Ephesians 1:7
“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”
• DAILY READING – 1 John 4; Ezra 1-2; Psalm 91
THE evil of slavery, which had previously been eliminated by the British, returned to Sudan during the country’s nineteen-year civil war. The Sudanese government backed and armed militia from the North to raid towns to capture children and women, mostly Christians, who were then held in conditions of slavery in western Sudan and elsewhere. By the early 1990s reports of this slavery began trickling out to the international community. At first the reports were found hard to believe by western countries. However John Eibner, an official at Christian Solidarity International, a group dedicated to fighting the persecution of Christians took action. In May 1995, defying the Sudanese government, he persuaded reporters from around the world to make the dangerous and illegal journey into Sudan’s “no go” areas to document the slave trade. The series “Witness to Slavery,” published in June of 1996, shocked Western officials and human-rights advocates. However, world outrage and economic sanctions did little to diminish the slavery. John Eibner came up with the idea of paying money to buy back these Christians sold into slavery. Raising money for slave redemption became a focus of activity in many Churches, public schools, nonprofit agencies, relief groups, and missionary organizations. These people held in bondage were bought back in large batches and then set free. The organization called the process “slave redemption.” Through this, many of these Christians were set free from the shackles of slavery to once again live as free citizens.
Spiritually we were held in slavery until Christ came and paid the price of His precious blood to set us free.
Ephesians 1:7 says “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”
The word “redemption” means “the act or process of buying back”. The blood of Jesus is the cost of our redemption.
Jesus paid the price for you to walk out on the devil and every form of slavery. Our redemption is a spiritual, comprehensive insurance for a life of dignity. It covers all areas of human endeavors. John 8:36 says ‘For whosoever the son of man has set free, is free indeed’.
Your redemption represents a change of status that places you far above all principalities, power and dominion. Through the blood of Jesus you are truly set free from every form of suffering, shame and reproach of slavery. You are not born again to suffer again, you are born again to reign in life. Therefore approach issues of life and spiritual battles with the consciousness of being a freeborn and conqueror through the shed blood of Jesus. You can no longer be held by the shackles of sickness, poverty or any evil harassment. You are free indeed. Be conscious of the image of God you carry. Walk everyday in the reality of it.
It is this consciousness that will make you become an unshakable, immovable, triumphant and ever winning child of God.
PRAYER: Lord, thank You for the redemption I have through the shed blood of Jesus. Please enable me to drop every slavery mentality and walk every day in the full consciousness of my redemption and victory in Jesus Name. .
QUOTE
When God places His hand upon a man in life nothing can come against him, this is because the gifts and calling of God are without repentance
[CULLED FROM THE BOOK SUPERNATURAL LOVE OF GOD