CAPTIVES OF THE MIGHTY – Sunday August 13th
2017
Memorise: If the Son therefore
shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:36
Read: John 5:1-9 (KJV)
5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and
Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool,
which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind,
halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool,
and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water
stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity
thirty and eight years.
5:6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a
long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
5:7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when
the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another
steppeth down before me.
5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
5:9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his
bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
Bible in one year: 2nd
Kings 10-11, Ezekiel 23:35-49, Hymn: Sing hymn 4
MESSAGE:
The
reason why many people are so helpless in life today is because they are in
captivity. Many are in the bondage of sin, sickness, poverty, addition, demonic
possession and other evil conditions. The resultant effects of captivity
include loss of freedom, psychological imbalance, and emotional trauma, loss of
contact with loved ones, hopelessness and dejection. A captive is a person with
a lost identity. Such a person may have been royalty before being captured by
the enemy, but he or she has become a slave and must now live at the mercy of
his or her new owner. A captive loses dignity and suffers from low self-esteem
and emotional trauma from thinking about the situation that led to his or her
captivity. A captive is in a worse situation than an ordinary prisoner because
a prisoner’s jail term is fixed, but a captive has no hope of being set free.
Above all, the situation of a captive is hopelessly filled with regret. The big
question is, can a captive find true freedom? The Holy Spirit answers this question
in Isaiah
49:24-25
“Shall the prey be taken from the
mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? But thus saith the LORD, Even the
captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall
be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will
save thy children.”
Hallelujah!
A captive can indeed be set free. Jesus in Luke 4:18 declared that He came to set the
captive free:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent
me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”
I
bring you good news today: no matter how difficult your experience in captivity
has been, and no matter how heavy the chain of your affliction is, JESUS is
here to set you free! Open Heavens 13 August 2017: Sunday daily devotional by
Pastor E. A. Adeboye- Captives of the mighty. Jesus Christ is the promised Messiah, Redeemer
and Deliverer, sent to set everyone who will accept Him as the Lord and Saviour
of their lives from the bondage of Satan, the world and the flesh. What is your
problem? Are you operating under the powerful grip of a secret sin, sexual
immorality, a secret society, a blood covenant or any form of addition? Jesus,
in John 8:36,
has those words for you:
“If the Son therefore shall make you
free, ye shall be free indeed.”
Jesus
came to set the captives free; call on His Name for your deliverance now!
Prayer Point
Lord Jesus, Please manifest
your power to set me free from every form of captivity I am experiencing today.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional guide
was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical Church in the world and
also the President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
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