the enemy will attack and overcome us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because of incorrect doctrine, traditional preaching, or half-truth, we have wandered in the wilderness of doing the best we can.\u00a0 If you own ninety-nine acres of ground but another person owns an acre right in the middle of your ninety-nine, he must be given a right of way to his one acre.\u00a0 This means he can walk all over your territory to get to his.\u00a0 So it is in the life of the Christian.\u00a0 That one acre you fail to give becomes a stronghold for Satan, and he will walk all over your surrendered territory to get to his one acre.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You wonder why it is so hard to surrender that one acre right now in your life.\u00a0 It is because it is in the center.\u00a0 It is because it is the one area that you have really cherished.\u00a0 You never knew how much it really meant to your identity, until now.<\/p>\n

There are so many fears and questions if you really give it up.\u00a0 Will everything fall apart if you do give it up?\u00a0 I don’t know if God wants you to give it up forever.\u00a0 I just know he wants your whole heart and that means surrender.\u00a0 Are you willing to surrender this for God?\u00a0\u00a0 God may have to help you with the surrender and that is ok.\u00a0 The goal is that you are willing.<\/p>\n

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Job 11:13<\/p>\n

Surrender your heart to God, turn to him in prayer.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen,<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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