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"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest".
Matthew 11:28

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Salvation2Surrender.com​

How It Began...

 

​​Salvation to Surrender was developed out of the need of wanting to share with other Christian believers and non-Christians the power of surrender in one’s life. As a Christian for over thirty-five years, I was forces to face my selfish desires and wants that I was chasing throughout my life.

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It wasn’t until the Lord took away everything that was important to me, my marriage, my business and financial security, that I finally realized how self-centered I truly was. The Lord brought me to my knees in full and absolute surrender in November of 2013. On my living room floor, curled up like a little child, I cried uncontrollably realizing that I wasn’t in control of anything. The Lord was in control of my life when I invited Him into my life in January of 1978, and asked Him to be my Lord and Savior.

 

But during my growth as a newly born Christian, I fought Him tooth and nail trying to maintain some sense of self-control in many areas of my life. During those thirty-five years as a Christian, the Lord gave me many opportunities to come to surrender to Him, but through my self-centered focus and a deep-down pain that I was hiding from Him and others, I kept on refusing to fully surrender everything to Him. It wasn’t until that Sunday morning in 2013, that the Lord had to pull everything from me to show me that He and His sovereign power was in control, not I.

 

It was that morning that my life began a new journey... It became "A Journey to Redemption". As I woke every morning from that day forward, fully and absolutely surrendered to Him, I now had true peace and rest in my soul and direction that only He could give.

 

Through the support and help of a Christian brother in my church, and a book entitled, "Absolute Surrender" written by Andrew Murray, a new foundation was being laid. A foundation that was no longer mine, but a foundation fully the Lord’s and His daily holy Word in my life.

 

It was through this dramatic change that happened, that the Lord gave me the desire and motive to begin sharing my testimony of my “Salvation to Surrender”, to others. First with a book entitled, "Salvation to Surrender... A 35 Year Journey in Finding True Rest", and now with a motion picture in the making entitled, "Salvation to Surrender... A Journey to Redemption".

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Salvation to Surrender, the book will again become available after the completion of the movie production. On the Production Page, we will be posting clips of the "Torch Demo Video" that will be submitted to Angel Studios in the near future.

In the meantime, you can check out the over 300 blog postings that were created after the book was released and the blog's first posting in February of 2020. The postings in the blog have many applications of what it means to live a surrendered life to our Lord. I hope you find the encouragement that I found in writing them.

Edward Avila

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