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Liberty. If you could put the
will of God into one word, that would be the word. God wants people to
be free. Free from sin and sickness, poverty, oppression and every other
curse.
That freedom is what Jesus came to provide. He said, “The
Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the
gospel to the poor...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…” (Luke 4:18). That’s what He trained His
disciples to do. And if you’re a born-again believer, that’s what He
wants you to do too!
Some people say, “Well, I don’t know about that. That may not be God’s will for today.”
But
listen, the Bible says God never changes. He hasn’t changed His will
for the earth. He doesn’t do one thing awhile and then go do another
thing for a while. Jesus’ life was a perfect picture of God’s will 2,000
years ago—and it still is! That’s why He left instructions for us to go
and do the works that He did. That’s why He sent the Holy Spirit to
empower us to do them.
Jesus still wants to do the will of the
Father here on earth—but He does it through us. He has to work with us
until we’re willing to lay down our traditions and let Him do His thing.
That’s what the early Church did. They started out with a bang because
they did as Jesus taught them. Everywhere they went people became free.
Let’s
pray for the Church of today to begin to deliver the liberty of God to
the world. It’s time to quit questioning the will of God and start
carrying it out instead. He said the works that He did we would do also
and even greater works (John 14:12). It’s time for us to take up where
Jesus left off and set the captives free!
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