Unyielded Areas

What are unyielded areas?  The Dictionary definition says when things are unyielding, they won't stop, won't give, or won't bend. That includes stubborn, unyielding personalities.

The Word of God tells us to surrender all.  Unyielded areas are the areas that we haven’t surrendered to God. If we have unyielded areas to Jesus Christ this means we have not given Him access to these areas. We can have many unyielded areas.  We may not even be aware of them until the Holy Spirit shows us.

Unyielded areas pose a problem for us because the Bible tells us to lay down our lives for His sake. Jesus has offered His life for our life.  All we need to do is take it by submitting our spirits/souls, bodies, and entire lives to Jesus.  It is a swap. There is an exchange that happens at the cross. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it (Matthew 10:39, NKJV). This is harder than we think.  There are many areas in our lives that we want to hold on to. Take pride for example, we need to exchange our pride for the humility of Christ.  That is incredibly difficult. Man is incredibly prideful in many facets of life. Another example is impatience. Humans are incredibly impatient.  We need to walk through some pretty tough trials in order to take on the patience of Christ.  Interestingly the word patience in the KJV is 'longsuffering'.

We cling to these areas and stubbornly refuse God access to them. Sometimes we may think we are yielding them, but God sees our heart and knows when we are not.  This poses a problem!  Any area not submitted to God is not brought under the Blood of Christ.  All unyielded areas have not passed through the Cross. Christ is the door and is now on the other side of the Cross. To go through the door you need to first go through the cross. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture (John 10:9, KJV). The word of God tells us that we need to be crucified with Christ. Any area not brought under Christ’s Lordship remains vulnerable to the enemy, who seeks to exploit our flesh and weaknesses (Ephesians 4:27; Romans 6:13).

We may need repentance, deliverance and healing in those areas before we can let them go and accept Christ into them.  With unyielded areas there is lack of trust and many other sins so they need to be confessed and sanctified by using the name and power of Jesus Christ. I once asked God if His grace covered unyielded areas.  This is what He showed me – Grace = unprecedented favour. God’s grace can cover every area of your life.  Grace is God’s trump card and He can use it anywhere, anytime He chooses. For example if someone in your life no longer wanted anything to do with you, you could still give them a gift by handing it straight to them, putting it in their letterbox or dropping it at their front door, and even give it to them through a mutual friend.  They don’t have to keep your gift but nothing can stop you from giving it to them.  Grace works like this. Nothing can stop God giving us His grace, not even those unyielded areas. (We do see though that we can fall from Grace when we try and keep His law to gain our salvation because the only way to be saved is through Jesus Christ.  No works of righteousness on our behalf can earn our salvation. You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace (Galatians 5:4, NKJV).)

In regard to Grace God has shown me with our unyielded areas and sin more often than not He will choose not to give more grace than what He has already given. One reason for this is that God gives us free will.  He gives us the freedom to choose His ways and choose Him rather than pushing Himself upon us. Another reason is that God wants to remove self-sufficiency from us so that we come to a place where we become totally reliant on Him. He wants to expose our weak areas so we can give them to Him and He can put His strength upon them. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9, KJV). 

He wants to also remove pride from us, and in order to do so may send trials and tribulation to outwork this from us. The extra portion of grace may come at the end of the trial. But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble (James 4:6, KJV).

Tania Francis