Releasing is usually seen as a sign of weakness but the Scripture shows it as one of the most powerful signs of faith. According to IntercessHER: The Power, Posture, and Purpose of a Praying Woman, Lydasia Rayanna Harris educates that there is a difference between surrender and loss and it is trust that is being strategically left in the hands of God. The example of Jochebed, the mother of Moses, is very good in that we could release what is most dear to us and this partnering with God.

The religion of Jochebed was not passive. It was impetuous, pious, and daring.

Jochebed: A Mother in Crisis

Jochebed had been a woman who was living under a dreadful edict. Pharaoh had commissioned that all the Hebrews baby boys should be killed. Fear was not imaginary it was real. But at the time Jochebed gave birth to Moses Scripture says she concealed him three months, she knew his life was worth saving.

In IntercessHER, Lydasia Rayanna Harris is reminding us of the fact that faith usually starts with discernment. Jochebed perceived something in her son that informed her that he was branded by God. She accomplished as much as she could to keep him safe until it needed him to be free.

At one point, obedience stops living on and starts living off.

Letting Go With Intention, Not Fear

As Jochebed could no longer conceal Moses, she neither yielded Moses to anarchy she yielded Moses to God. She took him to a well-vigilant basket, which was coated with protection, and sent out to the Nile. This was not an exasperation, it was tactical capitulation.

The fact that she did this serves as a strong reality highlighted in IntercessHER: surrender that is based on prayer is not irresponsible. Jochebed did not expose Moses to harm, she placed him in the location where God could take action.

Releasing does not imply the refusal of responsibility. It is the belief in God and letting him do what we are unable to do.

God Meets Surrender With Strategy

What Jochebed set at liberty, God set back in place. Moses was found by the daughter of Pharaoh who grew in the palace and was even secured against the decree that was determined to kill him. Better still, God sent Moses back to Jochebed to be nursed and be nurtured.

This divine dialogue shows how God glorifies submission. Whatever Jochebed handed over to the hands of God He multiplied in intent. By her readiness to give, she opened the gateway to God through the greater plan.

Surrendering gives God his sovereignty to work in full as IntercessHER teaches.

The Power of Letting Go in Prayer

The story of Jochebed is one that challenges women to take a closer look at what they are gripping so much. At times we hold on so that God is not able to move. Strategic surrender is not abandoning hope it is just about laying hope on the right hands.

Prayer anchors surrender. And when we put our fears, and our children and our dreams, or our future, in the hands of God, we say that we trust his character. Jochebed believed that the plan of God was greater than what she could save.

Her religion makes us understand that losing may be the only thing that finalizes the purpose of God.

Surrender Is the Language of Faith

Jochebed shows us that giving up is not the termination of influence it is the initiation of divine intervention. Her submission made the life of a liberator and changed the history.

When you are at a crossroads of letting go and holding on seems to be impossible, you need to bear in mind that God is a specialist in what we release. Surrendering is not being weak as IntercessHER claims, but a belief in action.

Let go strategically. God is already at work.