Making God the Lord of your life involves a deep personal commitment to aligning your thoughts, actions, and purposes with your faith.
It includes surrendering and trusting in God as the ultimate authority. This means trusting His plan over our own. Proverbs 3:5-6 emphasizes
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
We can repent and ask forgiveness for our shortcomings and turn strive to live according to God’s teachings. Acts 3:19 connects repentance with turning to God for renewal.
“Repent therefore, and turn again that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.”
We can build a relationship with God through prayer, reading scripture from the Bible and worshipping Him. This helps us to understand His will. Psalm 119:105 describes what this looks like when we do this,
“Your Word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.”
By being Obedient and being a servant to others we can live out our faith by following biblical principles, loving others, and serving the people in our community. James (Jacob) 2:17 highlights that faith without works is incomplete,
“Even so faith, if it had no works, is dead in itself.”
We have accountability when we engage with our faith community for support, encouragement, and growth. Hebrews 10:24-25 urges us to,
“Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and (do) good works, not for taking our own assembly together, as the custom of some is, by exporting one another, and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.”
We need to make choices that reflect our biblical values, even when they are challenging.
Making God the Lord of your life is a vibrant, Spirit-filled commitment that emphasizes a personal relationship with Jesus and when we surrender to God’s will and have active engagement with the Holy Spirit. It
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