Surrender to God
II Corinthians 2:14 - All day we have with God demands. The Lord requires something from us and we resist. We are slow to obey, and hesitated before his will. We apologize, try to ignore and make us deaf. But all this is useless. God does not change what He wants from us! Therefore, surrender!
Some time ago we saw pictures on television of the U.S. Army yielding a group of rebels in Afghanistan. The rebels had to raise his hands and knees laying down their weapons. So should the church, kneeling with hands raised their weapons testifying before the Lord. Surrender is a military term. Yields only one who is at war.
Unlikely People
Jonah 1 - I am an unlikely person! And most likely you will also be an unlikely person! Our life is so, however, God writes his story with real lives, real people like you and me!
Our life with God is something transcendent, as God writes our story, he writes from what we are, the way we are! God reigns over the story! He is the Lord of history - He rules my story and its history - and there's nothing we can do or not do, that makes Him love us less! Also, there's nothing else to do that God loves us more!
Sometimes we feel unlikely for something we have done, or believe. A sin, perhaps. "God will not forgive me." Sometimes we doubt our future, and when we can not "look there is a future for us" and cling to the past, the past robs a lot ...
Conqueror or Conquered?
Judges 18:7 - We are entering the second phase of our project of conquest in the second half, if we are conquerors can not be won by the lies of the world.
In the 18th chapter of Judges we find the tribe of Dan looking for a place in the land of promise. The leaders sent five men to look for a value they could take land for an inheritance. These scouts then present a report to leaders on the people of the land, the provision of land and energy needed to take it.
The observations that the spies did over the city of Lais and their inhabitants are found in verse 7. The five spies reported that this was a place ruled so badly and so poorly guarded, it would be easy prey for the invader.

