Surrendering your day to God allows you to align your plans with His will.
Taking time each day to connect with God helps guide your actions and decisions.
Reflecting on God's faithfulness daily can strengthen your relationship with Him.
Surrendering your will can lead to greater joy and peace in your life.
Modeling self-control in challenging situations can positively impact your students' behavior.
Reflection: This week I encourage you to surrender to God daily and as you go through out this week reflect on how it feels to surrender. Challenges may arise, remember that God's faithfulness will always remain steadfast and that He can help you through anything if you allow Him to.
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Hello everyone and welcome to the Transformational Teacher Podcast.
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I am your host, detoya.
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Thank you so much for taking out the time to listen to this episode.
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I am thankful for all that you do inside the classroom for your students.
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Thank you for what you do behind the scenes.
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What you do matters and I am thankful for you.
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You are needed.
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You are valuable.
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Keep going and doing God's will.
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Well, let's go ahead and jump into our episode for today.
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Today our topic is a surrendered will.
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Now me and God, we were having some study time.
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This was actually during the summer whenever God gave this to me.
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But I felt led to share it with you all today.
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So let's go ahead and I'm going to tell you the first five sentences that God said to me.
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He said, surrender your day to God.
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Surrender your class to God.
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Surrender your heart to God.
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Surrender your entire being to God.
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Surrender your will to God.
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Surrender to God.
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Decision to do what he says in spite of my feelings.
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Even when we don't feel like doing something he tells us to do, guess what?
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We have to do it anyway if he's telling us to do it.
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He wants us to live a surrendered life.
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And that means we want to give up our fleshly desire for what he wants us to do.
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We may feel like, huh, I.
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I want to do something else.
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But no, I encourage you.
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If God says to do it, go ahead and do it.
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Doing God's will is what will bring us even more joy.
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It will bring us peace.
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Doing God's will.
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Sometimes fear may try to creep in.
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Doubt may try to creep in.
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Cuz I'll be honest, sometimes when I'm doing something God tells me to do, if it's something that's I don't typically do, sometimes I may be like, huh, I don't know about that.
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But I encourage you.
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As you surrender that fear to Him.
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Give it over to him and take his will, his plan.
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It'll work out for you.
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So again, surrender.
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Surrender to God.
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He wants to use our words, our thoughts, our desires daily.
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Give up your will, your control, your way of doing things, your way of thinking, your way of handling things.
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For his way.
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His way is so much better than our way.
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Now the thing is, in order to do things his way, we have to know what his way is.
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And the way we know that is by spending time in His Word.
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So we have to take out time.
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It is vital that we take out time each and every day to spend with God.
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I always encourage you to at least take out sometime in the morning to spend with him, because that is the start of your day.
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You want to ask him, God, what is it that you have me to do on this day?
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I.
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I surrender my plan over to you.
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I surrender my mind over to you.
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And I ask that you will guide and direct my steps.
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So, again, surrender to God daily.
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And as I'm telling you this, this is something that I work on daily.
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I work on surrendering things over to him daily.
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Even with this episode, this is not what I originally had an idea to talk to you all about.
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But as I was going through my notebook when I came across this, he.
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Was like, that's what I want you to talk about.
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But I was like, well, God, I.
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Don'T want to talk about that right now.
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But I'm so thankful that I did.
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Because even in me going through this.
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It was like, no, this is what.
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He wants me to do.
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Even with this podcast, he wants me to surrender it to him and do.
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What he says to do.
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So I'm encouraging you.
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Surrender your will.
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Surrender your class over to God.
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Operate in your classroom like he tells you to.
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Operate in it.
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Okay, let's go ahead.
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Allow God to again, work through you.
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To reach your students and others.
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When we allow him to do it through us, the results are so much better.
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The way that we treat others, the way that we speak to others, it speaks volumes.
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We represent God everywhere we go.
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We represent him in our classroom, in our home.
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We represent him in the store.
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Because when we're in the store and there's a situation, if someone, let's just.
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Say they're going off on you, the.
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Way you respond to them, it matters.
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We have to respond the way God.
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Wants us to respond.
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We have to surrender our way for his way.
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The way you handle classroom challenges is a reflection of God.
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When you respond yelling, or if you respond with firmness but calmness, it matters.
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Again, people are looking at you.
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Your students are looking up to you.
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Your students, they need to see you model self control so then they know how to use self control in challenging situations.
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Surrender.
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Surrender to God.
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Surrender your mouth to God.
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As people, sometimes we want the last say so.
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Yeah, sometimes I want the last say so.
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But the thing is, we have to surrender that to God also.
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We won't control.
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We have to surrender that to God also.
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And as we surrender to Him, I promise you, things will be so much better.
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So again, I encourage you, surrender your will to to God.
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Surrender to him daily.
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So as you go throughout this week, I encourage you to reflect daily on how it feels to surrender to God, reflect on his faithfulness.
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Now you may hit some bumps in the road, some challenges may come up, but one thing for sure is that God's faithfulness remains.
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God can help you through any situation.
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The thing is we have to be willing and allow him to to help us.
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So again, allow him to help you on this week.
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Surrender to him daily.
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Do what he tells you to do.
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Well, as always, thank you so much for listening to this episode.
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Continue to pray, listen, transform so you can teach and make that godly impact that God has called you to make inside your classrooms.
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I want to leave you with a scripture, Proverbs 16:3.
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It says, Commit your works to the Lord, submit and trust them to him and your plans will succeed if you respond to his will and guidance.
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So as we commit to God and if we do his will, then our plans will succeed.
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So let's pray.
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Well, Heavenly Father, we thank you right now.
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We thank you Lord, just for who you are.
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We thank you for your goodness.
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We thank you for your love.
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We thank you for your mercy.
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We thank you for your faithfulness Lord.
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We thank you Lord God, that you have called us for such a time as this to go inside of our class classrooms and make the impact that you've called for for us to make.
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You know each student that's inside of our classroom.
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You know us best.
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So we thank you Lord God, for guiding, directing our footsteps on this week for we surrender Lord God, our week over to you.
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And we ask Lord God, that your will be done inside of our classroom.
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We ask, oh God, that you will guide and direct our every footstep.
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We thank you that you will instruct us and you will teach us in the way that we should go on this week.
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And as you instructing teachers, we will say yes, we will surrender daily to you in Jesus name.
