The Truth Shall Set You Free

John 8:32 - …and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

My journey of healing contained a variable of components. And one of those components was being very honest with myself and acknowledging that I had a problem. Let me repeat, there was a problem. Acknowledgment was only the first step. The next step required me to act. If the truth is to be rightly grasped, then its core had to be penetrated. My truth was the very essence of my freedom. I can remember when I was dealing with my secret sin the thoughts that were going rampant through my mind. Thought, after thought, after thought, after thought. And yet I couldn’t talk to anyone because of fear of being judged. Fear of being spoken against. But mostly fear of letting the people I loved down. Sometimes we avoid our truth because of the belief it will hurt us. Hinder us or make our lives unpleasant in some way. But that is what the enemy would love you to think. He wants you to conceal and keep things in the dark. That’s how he can control us. Everything the enemy does is in the dark. The enemy doesn’t want to be seen than it would only reveal the truth.

Your fiercest Foe: It is important to recognize just who is your fiercest foe in your spiritual life. You may be thinking your fiercest foe it’s the devil.  The answer would be 100 percent wrong. The most intense weapon Satan uses against you. Against me. Are our own selfish desires. Romans 7:15, “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate to do.”

This is why we must keep our desires submitted to Jesus. When you submit your desires to the devil. He becomes the puppet master of your life. Whoever controls your desires controls you. We must know what is right through receiving direction from God’s words. The devil will lose tremendous influence over your life when your desire for what’s right takes preeminence in your day to day living. Wrong desire is not sin. Acting on wrong desire is sin. It is one thing to know what is right. It’s another thing to desire what is right. You can do what is right even when your desires are in opposition to doing so. Jesus gives us the most profound example in Luke 22:42 “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from Me, nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done. Jesus knew his foe. He understood how to overcome the mind games of Satan. Even though Jesus didn’t want to experience death on the cross, He understood that what God wanted for His life was so much greater that what he desired at that moment. The same is true for you. There is always victory and joy on the other side of doing what God has commanded.

I can recall before I learned these truths, I was already bounded.I believe a strong hold is just like an addiction. You know it is bad and you know it is slowly killing you, but it has such a death grip on you that it is so hard to let whatever has you bounded go. As much as you know how wrong it is you just can’t seem to let go. I know this all too well because I lived it for so long. But one thing I was sure of despite my imprisonment to my sin was that I could not remain this way. And I did not want to. I just couldn’t find the strength to leave and close that door once and for all. It didn’t matter how hard I tried, found myself falling back into the vicious cycle of succumbing to the flesh. I would pray, pray, and pray. I would cry and ask God to help me. And for a little while it would work and then the very second, he was in my presence the very walls I built up, came so easily crashing down.

I would go to church every Sunday. I would attend all the services. I would pray. However, as I sat in the pews of the church my mind would drift into another place. I would leave the church the same way I came in. And it frightened me because I knew all too well what was happening. I was spiritually dying and I knew that was a dangerous place to be. But God knows all things. And God is a good God. He threw me a rope and allowed me to learn and become a part of a Women’s group called Purity and Peace. A bible based group for women of all ages and backgrounds who needed healing and deliverance.

I can remember attending my first session and that is the day my healing journey began. I sat in a room full of strangers. As the leader started introductions and ask that we give our name and why we are here. I was the lucky gal who was chosen to go first. I can recall just saying who I was and blurting out my truth, “My name is Myra Cruz and I am here because I am dealing with a soul tie and I want to be set free from it”. It felt so good to just say it and from there on I began to speak more of my truth. I was so desperate to be set free. And I believe with all of my heart, mind and soul because I was given the safe space to speak my truth, I was able to begin my healing. I started to have the lies of my life replaced with love and truth. John 8:32 - …and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Today if you are concealing something in your life that you wish to release. Find yourself someone who you can trust: Pastor, counselor, confidant, etc. Just find that person and begin to release and begin your healing journey. The truth shall set you free and you are worthy to live the life God has ordained for you. A life of peace, joy and freedom.

Acknowledge and then act.