Real Breakthrough From Raw Surrender

The most potent truth that I have experienced lately is summed up in the title above: real breakthrough begins with raw surrender.

What is raw surrender? Well it is certainly not an easy position to be in. It is allowing every feeling to be felt, being completely honest before God, and then letting go and letting God's hands hold everything. It is being OK with not everything being OK and accepting that not all the questions have immediate answers. It is acting in obedience to God and continuing to worship and praise Him in the midst of waiting desperately for resolution and restoration. It is continuing to contend in prayer and laying still at the feet of Jesus in spite of circumstances. It is humble submission to letting Holy Spirit work in matters of the heart.

And as I have found, when the point of true surrender to God is reached, God so graciously releases his healing and redemptive power. 

And I could go on about this topic, but I shall leave it as this pithy thought for now.