💧 I Give Everyone and Everything to You, Lord (When Surrender Becomes the Gateway to Peace)
💧 I Give Everyone and Everything to You, Lord
(When Surrender Becomes the Gateway to Peace)
October 10, 2025
🌿 A Morning of Tears and Peace
This morning I was listening again to John Eldredge — the Christian author of Wild at Heart and Get Your Life Back.
He’s one of those rare teachers who doesn’t just talk about Jesus… he helps you meet Him.
Eldredge has this short daily prayer that plays on his app, The Pause. Gentle music, quiet frequencies, a holy stillness.
And in the middle of it, he always says:
“I give everyone and everything to You, Lord.”
I’ve heard that line a hundred times.
But this morning… it landed.
Yesterday, my dear wife and I had one of those days.
We love each other deeply, but sometimes we just miss each other’s hearts.
She’s true-blue in her devotion to the church, and I walk a different path now — one that still leads to Jesus but not through the same gate as we have been taught.
Sometimes that difference hurts.
It hurts more than I ever let on.
But this morning, when John’s voice came through my headphones and I heard that phrase again,
the Spirit whispered:
“Give her to Me.”
And when I did — when I finally let go — tears came.
Not sad tears. Release tears.
The kind that say: I trust You, Lord, more than my need to be understood.
🕊️ The Surrender That Frees the Soul
There’s a moment in the Gospels when Jesus says something that almost sounds impossible:
“Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it.”
— Matthew 16:25
That’s what this little phrase is really about.
When we “give everyone and everything” to Him, we stop clutching at control.
We stop trying to manage outcomes or force awakenings.
We hand over the keys to the One who already knows the way home.
And in return, He gives us peace — the kind Paul described:
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
— Philippians 4:6–7
That’s the exchange.
Our anxiety for His peace.
Our need to fix people for His perfect timing.
💖 Giving Her to Jesus
When I said, “I give my wife to You, Lord,” I didn’t mean I was letting her go.
I meant I was trusting Him with her.
I can’t open her eyes. I can’t calm her fears.
But He can.
He always could.
And when I finally let that sink in, a calmness filled the room —
the kind that only comes when Heaven takes the wheel back.
That’s when I understood what Jesus meant in John 14:27:
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
That peace isn’t the absence of problems.
It’s the presence of Jesus in the middle of them.
🔥 John Eldredge’s Secret — Getting Close to the Savior
John Eldredge’s whole message can be summed up in this: Jesus is still rescuing hearts.
Not just once at baptism, but daily. Hourly.
He teaches that if you want your heart healed, you have to let it go to Him.
He calls it “getting your life back.”
It’s not psychology.
It’s not self-help.
It’s restoration — the kind of restoration the Savior promised in Luke 4:18:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor;
He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives,
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty them that are bruised.”
That’s the Jesus John Eldredge talks about.
And that’s the Jesus I felt in my room this morning.
🌅 The Prayer of Release
If you ever feel the weight of your spouse, your children, your church, your job — try this:
“Jesus, I give everyone and everything to You.”
“I give You my family.”
“I give You my fears.”
“I give You my need to be right.”
“I give You this day.”
Then be still.
Let the music of His Spirit play through your chest.
Let Him lift what you’ve been carrying.
Because when you give it all to Him, you don’t lose anything —
you gain the one thing that matters: His presence.
“Be still, and know that I am God.”
— Psalm 46:10
📜 The Ancient Echo — Book of Mormon & Nemenhah
This simple prayer — “I give everyone and everything to You, Lord” — could be lifted straight from Nephi’s heart. He said it this way:
“I glory in my Jesus, for he hath redeemed my soul from hell.
I have trusted in him, and I will trust in him forever.”
— 2 Nephi 33:6–7
That’s the language of surrender.
Nephi stopped striving, stopped trying to convince his brothers, and simply trusted.
He gave everyone and everything to the Lord — and peace came.
And when the Savior appeared in the promised land, He gave the same invitation to the Nephites:
“Come unto me, ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
— 3 Nephi 12:3 / Matthew 11:28
That rest isn’t sleep. It’s the calm that enters your chest when you finally let Him have it all.
🌾 The Nemenhah Way of Letting Go
In the Nemenhah Records, the prophets call this same surrender “the Way of Peace.”
Mohrhohnahyah (Moroni) wrote:
“Behold, I did lay down my sword and my judgment and my anger before the Lord,
and peace entered into my soul, and I was enlarged in my heart toward all men.”
— Book of Mohrhohnahyah 8:12–14
He’s talking about the same transaction — the moment when you lay down your sword toward your loved ones, your past, or even the Church, and peace flows in where control used to live.
Another passage from The Book of Tuhhuhl Nuhmehn says:
“When a man will cease to contend with his brother,
and instead give all judgment unto the Peacemaker,
behold, he shall feel the wind of healing blow through his tent.”
— Tuhhuhl Nuhmehn 1:37–38
That’s “give everyone and everything to You, Lord” in Nemenhah language.
To give judgment to the Peacemaker is to stop trying to fix what only love can heal.
And perhaps the most direct parallel comes from The Book of Tsihohnayah Ahkehkthihm 14:77–79:
“Let every man give his burden unto the Peacemaker, and He shall bear it up.
For this is His labor — to heal the broken and to make the captives free.
But if any man hold fast to his burden, behold, the burden shall grow heavy upon him.”
— Tsihohnayah Ahkehkthihm 14:77–79
The more we try to hold, the heavier it gets.
But when we give it to Him, He bears it — and He bears us.
🔔 Summary Verse from Both Records
“Come unto Christ, and be perfected in Him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness…
and love God with all your might, mind and strength.”
— Moroni 10:32
“Give the burden to the Peacemaker, and He will make light thy way.”
— Nemenhah Compilation, Tsihohnayah 14:79
That’s the full circle.
That’s giving everyone and everything to Him.
✨ A Closing Reflection
Surrender isn’t a sign of weakness.
It’s the moment when Heaven breathes again inside you.
And the same Jesus who calmed the storm on Galilee
still whispers across the waves of our own hearts:
“Peace, be still.”
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