First Things First- Surrender

Second Timothy says it the the best or one of one of the best ways. If a man cleanses himself, he will be a vessel unto honor prepared for every good work. If a man cleanses himself, he will be a vessel unto honor, prepared for every good work. A vessel only works if you empty it all out. Give it all to him. Clean it of being available. Here's the thing is you can't clean it. He's the one that cleans it. You just gotta surrender it. [01:22:24] (34 seconds)  #VesselOfHonor

And when it's surrendered, that vessel will be full. It'll be full of glory. It'll be full of the love of Jesus. And here's the thing is a full vessel. If you have all the world's ways and the world's cares and anxiety in you, that can't be filled with God. No. Because it's already full. Give it to him. [01:22:59] (23 seconds)  #EmptyToBeFilled

And then at the same time, a closed vessel, it can't receive. That's why Jesus says, hey. I gotta come here and heal the brokenhearted, the hardening of the heart, cause they don't receive it. They pick and choose. So what happens is you gotta have don't be that closed vessel. Don't be that that vessel that's full of the cares of the world. God flows through yielding vessels. [01:23:22] (27 seconds)  #YieldingVessel

Yielding is what? It's immediate. How many times I've said it? Man, I should've just waited. I should've just yielded. I should've just looked the other way. I should've just slowed down. Yielding is immediate. You don't negotiate. You yield. You don't delay. You yield. Delayed obedience is not surrender. Half obedience is not surrender. It's still disobedience. Yielding is, yes, Lord, right away. Right away. [01:21:34] (46 seconds)  #ImmediateYielding

A yield means to what? To give way, to release control, to recognize someone else has the right of way. Wow. At a yield sign, you slow down, you look, and you see it, and what do you say? You go first. You go first. Not, oh, I got time. Surrender it. Spiritual surrender says what? Lord, you go first. [01:10:09] (34 seconds)  #GodGoesFirst

And here's what's really cool is some people, they they don't understand, and they have a world's definition. Yielding is not passive. A lot of times you're like, oh, yield I'm passive. No. Yield is not passive. It is active availability. Yielding is active availability. It's not passive. It's active availability. [01:14:38] (25 seconds)  #ActiveAvailability

The bible says in Matthew 11, take my yoke upon you. Take my yoke. It's not talking about eggs. It's talking about the like a yoke on an auction. For my yoke is what? Easy and my burden is light. My yoke is easy and my burden is light. That is the yoke joins two oxen together. So what happens? The stronger ox leads. And if the as the weaker one, the younger ox must yield to the direction of the lead. It's my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Because the heavier the bigger one's carrying it, and the bigger one is taking the lead. All you gotta do is follow. [01:18:57] (49 seconds)  #EasyYokeLightBurden

If the young ox fights the yoke, that's when it becomes heavy. So if your life is heavy, you're fighting the yoke. If you have the hard burden my burden is light. My yoke is easy. You felt, man, this is this is I feel like the weight of the world. Everything I'm trying to do all this is so hard. God does not go against his word. God is a god that cannot lie. My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. [01:19:46] (40 seconds)  #StopFightingTheYoke