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There are seasons in our walk with God when freedom doesn’t come all at once but unfolds step by step. Sometimes there are several seasons we go through in our lives that are very difficult… one after the other, after the other, where it seems like it will never end. Yet when we look back, we realize He was working in places we didn’t even recognize at the time. This testimony is part of that journey - the story of how the Lord broke my chains and taught me how to live as someone truly free.
Psalm 34:19 (NKJV) “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV) “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.”
For many years it felt like one bondage after the other would bombard my life. I would just be set free from one, and another would come, and another after that. I got to the point in life that I wondered what would come next, and if I would ever be fully set free of the bondage in my life.
Psalm 18:6 (NKJV) “In my distress I called upon the Lord… and my cry came before Him, even to His ears.”
Isaiah 43:2 (NKJV) “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you…”
Sometimes that freedom comes suddenly, like a prison door swinging open. Other times it arrives quietly, like dawn slowly pushing back the night. However it comes, the Lord leads us forward teaching us that freedom is not only a moment, but a lifelong walk with Him.
2 Corinthians 3:17 (NKJV) “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
Psalm 30:5 (NKJV) “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”
During the years of bondage I was going through in my life, I felt like I was trapped in a cage. The bars on the cage were likened to prison bars. It felt like there was no way out of the bondage I was in. As I moved on in my walk with God, in my heart I saw the “prison walls” fall down from all four corners of my life. God had set me free from every bondage I was ever in.
Psalm 107:14 (NKJV) “He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their chains in pieces.”
Isaiah 61:1 (NKJV) “…He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.”
After the Lord delivers us, He invites us to learn how to walk as free people.
Freedom is not a feeling - it is a fact established by Christ. But learning to live in that freedom takes trust. It takes daily surrender. It takes choosing to believe what God says about us, even when our emotions tell a different story.
Galatians 5:1 (NKJV) “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free…”
Romans 6:18 (NKJV) “And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.”
For years, shame whispered that I was still the same person I used to be. Old habits tried to convince me that nothing had really changed. But the Holy Spirit kept reminding me of a simple truth:
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation…”
Romans 8:1 (NKJV) “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus…”
Freedom became not just something I received - but something I practiced.
Every time an old pattern tried to rise up, the Holy Spirit whispered in my heart, “That’s not who you are anymore.” Every time shame tried to return, He reminded me, “You are forgiven, washed, and made new.” Every time fear tried to creep in, He said, “You are Mine.”
And slowly, the truth settled deep into my spirit: I am no longer defined by what once held me. I am defined by the One who set me free.
If you are walking out your own journey of freedom, take heart. You are not alone. The same God who broke your chains and broke down those “prison walls” will teach you how to walk without them.
One step at a time. One day at a time. One victory at a time.
You are free - and you are learning to live like it.
Philippians 1:6 (NKJV) “…He who has begun a good work in you will complete it…”
Psalm 37:23–24 (NKJV) “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord… Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand.”
