FREED
BY THE TRUTH
Memorise:
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:36
Read: John 8:32-36.
MESSAGE!
Jesus is the only Way to salvation and the
Truth that sets free. He declared that if He sets you free, you will be free
indeed (John 8:36). He also said that one is
set free by knowing the truth in Him (John 8:32).
I am living proof of the freedom that Jesus gives, and a living witness of what
it means to be set free and left free. While in my final year of secondary
school in 1960, there was an altercation between my father and some people in
our village compound, and it was over me. During a family meeting, in spite of
my father’s pleas, his adversaries threatened my life. They said, “Is it
because of this boy that you are refusing to join us? We will see how old he
will grow up to be.” When my father returned home and reported this threat to
my mother, I ran for my life. For 13 years, I kept running away from home until
I met Jesus. When I did, my flight from home stopped. Praise God that the
forces of darkness that hitherto put me to fight now take to their heels of me.
Are you passing through a similar experience? Are you afraid of demonic powers?
Have you been running from your village or town? Stop running! Confront them
with the power in the Name of Jesus!
When you are in Christ and you know your
rights and privileges in the kingdom, and you choose to stand on God’s Word to
activate His promises, no evil power can destroy you. Confront every power
opposing you today in the Name of Jesus. For some believers, fear has kept them
on the same spot. They fail to recognise that Jesus Christ has liberated them
from the bondage of fear. While expounding on what Jesus accomplished through
His death, Hebrews 2:15 says:
“And
deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage.”
One of my sons challenged some idol
worshippers during their festival. He went to their headquarters to preach to
them. Instead of attacking him, they were afraid of what he was carrying inside
him. They let him go because they reasoned that for him to be that bold, he
must have a power greater than theirs. Of course he knew who he was carrying –
the Almighty God! The madman of Gadara
had thousands of demons in him, but one command from the Truth set him free. Do
you know Jesus enough to be able to withstand the wiles and arrows of darkness
by the use of His Name? What truths based on His Word have you been exposed to?
Do you stand on them? What efforts have you made to increase your knowledge of
the truth?
Action
Point
Pray
that the leaders of your country will get to know the truth, so that they can
govern in the fear of God.
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