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Freedom To Be Free

Saturday February 1, 2025
 

When we came into recovery we admitted that our lives were unmanageable and we needed a power greater than ourselves to restore us to sanity.  We may have been unsure about God and what to expect from Him, but we were open to receive all the help we could get.  We no longer wanted to be a slave to our addictive practices and longed to be free to choose what was right and good.


He gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry.  The Lord frees the prisoners.  The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.  The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down.  The Lord loves the godly.  The Lord protects the foreigners among us.  He cares for the orphans and widows, but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.  The Lord will reign forever.  He will be your God, O Jerusalem, throughout the generations.  Praise the Lord!  (Psalm 146:7-10 NLT) 


We may not have thought of our lifestyle as being oppressive and ourselves as prisoners but that is exactly where things were at due to the control of our addiction.  The destructive powers that manipulated us also controlled how we moved about each day.  We often felt compelled to lie, cheat, or steal in our desperation to obtain our drug of choice.  We had no time for anything else in our lives. We were entirely occupied with doing what was required to supply our dependency.

Now in recovery, God has opened our blind eyes to reveal the mess we were in and through the redeeming work of Jesus we have been unshackled from those things that limited our freedom.  As we continuously turn our will and life over to the care of God, we will be blessed and have favor with Him. He will grant us the desire and the power to do those things that please Him.  Through God’s love and forgiveness, we have been freed from the power of sin and it no longer has authority over us.  By His death on the cross Jesus paid the price for our freedom from sin so that we could be reconciled with our Heavenly Father, so let’s praise Jesus and give Him thanks for all that He has done for us. 

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, Thank You for sending Jesus into the world to pay with His life the price of my freedom from bondage to sin.  Please help me to remain free and never again allow the dark forces of oppression to enslave me.  Amen

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