Set the Captives Free

Scripture References:

Read Jeremiah 25, 29, Haggai 1 & 2, Gal. 5:1, Rom. 8:15

Is there any captivity, bondages (individual, family, ministry, city, and nation)? Praise God for His plan for the future and the way out of any bondage. Let HOPE spring forth. Thank Him that He has an expected end. Your latter days shall be greater than your former. Clap your hands and shout to God with a voice of triumph. Thank Him for shaking the latter loose and a special release of your latter.

In the spiritual realm, Jesus explained that when people know the truth, the truth will set them free (John 8:32). Actually it is the truth you know that will set you free. He Himself is the Truth (John 14:6). Jesus also declared that if He, the Son of God, set persons free, they would be truly free (John 8:36). Sin enslaves; Christ sets free.

The Apostle Paul pointed out that the law, when not properly understood, also enslaves. A mechanical sense of compulsion to obey the law binds and restricts one’s freedom. Christ loosens the hold that the law has on Christians (Gal. 5:1, 13). Set free from sin, the believer is able to choose service for God (Rom. 6:22). Using the phrase "the Lord’s freedman," Paul emphasized the spiritual freedom that belongs to believers (1 Cor. 7:22). The spiritual freedom of others becomes the concern of those who have been set free by Christ.

Declare the setting free from captivity for your family, city, state, region and nation! Decree the shifting towards righteousness and justice.

Romans 8: 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

Gal. 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Father, we thank you that corporately, together, we have the mind of Christ. Thank you for establishing Your mentality and Your way of thinking. We are learning to reproduce Your attitude and to release Your compassion. We governmentally decree what You have pre- ordained from eternity past. We declare “whom the Son has set free is free indeed.” Your freedom brings us out of captivity and out of bondage. So we release freedom and hope over ourselves, our families, our cities, and nations. We speak the Word of God upon all situations. We seek Your purposes. As we speak Your mind, we release angels to perform invisible functions that accomplish the Word. Thank You for hearing and answering, for commissioning and sending forth, for breaking bands of captivity. You came to set the captive free and we declare it to be so in Jesus name. Amen.

WE ARE BLESSED TO BE A SUCCESS!!

Scripture References: Gen. 1:28, Neh. 13, Numbers 22-25, Deut. 28, Gal. 3:13-14, Eph. 1:3.

Know that you have been blessed. What God has blessed cannot be cursed. Remember the story of Balaam. Neh. 13:2 because they had not met the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God turned the curse into a blessing. Baalam could not curse Israel.

The word bless 1288 barak { baw-rak’} 1293 B^erakah { ber-aw-kaw’} 3107 makarios {mak-ar’-ee-os} 2127 eulogeo { yoo-log-eh’-o} means to praise, salute, evoke praise, to cause to prosper, to make happy, to bestow blessings on, to be favored of God. To bless means to invoke the divine favor on, to bestow happiness, prosperity or good things of all kinds; to make a pronouncement holy; to consecrate, to extol for the excellencies received or to glorify for the benefits bestowed.

Turn on the light of God’s word by declaring the Blessings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and our Messiah Jesus. The truth is that we have been blessed from the foundations of the world. Gen. 1:28. The first sermon words of Jesus were, “Blessed.” Matt.5:3.The Lord is adding wisdom weapons to our spiritual warfare arsenal at this time. Invoking the power of blessing is one of the areas He is going to illuminate for us. POWERFULLY DECLARING "BLESSINGS!" Release the electric presence of the Holy Spirit to move around the room by declaring "Blessings!" Yes, greater is the power of the blessing than the power of the curse!

Gal. 3:13-14 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

(Eph 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Thank You, Father, that I am blessed when I come in, I am blessed when I go out. I’m the head and not the tail, above and not beneath. I am the righteousness of God in Christ and I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me I am a winner and not a loser! I’m more than conquerors. I’m walking in favor with God and man and in every good thing from God. My body operates in perfection, just the way God ordained it to and I’m walking in divine health. My God will supply all of my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose. I love God and I am called according to His purpose. Lord, You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is fullness of joy and at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Clear Vision, Pure Hearts and Tongues.

Psa 19:14) Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Scripture References: Numbers 13-14, In the book of Numbers the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years and died, not because they were lost, but because they legislated through heir own mouths the duration of their wanderings Scripture clearly reveals that the 40 year wilderness journeying occurred as a result of their ensnaring words, their negative and ungrateful chatter, their complaining and fear- filled words.

Heb. 1:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him., Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible., Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Do not allow unbelief and fear to prevail in your vision. Ask the Lord to allow you to see in a new way. Ask the Lord to break old cycles that have held you captive and have kept you from crossing over into the fullness of God’s plan and destiny. Declare that you will have a Joshua and Caleb spirit, daring and unfailing faith. Speak faith-filled words. Call things that are not until they are.

Thank you Father, that the eyes of You, Lord run, to and fro throughout the whole earth in order to show Yourself strong in behalf of me whose heart is fully blameless towards You. You reward me because I diligently seek You. You who call me is faithful, and You will do it. I will fulfill my days upon the earth and complete my purpose, destiny, my plan, the future and the hope that You, God think toward me. I'm not lukewarm. I'm not a compromiser. I'll not be conformed to this world. I'm not a loser; I'm a winner. I'm a partaker of Your divine nature. You, God, indwell my spirit, soul and body. I run the race to win. Your grace is sufficient for me. Your power is made perfect in weakness. I will fear no evil for You, Lord are with me, and Your Word and Your Holy Spirit comfort me. (Psalms 23:4) Oppression, fear, and terror will not come near me or my family. (Isaiah 54:14) Instead I speak Your Word over every situation.

I will and We will:
· CALL forth the army that will go forth as a burning fire across the earth to make ready the way of the Lord.
· SUMMON those who are willing to launch out into the deep to cast the net into the sea as fishers of men.
· GATHER the gatherers to the fields that are white unto harvest, inviting the church to come and hear the truth.
· DECLARE the urgency of this Day through the voice of many waters, as the people of Zion speak with clarity and unity the purposes of God.

EYE OF THE NEEDLE, GOD‘S OPEN DOOR

Press through in that hard narrow place or situation that seems overwhelming.


Read Matt. 19:23-24, Luke 18:25-27, Heb. 4:9-10, Phil 3:12-14, Rev. 3:7-8


Look at the narrow place in your life, the place of striving, and lay down all that God has given you in the way of agenda, talents, abilities, etc.; humble yourself and squeeze through. Enter into his rest and decree that you will be anointed to press through and enter into your new enlarged place, THE NEW DOOR God has opened to you, to give you all that is needed to accomplish your destiny completely. Decree that the season of frustrations and failures are over and you walk in a season of prosperity and success. Old things have passed away and behold all things have become new.


(Matt. 19:23) Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.24 “And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”


(Luke 18:25-27 ) For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich one to enter into the kingdom of God. And the ones who heard said, And who can be saved? And He said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.


(Php 3:12-14) Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.


(Heb 4:9-10) So then there remains a rest to the people of God. For he who has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His.


(Rev 3:7-8) And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts; and shuts and no one opens, says these things: I know your works. Behold, I have given before you an open door, and no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My Word and have not denied My name.


Father, I thank You that You know our works; You have set before us an open door and no one can shut it. I pray, Lord, that our service in this may be acceptable to You and to Your saints, and that we may be given effective utterances and speak boldly as we ought to speak. We pray that we walk in wisdom and we declare that the increasing favor of You, Lord, is preceding us for we blessed and are highly favored with You and with man.


Dr. Mary Sue Davis