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Free from slavery

God dreams for you a life free of all prisons

26/11/2018

By: Bishop Amaury de Farias

We were not begotten to follow our days as slaves to vices, disease, and misery. Those who seek and serve God have the deliverance from slavery. Religiousness is the most common handcuff in the spiritual environment. For lack of knowledge, people end up being carried away by human traditions and ideologies, and the Bible instructed us to be led by Christ alone.

"Be careful that no one will entangle you with your philosophy and vain subtleties, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world and not according to Christ" (Colossians 2: 8).

This spiritual chain called religiosity deprives people of new experiences with God and of knowing intimately. Little by little, they stop nourishing their faith and die. They walk with an apathetic faith impossible to prove miracles. A leper recognized in Jesus the ability to heal him, but religiosity cast doubt into his heart. As you approach Christ, Luke 5: 12b demonstrates your uncertainty: "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst purify me." This "if" is the prerogative of theft. Just a small loophole to keep us away from the victories we seek. Jesus, moving with compassion, responds to the man: "I want, be clean!" Luke 5: 13a. God is simple and his thoughts are of peace. He does not want our evil. He wants your healing, your prosperity, your victory, your happiness. All sorts of blessings are released upon us not by merit or right, but by the sacrifice of the cross. Every drop of Jesus' blood cleansed our body from all sin and blotted out the past of pain. There is no more debt with God.