I am asking for more - this Thanksgiving!!!!

In a week that many turn their focus on giving thanks. I stand in my study/office/prayer room and ask God for more.

"I want to see people set free God.
Set free of bondages...
Bondage of Hate
Bondage of Unforgiveness
Bondage of Alcoholism
Bondage of Addiction: Drugs, Pornography, Cutting, Etc.
Bondage of OCDs
Bondage of Perfectionism & Overachieving Drivenness
Bondage of Pride & Arrogance, Boastfulness
Bondage of Greed & Money
Bondage of Poverty
Bondage of Gluttony
Bondage of Fear
Bondage of Anxiety
Bondage of Anger
Bondage of Depression
Bondage of Doubt
Bondage of Disbelief
Bondage of Sex, Promiscuity, Vulgarity
Bondage of Shopping
Bondage of the World's Ways
Bondage of Mental Illnesses
Bondage of Hopelessness..."

The list can truly go on and on...These are just a few when I think of what God freed me from personally, and what I often pray for loved ones.

When you read the word "Bondage" above, imagine if you can, a heavy weight for each bondage.

Now, of that list above, ask God right now. Which ones are you captive to?

Each one revealed is a weight.
Put those weights in a back pack.
Put that back pack on. Heavy?

Often our bondages have been with us so long that we grow immune to the heaviness. Sometimes, we like the bondage we are in. As though they may us 'stronger'.


No, they make us weary, incapable of taking on the circumstances we have no choice or control over, leaving us burdened and unable to cope to live a life with joy and peace.

Overachievers with OCDs and Perfectionism are often promoted to the top, get the raises and the affirmations...The affirmations they longed for so long of their life that pushed them into that bondage. Overachieving not bondage? Have you ever seen how an overachiever behaves at the threat of failing?  It's a bondage.

Boasting not bondage? I find it entertaining the offense taken when I do not covet the things that many people brag about to me. There are people who are so greedy and love to shop and spend...and when I just could care less about what they are spending their money on...they are offended by me.

I do not covet people with money because often times, God has revealed the brokenness, sinfulness, and insecurity in them. He's shown me the emptiness that they are trying to fill with all that stuff. I can often see how much of 'nothing' they truly have. This is why I choose to not want to be like that or chase what they are chasing.

The ways of the world lead you to bondage.

I want to see people whole, walking in the freedom that Christ gives. I long to see people in such a close intimate relationship with God that they overcome the weight of the world, the weight of the bondages.

Do you want freedom from those things?

• Ask God to forgive you, repent, for feeding your flesh with chasing things, people, substances to fill the voids that only God can fill.
• Ask God to show you His love for you.
• Ask Him to give you a glimpse of His will, His purpose for you life.
• Ask Him to heal your wounds that have led you to these bondages.
• Ask Him to do a new & mighty work in your life!  

Don't know what you're stuck under, you just know that there is haze and heaviness in your life?

Jeremiah 33:3 says, "Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great ad mighty things, which you do not know".

The answers are available...You just need to make yourself available to the Lord to tell you. You need to ask.

I pray God prepares you for what He shows you. I pray you are honest with yourself and God about the true bondages that have you captive and leave you operating in the flesh...Apart from God!


My goal is to help you see where the enemy and the world is leading you out of God's will. My prayer is that you will desire God above all things this world has to offer...and that you desire the fullness that God offers for you and your life.

This song below is so amazing and inspired me today! Lose yourself and your bondages in it!

Do you deny your problems?

We know these folks...They deny they have problems, undealt with sin, strongholds, bad habits, immoral desires, and lusful thoughts/actions. I live by "There is power in transparency".

Now, when I mention 'transparency', I do not intend for people to update their FB statuses with their dirty deeds. However, I do intend to encourage people to confide in people when appropriate, either for prayer, or to share with someone having a similar struggle for the sake of experiencing the freedom through learning you are not alone in your struggles.

On a similar note, the devil wants Christians to hide their struggles, because then he has people stuck in bondage and defeated. Too defeated to fulfill God's calling and will for their life.

The irony is that the Bible clearly states that 'all things done in darkness will come to light'. It's not God's will that you stay entangled, so through His sovereign love for you and desire for you to be all He made you to be, He will be sure to bring those struggles to light...eventually. You might as well initiate it at the start to save yourself time and heartache from hiding it long-term. Eventually you will crack.

RANDOM SIDE NOTE:
Ever had the thought, right before you give in to the sin "NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW". Folks, that is a lie from the pit of hell. That's what the devil says to coax you into giving in...and what happens when you give in? Shame, guilt, fear, and paranoia. What do you think becomes of your mindset, mood, and relationships with you are walking in this?

Remember the verse: The wages of sin is death. Sin will lead to mental death, emotional death, spiritual death and relational death. Don't believe the lie that 'no one will ever know' and you will save yourself (and others) a ton of trouble and chaos and pain.


Where do we get off on this path? They one that causes us to hide our problems...Hide them to the point of denying them. Is it pride?

That's probably part of it. Along the way, we meet people who are so caught up in pride they are in serious denial of their sin, their brokenness, their weaknesses. Would it be safe to say they in denial of their need for a Savior?

On the flip side, we meet people who are so insecure that they are fearful to share they need a Savior?

These are great deceptive lies of the devil. These lies keep people in bondage and not growing and maturing in Christ.

Remember the verse: Jesus did not come for the well, but those who are sick...in need of a Physician.

People who are walking in denial of their problems are walking in denial of their need for Jesus, the Great Physician, Savior...and are then unable to find their place in Him..

How can we be found in Him if we can't admit we need Him? They say things like: "I got this"..."I'm fine"...these words said when on the inside of their heart, their mind, and their homes there is torment and turmoil.

Wave the white flag of surrender to the Lord.

Throw in the towel of self-sufficiency.

Give up the front of having it all together.

We are weak, but He is strong.

Could it be that some people have themselves, their reputation, their ministry on the throne?
They fear losing any of it so much so that they deny their sins and struggles in hopes of keeping them.

What's the verse about 'he who seeks to save his life will lose it'? Scroll back up to the top where it says that 'all things done in darkness will come to light'. When we hide our sins, we're not fooling anyone else but ourselves.

Let's stop fooling ourselves and trying to fool others. When we stop hiding our need for Christ, we will be walking His strength.

Let us be sincere in our walks with God and let His power reign in us and through us. Then we can be victorious in Him. If the son has set you free, you are free indeed.

Do not fear the accusers who condemn you. Turn them over to the Lord and trust Him to rebuke them, humble them out...and then shake the dust from your feet and walk with your Lord and Savior who has taken your struggles and has come to redeem you! Let Him be your Redeemer, your Physician. Pour your heart out of all your 'junk' and ask Him to divinely intervene in your life, your situations, problems, struggles and sins. And stay open to Him moving in your life...and follow His lead.

He has His best for you. Find Him and find it...and live it!