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Have You Been Loosed?
Have you been truly set free? Have
you given all your burdens to Jesus? Just
because we have given our lives to Jesus Christ and have accepted Him as Savior
and Lord, this doesn’t mean that we are totally free.
In Luke 13:11-16, Jesus encounters a lady in the temple.
She had been bent over with a crippling disease.
This woman was a daughter of Abraham.
She was entitled to all that pertained to God’s covenant with Abraham
and his seed. Part of the Abrahamic
covenant was healing (Exodus 15:26).
This woman had a part in this covenant.
But, for some reason, she had been bound.
Jesus said that she had been bound by Satan.
At first, the Bible says that she had a spirit of infirmity.
The Hebrew word for infirmity is “chalah,” which means to be weak.
This woman was so weak that she could in no wise lift herself up.
The first thing Jesus did was call to her. When Jesus called to her, it
was different to when He spoke to her. When
you call to someone, you speak with emotion.
The Hebrew word for call is “qara,” which means to invite.
Jesus invited her to come and be healed.
Then He spoke unto her and said, “Woman, thou art loosed from thin
infirmity.” She had to be
loosed from the spirit of infirmity before she could be free to walk straight.
Matthew 18:18 says, “Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven.”
The next thing Jesus did was lay
His hands on her. Because of the
anointing that was on Jesus, the spirit of infirmity was broken.
Isaiah 10:27 says, “And it shall come to pass in that day, that his
burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy
neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.”
Then immediately she was made straight.
In our lives, we may be bound by things in our past.
Just as the woman was bound by Satan, so are we.
The Bible says that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2
Cor 3:17). So, if the Lord brings
liberty, this means that Satan is the one who binds.
Jesus never goes against His own character.
God wants His children to be loosed.
He has already made a covenant of freedom with you.
Isaiah 53:5 says, “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with
his stripes we are healed.”
Every covenant required a sacrifice.
Jesus became the sacrifice of the covenant.
As I said earlier, God desires that His children be free.
He has provided your freedom. The
first step to your freedom is to know that you are a child of God and a part of
His covenant. Deuteronomy 4:31
says, “(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee,
neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto
them.” God
will never forget the covenant He made with you, because He has Jesus standing
before Him always showing the scars which He bore on Calvary.
The second thing is that you need to know that you are in bondage to
something. Half the battle is in
knowing that you are bound. It is
clear, according to Scripture that it is the devil who binds us.
Just as Jesus called for the woman to come to Him, He is calling you to
come to Him also. He is extending an invitation for you to come and be
delivered. All you have to do is
respond to His biding.
When you respond to His voice, He will command the thing that is binding
you to loose itself from you. Then
Jesus will touch you and lift you up from the bondage.
I pray that you will take heed to these words and hear the voice of the
Father saying, “Come, My child, come. I
will make you free. I will give you
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