Sunday, February 23, 2014

Break free

Today I went to church and the sermon was about breaking free
So how do I break free and what am I breaking free from? Breaking free for me means breaking free  from the grips of worry and insecurities, and everything which separates us from God. Worrying about what others have to say or think. I cannot control other people's thoughts. Nor can I control what they choose to say, but I know today I felt good about life. Understanding that being well dressed should not make me feel better or being dressed in rags should not cause me to feel less than human. I know that people whether in church or on the street judge each other based on our outward appearance. People gossip, giggle and talk. Yet the bible says for us to not gossip.Romans 1:29  Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, 
murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. I wanted to break free from all the years I allowed fear and sin to rule or have control of my life. I was so busy talking about Satan and his capabilities that I did not realize how much power I kept giving him. I had to realize that instead of focusing my thoughts on Satan I had to focus on God and what God can do and what God has done. Satan tries to keep us down and he works through people. People entice each other through their misery loving company routine, they  also entice through their lies which others seek to listen to and believe. I know that worrying, insecurities, lies and all those things which Satan hovers over us is not from God. Today I am letting everyone know that I use to be afraid of talking my dreams into existence. I did not want Satan to hear and forfeit my dreams. How freaking dumb of me. I was more afraid of the devil than of God. God is the only one who can forfeit my dreams, and my life. As people we tend to think we know others when we don't even know our own self. So often I have passed judgement on others and get very upset when others do the same thing. I have found myself being a self righteous Pharisee.  I am breaking free of passing judgement on others and being a self righteous Pharisee. 
Mathew7:2 for in the same way you judge others you will be judged and in the same measure you use it will be measured to you. Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed; God, I thank you that I am not like other people, robbers, evil doers, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. The bible does tell us that Jesus committed no sin. So it is possible for us as people to not live in sin. John 8:3-11 And the scribes and Pharisees bought unto him a woman taken into adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken into adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have an accusation to accuse him. But Jesus stopped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, he that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground, and they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said, no man ,Lord. And Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more. John 5:14 and after that, Jesus found him in the temple, and said unto him, behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.


So breaking free from the bondage of sin is not anything we alone can do,  Hebrews 4:12 but the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword piercing even to the dividing usunder of soul and spirit  and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. We need to read on a continuous basis and stay in constant prayer  because that is our key to breaking free. So it is possible to break free from every thing that Satan uses to hold us back. John 10:10  Jesus said, I came that you may have life and have it more abundantly. John 14:27 He also said, my peace I give you, not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid.

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