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
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.
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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