Washed in Freedom

FEBRUARY 16TH 

I was laying in my bunk bed in Turrialba, Costa Rica, starring at the bottom of the mattress above me with “See A Victory” by Elevation Worship playing through my AirPods. The Lord revealed something to me that may be the biggest shift of perspective that I will ever have. 

The lyrics, “you take what the enemy meant for evil, and you turn it for good” washed over me. It was in that moment when the Lord showed me how many chains I had that needed to be broken. 

It was as if the Holy Spirit came and rested right beside me, gently stripped away all of my identity, and laid it out in front of me so that I could see how much of it was not from the Lord. He revealed to me all of the ways that I thought I was walking with Him, when I was really walking with the enemy.  It was also in that moment when I promised the Lord that I would no longer walk with the weight of the world on my shoulders, and I would no longer drown in the heaviness of the things that I had walked through, or more specifically, the things that Satan had done in my life. 

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MARCH 3RD 

I stood in the Pacific Ocean with the waves crashing against my hips. Tears streamed down my face as made the statement to 32 of my favorite people, “Satan has done so much in my life, but the Lord has done so much more. I am so tired of sitting in what the enemy has done and I am ready to worship the Lord for how much He has turned for good.” And then I was baptized! I made the declaration, the promise, to walk in freedom for all of my days. I was lowered into the water and the Lord permanently washed away all of those things that He had previously revealed about my identity and everything that I had been sitting in for so long.  

 

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FREEDOM!!!  

“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36

I came up out of the water, and I danced. I rejoiced in the freedom that I am covered in because of the blood on the cross. 

There’s nothing special about the water I stood in, it doesn’t hold a certain holiness or value to it, and going under it doesn’t really do anything. Being washed is where the life change happens. The Son HAS set me free. We are washed in His blood, the same blood that was on the cross, and it would be quite a shame to continue to wallow in the chains that He broke so long ago. 

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So my question to you is this:

What are you sitting in? 

What is it that’s preventing you from fully worshipping the Lord, from fully walking in the freedom that He washes us in? 

PHOTO BY DEVIN HELM!