Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Freedom!

Today’s Reading:  Isaiah 61:1-7 & Luke 4:14-22

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”  Luke 4:18-19

Before you go any further, if you have not read the scriptures in Isaiah and Luke that I posted read them now!  My words will not make a difference in you, but His will change your life forever!

I just have to tell you that I have had an unbelievable weekend with some wonderful, wonderful people, but what God did over the last 3 days of my life has been more than I thought I could take.  I have yet to find a word to describe the way in which he moved me, renewed me, and filled me with his sweet Holy Spirit. 

Where the Spirit of the Lord is There is Freedom is a song that was sung this weekend and I have continued to sing it over and over, and of course ponder over the words to this new song in my life.  There is freedom with Christ and it is a freedom like no other which led me to get off of my schedule of reading in Mark to searching for what the Spirit of Lord can and will do for me.  My searching lead to the scriptures found in Isaiah and Luke.  God is telling Isaiah that this is my Spirit upon you and this is what your life will be like when my Spirit fills you.  You will be filled with freedom, comfort, beauty, gladness, praise, and everlasting joy, and not only will you be filled with it, you will be able to share it with others because of the calling on your life.  Then I get to Luke and I am blown away when I read these same words again.  Now these are not the first scriptures that I have read that have been in both the Old and New Testament, but it was how this was placed.  Isaiah is proclaiming what the Lord has already told him and in Luke, Jesus is reading these same scriptures to a group of people in the synagogue.  Once Jesus finishes reading he says to the people… “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing” Luke 4:21. 

I am here to tell you that when you chose Jesus, when you gave him your life, these words in Isaiah and Luke have already been fulfilled in your life and if you’re not feeling it then read it again and claim it---Jesus died on that cross to give us freedom and comfort, and beauty, and gladness, and praise, and everlasting joy.  He tells us in these scriptures that he has anointed us with the Spirit of the Lord, but the anointing comes with tasks---he tells us that we have to preach the good news, proclaim freedom, recover sight, and release the oppressed. We do all this in the name of Jesus Christ, the one that saved us and gave us freedom from everything that has ever held us down. You see he freely gives this to us, but we have to claim it for ourselves and proclaim it to everyone around us!

I really could go on and on tonight, but instead I will leave you with this song and pray that the Spirit of Lord fills you with a freedom that you have never known!

With Much and Prayers!
Rosanne

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