Morning Prayer

A Morning Prayer for Surrender

What if the thing you need to do today is simply stop trying so hard?

God, I surrender this day before it starts. My agenda, my expectations, my need to control outcomes — I lay it all down. Do what You want with these twenty-four hours. Rearrange my schedule. Interrupt my plans. I am Yours before I am anything else today.

A surrendered day in God's hands is more productive than a controlled day in yours. Amen.

When to pray this

Surrender is not giving up; it is stopping the exhausting work of controlling what was never yours to control. Most of us have to do it repeatedly about the same thing.

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