Dan and Linda Davis
| Flying Free: Answering God's Call to Freedom by Linda Davis |
Called to Freedom Ministries
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Are we in true freedom? Do we walk in spiritual freedom in our lives?
As we step into a time of celebration of freedom in our country let’s
reflect on our personal freedoms, our spiritual freedoms. How do we
walk in complete freedom in our relationship with God? Galatians 5:1
tells us that it is for our freedom that Christ died and that we are not
to pick up our yokes of slavery again and carry our own burdens. God is
desiring us to release ourselves wholly to Him, casting our cares on
Him, our burdens on Him, knowing that He holds everything in the
palm of His hand, resting in the fact that He, more than anyone else,
truly has our best interests at heart.
As we continue to pursue God, allowing Him to increase as we decrease,
we become more and more released from the bondages we place on
ourselves and the bondages others place upon us. If we are continually
guided by the Holy Spirit we will have spiritual freedom in our lives.
2 Corinthians 17 tells us that where the Spirit of the Lord is there is
freedom taking place, so if we are walking in the Spirit and not in the
flesh, then there is freedom dwelling in us.
One thing to be sure of, this spiritual freedom we walk in by the Spirit
is not a freedom that gives us liberty to do as we please, it is a freedom
that releases us to fully obey God, regardless of the consequences or
persecution we may face, it releases us to truly walk in love with one
another, as God commands us to do. If we bite and devour one another
we will be consumed by one another but God tells us a different way, He
tells us to love even our enemies as much as we love ourselves. This is
true freedom, this is walking by the Spirit and not by the Flesh, it is
the only way we can walk in victory!
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