1 John 5:4 “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
DAILY READING; Matthew 10, Leviticus 5; Proverbs 21
Alice Marie Johnson is author of the book ‘After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom’ . This book is the story of how unshakeable faith in God set her free from a lifetime imprisonment.
Alive was a wife, and a mother who had a respectable job. But her world turned upside down when she suddenly lost her job. As she faced a financially tumultuous period, she began to help drug sellers distribute drugs as a way of paying off her mounting debts. In 1996, she and her daughter, were arrested for involvement in a cocaine trafficking organization.
In this time of trouble, Alice turned to God promising to serve Him if only He would let her daughter be set free. God answered her prayers and the charges against her daughter were dropped. In keeping to her promise Alice began serving God, even though she had received a life sentence for her criminal activities.
Locked behind bars, prison officers told her that she would not leave prison until she died. But she refused to believe them, rather she focused on God’s Word and His promises of deliverance.
One day she had a dream where she was set free from prison and also other prisoners told her about having dreams of her release from prison in which the media covered the event.
Alice became an ordained minister in the prison and helped to mentor other imprisoned women.
In 2017, she was selected by Google to speak from prison at a YouTube Summit on criminal justice reform. After the program, Alice was asked to do a short video opinion editorial. This video immediately went viral and was eventually brought to the attention of President Donald Trump. He granted Alice clemency in 2018 and she was freed from the prison in a media covered event that was aired nationally. Alice’s dream of freedom eventually came to pass through her reliance on God’s Word .
Alice’s story displays the power of faith.
Certainly, what we believe is what we receive in life.
There is, therefore need for us to grow in knowledge of God’s Word to obtain the faith that will establish our freedom from every form of bondage.
Christ has obtained mercy and deliverance for us at the cross. Therefore refuse every negative condition the enemy tries to impose on you. Perhaps the enemy is telling you that you will remain in the prison of sickness, poverty, unemployment, loneliness etc.. Refuse and refute those negative reports. You are serving the miracle-working God, who can do inexplicable wonders. As long as you have faith anything is possible in your life.
No matter how inescapable or insurmountable any obstacle, through faith there is victory for you.
Don’t accept that you will live in any bondage for the rest of your life. Perhaps they have said in your lineage certain negative traits obtain, but as a Blood-bought child of the living God, believe that your case is different.
Life is essentially a warfare adventure. Therefore be determined to fight the good fight of faith to obtain your freedom. Because faith comes by hearing the Word, make the decision to begin reading, meditating and listening to the Word, until your thoughts and actions are controlled by God’s Word. As you begin to move by faith, no barrier, oppositions or limitation will be able to stop you. And it is only a matter of before you break out of every captivity and begin to live the fruitful life that God has ordained for you.
PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for the eternal victory You have given me through faith in Your Word. Today, I declare my freedom from every bondage and receive Your glorious plans and the greater open doors have ordained for me in Jesus Name.
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True success is not verifiable in the fact a man has never fallen before but rather in the fact that he did not only fall but also got up- WORDBITE 222 .
Shalom!
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