Recently, I watched a movie called “The War Room,” and it brought me to my knees. I had been exhausted, trying to fight the battles in my life alone. I searched for solutions, and when I did pray, it was to ask for resolution in the way I thought God should provide it.

With each lost battle, there were more casualties in my life, and I sank deeper and moved further away from the only one who had true victory for me. By the time I saw the movie, the fallout in my life was substantial. I had never felt more worthless, less deserving of love, hope, or the victory God had promised. I was buried under the rubble, trying to find the strength to push the load off my back and stand again.

I couldn’t do it in my own strength, but praise God, I was never meant to. That’s the point. I needed God to move the mountains, the boulders, and all my heavy burdens.

The good news was that I was already in the proper place to ask for His assistance. I was on my knees. Here’s how I start winning: I quit struggling and surrender, not to the burdens but to God. I ask Him to help me, to dig me out, and to move my mountains.

Once the way is clear, I reach for His hand so He can pull me out and get me to my feet. Then I depend on His strength and His alone to keep me standing. I trust Him and don’t rely on my sight or my own thoughts and wisdom but instead depend on His vision and wisdom alone, trusting in and leaning on His understanding.

I also have to realize that my surrender will be a state I must stay in. I didn’t get here under the rubble in one day, I wasn’t brought low quickly, it was a gradual decline. Although victory is assured to me, it will take time to be complete the process of restoration in my life. It may take my entire life to be fully realized. Until then, I have to continue to trust and fully rely on God. Most importantly, once the restoration is complete, I still must remain dependent and fully surrendered to my Savior. He is and will always be the one who knows and sees, the one with all the solutions, and the one who will complete the work in my heart and life. He is the only true answer for me, whether in trial or success. He never changes! God, give me the strength to surrender and trust. To live in surrender and trust. It’s the only path to true victory and freedom.

Scriptures: Proverbs 3:5-6, 1 Peter 5:6-10, Col. 4:2