Freedom: The Believer’s Birthright

Every believer’s birthright in the Kingdom of God is freedom and healing–both physical and emotional. Scripture emphatically declares that Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted and to set captives free from every form of bondage (Isa.61). If that is true then …

• Why are so many Christians still in bondage to anger, addictions, depression, and relational brokenness?

• Why do destructive behaviors devastate Christian families from generation to generation?

• Why do so many Christian marriages end in divorce even after dozens of sessions with Christian counselors and therapists?

• Why do so many Christians experience minimal life transformation after coming to Christ?

If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you possess a birthright of healing and freedom that far too many Christians have yet to experience. Too many of us have accepted the idea that the power we see on every page of the New Testament faded away centuries ago.  Yet Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.  The Spirit in us is the same Spirit that brooded over the face of the waters in Genesis, that empowered the prophets, and that rested on Jesus.  He has not changed and He is a Spirit of power. Jesus did not die on the cross so that we could merely manage crippling and destructive issues in our lives, but so that each of us could be set free from bondage and brokenness. The promise is this: “So if the Son sets you free, then you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).  Don’t settle or live with a sense of resignation in the face of pain and brokenness. Go after everything Jesus paid for.