Set aside 20 minutes on your calendar to sit with a few questions. You’ll want this time to be distraction-free, so turn your phone off and focus on being completely present.

Let’s start by

BREATHING

Take a three deep breaths and to settle your soul.

When you are ready,

PRAY THIS PRAYER OF SURRENDER

Jesus, I am not the King.

I give everything and everyone to you. I surrender my desire for power and influence. I surrender my desire to be approved of by others. I surrender my desire to be comfortable. I surrender my desire to be in control.

Jesus, I want what you want.

SLOWLY READ

Philippians 2:5-8 ESV

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Galatians 2:20 ESV

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

ASK GOD A FEW QUESTIONS

God, are you the King of my life or am I the king?

God, what do you want me to know about my inability to surrender to you?

LISTEN AND SURRENDER

Embrace the silence and fight the urge to speak. Be in the presence of God and listen for His voice.

As God directs your thoughts, think of one thing in your life that prevents you from fully surrendering to Him. Visualize what it looks like and feels like.

With open hands, offer it back to God in an act of surrender:

“God, I give you ___________. I surrender __________ to you. I want what you want.”

WRITE IT DOWN

Grab your journal and write down your thoughts and anything God may be speaking to you.