21 Days - Day 16
Day 16:
A few years ago, I experienced a few unexpected health complications. An unknown ovarian cyst ruptured and following emergency surgery pneumonia developed. Within a few days I had a pleural effusion, or fluid build-up around my lung. Breathing was incredibly difficult and painful. Deep breaths were impossible and shallow breaths just hurt. I was limited in all activities and just walking a few steps felt suffocating. It was a miserable, scary time. Surgery was the only way to fix the problem.
As I recovered from surgery I felt such immense relief that I could finally breathe again. I began to walk and move around again. I could eat, talk and laugh again. I had a new freedom from the limitations of extreme discomfort. I went from struggling to live, to being full of life and it changed everything.
"The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." 2 Corinthians 3:17
When we experience the freedom and life that only God can give, we move from struggling to thriving. He sets us free from the restraints and limitations that hold us back from breathing fully of His freedom. We can dream new dreams and live in a new purpose. His freedom opens doors that only He can open. The book of Mark tells the story of a paralyzed man who was brought to Jesus by his friends. His situation seemed hopeless. His dreams were limited because of his inabilities. His only hope was Jesus.
The house Jesus was preaching in was so packed full of people that the friends lowered the man to Jesus through a hole in the roof. He spoke life into the man and the man breathed fully of God’s forgiveness and healing. In an instant, a life that was limited immediately had a new story and a new purpose. He experienced true freedom which enabled him to look beyond himself and to live fully alive.
Bring your limitations, empty dreams and disappointments to Jesus. Breathe fully of His amazing freedom which overflows with grace, mercy, healing and forgiveness. His life in you changes everything!
Declare Today - "I give my struggles to God, and I will walk in the limitless freedom He offers me."
Written by Michele Masteller - Freedom Life Church
Mark 2:1-12 NIV
A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
A few years ago, I experienced a few unexpected health complications. An unknown ovarian cyst ruptured and following emergency surgery pneumonia developed. Within a few days I had a pleural effusion, or fluid build-up around my lung. Breathing was incredibly difficult and painful. Deep breaths were impossible and shallow breaths just hurt. I was limited in all activities and just walking a few steps felt suffocating. It was a miserable, scary time. Surgery was the only way to fix the problem.
As I recovered from surgery I felt such immense relief that I could finally breathe again. I began to walk and move around again. I could eat, talk and laugh again. I had a new freedom from the limitations of extreme discomfort. I went from struggling to live, to being full of life and it changed everything.
"The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." 2 Corinthians 3:17
When we experience the freedom and life that only God can give, we move from struggling to thriving. He sets us free from the restraints and limitations that hold us back from breathing fully of His freedom. We can dream new dreams and live in a new purpose. His freedom opens doors that only He can open. The book of Mark tells the story of a paralyzed man who was brought to Jesus by his friends. His situation seemed hopeless. His dreams were limited because of his inabilities. His only hope was Jesus.
The house Jesus was preaching in was so packed full of people that the friends lowered the man to Jesus through a hole in the roof. He spoke life into the man and the man breathed fully of God’s forgiveness and healing. In an instant, a life that was limited immediately had a new story and a new purpose. He experienced true freedom which enabled him to look beyond himself and to live fully alive.
Bring your limitations, empty dreams and disappointments to Jesus. Breathe fully of His amazing freedom which overflows with grace, mercy, healing and forgiveness. His life in you changes everything!
Declare Today - "I give my struggles to God, and I will walk in the limitless freedom He offers me."
Written by Michele Masteller - Freedom Life Church
Mark 2:1-12 NIV
A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
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