Liberated by truth 2.

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 8:32(KJV)

From our opening scripture, we see that the truth we know is what makes us free. That is, the truth we know establishes our liberty.

You are only as free as the truth you know. That is why you must guard your heart from the deception of satan.

In 2 Corinthians 11:2-3, the Bible says, “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” From this scripture we see that satan deceives people through his subtilty.

Subtilty in the Greek is from the word 'panourgia;' it means trickery, cunning or craftiness. So, we can see that satan deceived Eve through his craftiness. This shows us that satan takes advantage of people who are ignorant. That is why we have learnt about things like anger, bitterness, strife, quarrels, etc. and how we must guard our hearts against such. Being ignorant of these things has caused a lot of people to suffer very much because they did not know the wiles of the devil.

Having success in spiritual warfare is more than just shouting and having all night prayers and yet you are quarreling with your wife. The Bible says that your prayers will be hindered that way. Even if you have forty days all night prayers and fasting and you do not reconcile with your wife, you are still going to have your prayers hindered. So you need to get it right if you are going to have victory in spiritual warfare.

PRAYER
Dear Father, I submit my heart to your truth. Thank you for teaching me to love and live in the victory that we have in Christ above all the deceits of the devil. As I walk in obedience to your revealed truth, may I continually experience the liberty of Christ in every area of my life. In Jesus Name. Amen.

For further study read: 
Psalm 25:5, John 17:15-19, 2 Thessalonians 2:13,
2 Timothy 2:25-26.

DOING THE WORD
As the Lord's servant, you must not quarrel. You must be kind toward all…
2 Timothy 2:24(GNB).

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Liberated by truth 1.

“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”
2 Corinthians 2:11(KJV)

In spiritual warfare ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is deadly. It has been said that, “The strength of the oppressor is the ignorance of the oppressed.”

Psalm 82:5 says, “They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness …” In other words, darkness prevails in the absence of knowledge. Therefore, ignorance is darkness.

People who are ignorant of God's truth are living in darkness according to the Word of God. That is why the Bible says in Psalm 119:130, “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” So, whenever the word of God gains entrance into your heart, it brings light.

In Hosea 4:6, the Bible says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge …” Notice that God said that His own people are destroyed. The word destroyed in this verse we just read means to be brought to nothing, to be made dumb, it means failure; it means to perish or to be destroyed. In other words, God is saying that my people fail, my people are brought to nothing, to silence, because of a lack of knowledge.

Now you need to know that failure is always traceable to ignorance. Defeat is always traceable to ignorance. If you are failing or struggling right now, it is traceable to something you do not know. It has been said that “Every man's ignorance is his mountain.” Your life is as difficult as what you know or don't know. So, it is important that you go for truth because the truth of God's word is what would liberate you.

PRAYER
Dear Father, I receive the engrafted word into my heart today with meekness. May the illumination and light which your word brings eradicate every darkness from my life, bringing liberation from every struggle, ability for every weakness and solutions to every problem in Jesus Name. Amen.

For further study read:
Psalm 19:2, Psalm 119:105, Luke 1:79, Acts 26:18,
2 Peter 1:19.

DOING THE WORD
Carefully study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15(DRB).

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Overcome evil with good.

“Pay back to no man evil for evil… If you can, so far as it depends on you, live at peace with all the world. Do not be revengeful, my dear friends, but give way before anger; for it is written, "'REVENGE BELONGS TO ME: I WILL PAY BACK,' says the Lord." On the contrary, therefore, IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, GIVE HIM FOOD; IF HE IS THIRSTY, QUENCH HIS THIRST. FOR BY DOING THIS YOU WILL BE HEAPING BURNING COALS UPON HIS HEAD. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome the evil with goodness.” 
Romans 12:17-21(WNT)

From our opening scripture, we see that we are to overcome evil with good.

Today, I will like to appeal to your conscience. If you know that you have really been offending others with your attitude, I will like you to write a letter of apology, send a text or make a call to apologize for the things you have done to offend others.

Why is this important? It is important because as they forgive you for what you have done against them, you will also experience release. I encourage you to forgive someone and also to receive forgiveness. If you still feel that someone you offended has not forgiven you, it is important that you reach out to them in love so that both of you can be reconciled to one another.

In Matthew 5:43-44(WNT), Jesus says to us, “You have heard that it was said, 'THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR
and hate thine enemy.' But I command you all, love your enemies, and pray for your persecutors”

My dear friend out there, do what Jesus has said, and I know that the favour of God will be released on your life.

PRAYER
Father in the Name of Jesus I pray that the anointing of the Holy Spirit would mantle me, and grace will be administered to me to forgive, and to overcome all evil with good today and  always. In Jesus Name. Amen.

For further study read:
Luke 6:27-30, Galatians 6:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:15,
1 Peter 3:9, 3 John 1:11.

DOING THE WORD
Dear friend, don't copy the evil deeds of others! Follow the example of people who do kind deeds. They are God's children, but those who are always doing evil have never seen God.
3John 1:11(CEV)

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Get your heart right with God.

“And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.”
Acts 8:18-21(KJV)

Notice from our opening scripture today that Peter rebuked Simon that his heart was not right with God because he wanted to purchase the gift of God and the power of the Holy Spirit with money.

This is why in Acts 8:22-23, Peter said to Simon, “Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.”

From the above we see that Simon was still bond to iniquity. Iniquity refers not just to moral wrongfulness of character, life or act, it also means to bend or distort the heart by a repeated pattern of behavior. This is why if you will sit down and talk with those who are trying to break all these bad habits like sexual impurity, etc. you will discover that certain of them have issues with unforgiveness. Some of them have unforgiveness against their fathers, mothers, etc. Until you deal with the issue of unforgiveness, you will not be free from the bond of iniquity.

If you are reading this devotional today and you are ready to act on the word of God to you today to forgive someone who you have been holding an offence against, I pray that God would grant you grace to release those people today in Jesus Name. Amen.

So, go ahead and release them because as you do, you are releasing yourself into the freedom that God has designed for you.

PRAYER
Dear Father, on account of your word in John 8:36 that says, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” I thank you for making me free from the bond of bitterness and iniquity, because I have submitted to the Lordship of your son Jesus. I announce that I am free indeed in Jesus Name. Amen.

For further study read:
 Psalm 66:18, Ezekiel 33:13, Titus 2:14, Hebrews 9:14,
1 Peter 1:22.

DOING THE WORD
Stop being bitter, angry and mad at others. Don't yell at one another or curse each other or ever be rude. Instead, be kind and merciful, and forgive others, just as God forgave you because of Christ.

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Stop satan's work.

“For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.” James 3:16(KJV)

Some people do not know why they keep on having one problem or the other in their lives. Some will tell you, how their car had a problem last week, and their house almost got burnt last month, at another time a car hit their child. If you are having series of problems such as these in your life, I will encourage you to stay away from strife.

If you will stay away from strife, I tell you based on the Word of God, that you will stop every evil work. You can stop satan in his tracks. All it takes is for you to walk in love and choose to forgive.

Do you know that addictive behavior is traced to bitterness? Hebrews 12:15-16 says, “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.”  So, if you want to break your bad habits, you must choose to forgive others and choose not to hold them bound. If you don't, you will remain vulnerable to satan. 

For example, some people have refused to forgive their father because he had some children outside of wedlock, now they also have become bound to the same weakness because they now have children outside of wedlock.

So, you need to forgive people if you don't want to repeat their sin. There are certain young men today who have gotten second and third wives who never intended to, but because they continued to hold unforgiveness and bitterness in their hearts, they have made the same mistake.

Therefore, to stop certain trends you see in your family that are like generational curses, you need to forgive those you are holding bitterness against in your family. And as you do you will liberate yourself from every form of addiction and oppression.

PRAYER

Father I liberate myself completely from every form of generational curse, addiction and oppression of the devil, even as I totally let go of every envy and strife in Jesus Name, Amen.

For further study read:
Job 5:2, Proverbs 14:30.

DOING THE WORD
Be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7(YLT)

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Don't give strife room in your heart.

 “Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.” James 3:13-15(KJV)

When you have bitterness and envying in your heart, it will open your heart to the wrong kind of wisdom. There are three words used to describe the wrong kind of wisdom in our opening scripture. This wrong kind of wisdom is; earthly, sensual and devilish. So, when you have bitterness, envying and strife in your heart, demonic activity is released into your life.

Therefore, if you don't want to see demonic activity in your life, stay away from strife and do not give it any place in your heart. Strife is satan's bait to get you into bitterness and quarrels.

Don't listen to those voices that tell you to avenge yourself because of what someone has done to you. Don't listen to those voices that tell you not to cook for your husband because of something he said or did, and husband don't listen to those voices that tell you not to give money to your wife so that she can suffer. Don't do that because that is the bait of satan to bring bitterness and quarrels into your home.

James 3:16 says, “For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”  Therefore, if you are having confusion, quarrels and commotion in your home, office, church, etc. It is because there is envying and strife among you, so, if you will deal with envying and strife all these confusions and quarrelling will not be there.

Satan has access into any home where there is strife. Therefore, don't give place to strife in your heart because if you do, you are giving the devil access into your life.

PRAYER
Dear Father, I pray that you remove from my life every one that has been assigned by satan to stir up strife and bring confusion, quarrels and commotion into my home, office, church, and every area of my life. In Jesus Name. Amen.

For further study read:
1 Corinthians 3:3, 1 Corinthians 14:33, James 3:17-18.

Doing the word
Try to get along and live peacefully with each other. Now I pray that God, who gives love and peace, will be with you. 2 Corinthians 13:11(CEV).

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Don't hinder your prayers.

“In a similar way, you husbands must live with your wives in an understanding manner, as with a most delicate vessel. Honor them as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing may interfere with your prayers.” 1 Peter 3:7(ISV).

God wants you to treat your wife as a delicate vessel. This means that you must be very tender with her. Why does God want you to treat your wife this way? So that your prayers be not hindered.

Some husbands have been praying and fasting for progress and they are not seeing it. The bible says that if you are having bitterness against your wife, your prayers will be hindered. So, the hinderance you are experiencing is not because the witches in your village are as powerful as you think, but it is because of the fact that you have given satan license into your life because of bitterness. So today, I ask you to forgive any one in your life you are holding bitterness against so that you can rebuke the devil and command him to leave your life right now.

The bible says in 2 Corinthians 10:6, “And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”  So, when you have fully forgiven and let go of all bitterness in your heart, then you will be ready to judge any loss caused by satan in your life and cast him out. Always remember that God will restore to you seven fold whatever have been stolen from you when you forgive. Therefore, forgive because that is what the Spirit of God is saying to us in this season.

PRAYER
Father as an obedient child, I have forgiven and released all bitterness from my heart. Therefore, I judge every loss caused by satan in my life, and I declare that it is restored back to me in seven fold in Jesus Name. Amen.

For further study read:
Matthew 5:23-24, 1 Samuel 15:22, Isaiah 1:15-17.

DOING THE WORD
Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous.
1 Peter 3:8.

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