Is there any area of your life that you are holding back from God? That you have neglected or refused to submit to Him?

Relationships: Choosing a spouse, the friends you surround yourself with, restoring broken relationships, and your relationship with God.

Your Future: Plans, wants, desires, hopes, choices, and goals.

Job: Where you work, what type of work you do, and how much you allow Him to use you for His kingdom purposes in your workplace.

Kids: Fully giving them to Him by not trying to fix them or manipulate them into making the choices for their lives that you want or think they need, trusting Him with their lives, and seeking Him for the identity, gifts, and talents He has given them and not who and what you think they are and should be.

Attitude: Criticalness, negativity, harshness, speaking death and not life, speaking doubt and not faith, anger, bitterness, pride, self-centeredness, rebellion, manipulation, control, seduction, negative thought patterns, etc.

Trauma: Staying stuck and not seeking His healing, being in bondage to the victimhood mentality, using the trauma as justification to stay in patterns of sin, and treating others poorly because of the results of the trauma.

Unforgiveness: Refusing to make the choice to forgive those who have hurt you and maybe even feeling justified in that decision.

Pain, hurt, bitterness: Staying stuck in patters that were created by painful situations and justifying not moving forward.

Situation: Not asking God for His direction, His plan, or how you should handle the situation, trying to take matters into your own hands, and relying on your own understanding.

Plans, Wants, Dreams: Do you follow what you want or what He has placed in your heart?

Sin, Addiction, Patterns of Wrong Choices: Continuing in patterns of willful sin.

Are you willing to take the thing that you want most: your hopes, dreams, plans, and lay it down at the feet of Jesus and say “not my will Lord but Yours? If I never do any of these things Your will not mine.” When we fully surrender it doesn’t matter what it looks like we say “yes Lord and I thank You. I may not understand, but You know more than me and I trust You with my entire life.”

When we step out on faith we only have to do the things He tells us to do. As soon as we do that He takes the rest and does what only He could do. It is two parts. We do what He says for us to do and then He takes it and makes the connections that He needs and wants to make. He puts it in the hands of the people He needs to put in. Our only job is to surrender to what He tells us. We don’t have to go a step further. He says do this and we do it and then we give it to Him, and we move on to the next thing. We don’t have to worry about it. We don’t have to think about it, and we don’t have to wonder if it made the right connection. That is really not even our business. Our business and job are to do that thing He said to do. No yes to God is to small and they each count and matter. He is looking for our Yes!!

His plan is perfect, and His will is perfect. If you want to walk in His perfect plan and you must first be willing to submit to Him, fully and 100% not 50%, not 90% and not even 95%, but 100%. He is looking for people who will give Him everything. The one thing that we are holding back is the one thing He wants most. It is time for total submission because it is not only key in our walk with the Lord, but also to victory in every area of our lives.

When we lay ourselves down we gain so much more. He is made strong in our weakness. We cannot do life our way, we mess it up every single time, but His way is perfect. If we could just get to a place where we really trust Him and His plan our lives would never be the same.

I want to encourage you to spend some time with the Lord today and search your heart to see if there are any area of your life that you have not fully submitted to Him. Also, search your heart to see if there is anything He is asking you to do, or not do, that you have not given Him your yes for yet.

Blessings,

Nichole Henson

Fullness of Joy Ministry