“Freedom in Christ when it comes to our salvation is there..Amen..it is sealed!!..Praise the Lord..for nothing can take our salvation from us..Amen..for we have been bought with such a great price..we have been bought with the blood of Jesus..1 Corinthians 6:20/ 1 Corinthians 7:23..Amen..but this morning I am speaking of freedom in our lives..freedom from our past..freedom from the enemy and the attacks that he tries to bring our way..well, really I shouldn’t say tries to bring our way..but does bring our way..and I know that for me I don’t always stay in my freedom over those things when the enemy comes..because maybe your not like me..but I grab that bait really easily sometimes..even though I do know better..and should know better..and that keeps me in a place that I shouldn’t be..and a place in my life that the Lord doesn’t intend for me to be..Amen!”

“So as I say the enemy brings tactics..he brings things to us that get our goat so to speak..and somehow we lose our minds in this process and we get stirred up..and I mean super fast..we get angry..we get upset..and it is crazy to me really..and afterwards it shows me who I am..and as well it opens my eyes to how much I need to get it together..Amen..cause it’s not a nice place and it’s not a place that causes me to be able to shine Jesus as I should be..Amen..so the thing is this when I grab ahold of what the enemy throws my way..not to say I grab everything..because I don’t..but I do grab a lot of these schemes and these little evil gestures that he gives and throws out there in front of me..and in that aspect when he does and I grab them it shows me ever so quickly at how much growth needs to take place in my life and in my heart.”

“Because when these things come and I get offended and mad..and angry..and upset so quickly then it shows me that I am not over it..and or am I healed of it..Amen..and you see that is where the Lord intends for me to be at in my life..because I say all that time that if your not right with who you are in your life with yourself..then you can never be right with others..Amen..because hurting people..they do hurt people..for you see the word of God says that the Lord heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds..Psalm 147:3..Amen..because if the enemy of our very souls keep us stirred up and bound up through those things he throws our way..then we are not living in the spirit of the Lord but we are living and walking in the flesh..and our flesh is not a pretty thing or is it a nice thing..because if we walk in the spirit the word of God says we will mind the things of the spirit but if we walk in the flesh then we as well mind the things of the flesh..Amen..for the words in Galatians chapter 5 speaks so very well of this.”

“It tells us to stand in our liberties where Christ has made us free..it tells us to not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage..it says that we have been called unto Liberty..to love and too serve each other..Amen..it says that if we bite and devour one another..it tells us to take heed that we will be consumed with one another..and not at all in a good way..Amen..it goes on to say that if we walk in the spirit we will not be lead by the flesh..because we are not under law but grace..Amen..because the works of the flesh are manifest, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings..But goes on to saying that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance..Amen..Galatians 5:1-26..so I have to ask how often do you grab the bait that the enemy throws your way?..because see he will keep throwing the same ole things if you and I keep grabbing those same ole things..whatever they may be..Amen!”

“And in doing so it takes our freedom to live a life well lived for the Lord..it keeps us not in freedom with our hearts..our minds..our relationships..well, honestly anything..because it binds us up..it takes us from freedom to bondage quicker than we can imagine..so freedom is only found in Christ and with His help..and being honest with yourself before the Lord..and being wise because Jesus has made us wiser then the enemy..Psalm 119:98..because we will know the schemes..we do know the tactics because he uses the same ole things..he himself is not very smart..but we should be..Amen..because the spirit of the living God is living on the inside of us..Romans 8:9..Amen..and the Lord says that greater works will you and I do..John  14:11-13..Amen..so let us be free in all areas of our lives..let us walk in the spirit of the Lord..let us abide in Him always..for apart from Him we can do nothing..John 15:5..and our strength is made perfect in our weakness..2 Corinthians 12:8-10..because Christ Jesus is then glorified among us and through us..so once again I will say, to us all for us too stand-fast wherewith Christ has made us free..and for us to live a good, happy, blessed, joy filled life..Amen..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi