Bound to Break Free
Yesterday morning Holy Spirit ministered a powerfully encouraging word in
my spirit. He revealed to me that God’s
people are bound to break free. At first
this statement sounds like an oxymoron, because bondage or the state of being
bound is the opposite of freedom or the state of being free. Yet, Holy Spirit is ministering to me that
God’s covenant people have an incomprehensible hope beyond human understanding,
because God even has a PURPOSE for our bondage.
The first example Holy Spirit ministered to me was the nation of
Israel’s bondage in Egypt. God directed
Jacob to lead his descendants down into Egypt where his son Joseph would
provide the natural food necessary for their survival through the terrible
famine that He had previously revealed would occur through the interpretation
of pharaoh’s dream. Then in the next
breath God revealed to Jacob that many years later his descendants would
multiply into a great people and be held in the bondage of slavery in
Egypt. Not only did God allow His people
Israel to experience this terrible injustice and bondage, but He revealed that it
would occur. Now what loving father
would foresee such a travesty and yet purposefully allow their child to endure
it? Yet, God had a PURPOSE in Israel’s
bondage as slaves in Egypt! In fact,
Holy Spirit has revealed to me that Israel was BOUND in order to break
free! The very purpose of their bondage
was their eventual freedom.
Furthermore,
Holy Spirit is ministering to me several other prophetic pictures of this
truth. For example, unless a child is
bound within their mother’s womb, they would never break free. Likewise, unless a caterpillar is bound
within a cocoon, they would never break free.
Finally, this truth is manifested in each of our lives. Holy Spirit wants us to hold onto the hope of
knowing and understanding that our loving Father has a PURPOSE for our bondage,
and this purpose is our FREEDOM. We have
been bound to break free!
Holy Spirit
is revealing that the most dangerous form of bondage is a bondage that fails to
be realized, recognized, or felt by those in bondage. For if one fails to recognize the bondage
within which they are bound, they will fail to possess a felt need to BREAK
FREE from it. Therefore, the discomfort
and pain of our bondage is a GIFT from God.
It is the very thorn in our flesh that will spur us on to finally BREAK
FREE! Truly, we are BOUND to BREAK FREE!
In conclusion, Holy Spirit is asking
and answering an important question at the same time through the acrostic below. What
is the purpose of being bound? It is to
bring forth one’s own understanding of their need for deliverance!
B ring forth
O ne’s own
U nderstanding
of their
N eed for
D eliverance
Therefore, we are BOUND to BREAK FREE!
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