"So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." John 8:36 ESV
What is holding you back? What has you in bondage? What do you need to be granted freedom of? What is holding you from being the person that you were meant to be? Fear? Anxiety? Bitterness? Caring too much about what other people think about you? Self destructive behaviors? Insecurity? Lies?
Our enemy knows the most powerful person on the battlefield is the one that is truly free. Someone set free by the death and resurrection of Jesus, someone able to rise above the lies of the enemy and walk in the Truth is someone that the enemy doesn't want to face. They are a dangerous person. Our enemy will do everything he can to keep you in the bondage and chains of insecurity, keep you focused on the wrong things, and sitting stagnant in your faith. The enemy doesn't want us to be free. This is the reason that each of us needs to be free. Freedom for freedoms sake!
Freedom is a contagious thing. It is like a small fire that burns with glowing embers but when it takes off it rages like a wild fire. It gives the one that is freed from bondage the passion to stand their ground and fight for their freedom and the freedom of those around them. And the enemy will tell us that the freedom we seek is unattainable. You can't be free from porn addiction. You can't be free from the lies. You can't be free from the insecurity that hangs on you like heavy chains. Forgive me but that is a complete load of crap. Our faith in Jesus Christ and His death and Resurrection gives each of us the freedom the enemy would deny us. The price has already been paid. Freedom is truly free. All is possible if you want it bad enough.
I was reading the Gospel of John the other night and the story of Jesus meeting the man that had been paralyzed for 38 years. Jesus asked him a pretty simple question (He has a way of asking us the simplest questions,) "Do you want to get well?" Jesus wasn't just asking if he wanted to be healed, he was asking him how bad did he want it? After 38 years this was the only life that he had ever known. Could he have been afraid of the healing that Jesus was offering? Was he afraid of the catch? I wondered to myself if he had found such comfort in his situation that the change of it caused him to be afraid.
What about you? Have you found a false sense of security in your insecurity? Do you really want to be free from what ever plagues you? How bad do you want it? What would you give up?
The key is that we can't do this alone. There is no power in any of us that can free us on our own. We have to have Jesus help through the Holy Spirit and a unflinching desire to be free from what ever plagues us. If you want something bad enough there is no obstacle that could stand in your way that could keep you from getting it.
How bad do you want it?
What is holding you back? What has you in bondage? What do you need to be granted freedom of? What is holding you from being the person that you were meant to be? Fear? Anxiety? Bitterness? Caring too much about what other people think about you? Self destructive behaviors? Insecurity? Lies?
Our enemy knows the most powerful person on the battlefield is the one that is truly free. Someone set free by the death and resurrection of Jesus, someone able to rise above the lies of the enemy and walk in the Truth is someone that the enemy doesn't want to face. They are a dangerous person. Our enemy will do everything he can to keep you in the bondage and chains of insecurity, keep you focused on the wrong things, and sitting stagnant in your faith. The enemy doesn't want us to be free. This is the reason that each of us needs to be free. Freedom for freedoms sake!
Freedom is a contagious thing. It is like a small fire that burns with glowing embers but when it takes off it rages like a wild fire. It gives the one that is freed from bondage the passion to stand their ground and fight for their freedom and the freedom of those around them. And the enemy will tell us that the freedom we seek is unattainable. You can't be free from porn addiction. You can't be free from the lies. You can't be free from the insecurity that hangs on you like heavy chains. Forgive me but that is a complete load of crap. Our faith in Jesus Christ and His death and Resurrection gives each of us the freedom the enemy would deny us. The price has already been paid. Freedom is truly free. All is possible if you want it bad enough.
I was reading the Gospel of John the other night and the story of Jesus meeting the man that had been paralyzed for 38 years. Jesus asked him a pretty simple question (He has a way of asking us the simplest questions,) "Do you want to get well?" Jesus wasn't just asking if he wanted to be healed, he was asking him how bad did he want it? After 38 years this was the only life that he had ever known. Could he have been afraid of the healing that Jesus was offering? Was he afraid of the catch? I wondered to myself if he had found such comfort in his situation that the change of it caused him to be afraid.
What about you? Have you found a false sense of security in your insecurity? Do you really want to be free from what ever plagues you? How bad do you want it? What would you give up?
The key is that we can't do this alone. There is no power in any of us that can free us on our own. We have to have Jesus help through the Holy Spirit and a unflinching desire to be free from what ever plagues us. If you want something bad enough there is no obstacle that could stand in your way that could keep you from getting it.
How bad do you want it?
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