Is life slipping out of control? Are you under the bondage of the desires of the world? Do you fight and quarrel to maintain control over relationships? Who is really in control of your future? Surrender to God, and learn from the book of James. Part 4 of David's sermon series on the book of James focuses on James 4:1-5:6. Chapter 4 and the first six verses of chapter 5 emphasize the importance on complete dependence on God. A great battle rages over who will control your soul. The struggle to be human involves the discipline of our passions. To overcome we need intimacy with God. Intimacy with God is found when we surrender ourselves and to give our lives to him.

James 4:1-3
"What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."
(NIV)