The Holy Spirit has been saying, “Be set
free from your past bondage”. This is very crucial as the Lord is leading many of
you into doing new things. You need to ‘shed off’ the old in order to be in the
new. The Lord later led me to read Galatians
5:1, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and
do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
I was always perplexed by how Christians,
for generations, would impose upon themselves certain words in the Bible
without checking the real meanings. Many Christians have been made to believe
that they are in sickness, poverty, and in all kinds of sufferings because “God
is training them to be better people”. But know this, people of God. It hurts
God’s heart most when He sees you suffer. It breaks His heart even more when
His people think that He is the ‘Source’ of all their sufferings.
What you believe in will either cause you
to be in bondage or in liberty. “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. (2 Corinthians 3:17) When you are
suffering, you feel bound and confined. How can you say that the Lord, who is
the Spirit of liberty, is training you through your sufferings?
In order to experience God’s unlimited
blessings, you need to know that He is an unlimited ‘Blesser’, not a ‘Torturer’.
God does not cause accident or cancer or bankruptcy so that you can become a
better person. He is a good and loving Father
to His children as Jesus said in Matthew 7:7-11.
Have you ever asked this question “If
Christ had already borne all my sufferings on the cross, why do I still have to
suffer all these?” The Holy Spirit comes to testify of Jesus’ work on the cross
for us (see John 15:26). Do not let His work on the cross be in vain.
If you have been interrogating yourself
endlessly and couldn’t think of another ‘sin’ that may have caused you into
your problem, stop tormenting yourself! By being open before the Lord, you’ll
experience His grace. The ‘law of sowing evil & reaping evil’ has been
stopped in His grace. All you need to do is to start believing and receiving
His grace and blessings. Jesus had settled it all on the cross for you!
The next time you are in a problem, halt
the penetration of habitual ‘condemning & accusing’ thought. Declare the
Lord’s favor & blessings in your life instead. Surely, He’ll help you
overcome your situation.
Dear friends, you need the Holy Spirit like
never before in this end-time. “For as
many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.” (Romans 8:14)
You are now in a time where you need to be spiritually ‘accurate’ in order to
have a triumphant life. Reading the Word of God with mere human understanding
would confine you in the ‘box’ of ‘worldly-wisdom’. In order to have the right
spiritual understanding, you need to think out of that ‘box’ with the help of
your personal Consultant and Teacher, the Holy Spirit (see John 14:26). For the
letter [alone] kills, but the Spirit gives life (see 2 Corinthians 3:6).
Without God’s revelation (vision), His people would perish (see Proverbs 29:18
KJV).
I pray that the Holy Spirit would be the
first Person you confide in and consult anytime you stumble into a difficulty. Also,
may your reading of the Word (with the help of the Holy Spirit), bring you into
a new dimension of spiritual truth. I believe your intimate relationship with
the Holy Spirit will bring victory into every area of your life. Being liberated
from past bondage, you can be free to venture into the new things God has in
store for you and excel in them!