Key 7: Maintaining Lifelong Freedom
KEYS TO FREEDOM
God loves to hear from you! Remember that prayer is intimate friendship with God, and intimacy can take on a variety of forms. Sometimes it is laughter, sometimes tears. Sometimes it’s listening to His wisdom or just being in His presence. Sometimes it’s praise or boldly placing our petitions before Him and asking for intervention. Sometimes it’s venting our grievances and emotions to Him about daily life. What is one practical thing you could do to grow in your prayer life?
Stay in the Word One of the most powerful ways for us to interact with God is through the Bible. How does God use His Word in our lives? • God instructs us through His Word. • God speaks to our life situations through His Word. • God gives the wisdom we need every day through His Word. • God speaks to our identity as His sons and daughters through His Word. In Key 2: Renewing the Mind, we talked about the importance of meditating on the Word. For review, what does Jesus say the truth (the Word) will do for us in John 8:31–32?
Jesus connected abiding in His Word to being free. Remember, though, it’s not simply the truth that sets you free; it’s the truth you know that sets you free. There is no freedom apart from abiding in the Word of God. Why? Because God’s Word “is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart” (Heb. 4:12). In other words, the Word of God powerfully works in us to sustain our freedom in Christ; it discerns and exposes lies so that we can make decisions for our lives that are in line with His Word. 114 |
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