![]() ![]() Week 9 was about the battlefield of the mind and included illustrated steps to breaking free from captivity in our thought lives (super helpful for someone like me who found a captivity to worry during the study), and week 10 closed the study by returning to the "5 benefits" of freedom in Christ and how we can display them in our lives. Weeks 9 and 10 seemed to regain more momentum for me. We also studied rebellion verses obedience and God's unfailing love through it all. ![]() ![]() There were still beautiful truths to be studied, though, like how Christ binds up the broken hearted (here we studied different types of heartbreaks) and fulfills every woman's dreams. Maybe it was just due to third trimester exhaustion and low-comprehension, or maybe it's because the first few weeks were so good it was hard to beat them. The middle of the study lost a little of the "umph" for me. Once we moved into the chapter on "ancient ruins" (generational sins/bondage), I really started identifying some areas where I needed to "break free". Then we moved onto the "5 benefits" of freedom in Christ that Isaiah reveals, and the obstacles that keep us from fully enjoying those benefits (this was the start to seriously identifying areas of captivity in my life). The first few weeks were my favorite! We studied the Kings of Judah during Isaiah's lifetime, and watched Israel's decline into physical captivity. Through the 10 week study for women, Beth Moore leads you though the steps it takes to recognize what is holding you captive and how to break free from it. "A Christian is held captive by anything that hinders the abundant and effective Spirit-filled life God planned for her." I had never really stopped to consider that a Christian could be held in captivity, but how true Beth Moore's statement is! Sometimes we're held captive to guilt over past failures, and sometimes it's captivity to a current "pet sin" like worry, fear, or doubt. He's showing me that relying on Him is the greatest privilege I may ever have.Īll you have to do is ask Him, and He will set you free. He's teaching me to wait patiently and gracefully when I don't understand what He's up to and where He has me at in life. He's teaching me to trust Him with absolutely every aspect of my life, from the tedious every-day things to the big huge dreams He's planted in my heart. Sure I've still got work to do, but God's right there with me and is guiding me every step of the way. And I know that my broken places are either healed up or well on their way to being so. I have found myself smiling for no reason, singing and rejoicing simply because God is God. The burden has been rolled away, and in its place I have found rest, peace, joy, and hope. He wanted all my hopes, all my dreams, and especially all my broken and shattered parts. He wanted me to open myself up to Him, be vulnerable to Him. He had a plan for my waste places, those deserts within me, that wilderness I feel I'm walking through. God had a plan for this level of utter brokenness. It forced me to look deep inside and open up those vulnerable and weak and broken places within my soul.īut here's the thing: I wasn't becoming vulnerable for no reason. ![]() It broke me down and stripped me bare of all my pretenses and what-ifs and wishes. And I was tired to death of people always being on my back about something. I was tired to death of being rundown and weary. When I went into this study, I was tired to death of being single. Honestly, I believe that if every woman on earth worked through this book with heartfelt sincerity and determination, this world would be a planet devoted to God Almighty. Every woman on this earth should go through the Breaking Free Bible study. ![]()
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