This is a bit longer than normal, but it’s message rang so strongly in my spirit. I surmise I am not the only one in need of its message.

Galatians 4:7-9

7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, where unto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Lets break this down into our real world today. If you we are baptized into Jesus Christ by immersion with the name of Jesus called over us and filled with he Holy Ghost evidenced by speaking in tongues, we are some of God and joint heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17). As children, we are not just servants anymore. What good father treats their children as servants. Children have freedom and privileges servants do not because children have born rights and servants have paid obligations. Before we knew God, we served things that were not true gods. Now we not only know God but we are known by God. The God of the universe knows you!

Time goes on. Struggles, trials, and chaos happens. Jesus is still the one true God and we are still his children. Still, the draw of the dark negative perception and perspective given weight by the have trials that come on us pulls on us. The devil is good at what he does—lying and deception. He plays on our deepest weakness. it happens and sometimes we miss it. Though we know the one true and He knows us (what an amazing privilege), we slide back into strengthlessness, feebleness, sickness, weakness, crouching, or any other dark fallen tendency in our nature as if we have been trained to fall into that.

That perspective makes us slaves in bondage. It binds us into that fearful, cringing slave mentality. Why would we want to be in bondage when we have the privilege of children of the most high God? The enemy plays on our own weaknesses and magnifies the negative until our emotions and thinking succumb to the pain of it. Simply turning on the light of the Bible begins to expose the lies taking some power away from them. Our base nature is fallen, frail, wicked, and fearful, but we are liberated by the blood covenant of Jesus Christ. Whatever defeated things the enemy is trying to put on you is a lie. Our freedom has been paid for. Still yet, understanding our inward struggle and darkened perspective is a good part of the battle. Once the Word is shown on this, the light is turned on. It is no longer darkness because where light is darkness ceases to exist.

We then use our praise, worship, and the scriptures to defeat the darkness and banish it. “It is written.” We do as 2 Corinthians 10:5 says, casting down imaginations (all of the dark thinking and perspectives) and every single high thing (cringing, darkness, slave mentality) that exalts itself against the knowledge (because knowledge is a powerful tool to dispel lies and error) of God bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. It all happens in our mind for the mind is the battle ground for our soul. Our perspective and thinking is the prize of the battle that wins the war. Let the Bible turn on the light for you. You are not a servant but you are a child of the king! You are not a weak beggar. The Lord Jesus knows you!