My wonderful team, Team Salt & Light aka ‘Don’t Let Us Be In A Relationship Team’ was led by our wonderful Team Leader, Angelique (green-striped one if you didn’t know), to break chains.
Through hearing each others’ stories and from walking through life together in the present, it was clear that we all had problems from broken relationships. God was calling us into freedom. And to walk in the freedom that our LORD is, we had to surrender our hearts completely before Him. God says that He is the Spirit, and that wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom (2 Corinthians 3:17).
Angelique said that we all were infected by soul-ties. That we needed freedom from these chains to go deeper with the LORD and with each other as a team. We were still attached to people in our past and were not experiencing total freedom in our present because of these attachments. I was tied too hastily to certain people in my past. I couldn’t “move on” because I was still connected somehow to those in my past.
So Angelique tied string all around the room. We played worship music. And then we wrote letters to all the people who we believed we were still tied to.
To be honest, I was unable to stop memories from my past brokenness, if you want to read more about that- check out my blog titled “This blog post took a year to write.” The past month has been full of memories and thoughts and lies from my flesh and the enemy about that broken relationship.
I craved rescue from my mind because those thoughts were just dumb and it was silly to think about those things from my past anyway, because the past is done, Jesus said, “It is finished.” So why am I going to dwell on my past?
I needed to walk freely from those chains and that string of thinking. Then a day later, according to God’s perfect, providential timing, our team time is “Chainbreaking.”
Many tears were shed as we wrote our letters. I said everything I ever wanted to and wrote out everything I was thinking and ever felt toward em. After writing to those who we were still tied to, each person cut two strings. The first one represented God breaking you free from the soul-tie that was keeping you tied to that person. The second cut represented our agreement with one another that they were being brought into freedom and that chains were being broken in each one on our team.
Several verses were prevalent throughout that night.
2 Samuel 5:20– So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “The LORD did it!” David exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So he named that place Baal-perazim which means ‘the Lord who bursts through.’
and Galatians 5:1 — For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
Our God is the God of the break through! He is God of the bursting forth! He is breaking us free of all the things that are keeping us from Him. And in fact, we are already free!! For freedom we are set free by Jesus.
This was the night in Nepal where God broke me free from things that were still on me from my past. The chains are off and I don’t have to put myself under their yoke any longer.
God is serious about wanting all of our hearts. Get serious about giving Him all of yours, because He is relentless and will not stop. Sometimes it hurts to give Him everything, but it is so much better that way. Being refined hurts, but God brings us from glory to glory, all while leading us to green pastures to rest in. We are new creations now!
I encourage all of yall to ask the LORD to begin to reveal to you the chains and ties that are on you. God wants to show you the freedom He has for you. And believe me, you want to experience this type of freedom that I live in, by His grace. Praise the LORD!
