Free Indeed shares truths from the Word of God to bring victory instead of defeat in your walk with God. As you get to know God at a deeper level you can apply His truth and experience freedom from negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. You can be content, have joy, and receive His peace no matter your circumstances to be Free Indeed!
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Day 1
Scriptures: John 1:12-13, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Corinthians 4:7-9, John 8:32
Jesus is the Solution to Your Problems
Jesus claimed to be, and proved through His resurrection, that He is the Christ, the Son of God, God incarnate. He is the ONLY ONE through which you find forgiveness of all your sins, and know through experience, God.
Jesus and His work are historically and factually presented and supported in the New Testament. No other man in history has ever had His birth, His life, and His death predicted and fulfilled besides Jesus Christ. He fulfilled every single one of the 333 prophecies concerning His coming, a fact that absolutely defies the power of numbers to express the improbability. These prophecies make up part of the credentials that accompany Jesus‘ arrival, a coming spelled out clearly and accurately hundreds of years in advance.
The greatest proof of the deity of Jesus is changed lives. If you choose to accept the salvation that He offers, you immediately become a new creation as the Spirit of God enthrones Jesus Christ in your heart. You receive a new, righteous spirit, modeled after God’s own spirit.
The Bible is the one book that addresses all of the problems that man faces, either directly or indirectly. It is God’s manual for victorious living. This remarkable book was written in a remarkable way, and it affects people in a remarkable manner. Instead of leaving you mired in life’s problems, God offers you freedom and victory over your problems through Jesus.
Because Jesus is God, there is no one else you can trust to handle your problems and address your needs. One of the great facts of the Bible is that God hears and acknowledges your problems. God knows the hills and valleys that lay before you. Yet, He doesn’t focus on your problems—He provides solutions!
God loves you and offers you joy to replace your sorrow, peace in place of your anxiety, and solutions to your dilemmas. As you allow Jesus to change you, apply the Word of God to your life, you are transformed on the inside which changes your actions on the outside becoming Free Indeed!
As you read the Book of John in the New Testament, describe how it talks about Jesus.
What are some problems that you need His help finding solutions to?
Ask yourself, “Can I entrust my life to the Truths of God’s Word?”
Day 2
Scriptures: 2 Peter 1:3-4, John 14:25-26, Galatians 5:16-23, John 7:37-39
Empowering the Holy Spirit in Your Life
When you accepted Jesus as your Savior you received and were sealed with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit indwells you and is the means and motivator for living the Christian life. As you are filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit you will overcome your enemies (the world, habitual sin, Satan) and live a holy and victorious life.
God’s power cannot help but transform you. When you realize all the riches of Heaven are yours, all the promises of God are available to you, and all the power of the Holy Spirit is at your fingertips, you can take hold of the victorious life God has for you.
Being filled with the Holy Spirit releases the power of God through your human spirit, impacting both your soul (mind, will and emotions) and body (behavior). His empowering presence is what enables you to victoriously live the Christian life and to effectively serve Him .
You draw closer to the Holy Spirit in exactly the same way that you came to know the Father and the Son: through the Word of God. Jesus said the Heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him. Do you truly desire to have God’s best—to be God’s best?
Therefore, desire is the first step in being filled with the Holy Spirit. Second, begin praying for the Holy Spirit to guide and transform you. As you pray, you are surrendering your control over to God, asking the Holy Spirit to give you His wisdom and power to change your thinking and behavior to become more like Him.
When you allow the Holy Spirit to work in your life, you are equipped to handle setbacks and trials: broken and hurting relationships, when your faith is being challenged, when things are not going your way, and when you have temptations. These things are just part of life, and you can handle them emotionally and not get defeated by having God’s peace as you allow the Holy Spirit to guide you every minute of every day.
How would you define your Christian life?
What decisions are you currently facing that you could seek the Holy Spirit’s direction for?
How can you invite the Holy Spirit to guide you in your daily thoughts and actions?
Day 3
Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 2:16, Romans 12:2, Hebrews 12:1, Ephesians 4:22-32
Replacing Your Negative Thoughts
When Satan deceived Adam and Eve, he specifically targeted their God-given ability to believe—that is, he convinced them to believe Satan‘s lies as God‘s Truth and God‘s Truth as Satan’s lies. Man is prone to believe lies as truth.
Knowledge can be useful, but it cannot impart God’s Truth! When you became a Christian, the Holy Spirit began assailing your mind with God’s Truth. Unfortunately, the Truth of God often contradicts the beliefs you already hold. When one of your existing beliefs disagrees with a new Truth, your mind engages in an inward battle between Spirit and flesh (your sinful tendencies).
The way to stop the battle is through the biblical process of renewing your mind. When you allow your mind to be renewed by the power of the Holy Spirit, the false beliefs you hold are exposed and replaced. What you believe is of utmost importance, because your beliefs directly effect how you behave. The more your mind is renewed, the more it is freed from false beliefs and the more you will see a change in your behavior.
This renewal is often referred to as “putting on” and “putting off”. This simply means to change from one thing to another in the same way you would take off one piece of clothing and then put on another in its place. In the process of “putting off” the things of the world and “putting on” the things of God, God never removes something without replacing it with something far better.
The Holy Spirit’s work in you takes you through the process of transformation: exposing your own beliefs, helping you recognize them, and renewing your mind in those areas.
Begin by asking the Holy Spirit to reveal any incorrect beliefs you have about yourself, God, or others. Look up Scripture and ask the Holy Spirit to start “putting off” the incorrect belief and to “put on” His Truths. As you trust in God, His Word, and the Holy Spirit you will see transformation.
What incorrect beliefs do you have about yourself, God, and others?
How are these beliefs hindering you?
Do you believe the Holy Spirit can transform you like He did for so many in the Bible?
Day 4
Scriptures: Colossians 3:8-10, Galatians 5:16-25, Philippians 4:8-9, John 10:10
Understanding Your Negative Emotions
God did an extraordinary thing when He created you. He wired you as an emotional creature who can enjoy a wide range of emotions and communicate your feelings through them. But when Adam and Eve chose to eat the forbidden fruit, sin was uncorked and the emotional debris of that fateful sin brought a whole host of negative and harmful emotions: depression, anxiety, guilt, fear, bitterness, anger, and hatred.
God never intended that you should be held hostage by these emotions. Emotions are a fact of life, but you don’t have to experience them in a negative way. God doesn’t simply remove the destructive emotions. He does something far better. He replaces your negative emotions with His Spirit-filled emotions such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Emotions, in and of themselves, are not right or wrong. They are morally neutral. However, they do communicate to you there is something going on in your thoughts and beliefs that needs to be examined. You need to understand and allow your emotions to be an indicator of a deeper problem.
When your emotions become messy and controlling, they have become more true to you than God’s Word. You need to be healed, transformed, and restored through the Holy Spirit so you can conquer negative emotions before they conquer you.
Just as you started renewing your incorrect beliefs on Day 3, today you are asking the Holy Spirit to “put off” any negative emotions and to “put on” Godly emotions. It’s imperative you allow the Holy Spirit to start addressing and replacing any negative emotions that might be hindering your Christian walk. Ask Him to reveal any thoughts that are causing these negative emotions.
The Holy Spirit will replace your negative emotions with Godly emotions as you deal with what caused the negative emotion. Continue to pursue the Word of God that has the power to transform you. As you continue to trust God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit to work in your life you will become an overcomer and live a victorious life!
What messy or controlling emotions do you have that are harming you or others?
What are the thoughts that are causing the emotions to surface?
What steps can you take for the Holy Spirit to change your messy or harmful emotions?
Day 5
Scriptures: Colossians 3:12-14, Romans 12:19, Ephesians 5:1-2, Luke 6:27-28
Forgiving Yourself, God, and Others Produces Freedom
The Biblical purpose of forgiveness is to bring you personal freedom and release you from bondage. Forgiveness is a powerful spiritual weapon when you do it with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. By asking God to bring you emotional healing, you begin to dismantle the strongholds that hold you captive and regain the freedom that is yours by what Jesus did for you at the cross!
Forgiveness is releasing your offender to God and trusting God to administer His justice, in His way, and in His timing. It is giving up the right to punish, get even, judge, or condemn the person for what they have done. God commands you to forgive those who wrong you and do so quickly. You are acknowledging the offense to God, expressing to Him how it made you feel, and making the deliberate decision to forgive, based on what Jesus did for you on the cross.
Remember, to forgive is not waiting to feel warm toward your offender. You are making a deliberate decision to obey God and you are allowing the Holy Spirit to work in your life so that you can reclaim that which is yours in Christ!
Sometimes you are not at the place to forgive, but you can ask the Holy Spirit to change your desire to be willing to forgive and not allow bitterness to take root within you.
Even after you have made the choice to forgive, the emotions may still linger. Forgiveness is not the means to alleviate your emotions. Once you have chosen to forgive someone for their offense, you then ask God to walk you through the process of healing your emotions (refer to Day 4).
You invite the Holy Spirit to help you through this painful emotional process, because He is your Comforter and your Strength. He was there at the time of injury and He knows what you need to heal. Accept the person who needs your forgiveness as he or she is, and release your expectations to God. Your emotions will eventually reflect God‘s heart as you continue to renew your mind with Truth and reaffirm your decision to forgive.
Do you have someone that you need to forgive?
Have you forgiven someone, but the emotions are still there?
How can you allow the Holy Spirit to help you forgive someone that has harmed you?
Day 6
Scriptures: Ephesians 4:22-24, Romans 13:14, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Ephesians 2:10
Becoming Who You Are In Christ
As a believer, the Bible alone is your final authority and needs to be the anchor for which your true identity is built. The Bible reveals that God is far more interested in who you are than in what you do. Whenever your life is predicated upon what you do it produces a conditioned identity. Your identity, then, is whatever the organization or job description or society determines it to be. Satan does his best to influence you, to concentrate on what you do, or how you behave, rather on who you are.
The Holy Spirit wants to build your true identity based on the personality of Jesus. If you are to truly break free of your old identity and embrace your true identity in Christ, you need to understand the dynamic that exists at the heart of your wrong perceptions about yourself. The Bible calls it “conforming.” In Romans 12:1-2, you are commanded not to conform to the world. Conforming is the world’s attempt to change the person inwardly by changing the things that affect him outwardly.
The Bible clearly outlines how to avoid conforming to the world, and it is the process of transformation by the Spirit of God. This transformation is simply the Holy Spirit making Christ real in you. Transformation always creates a true-identity, never a pseudo-identity. It is the biblical process of becoming outwardly what the Spirit of God has made you inwardly.
Your body is like a living prism that reflects outwardly the belief (or image) that you hold of yourself within. Therefore, what you believe about yourself is critically important. The moment you received Christ, you received a new image, and that new image is Christ Himself!
Transformation is God’s way of producing masterpieces modeled after His likeness. The whole process of transforming is changing the image you once held into the new image that is now you, and then reflecting that new image outwardly as Christ-likeness. As you are discovering who you are from the Word of God (not based on what you do or from false beliefs or emotions), allow the Holy Spirit to show you that you are one of God’s masterpieces!
How would you describe yourself to someone?
Can you see areas where you are conforming to the world’s standards?
Do you seek the Holy Spirit to transform you to be more like Christ?
Day 7
Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 6:18, Romans 1:21-23, Psalms 34, Hebrews 13:5-6
Knowing God as Your Father
The word “Abba” is actually a biblical word that means “father.” Both Jesus and Paul used the word Abba to refer to or address God. Abba literally means “daddy“ and communicates a childlike trust between God and his child, followed by an adult appreciation of God as Father. It means you can know Him both as Father and as God. Intimacy and awe are inextricably combined in the phrase “Abba, Father.“
God chose to reveal Himself through Jesus. All Jesus said, all He did, came from the Father. In the life of Jesus, you see that your Father is compassionate, strong, steadfast, protective, faithful, trustworthy, bold, caring, and firm.
Wrong ideas you hold about God create an incorrect view of God and the Bible, and hinders the work of God in your life. Man possesses an innate God-consciousness that drives him to search for God. Unfortunately, this quest sometimes leads man to worship false gods.
It is absolutely imperative as a follower of Christ to develop a personal concept of “Abba, Father” into a biblically accurate mental image. If you want to see true transformation within yourself, then you must expose your belief about God, correct the ones that are wrong, adopt right beliefs in their place, and then consistently apply them throughout your life.
God loves and cares for you and the Truth through scripture backs up these promises. As you take time to meditate on the Scriptures, you will develop a correct and personal concept of God as your father who has poured out His blessings and rich inheritance on you. Why would He do this? Because He loves you, He delights in you, He cherishes you, and it is why He created you.
Just imagine the implications: The God of Heaven, the Monarch of the Universe, the awesome Creator of all living things… is your sovereign Father!
Has your concept of God been warped by Satan?
Thinking of the characteristics that Jesus displayed, what picture does that paint in your mind of God the Father?
Understanding God’s character from the Bible, are you ready to trust Him with your problems?
Day 8
Scriptures: Jeremiah 29:11-13, Matthew 24:12, Psalms 42:1-2, Psalms 63:1-3
The Power of Worship
Worship honors God and changes you. Worship is an attitude of the heart, a 24/7 lifestyle, and the foundation for a vital Christian walk. When you worship, you take on the character and characteristics of who you are worshipping, of the One whom you worship.
True worship is supernatural. It is born in the heart of God and then produced in you by the Holy Spirit. When you submit to God, He begins patiently fanning the flames of an unquenchable thirst for Him, giving you a hunger for His Word, His wisdom, and His ways.
When you worship, it means you have taken the time to contemplate the One you are worshipping, and you have determined He is worthy of your worship. Our English word “worship“ has at its root the Middle English weorth, which means worthy. You might just as accurately call it “worth-ship,“ for it is the act of expressing to God He is truly worthy and deserving of your adoration.
Worship is right on the front lines of the ferocious battle for the human heart, where the love for this world and its things competes minute-by-minute for your attention. When you neglect the pursuit of God, your love of God begins to grow cold. It inevitably ushers in a spiritual darkness that stifles the true knowledge of the One who loves you and died for you.
Satan understands the power of worship; that’s why he’s constantly trying to poison your love for God and lure you into adoration of worldly things. If you find yourself feeling little passion for God, perhaps you have replaced God with something or someone else.
As you worship Him, His Holy Spirit inside of you connects with your spirit, which in turn makes your soul (mind, will, and emotions,) acutely aware of the magnitude of His power. Coming into such close quarters with God provides intimacy with your Heavenly Father, and refills your spirit in such a way that it will flow through you to live an extraordinary life in an ordinary world.
How would you describe your personal worship?
Think of a time of worship where you experienced a transformation. How did it make you feel toward God?
What actions can you put into place that will deepen your relationship with Abba Father?