You’re free!

‘He has sent me...to proclaim liberty to the captives.’ Isaiah 61:1 NKJV 

During World War II, an American professor and a British Army chaplain were imprisoned in a German prisoner of war camp; the professor on the American side and the chaplain on the British side. Since the Americans had secretly built a homemade radio the two friends would meet at the fence each day to discuss the latest news. They talked in Gaelic so that their captors didn’t understand. When the professor heard over the radio that the Germans had surrendered three days earlier, he told his friend on the other side of the fence. Moments later a roar of celebration went up from the British barracks. When the news reached the German guards several days later, they fled leaving the gates unlocked and the British and Americans walked out together as free men. Jesus said He came ‘to proclaim liberty to the captives’ (Isaiah 61:1 NKJV). Good news: Satan is now a defeated foe. Your prison door is open – your freedom has been won at Calvary, so accept it, act on it and stop living like a prisoner! Did you know that the African impala can jump ten feet high and cover a distance of ten yards? Yet this magnificent animal can be confined within walls only three feet high. Why? Because unless it first sees where it’s going to land, it’s afraid to jump. Faith is the ability to jump and trust God even when you can’t see. It opens doors and frees you from every prison of fear. Today the Son has made you free, so start acting like it! 

Prayer Point:

Help me, Lord, live a life of faith and not a life of absolutes. Help me put my hand within Your hand and trust that you want what is best for me, to be free in Christ. In the times when my circumstances are overwhelming and I want to retreat back, release Your angels around me, Lord, to fight and help me break through, in Jesus’ name.