Why is it so hard to give up control?

Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth.

We're afraid that if we surrender everything to God,

that would include our health, our material possessions,

our family, our reputation, our career plans,

all our rights, our future.

We're afraid if we surrender all that to him,

God would take us up on it.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamer. Author of Surrender,

The Heart God Controls. For May 31st, 2022, I'm Dana Kresh.

Maybe you've been in a church service where you were asked to surrender everything to God.

It's easy to respond to that call by raising a hand or singing a song.

But when you think about it, surrender, true surrender is a big deal.

Here's Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, teaching from a series called Surrender, Facing Our Fears.

I can remember some of the songs that we sang in church when I was a little girl,

and I sang them with all my heart at the time. But as I got older,

and I started to think about some of the words of those songs that we were singing, I realized it was kind of scary to be saying some of these things or singing some of these things. For example,

all to Jesus, I surrender, all to Him, I freely give, I surrender all. I mean, the words came out real quickly,

but then when I started thinking about what that might mean, well, sometimes that was a little scary.

I think of that song, one of the verses says, I'll do what you want me to do, dear Lord. I'll go where

you want me to go and talks about all the different places where God might send us. And it was really easy to sing as a six-year-old. It was another thing as a 16-year-old to think of what that might mean. And then I think of this song. I've heard it sung in church as a solo a number of times, and I always wonder how the soloist could sing this. It seemed a little

scary to me, where they'd say, so whatever it takes for my will to break, that's what I'll be

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