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Home Search Topics Contact About | Have You Given Yourself To The Lord2 Corinthians 8:5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first GAVE THEIR OWN SELVES TO THE LORD, and unto us by the will of God.
Truly receiving Jesus is also giving ourselves Him. Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.Receiving Him is giving Him preeminence. Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Receiving Him is receiving His power over ourselves and our lives. Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 Timothy 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Receiving Jesus is a commitment of oneself to Him. Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. |
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