ALREADY RELEASED - SET FREE

Galations 5:1 NIV It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

I heard how they used to train working baby elephants by tethering one of their legs by a rope or chain to a strong wooden stake so they can only go so far and no further. Then when the rope is removed after some time, they’ve accepted how far they can go, and from then on they don’t even try to go further because they’ve been programmed.

As I thought about it I realised we can be like that in our thinking. The enemy tethers us by giving us limited wrong thoughts, which tie us down and make us think we can’t go any further. Or we’ve done something wrong and we’re tethered by guilt for something we’ve done or said. We’ve become limited by our own wrong thinking, or wrong believing.

In the verse above God wants us to know with certainty today that Christ has set the prisoners free - that’s you and me! He has cut the rope, whatever it has been made of, and He has forgiven all our past mistakes or failings. The destiny we’ve talked about is waiting for us all, if we’ll believe Him and walk into the freedom He has already given us. 

2 Corinthians 3:17 NLT For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

What holds us back? Are we tied to traditions in our churches, tied to the past? Are we tied to an ‘I can’t afford it’ poverty mentality or to addictions? Tied to guilt of some kind or to an inferiority complex? Tied to wrong thinking that says God has put some illness on us when Jesus died to set us free from it? You may have some limited thinking you need to be released from, and I know I do, things we’ve accepted as inevitable when God says they’re not!😊

But only you know, and you may not have shared it with anyone, or maybe God has only just revealed it to you, but know this, Jesus Christ has already released you from it. He has set you free!

Lord show us where we have limited thinking, or anything we’re wrongly tied to, and help us walk in the freedom Jesus died to give us, and not allow the enemy to tie us up again. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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