You Are A Deliverer

It is said that the decleration of Independence and the Bill of Rights made us free, but I know that Jesus Chrsit made me free over 2,000 years ago.

We need to realize that we cannot be a deliverer on this earth while sitting around doing nothing. When God commanded the Israelites to cross the Jordan River, they had a part to play in receiving God’s deliverance. The Jordan River was flooded, and its raging waters seemed impossible to cross.

But the Israelites didn’t sit down on the banks of the river and twidled their thumbs, waiting for God to do something so they could cross over. If they had, they would never have entered the Promised Land. No, Joshua told the priests to take the Ark of the Covenant and step out into the flooded river.

I just stopped by to tell you New Commandment that if you want to see God move in your life, in your church, in your home, in your community you need to step out into the flooded river. The tempest may be raging, the billows may be tossing high, the skies may be overshadowed with blackness, but if you call on the name of Jesus he will step out the deck of the ships of your life and say peace be still.

The natural circumstances hadn’t changed at all when the priests took the first step. Thr rushing waters still looked impassable. The people could have grumbled among themselves, saying, "What kind of leader is Joshua anyway?" They could have refused to obey Joshua’s orders because his orders didn’t make sense to the natural mind. But if the people had done that, they would never have entered the Promised Land and received their inheritance.

Instead, the Iseraliets did what Joshua told them to do. And the moment the priests stepped into the river, the waters divided. The Israleits walked across on dry ground because they chose to obey God’s command, regardless of what the natural circumstances looked like.

What did Joshua and the Israelites have to do? First of all, they had to believe God’s promise to give them the land. They they had to act on His Word. It is when they obeyed God’s command to actually enter and possess the land that God delivered their enemies into their hands.

In the same way, if you’re going to be one of God’s chosen deliveres and help win this generation to Jeus Christ, you must determine to believe what God’s Word says about who you are in Christ. Then you must act on that knowledge. As you do, God will use you as a vessel of his delivering power to set people free from the bondage of sin.

The bible says that as children of God, you can ask anything of the Father in the Name of Jesus and it will be done for you. It says you shall preach the gospel, lay hands on the sick and they shall recover, and cast out demons by the power of Jesus Christ.

You are a deliverer. It’s not just the preacher or the Sunday school teach whom God wants to use to set people free fron sin’s bondage. He wants to us you. Whether or not you are a minister, God has entrusted to you as a believer the ministry of reconciliation. You are to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and deliver people fron the kingdom of darkness through the poer of the Word.