Saturday, November 1 2025

Be set free!

"When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity" ( Luke 13:12)

Once Jesus met a woman whose physical infirmity was quite obvious to everyone. For she "had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all" ( Luke 13:11).

Her story is important for us to reflect on because any of us may suffer from physically limiting conditions, perhaps clear to every one but also those not as obvious. And just as we see there was a spirit binding her, any person even in the present age could be bound by a spirit of some wicked and devastating form.

In this crippled woman's case there are two things that must catch our attention. First, this woman was bound for a good solid 18 years! This shows just how nakedly evil and brutal Satan can be once he gets hold of a target.
Secondly, we notice this woman came to a conscious realisation that there was a spirit crippling her, and the answer to her tribulation was to take the matter to Jesus.

Sometimes we can suffer needlessly with cancers binding us, and we imagine there is no escape, yet there is a way out. Yes, if you take the matter to Jesus. To come to that point one must concede there is a problem first. And then go to the Lord Jesus who is waiting to say, "Stand up, though art loosed!"

Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, just as you delivered the crippled woman, today I come and surrender my life to you and anything that might be pressing me down, for your complete deliverance, this I pray in Jesus's name.