Set the captives free

I’m a Jesus lover. A freedom fighter. Bulimia beater.

Bringing freedom to enslaved people is what I am about.

Why?

Because I have been enslaved myself and been set free! God is still in the business of setting captives free, and I so want to partner with Him in seeing Jesus’ love transform and free people.

The Bible talks about freedom in many areas – here are some of them 🙂

We are set free from sin – Romans 6,6.

We are set free from the law – Romans 7 and Galatians 5,1.

We are set free from death – Romans 8,21.

We are free where God’s Spirit is – 2 Corinthians 3,17.

I see this freedom the Bible is talking about manifesting itself in me and around me. In me when destructive lies are replaced with liberating truth. Around me when I see God changing atmospheres and transforming religious mindsets in the darkest streets of Copenhagen where the sex trade breeds.

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I want to exercise my freedom by serving God, not as a cover-up for evil! Isaiah 1,17 ESV puts it beautifully how we can serve God with our freedom:

“Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.”

I love how Jesus’ ministry is all about freedom. As Jesus followers, Isaiah 61 is our mandate too:

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.”

Bible teacher, Beth Moore describes the journey towards freedom this way:

“The road to freedom is a paradox. To experience victory and freedom, we need to become captives. We need to develop minds captive to Christ. In this life, we are most free when our minds are most captivated by Him. Victorious lives flow from victorious thoughts. Thinking victorious thoughts comes from setting our focus on our victorious God.”

We are free indeed by being bound to Him in love to his Word.

Give this song, ‘No longer slaves’, a listen. It’s by Bethel Music – Jonathan David & Melissa Helser: It’s freeing!

I’m praying for shackles of religion and performance to be broken off you and for you to step into the wide open, spacious life in Jesus!!!

I am wrecked for anything else than following the person of TRUTH that sets me free.

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