Are You in Bondage? Speak the Truth!

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." (Romans 8: 15)

For the believer, there is no question that the Holy Spirit lives in us:

"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." (Romans 10: 9)

There is no confessing "Jesus is Lord" without the Holy Spirit:

"Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost." (1 Corinthians 12: 3)

Because we have the Holy Spirit living within us, Christ lives in us (Colossians 1: 27), and by believing on Him, we become children of God (John 1: 12). In effect, we have now entered into the family, made one with God through His Son Jesus Christ:

"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." (John 17: 20-21)

and

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

"Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will."" (Ephesians 1: 3-5)

God is your Father, not just a far off being who loves you from a distance, but one whom you can approach in the most intimate manner, your "Abba" or "Daddy".

If we are in bondage to any fear, it is either because we do not know or believe the love that God has for us:

"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." (1 John 4: 16)

Do not fight with the fears that lie and say that God is not for you, or that your thoughts, words, deeds, past, present, future have offended God and have separated you from His love:

"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

"Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8: 38-39)

Do not dispute with the devil (Jude 9), but rebuke the lies with the Truth (John 8: 32):