Complete Surrender... 👀

[@RitaSpringer]

What topics would you like to discuss this year?

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[@RubyATreasure]

ministering vs. performing

[@erinwebb5099]

Encouragement / Advice for Singles (40's) - Encouragement / advice for adopting as an older single person (not much is out there) - advice for creatives who have so many ideas and getting the ball rolling - songwriting - mothering/ mentoring - breaking out of stagnant places.... or breaking out of "hiding" after a season of rest and healing - maybe some practical tools Or steps.... or questions ask and pray to help when you feel like you're are stuck in a loop and not finding clarity - raising kids as a single mom while also having other dreams and purposes that God has put on your heart. How to do both well - making a living while being obedient to build what God has shown to you

[@abbymaurer5317]

Being a single mom in the church💔

[@sweetblum]

I think what I appreciate most and what makes me feel so connected to you, Rita, is my similarities with you. I live in NY and it’s so difficult to find fellowship with like-minded Godly, creative women. I’ve been contemplating the one-on-one with you, but I think I’m a bit disorganized in my goals at the moment. Regardless, you inspire me to get out of my head, get past insecurities and use my gift of song and art. I’ve shut down in those areas due to stress and discouragement. I appreciate your vulnerability. Your stories minister to me like a sister’s would. Thank you for all you do. Blessings! ✨

[@irenehogan5440]

Oh my gosh! I am almost overwhelmed by this. This has been God's answer to my desperate prayers over the last year. I have felt like i was drowning, so scared i would lose my faith. You have talked about so many of my fears and weaknesses. I have felt so alone and ashamed. Waiting and trusting God has been a constant challenge for me for a long time. Thank God for this encouragement. I have come across you recently, Rita, by accident, but I have been listening to your beautiful songs ever since, and they speak straight into my heart. I am making your 'Amen' my anthem. I thank God for your disernment and honesty and integrity.I especially love your total commitment to our wonderful Lord. Thank you so much. May the Lord bless you and your unique ministry.

[@afrochinoblend]

Hey Rita. I just wanted to say that watching you, I just sense a complete reinvention, reformation, renewal happening with you. Wow. It is like your whole youth is being renewed. May He even grant the things to you that were meant to be yours in your youth in the days to come. Thank you Jesus. Thank you that you make all things new. 🙏🏻🫰🏻🥹

[@LeahMargaret]

I always ask the Lord for a word to encompass what he wants me to focus on for the new year. This year’s word is Surrender. This was very timely and much needed. Thanks for sharing .

[@23shudson]

Your live worship sets have helped me so much. I battle hard with depression and it's a struggle to admit. Because in the Christian world the response sounds so simple....but having the ability to do that is so overwhelming to me. Your worship sets bring peace to me and I listen to them often.

[@happylife12345678]

Thank you Rita on your obedience to the Lord. I'm very bless by your song Amen~

[@dmatthew317]

Rita, thank you so very much for sharing your God-given wisdom through your personal spiritual growth journey and love relationship with the Lord! You are a blessing!

[@christinamcdowell8241]

I am so grateful that I found your podcast. God has used you so much in my life. God gave me my voice and helped me in worship in my early 30's and then took me on a different journey in fitness and now after 15 yrs he wants me in worship again. In that 15 yrs I was actually unable to sing and I'm having to relearn how to sing but I'm up there and sometimes very frustrated every time I do a solo. But I haven't really surrendered it completely. I think I do. I always wondered why he would call me first and not heal me first.

[@H-Joy]

Thank you so much Rita, that was really helpful.. just hearing you verbalise your thought processes, and talking to God when you have been wrestling with certain issues.. I've been walking through learning to trust God, and it has been "yes I trust You in these areas", but "no, I don't in these areas, and I'm stuck, and it's too hard" and hearing you say that God was asking you "will you just try".. I just cried, it helped me see things from a completely different perspective.. all I could see was where I was failing, and this is so encouraging, it's so God, that He would respond to us in that way.. that He sees things so differently.. and that gives me hope.. thank you for being open, it is the first time I have heard trust issues talked about this way.. and it helps so much...

[@Burningwhitelight]

This was a powerful message. I love the intimacy of your delivery, as if I'm across the table listening to you. The Lord gave me the word "wait" for this year which is why I listened. (My first time listening was for your conversation with Steff G. about practicing the presence.) I'm recognizing all the things I haven't fully surrendered to the Lord. That's exactly where I'm impatient and struggle to wait. Thank you so much for sharing this. After listening to you share your conversation with the Lord, I would love to hear more about how you cultivated that relationship with Him and hear so clearly.

[@RobinVeldhuizen]

❤ Enjoyed God used your voice to minister to my heart ❤️ Thank you. God bless Rita.

[@tay70tay]

Cooking with Rita & God would be great 🎉❤

[@RubyATreasure]

I enjoyed listening to your perspective and testimony Rita. I celebrate Abib around spring, which is the biblical New Year on the Hebrew calendar, doing this takes a lot of pressure off me that society can make you feel come January 1st. To anyone who reads this..."Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." (Galatians 6:9) 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@kristenesch1306]

Hi Rita! Love you heaps and heaps. I would LOVE DITL (day in the life) vlogs, informal vlogging, cooking with Rita, worship sets, Bible studies-anything you put out there in the world hehe. ❤️❤️

[@DanielleFerreira-kt7ix]

In my humblest opinion, your gifts are worship and teaching from the depths of your personal experiences. Aiming at too much, like cooking, for example, may dilute the message and the purpose. ❤

[@sabrinashort2999]

Speaking on prophetic dreams and also teaching on songwriting

[@toddhowell]

Pure worship ... without words.🙏

[@bfgramarossa]

Hi Rita! I’ve been so blessed and touch by the presence of God through your content. The podcasts and worship sets are beautiful. Love how you bring all these different people on, I’m learning a lot. I would like to see advice and what the heart of God is for worship leading in an era where the church has made it “me” centered. It’s all about God, all Glory to Jesus! Him first over our anointing of talent ALWAYS! 🙌🏼

[@katelemons1758]

❤🎉Beautiful wisdom truth Rita. Thank you

[@tonyaweiler8902]

Yes to a Bible study! And yes to cooking with Rita. Love ya

[@5454randy]

Have conversations about singleness with other single people like Mark Lowry, Kathy Troccoli, Michael Tait, etc

[@mirandahawkmusic]

As always thank you👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@bethanymcgehee3291]

Thank you so much for sharing the realness in your heart. The word of being fully surrendered in what we are contending for to witness breakthrough is such a timely gift.

[@ClaudiaAcosta-sx2mx]

😭 From the bottom of my heart thank you. You know I have been asking the Lord to take this anxiety away from me. I would sometimes sing in the altar trembling with panic and would still sing but it got to a point where I couldn’t take it anymore that I wanted to quit the worship team. God took me through a journey. I didn’t quit the worship team and one day they assigned me to worship lead. I was freaking out but I felt God telling me to do it. He reminded me of Hezekiah where the Sennacherib was bullying him and saying where is your God? You’re surrounded. He said go out there and see how just like I gave Hezekiah the victory I will give it to you as well. And I did and ever since then I can sing freely on stage without panic. But just in other areas of my life it’s been hard to let go of the anxiety. I kept pleading to God I don’t want it but yet I see that I am the one holding on to it and I need to surrender fully to Him.

[@elisabeth.johnson.92]

This was so beautifully shared and explained. Thank you!

[@Lazyeyedpup]

Thank you Rita for posting. I’ve been hearing from the Lord for a while now to fully surrender to Him, but struggling to understand what that means or looks like. When you said “try” something clicked. I’ve been wrestling with the perfect ideal of what surrendering looks like that I haven’t even tried. May we all try in 2025! Blessing and peace to you 🙏🕊️

[@KendiDawn]

Thank you for this! It’s so so good! 🙌🏽 🕊️ ✝️ ❤️‍🔥

[@MissBrooke-w9r]

Rita- Social media manager here. And long time supporter of your ministry. Here are my ideas. -special needs worship -churches with mixed worship styles -repentance in worship -bonding with your hard to reach church members -mental health for those with prophetic gifts

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WORSHIP IS MY WEAPON!!!

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[@btotman1]

I’d love to hear more on surrender… what does that look like…how… just the walking out of it! Because I completely agree that the things I wrestle with are things I’m still sort of holding onto and not fully trusting or even walking by faith in.

[@jenniferwalsh1731]

Thank you for this! ❤ praise the Lord ❤

[@irenehogan5440]

More on complete surrender and trust please?

[@esthergatton1372]

I love your non stop. Worship I listen to it all the time and I love the testimonies.❤

[@cindymahar5898]

Me too

[@erinwebb5099]

YES! I can try!! Amen!!

[@angetalbot733]

We take joy in what he shares with you … a community of people walking truth and vulnerability and sharing the good bad and ugly …. That’s the whole bible story under the whole umbrella of Gods kindness mercy compassion and grace …… that’s all that the message is …. All of it !!!!!

[@angetalbot733]

I do wish I could call you and have a chat hahahha your like me talking from all the moments …. Sister from another mister but a struggle under God …. Alllllllll the struggle in Faith over the last 3 months … next level of growth … milk fed to spoon fed to making your own feed … lesson of last year is “Remember me” … quiet gentle voice from our father to my heart …. Not the surrounding, not the chaos, but a gentle stable voice “Remeber me “

[@cindymahar5898]

YES !

[@charlottebarclay4631]

I'm in!!

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PSALM 145!🥰 146! 147! 148! 149! 150! Amen & Amen!!!

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PHILIPPIANS 4 PHILIPPIANS 4:4-8 ROMANS 8:11

[@annettestadt1886]

I just really feel strongly that it's our job as an older generation to pray and intercede for the younger generation. These are the end times and they need us to stand for them . This is important. How can we do this more effectively?

[@Kinzylawson]

Also an idea is you can record your mentorshiping one on one’s. So people going through the same stuff can learn from others peoples struggles.

[@angeladeleon3738]

So good. My voice is not my identity

[@TabithaHalverson]

Prayer and fasting

[@MrsLana92]

In regards to not knowing why some people struggle and others don't, I like to keep coming back to John 9:3 "Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."

[@donnaasbury2408]

This is so me so me

[@JordanDuplessis-n5x]

Cooking recipes from your dream!!!

[@savvygurlz]

I am so thankful for your voice and this podcast in this last year. My spiritual formation has increased by what you release week after week. I was reading your book, Finding Eve, last night and I said in my heart; I would love for Rita to do a podcast episode on the waiting season and I wake up this morning to find this new episode.🤍 I am so thankful for your sensitivity to the Lord's leading! Your message is so vital to the Body right now!

[@EmbassyofZion]

How best can we take a few people to worship outdoors in a way that passersby / people in the park sense the presence of the Lord and begin a conversation toward the Lord?

[@shelialstrickland]

Topic Suggestion: Ageism as it relates to being a worship leader in the local church. It's an issue.......

[@Spirit-Truth53]

🎯Thank you Rita! I now can see that I must first confess the sin of presumption🙏 For many years I can see that I merely presumed I had surrendered this 1 excruciating issue to GOD! It’s almost embarrassing (tho that is pride!) to think this ugly “thing” that I have felt soooo helpless & “innocent” of for over 15 years-that I hadn’t FULLY surrendered it🙌 I would just keep praying and whining “PLEASE GOD remove this toxic thing‼️This thing that I KNOW is not your will, and is soooo destructive🙌🙏”…… but you really spoke into me--maybe I wasn’t ready to hear & obey! But now I am🙌❤️

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JEREMIAH 9:23-24🥰 PSALM 37:4-5

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[@dinalavey1227]

mentorship! Is it affordable??

[@Kinzylawson]

What if you wait on the Lord but you miss what he has for you because most the body of Christ right now is saying it’s time to push and go because we are in a time of favor and open doors but you feel like you are supposed to wait on the Lord? He showed me a movie of a woman paralyzed from the neck down from a car accident and her mother took care of her for like 30+ years. I heard him speak to me and say he wants me to be like the paralyzed woman and he is the mom taking care of all my needs and wants. What exactly does surrender look like? Every time I get into my Bible or in prayer I feel like I’m doing works because I’m supposed to be resting in him. What is a good balance of rest and works?

[@deiddlebug8743]

Works aren’t bad it’s when you Think your works will Save you that there is an issue. Being a believer brings fruit. Surrender is just trusting Him fully that He will do what He says in His timing and trust that it’s going to be amazing not being worried or be in unbelief. It doesn’t mean to sit around and do nothing.

[@angetalbot733]

Can I just say your all the yummy! In a world that can feel so harsh, it’s so delicious to hear the Fathers heart for his people through you saying “what do you need “ honey it’s not your burden to help us all, maybe just sit and ask HIM what he wants to say to his babies ? Then it’s HIS heart … not your burden x love your passion heart and yum

[@angetalbot733]

“Remember Me” …..

[@timothypbarnes5440]

Your voice has been cutting out briefly every few seconds.

[@baileyneff5778]

I’ve never had a word for the year given to me by the Lord, but “surrender” is the word. Thank you for dabbling into this topic, helping me truly reflect and examine my heart, patterns, and mindsets. 🫶🏼 super excited! Thank you!