Executive Vision - When Surrender is Victory!

Stop trying to control it all. It's bigger than you. Have you reached the place of asking yourself '"who's in charge?" If you recognize that surrender doesn't have to mean defeat, it is a place of acknowledging that you are a co-laborer with God.

As quoted by Larry Julian author of 'God is My CEO', "In the business world, surrender is associated with defeat. In the spiritual realm, however, relinquishing control to God's plan is victory.

The past several months, I've found myself saying daily, "Father God, I relinquish to you today my every victory and my seeming defeat. I declare that I have your wisdom to direct me in my executive decisions. I yield to recognizing where and when I'm to stop and allow you to take the reigns. I choose to not hold onto anything but You... This statement of prayer can be difficult to absorb in the marketplace where the markings of a leader is associated with who is in control -- who's running the show.

And today, I too am faced with a test. I agree that it is extremely important that a leader plans and follows the plan. I also agree that you better have a sound position to take when circumstance arise outside of your plan and is out of your control? That's where and when the real character of the leader in you rises up. Why wait until the unexpected occasion? Make it an expected occasion daily with Him, and when circumstance arise outside of your plan and is out of control, you will quickly recognize that your vulnerability is really a place of yielding to the higher authority of God.

Signals become confusing when you've been in control for so long. You're trying to be all things to all people; the pressure for decisions is pressing at every door; your confidence is totally displaced. Whether it is from the burden of grief from loss of your marriage or employment, the death of many employees, the collapse of your business, terminating staff, the struggle with letting go of the 'affair' outside of your marriage, desiring to find comfort in alcohol, the distraction of business over family and God... God is waiting for you to cast it all on Him. You've been trained and programmed to turn a deaf ear to any as semblance of defeat and vulnerability (i.e. throw in the towel; wave the white flag; retreat).

God directed surrender spotlights vulnerability. Vulnerability spotlights our need to be in control. Control spotlights a much higher authority. That authority is God. He can lead you from a place of guilt, grief, anxiety to healing -- even relief. Your team may need to see your vulnerability because of their vulnerability. This may be a time of an 'open show' in how to lead in the example of surrendering to God's plan. Let your surrender be found in the eyes of God as yielding to His divine control (Psalm 62). That's when (you know) surrender is VICTORY!
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Prophetess SB Barber Stalling is founder of GRACE Media Network the parent organization of GMNetwork.cc. She is a God-inspired executive, journalist, broadcaster, producer, ordained/licensed ministry gift and requested preacher & speaker.

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