## Not My Will, But Yours Jesus prayed it in the garden. Three times. Sweating drops of blood, facing the cross, He prayed: *"Not my will, but yours be done."* This is the most powerful prayer in Scripture — and the hardest one to mean. ### Why We Avoid Surrender We come to prayer with lists. Healing. Provision. Relationships. Direction. And there is nothing wrong with bringing our needs to God — He invites it. But somewhere along the way, many of us turned prayer into a negotiation rather than a conversation. We want God's power without God's agenda. We want His blessings without His lordship. ### What Surrender Actually Looks Like Surrender is not passive resignation. It is not saying "whatever" to God with a spiritual shrug. It is the active, costly choice to trust that God's plan is better than yours — even when you cannot see it....
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