Jesus Can Set You Free

Several years ago a woman who wrote to us for prayer said that because of fear, she had not been out of her house for five years. She was a prisoner in her own home! We prayed a simple prayer for God to set her free from that bondage. Soon afterwards, we got a call from her. "I’m not only out of my house," she said, "but I’m at the grocery store! I now have a life!"

Jesus said that He came "to proclaim liberty to the captives...to set at liberty those who are oppressed" (Luke 4:18 nkjv). Bondage is bondage, no matter what form it takes-addictions, depression, debt, or physical ailments. Whatever it is that is holding you in bondage, Jesus can set you free. Just ask Him to do it!

Strength That Never Fails

Strength That Never Fails
Here is a word for you from the Word.
Psalm 73:26

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heartand my portion forever.
You see, there's a difference between the internal and the external. The external is fading, it's temporary; but there's something inside us that's eternal, that's from God, that's linked to God, that doesn't fade, that doesn't wither.

Paul says, "Our outward man perishes, but our inward man isrenewed day by day." Whenever I read those words I always think of my good friend, Jane. Towards the end of her life she suffered from a weak heart and yet she was an amazingly strong and active woman and continued so almost to the last week of her life. And when she felther heart, her physical heart, failing, that's what she would say: "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength ofmy heart and my portion forever." She'd learned that lesson that we don't let the external and the physical dictate to us, that there's an inner source of life and strength whichis not subject to the weakness and fluctuations of our human body.

Eventually God called her home in tremendous victory after almost fifty years of active Christian service and she left behind her atestimony of tremendous victory. But she'd learned that secret:the outward may perish but the inward is eternal. The inward is linked to God, the inward remains a source of strength when there's little strength left in the outward.