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What does it mean to yield to God? Why should we yield our lives to God? And how to we actually go about yielding?

In order to be saved, we need to yield our lives to Jesus as Lord. That means we need to let Him lead us, so that we are obeying Him from the heart. When we yield to God, He begins to transform us and pour His love into us so that we can love others.

You must yield your life directly to Jesus. You do not need to only live by the “letter of the law” but by the “spirit of the law.” Scripture is one way to get to know God, but if you never connect directly with God, you don’t have a personal relationship. If you love and adore Scripture but refuse to yield to God directly, you are no better than the Pharisees who Jesus said were sons of hell and a brood of vipers. They technically obeyed Scripture but lived only for themselves. Their lives were not yielded to God.

“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about Me, yet you refuse to come to Me that you may have life.” John 5:39-40 ESV

Don’t let Scripture be an impediment to block your relationship with God. True prayer is opening your life to God, asking Him to rule over you. This is an inward thing; you’re inwardly opening and allowing God to take control of you.

Yes, yielding only to Scripture and not to God Himself will keep you powerless as you seek to fulfill the law with your own strength instead of allowing the Holy Spirit to convict you of sin. If you do not yield to the Holy Spirit, you will twist Scripture to justify sin. This is because your heart doesn’t really know God because you aren’t connected.

Jesus came to tear the veil into the Holy of Holies, so that we could have communion directly with God. When Jesus says, “Depart from Me; I never knew you…” people who loved Scripture but never yielded to God directly will scream in anguish that they never had a personal relationship. If you have been transformed in miraculous ways into the image of Christ, you are saved. If you have not been changed and transformed, ask God to help you yield to Him directly and begin to get rid of sin in your life.

How to Yield to God (Prayer Video #9)

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When someone asks you to pray for them, pray for them right away. That person is bogged down with their burden, and there is no reason for you to leave them in their misery. It only takes you less than five minutes to lift their burden to the Lord.

Reasons to Pray for People Right Away

1. If you do not pray right away, you might forget to pray for them. If you tell someone you will pray for them and forget, you are not a person of your word. If you pray immediately, you have at least prayed for them once.
2. The person receives immediate comfort if you pray with them out loud right then and there. The burden is lifted and divided when you pray for someone.
3. That person will feel loved. We are commanded to love others, and what better way to show love to our brothers and sisters in Christ than to lift them up before the Lord in prayer.
4. If you do not pray for them, maybe no one else will. That person will continue to struggle and feel bogged down. For you to know the good that you can do, and not do it, to you it is sin. (James 4:17)
5. Get over your own self-absorption.
6. An unbeliever might get saved if you pray for them. When God answers their request miraculously, they will know there is a God.
7. Sometimes there is a demonic component that you are unaware of, and you need another believer to pray for you, and the fog is immediately lifted. It’s possible that the prayer request is a secondary issue, and that demonic oppression is the primary issue. If someone is asking for prayer, make sure to ask God if there is a demonic component, and that God would remove it from the person so that they can experience peace.
8. If you help to remove a burden from a person, it frees that person up to minister to others.

Video #7: Why You Should Pray Right Away

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