The Surrendered Life • Daily Devo # 476
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Devotional is COMPLETELY OPEN for Free Readers & Paid Subscribers: There were intense roadblocks to recording this devotional. After trying to record it over a dozen times (at one point, I cried because the internet shut down halfway during the 9th time, and I just stopped for a couple of hours to settle my heart, rest, and try again), I decided to make this one free for everyone. The enemy obviously didn’t want the message to go out. I pray it blesses you.
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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. - Job 1:20-22 KJV
The Message For Today (March 8, 2026):
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The response we see here in the cornerstone scripture is the response that Job gave after one of the most tumultuous days recorded in biblical history. We see that Job has seven sons and three daughters (Job 1:2 KJV), and we see that he’s a man of God. So much so that Satan challenged God and said that even if you took the favor from a man, he would curse you.
And Satan responded that Job is protected. He is protected on every side, and you bless the work of his hand, and his substance increases in the land.
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. - Job 1:10 KJV
So when you read Job 1:10, Satan is exposing that he knows Job. He’s such a good man that Satan knows Job because he knows that he has a hedge on every side. He’s already tried Job and was not able to get him because the Lord protected him. His entire house, protected on every side.
So Satan knew Job and exposed this in Job 1:10. This *cornerstone scripture* is the response after everything that God allowed Satan to touch. Everything but his life. His children all died, and then of course the enemy came upon all of his oxen and all of his donkeys, and only one messenger got away. Of course, to come share the bad news.
And then there came another issue. The fire fell from heaven and consumed the sheep and the servants, and only one again escaped, and all of his children died. Three major cataclysmic situations. The plowing, the sheep, the sustenance of the family, and the family itself. All of his children are dead. His response, in the grieving, instant grieving, is to fall to his knees, shave off his hair, and turn to God and to worship.
What is The Surrendered Life?
The surrendered life isn’t just one where everything is so happy and so good-looking and so beautiful, and that’s it. The surrendered life is most evident when there is distraction, when there is destruction, when there is pain and grief, and when there are losses. How you respond says everything.
When you’ve seen years of waiting, years of delay, years of pain, how you respond is everything. Job chose to worship. His surrender was immediate. His surrender was evident. The reason why the Lord put a hedge of protection around him, covered him and his family, was evident. It wasn’t just some mark of favor or some thing that happened.
Job was a man after God’s own heart. Job loved the Lord and knew the measure of worship, knew the measure of submission. His life was surrendered indeed. In all of the chaos that he experienced was not an indication that he was disobedient or that he was against God, as they suggested in later scriptures when his friends said, Why don’t you just confess? (Job 8:5-6 KJV)
When his friends said Just confess, there must be something wrong because it didn’t make sense to his friends that he was dealing with so much chaos if the Lord protected him, if he was a man of God. Why? He was dealing with so much pain, so much hurt, and so much loss. Little did they know that there was testing that was allowed upon Job and that the testing was a measure of who Job was to God.
A measure that he was a man that was submitted so that God knew that he would not curse God, even when his wife admonished him to curse God and die. He didn’t do it. He didn’t turn. (Job 2:9-10 KJV) We see these truths to be evident in scripture. That Job was steadfast through all of the distractions, through all of the loss. He was steadfast. He was committed. He was submitted.
Yes, it hurt, but he knew who God was. We see that his friends sit with him in silence. In Job 2:11, it says:
11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. Job 2:11-13 KJV
At the beginning of chapter 3, you can see that Job is dealing with great pain. He’s struggling, but his friends tell him to confess. They see his pain, they see his grief, and it doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense, but they still sit with him in silence. They didn’t do anything, but they still said, confess.
What happens many times is even within ourselves, when we’re going through trials and tribulations, we tend to wonder what did we do wrong? What have we done that the Lord has lifted his hand from us? Why is it that we are dealing with pain, distractions, and overwhelm? Why?
And we begin to wonder versus understanding that the Lord is God alone. And maybe, just maybe, that the long wait, the years of trials, the years of tribulation, the years fighting that battle, the years of fighting the good fight of faith, was not because you did anything wrong. Maybe, just maybe, it was because this was a measure of your walk, a measure of who God believed you to be, of how he believes you’re going to respond.
It’s not always roses and flowers. Too often we’ve gotten confused that a surrendered life looks sweet and beautiful and covered, when truthfully, a surrendered life is to say, Though you slay me, I will bless you. Though you slay me, I will worship. It’s unusual. We see it in Job 13:15 in the King James Version. He says:
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. - Job 13:15 KJV
Though he slay me, I’m not turning my back on God.
I will not stop worshiping, I will not stop praising, and I will not stop trusting, because I know the Lord is able.
That is faith. When you can begin to see faith as you’re overcoming battles after years, that it’s still possible for God to do it, that complete healing is still possible, that complete breakthrough is still possible, that despite long periods of suffering and lack, that God is still able, that is when you begin to understand the measure of our faith.
It is not just a religion. It is a heart posture. It is a soul posture. It is a decision, day in and day out, to know who God is, to hold fast to the confession of our faith, for He who promised is faithful. That’s what it says in Hebrews 10:23 in the King James Version. We’re encouraged in the Lord to hold fast to the confession of our faith, to believe even when it doesn’t make sense to believe, to hold on to that crown no matter what.
There’s a grace and a glory that is released when we stop seeing faith as something to do, and we start seeing faith as a mind made up in Him. When you start seeing faith as a surrendered life, and we stop seeing or conflicting that the person who is suffering must be disobedient, the person who is suffering must have made so many mistakes. That could be true, and it could not.
It could just be that this is the measure of the walk they were called to walk through, that there may be fruit that you and I may never understand. Everyone’s walk in the Lord is different. The pain, the tribulations, and the fire that we endure are all different. No one’s walk is the same. We all know the same God, but our relationship with him is unique. When you look at James 1:3-4, it states:
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. - James 1:3-4 KJV
So patience, long-suffering, that fruit of the Spirit, that is the one that many inside of the book of Job could not understand. His wife did not understand why he didn’t just curse God. His friends didn’t understand why he didn’t just confess to some wrongdoing, but Job was surrendered even until the very end, when the Lord asked him to gird up his loins and to answer Him (Job 38:3 KJV), and for four chapters of scripture, begins to speak from heaven to Job. (Job 38-41 KJV)
Even then, Job was a good man. Job had a surrendered life. Job walked the walk of faith in ways that we can’t even imagine, and maybe some of us can. Night terrors, pain, health issues, children that have passed, pain that has gone forth, finances that just won’t fix themselves, no matter what we do, no matter how much we work; all of these things. All of these things are a part of our walk with God, and our faith in Him is preeminent. Our faith in Him is bigger than wanting to get a breakthrough.
Maybe, just maybe, our faith in Him is about trusting in Him, and knowing that, no matter what, He is still God. No matter what, He’s still able, and our faith being tested isn’t a bad thing. It doesn’t mean that we’re bad people. It means that there’s room to grow, and the growth may not make sense in the natural, but there’s always a reason. In 1 Peter 1:7, it states:
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: - 1 Peter 1:7 KJV
That is where we are, where the surrendered life, whether the sweet, whether plenty, whether abased, and whether lacking, we are content, and we are thankful, and we are blessed in the midst of it. That we’re operating in a type of gratitude that does not depend on things being good. It’s the gratitude that depends solely on the fact that we are here, that we are alive, that we are breathing, that we love the God who loves us.
The one who’s a good, good father, one who sits closer than a brother. And that gratitude being the baseline of our life, whether seasons of plenty or seasons of lack, so that the enemy cannot shake us, cannot cause us to uproot our life, take it into our own hands, and go our own way.
The moment we decide that we’re going to go our own way, instead of walking in the Lord’s way, instead of holding fast to the belief that there is something greater, something more, something real. The moment we do that, we essentially operate outside of faith. We are no longer being full of faith. We are walking in our own understanding. We’re leaning to our own understanding. We’re not acknowledging God in all of our ways, because again, we’re going our own way.
That is not a surrendered life. That is not a life that’s pleasing to the Father. That is not a life that is edifying to God. That is not a life that essentially expands the kingdom and blesses you and lifts you up, not just in the moment, but long term. Builds a strong foundation. That surrendered life is testing, it is trials, it is being forged by fire.
It is becoming the woman who says, I’ve had stories. Not speaking from theory, but speaking from the reality of how you’ve grown as a woman of God, how you’ve grown as a believer in Jesus Christ. And when the enemy can steal that from the body, which he is starting to be successful in doing, he can then steal that from the world.
Because if the world sees the believer not standing firm, not believing; if the world can see the believer as less than, see the believer as struggling, see the believer as hungry and wanting and needing and angry and bitter and not surrendered, how can we be the light on a hill that can’t be hidden? How can we when we aren’t being the light at all?
A surrendered life is the light, no matter how crazy our lives look, no matter how crazy the circumstances, we know that these things are only temporary, that these things too shall pass. And we can commit to God, greater. Commit to Him fully, embracing our walk with Him, fully embracing our call, and fully embracing our divine assignments in Christ Jesus.
This is the season to be rooted, to be surrendered, to come back to the promises, to hold fast to what you confessed, to believe the word of the Lord again. To believe again, to dream again, to hold fast and love again. Not from a place of striving or trying to do it on your own, but from a place of complete trust that He is God, He’s more than able, He’s guiding your every step, and He’s showing you the way.
Ask Him, seek, knock. This is our promise. This is the promise of God to the believers, this is our promise to put our hands to, to hold fast to, to confess with our lips and believe in our hearts that He is always with us, that He is still our great God, and that He is more than able.
My prayer for you:
Father in the name of Jesus, I thank you for the mighty woman of God, I thank you for every paid subscriber to the Daily Devotional for Women. I thank you, God, that their seed into this ministry be pressed down, shaken together, and running over. That it breaks the back of any financial strongholds, any walls between them and their breakthrough. I thank you, Lord God, that that is going to go forth in the name of Jesus, for you are God alone.
And Lord I thank you for the free subscriber who is here now listening to this devotional as you have instructed me to do, I thank you God that she is here, I pray in the name of Jesus that she be blessed, that the work of her hands O God, be edified, I thank you God that as she goes forth in the promises of God with your yes and amen over her, that she would hold fast, that she would believe again.
That this devotion of God would reignite her faith in you and that there would be movement in the name of Jesus, for you are the Lord our God, and there is no one beside you. There is no one like you, O God. I thank you, King of glory, for these mighty women of God, paid and free. I thank you, God, that together O God that we’re coming before your throne of grace and mercy, saying Lord we surrender again.
We submit again, we’re here again in the name of Jesus, waiting, O God, for divine instruction God. Guide our steps, O God, show us what to do, what is something maybe that you’ve called us to do that we have not done, Lord bring it back to our remembrance, that we may be redeemed in this season, that we may see the redemption of the Lord, O God, and see O God the trials and circumstances God.
See them in a different light. See them as a way to build our faith, to strengthen our foundation, and to prepare us to walk heavy, O God, in the season you’ve called us to. I thank you O God, that the mighty woman of God is maturing in the name of Jesus, that the faith is maturing in the name of Jesus, that we are seeing the fullness God, and that we are no longer going to be almost there.
I thank you for the person O God, and let us be like Job, that in the midst of his pain in Job 42:10, prayed for his friends and was given double O God. Prayed for his friends and was restored my God, double what he had lost. Lord, I thank you, for you are mighty O God, you are worthy O God, you are our great king. You know what it is the mighty woman of God needs, you know what she’s been waiting for, you know, O God, what she’s been tearing for for years.
You know, O God, the battles that she’s been facing in secret. I thank you, Lord God, that those things O God will be waged now in the spirit, that Lord God this battle is no longer hers, it is yours, and in its place O God she will worship. She will worship in the name of Jesus. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus mighty name, Amen.
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