So we have Freedom Day last Monday and after a week long Daniel fast  my head is spinning and I’m high on my own weightlessness and just about to walk into a deliverance experience.   I have two amazing discerning prayer peoples in the room and as we start to share suddenly I’m feeling investigated, exposed and uncomfortable. I get the revelation that this is going to be hard and that being broken is the price to pay for true freedom.

What does freedom look like?  We spends our days down here forming friendships in community with people who are not free but most desperately want to be according to the statistics.  Free from addiction, pain and suffering, prostitution, violence and homelessness and our message to them is freedom through salvation in Christ Jesus. But here I am, a christian in need of being set free from strongholds, what does that look like?

Although we are saved and marked by God for his purpose and will, we are still working out our salvation and moving each day more fully into God’s will.   I experience some good and bad manifestations which tell me I’m going deeper into being broken and closer to the Father’s heart. The more we move into God’s will for us the more the enemy comes up against us.  We need to be prepared for those spiritual confrontations and thus the need for deliverence.

Its a somewhat surreal experience, sometimes comfortable sometimes purely irritating.  But this is God heating up the soup, stirring the pot and needing me to come to the dinner table. Its also a layered experience, as God gently strips away these strongholds, He looks to me with complete love and compassion encouraging me to  fall into His arms as I realise  he is showing me the very needs at the  heart of our community.

Sylvia