Freedom!!!!

Tonight I encountered Jesus.

I had spent most of the day feeling heavy and lazy and unmotivated. After an evening that felt utterly like defeat, I'd had enough. I saw the possibility of spiraling deep into depression and old chains and started to pray--proclaim, rather, the truth of who I am in Christ and where I stand. At first, it was awful. I felt like I could barely speak. All I wanted to do was curl up in a ball and run away. But I kept going. And then something happened. My words began to on a life of their own as I recognized that I have a choice, that I could choose freedom or I could choose to remain in bondage. As I proclaimed, the presence of the Lord rested on me and I found myself speaking such truth with such passion and with such faith. By my power? No, by the grace of God! This same grace that He has given each one of us (this means you have access to this same grace!).

Freedom was mine for the taking. And I was grabbing hold of it. 

And even now, I cling to it and I refuse to let go. You see, I have a choice. And I choose to be free.

"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" (2 Corinthians 3:17) and if you've accepted Christ, the Spirit of the Lord is inside of you! Therefore freedom is inside of you! 

"Those whom the Son sets free are free indeed!" (John 8:36). Jesus came to set the captives free. With His blood that He shed He purchased freedom for us ALL. He's already done it.

Therefore,  "throw off your chains, O captive daughter of Zion!" (Isaiah 52:2). "It is for freedom's sake that we have been set free. Stand firm, then and do not let yourselves be burdened by a yoke of slavery" (Galatians 5:1). 

Tonight, I had a choice. Remain passive and hopeless and bound. Or step into authority and hope and freedom. I made a choice. And I will make the choice as many times as I have to. I chose and am choosing freedom. I choose to be free.

Do you?