There are three conversions necessary: the conversion of the heart, mind, and the purse.
Submission
Bryn Waddell
Much of our frustration is the result of not embracing this statement, “Not my will but Yours be done.”
Betty Scott Stam
Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee to be Thine forever. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Use me as Thou wilt. Send me where Thou wilt. Work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever.
A.W. Tozer
God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God’s call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back; then serve God with all your heart.
Eugene Peterson
The gospel of Christ… is not something we can survey like the goods in a department store, picking and choosing articles from it we like. It is all one parcel—it is the breaking in of a kingdom of absolute rule and government. The only way we can receive it is by turning away from all that has previously been occupying us and taking it in entirely.
Michael Koulianos
Jesus is not your homeboy, He’s the King of glory, which means He can tell you what to do. Jesus is not a life coach. He’s the Lord of the Lords.
Kathryn Kuhlman
God doesn’t just use golden vessels or silver vessels; He uses yielded vessels.
Bill Johnson
Is God my friend? Yes, but He was my Lord before He was my friend and my friendship with God can only go where His Lordship has already been.
C.S. Lewis
Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will really be yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
Ed Cole
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God’s commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.