“You can have control or you can have growth but you can’t have both.” – Craig Groeschel

Galatians 2:20 (NIV)  //  I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.


A Christian can’t live a life pleasing to God while also fighting for control


Relationship control
Financial control
Emotional control

Matthew 26:39, 42 (NIV)  //  Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.”


NEVERTHELESS
Surrender is the answer to our need for control
The process of our transformation takes place at the point of our need/weakness.

2 Corinthians 12:19 (NIV)  //  But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.


How do we surrender? We wait on God.
Waiting on God is an action based on confident assurance of grace to come.
Waiting on God is internal rest that results in courageous action.

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