A Life of Surrender

If the seed must fall, then discipleship must be marked by surrender. Absolute surrender is the only way to see God’s story written fully through us.

Who Holds the Pen?

Theologian Andrew Murray once wrote that a pen must be fully surrendered to the writer’s hand in order to be useful. If another hand tries to hold it, it cannot write properly.

In the same way, our lives must be fully surrendered to God. Too often we pray, “Lord, use me… just not in that way.” But partial surrender cannot create a God-shaped story. Only when we release the pen entirely can His will be written through us.

Big Prayers for a Big God

Surrender also changes the way we pray. Many believers settle for small prayers, so moderate that when they are answered, they barely notice. Instead, we are urged to pray God-sized prayers that honour a big God.

Why not pray for a whole city to come to Christ? Why not believe for revival in universities, hospitals, and schools? The call is to stop underestimating what God can do through surrendered lives.

This Hour, This Generation

Jesus Himself prayed, “Now my soul is troubled… What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour” (John 12:27).

The temptation is to pray “beam me up” prayers—to ask God to rescue us from a difficult generation. But Jesus models a different response: this is the very reason we are here.

In the same way, God has positioned His church for this hour. The challenges of 2025 are not reasons to retreat but opportunities to advance. We have been sent strategically to bring hope, light, and the message of Christ.

Prepared in Advance

Ephesians 2:10 says we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, prepared in advance for us to walk in. These works are not performed in our own strength—they are God’s masterpiece, carried out through surrendered lives.

This perspective changes how we view giving, serving, and expansion. They are not acts of charity or self-effort; they are opportunities to walk in the works God already prepared.

A Surrendered Life

Romans 12 calls believers to present their lives as a living sacrifice. This means not partial surrender, not selective obedience, but placing the whole of life into God’s hands. When the seed falls, when the life is surrendered, a plentiful harvest comes.

Galatians 6:9 encourages us not to grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. This is the promise for a church and a generation that refuses to hold back.

The seed must fall. Surrender is not weakness—it is the path to multiplication. When the church hands the pen of its story back to God, when disciples pray big prayers and live fully surrendered lives, the result is eternal impact.

We are here for this hour, positioned for revival, and called to sow our lives into the soil of God’s kingdom. The story we write will not say “look what we did,” but “look what Jesus did through us.”