“In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were {sealed} with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory,” Ephesians 1:13-14.

As I was meditating upon the LORD, He spoke the word, “slave” to me, and as I begin to ponder on it, the LORD said to me that many are still in the bondage of sin and don’t even know it!

According to Strong’s Concordance, a Slave is properly, someone who belongs to another; a bond-slave, without any ownership rights of their own.

Ironically, 1401 /doúlos (“bond-slave”) is used with the highest dignity in the New Testament – namely, of believers who willingly live under Christ’s authority as His devoted followers. Metaphorically, one who gives himself up wholly to another’s will.

This can be both positive and negative in a sense that we can be yoked together in Christ or yoked together in sin! Leaving us to continually be in bondage or slaves to either the flesh or the spirit!

Many people wonder why they keep continuously walking in the same sins day after day and year after year well it is because they have {not} been completely delivered from the strongman of sin!

Let me illustrate this further. Who is powerful enough to enter the house of a strong man like Satan and plunder his goods?

Only someone even stronger — someone who could tie him up and then plunder his house, (New Living Translation). The strongman, of ungodly soul ties, that binds you to sin, things and people that will lead you into a world of decay and spiritual darkness!

There is no shame in being a slave, as long as you have the right master!

Paul opens his letter to the Romans by referring to himself as a “slave of Jesus Christ” (Romans 1:1) and his letter to Titus by calling himself a “slave of God” (Titus 1:1).

James opens his epistle the same way, “James, a slave of God and of the LORD Jesus Christ” (James 1:1).

Most translations say “servant” or “bond-servant” in these passages, but the Greek word doulas means literally, “slave.”

For, if any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new, (2 Corinthians 5:17).

So much friction and turmoil come when we wrestle with the flesh, instead of yielding to the spirit!

We have wars within and wars without, all because we choose to stay or remain in a place, when God desires for us to yield to the will of the Holy Ghost to give up.

Jesus hung upon the cross with two malefactors and He willingly yielded himself to the will of the Father while the bones of the other two malefactors had to be broken! Why?

Because their flesh fought dying and surrendering to the will of the Father!

If we want to become slaves to Christ, we must be willing to submit to His perfect and divine will for our lives in this season!

As I meditated upon the LORD I heard Him say, “Aren’t you tired of fighting?“

Many will testify that they are, but yet they find themselves right back under the spell of the enemy; instead of allowing God to guide them under His control!

“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me {free} from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending {his own Son} in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk {not after} the flesh, but {after the Spirit.} For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 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.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together,” (Romans 8:2-17 KJV).

I believe that the LORD wants His people to know that once we come to Christ in repentance and receive forgiveness for sin, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit who comes to live within us.

It is by His power that we are able to resist sinning and become slaves of righteousness.

For, we must commit ourselves as followers of Christ to grow and mature in our faith by reading and studying God’s Word each day and spending time in prayer with Him, or we will find ourselves more and more unable to stand in the power of the Holy Spirit and to resist the strongman of sin knocking on our door!

 

~ Apostle Geraldine Fisher

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Apostle Geraldine Fisher has a World-Wide-Social Media Net-Work Ministry. As a Missionary, God moved her into the Office of a Prophet, revealing to her the qualities of a True prophet, humility, humiliation, loving others, interceding in prayer, as she keeps her own life clean to accurately hear from God. Since hearing the audible voice of God calling her to ministry, she’s been called to intercede and pray for others in ministry as God speaks, instructs, directs and gives prophetic words for her to give to others. God promised He would bring her to sit and to learn before great men, all of which He did!

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