How are you in bondage? Maybe you are restricted by your finances, health, habits and energy level, or even by fear. Have you considered what is limiting you? How did you get there? Have you considered that you may have put yourself there? Have you thought about what you may have done that caused you to be where you are in life today? Or what has hindered you from being where you want to be in life? Have you made choices and decisions that hurt you in the long run because they sounded good in the immediate gratification? Have you eaten junk food, spent money unwisely or built habits that didnt promote the life you really want? Too often we limit ourselves by limiting what we dare to dream and aim toward. It is like fasting or not eating and starving ourselves. I remember so many times I would fast or go on a restrictive diet thinking it would help me lose weight. But ultimately it hurt my body, caused me to gain weight, limited my energy and I felt like I was restricted to being boxed in by rules and regulations. But that isnt what God has in mind for us. He wants us to be free to live and enjoy life! Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the Lord? Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:5-6) God is telling us that He doesnt want us to be in bondage, even self-inflicted bondage or limitations. He wants us to live in the freedom of being who we were created to be, free from all wickedness, burdens, oppression and yoke or slavery. For me it was dieting that was my yoke that wasnt designed for me. What bondage hinders you? Declare this a day of setting the captive free! Become free from the bondage yourself so that you can then help to set the other captives free! Blessings on the Journey ~ Wendy Scheduled Scriptures for Friday 9/26/14 Isaiah 57-58 Revelation 19-20 Psalm 141-145 Proverb 26
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:34:39 +0000
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