Jesus Christ revealed to His followers that there is joy in the presence of the angels of God when one sinner repents. If angels rejoice when a sinner is released from the shackles of sin and death, human beings should do the same. The Church is becoming so materialistic that it is losing its joy over spiritual things and souls. We must rekindle our joy in spiritual things.
Luke 4:18-19
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
We are in the days of the Jubilee. Our sins are forgiven, we are free from bondage, our diseases are healed and our lost possessions are restored to us. 1I wish to admonish believers that we have reasons to shout. The sound of Jubilee is loud and clear. We cannot continue looking defeated. We are not guilty rebels any longer. Our sins, no matter how grave, are forgiven. The words of Jesus Christ – “neither do I condemn thee” – are re-echoing in our time. It is wrong to hold others’ sins against them when God has freed us from ours.
Bitter and unforgiving believers are making the Church toxic. We must release those who have sinned against us. We should go a step further and release people who owe us money and other things if we can. If we owe things to people we should believe in God to release us from indebtedness. Believers must exercise faith in God to become debt free. In this Jubilee season, we are empowered and blessed to owe no man anything but to love people.
Prayer: Pray that the Lord will put in you a greater desire for spiritual things.
Recommended Reading:
“The Jubilee” by Eastwood Anaba
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