Absolute Surrender

What limits God from working powerfully in our life is our lack of Absolute Surrender. We are the temple of God and God lives in us but He can only work powerfully in our life if we are totally surrendered to Him. What does this mean? Jesus demonstrated this through crucifixtion - a person crucifixed is in a position of total surrender with his arms open to God, facing one way alone without ability to turn back and having no other plans of his own. This is what God expects from us when He asks to die to ourselves - die to ourselves and completely surrender to God's plans.

John 12:23-26
Jesus replied, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.

The more we focus on ourselves, the less impact our life will have and less fulfillment too as we are not living our God given purpose. If we look at the life cycle of any living being, the organism is focussed at reproducing the next generation and starts the process of replacing itself at it's prime. Everything living reproduces itself. A seed needs to die to produce more fruit and seed. We need to die to our agenda and pick up God's agenda. God's agenda is always to serve - to serve God by serving others.

The kind of serving we are expected to do involves direct contact like a seed to the ground. If the seed is not planted in the ground, then it shrivels and life inside the seed suffocates and dies. The only way to truly live, live life to the fullest, is to lose our life by giving it all to God and others. When we do this, we will find true life, our life will automatically have complete fullness, satisfaction and know that we are all that created us to be!

Let's stop living by self-will, self-confidence and self-effort. For the joy set before Jesus He endured the cross. The cross was the birthplace of His everlasting glory. Let us desire more of God and die to ourselves and allow God to work death to self so that we can have the fullness of life.
Hebrews 12:2
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.