As a nation we love to celebrate Independence Day. We are grateful that we live in a free land where we can serve God. Hi this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. The 4th of July is as much about freedom as it is independence. Being free is awesome! What a joy to know Christ and have total freedom because of our relationship with Him. Sin no longer has to have a hold on us. During July we are talking about our freedom to be fruitful! Our fruitfulness in life is up to us….we can grow slowly, or we can speed up the process by our diligence. You have the freedom to choose….Let’s choose to be abundantly fruitful! Here is your daily eword.
One of the greatest joys in my life is worshipping God through music. I love to sing and play before the Lord and worship God in totally freedom. I can remember back so well at the time in my life when I was just beginning to walk into the understanding of living the Spirit-led, Spirit-controlled life. I can recall having the urge to lift my hands to the Lord but feeling very self-conscious about it. I was sitting next to a friend in a worship service and she must have known from the outside the struggle I had going on in the inside. She whispered in my ear…. “it really won’t hurt to lift your hands, and it will probably bring you more freedom than you’ve ever known.” You know what? She was right. I went from being totally self-conscious about worshipping God to total freedom and a greater consciousness of God than ever before. Simply breaking through something in the natural realm, moved me into a greater depth of freedom than I had ever experienced before. Now I love the freedom I have to worship God with all my might – and with my mind, soul and strength. Since we have this fountain of life on the inside of us, we can worship God with total freedom! We have received this wonderful gift of the Holy Spirit, and now we can live in freedom. Perhaps you are feeling bound in an area of your life…..sometimes just doing something in the natural breaks you through to greater freedom. For me it came by lifting my hands. Now I don’t even think about it. I worship God freely all the time. You can find freedom in the Holy Spirit
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