Many people aren’t sure what God wants for them. But it’s really quite simple: God wants us healthy, whole, well provided for and enjoying life to the fullest! That’s why He wants us free from any kind of bondage. Bondages, be they paralysing anxieties, depression or addictions, only rob us from enjoying all that He has in store for us.

My friend, God so wants you to live a life of freedom and victory that it moved Him to send His beloved Son, Jesus, to die on the cross for you so that you may live an abundant life. Today, if you are not experiencing this abundant life because you are in bondage to something, I want you to know that Jesus is your answer. His gifts of abundant grace and righteousness are what you need to empower you to break free from whatever is holding you captive!

I have received many testimonies from people from various parts of the world, who eventually found true freedom from their bondages through the Lord’s abundant grace and gift of righteousness. Some of them were bound by addictions — to pornography, alcohol, nicotine and drugs — while many were simply defeated and paralysed by depression, fears, guilt and condemnation.

What they shared with me about their struggles and pains confirmed what I have always believed: No Christian likes to sin, let alone be hopelessly chained to one. The Lord calls us His sheep, and no sheep — even a lost one — likes to wallow in mud. Also, every one, Christian or not, longs to live free from defeatist thoughts that hold them back from living a purposeful and powerful life.

The Pain Of Addiction

Frustrated, yet unable to help themselves, these people told me how they were bound for 10, 20, 30 years, some practically their whole lives, before they were set free. The shame and condemnation they felt were often so overwhelming that many of them became depressed and suicidal. Some even started to develop sicknesses and marital problems as years of substance abuse and self-condemnation took a toll on their bodies and marriages.

These folks also told me how they hated living in such captivity and seeing what it was doing to themselves and their loved ones. It was only when they discovered and leaned on the grace of God to deliver them that they found lasting freedom. As these precious people heard and kept hearing about God’s abundant grace and the gift of righteousness that was theirs through Christ’s finished work, their addictions supernaturally fell away, and a welcome sense of wholeness and joy replaced the emptiness, frustration and shame.

Finally Free

Let me share with you a few of the testimonies that I have received in the last 12 months alone (I have left their names out to protect their privacy).

A brother from California in the United States (US) wrote, “My marriage was not going well. I was in bondage to pornography and had gotten into Internet affairs without my wife’s knowledge. We quarrelled a lot — several times a day about almost everything… But when I heard you ministering on what Jesus did at the cross for me, I felt a heaviness inside me just leave. Not long after that, my wife said that I looked different and talked differently. I have not had a desire to watch porn ever since… My wife and I have had a 180-degree turnaround in our relationship — we now enjoy great conversations and have had very few disagreements since the release. We have been married for 41 years, yet it feels like we just got married yesterday.”