Release From Your Prisons
Release From Your Prisons It is the absolute will of God for every person to be released from every prison or fetter which encases and binds. John 8 pointedly states God’s will. John 8:31, 32 and 36: . . .If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. These three short verses contain the key to release: we must believe the Word of God which is truth and then we must know the Son who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. In following God’s Word and in knowing His Son, we will not only be free, but we shall be free indeed. God’s will is for every one of us to be released today from whatever prison is holding us. Prisons are not only made of bars of steel. The prisons of our secret sins, things in our lives which we don’t want to share with any other person in the world, are the most frustrating and defeating. The thoughts of self-condemnation that have been gnawing in the back of one’s conscious and subconscious mind for years and years—thoughts of sickness and disease, fear, worry, anxiety, suicide, death— are the most tormenting and wretched kinds of prisons. It is not God’s will for us to be so mentally bound; God’s will is just the opposite as He has given total release from all negatives. Psalms 103:11, 12: For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear [respect] him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. It is the will of God that all self-condemnation be gone because He wants to make us free indeed—not just half-free, but wholly-free persons. Not only does God want us free of all the secret condemnation, but He wants us to be free from all the powers of darkness in this world. He desires that we be free from resentments, from pride, from envyings, from jealousies, from obsessions and oppressions which have been eating away at us. He
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use the word ' rest,' meaning ' to rest.' Is that right? Yep, that is right. I taught you that, didn't I? Did I or didn't I? Doesn't look right to me. It is the same root. What chapter am I missing? Am I missing anything? I don't know. Right now I'm screwed up, ha ha. First time today. You check the word again and I'll do that, too and see what I'm missing here. But a-n-i-k-o is the word for ' putting away from you. ' To put away. And it' s the same root as the word ' rest.' I don't know where the word appears, but it's got to be in there. Now, that word ' speak,' every man speak. That word ' speak ' is from the Greek word lale o , l-a-l-e-long-o . And that' s where Walter' s article on "The Spoken Word"_c omes in because that is.. .he uses that word laleo in here, which I teach in Corinthians when I teach the Foundational Class. And he says the word is employed 24 times in I Corinthians