This word is submitted by Dorothy Goodman (Dgdm9@aol.com)

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                      I Have Set You Free 

Does not My word say I come to set the captive free? Does not My word 
say who the Son has set free is free indeed? If I have set you free, why 
are you bound? Why are you allowing the enemy to put chains upon you?  
Why are you allowing the enemy to lie to you and tell you that you cannot 
be loose and free?  Why are you not using what I have given you to let 
Satan know he can no longer hold you hostage? Why? 

I have given you liberty, and I have given you your freedom.  When you 
have liberty, there is strength. If you are not free, you cannot have 
joy, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.  Did I not say to you, 
"Behold I make all things new?" That goes for being free as well; that 
goes for being loosed from the chains that bind you: the chains of 
addiction, the chains of lying, the chains of sin -- I came and set you 
free from all of that.  

I am a holy God.  I would not have told you to be holy as I am holy if 
I were not able to keep you.  The sin in your life holds you hostage. 
Sin in your life will keep away the blessing I have for you.  Sin in 
your life will keep you in fear -- and I have not given you the spirit 
of fear, I gave you the Spirit of love, power and a sound mind.  

When you are bound and entangled with the things of the world, then you
have to keep looking over your shoulder.  If you are not living a clean 
life, you keep looking over your shoulder, for someone might see what 
you are doing.  It will catch up with you when you are not living what 
you are confessing.  But I have set you free from all of this.

Why do you continue to allow yourself to be in bondage?  It is time to 
let the enemy know you were brought with a price -- not with silver, not 
with gold, but with the precious blood of Jesus. And that is your freedom.
I was humiliated for your sakes, I was beaten, broken, stomped on.  You 
could not recognize My body because of how brutally I was beaten.  That 
was for you, for your life, so you could be free.  I have set you free. 

Return to your first love. It is time to put Satan under your feet.  It 
is time to let him know where you stand.  I have given you your tools. I 
have given you the shield of faith, where you will be able to quench all 
the fiery darts of the wicked. I have given you the sword of the Spirit. 
I have given you the breastplate of righteousness, and shod your feet 
with the preparation of the Gospel Of Peace.  I have girded your loins 
with the truth. I have given you the helmet of salvation. 

You have no excuse to live in bondage, for I bought you your freedom. 
Take it back in My name, EL SHADDAI, for I am all sufficient, I am the 
God that is more than enough, and I have set you free. So why should 
you be bound?  Why should you die before your time?  You are free, My 
children, you are free.  Take your liberty of My blood and remember that 
I love you.