The last week as my first practical deadline has come and now gone, my emotions have been kind of everywhere. Then on Saturday my mom took a hard fall. We think it was a due to a seizure. And let me tell you, I felt fear breathing down my neck. It was waiting for me to accept it. It was waiting for me to say, "I'm scared", "I'm upset", or whatever…
It had been a day full of seizures and then for her to fall, and us unable to help her get back up, it was simply not good. That breath down my neck feeling was chilling but several hours later after the whole thing had come and gone and I was settling down for bed, I realized something…fear was no longer engulfing me.
For years I was engulfed in fear. I did everything as a result of fear yet I didn't even see it or realize it. Now, years later, I've been set free from all that and it was noticble when I was able to identify that it was trying to wrap me up and engulf me yet again….but this time with no success.
See, throughout my life, as I walked in more and more sin and disobedience, the baggage just kept piling on. It got deeper and thicker with every move I made. Then, when I came to know the Lord I began walking in obedience and decided to turn from my rebellion. As I did this, the chains began to break off my life. There was a point when I was walking light as a feather. I literally felt as if nothing could or would hold me back…there was not an ounce of torment. I was walking in complete freedom.
Since I've moved home, there have been moments of hesitation, where I've made poor choices and at one point, to be blatently honest, I felt all that crap flood back over me. It was as if it had never left. Then I again, refuse to stay down and start seeking the face of God once again. The difference this time is, I have a deeper understanding of life and death.
So you ask, why do I share this? Or, why do I share this again. Well you see, the more and more I realize just how big of a difference it is to live in freedom and not just talk about it, the more I realize that the spirit world is alive and real and we must must must pursue righteousness. We must not allow ourselves to become spotted from worldly stuff. And as we do this, and those chains do begin to fall off, and we do begin to realize just exactly what freedom looks like, we need to bring that truth to the world.
I do not want to go on to "touchy" subjects but I believe it is important. Deliverance…our world needs it. Whatever that word looks like to you, fine but we need to bring people to a face to face power encounter with our Lord and Savior. It is important and time is pressing.
Will you pick a nation and begin to pray with me that they begin to experience deliverance and freedom as they find Jesus. Will you pray with me that God sends laborers? Will you go? Will you send me?
People need the Lord…
