Sing Your Freedom!

It's Independence Day!

Our identity and freedom is in Christ, because of what God has accomplished in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.

While we understand we are servants of God, life has a way of attempting to crowd out what God has in store for our lives and what He called us and purposed for us to carry out.  For all freedom we have in God, the pressures, circumstances and decisions in life can certainly cause to feel as though we are bound.

Decisions are made or not made based on emotions and thoughts of limited choices. Or "none".
Frustrations and perceptions can seemingly bind our hearts and cloud our judgements.
At times, it feels as though you just can't get a handle on clarity.

Wisdom escapes us.
Decisiveness evades us.
Emotions get confused in the cul-de-sac of self-doubt.
Internal angst makes itself known on one's countenance.

One does not feel free. Not in life. Not in Christ.
One is not a slave to sin; neither do they feel as a bond-servant of God.
Yet, it is hard to deny at times, the existence of feeling as though one lives in a straight-jacket.

Yet the truth remains. We are God's. Joint heirs with Christ. Not forsaken. Not forgotten. Not unnoticed from the throne room of Heaven. Not obscure in the eyes of God. Not without a plan and purpose; a calling and an anointing; a hope and future. Not without a promise from our Creator and Father.

On this #associatePastorTuesday, may today be a day celebration. Not only of a nation's independence, but of within the frustrated souls and hearts of those in ministry. May God work the miraculous for those struggling professionally and personally with where they are in life and family and church. Pray the Holy Spirit would break through, the lies that have been told  and believed and that have hindered what God desires to accomplish in the lives of pastors. May they be renewed in their hearts and transformed in their minds, as God works afresh in their lives. Pray the plans of the enemy would be thwarted and the plans and purposes of God made clear.

Freedom.
Obtained. Declared. Lived.
Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
By the power of the Cross of the Christ.
For the glory of God.

- PNC

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