I am free!

Ok so sorry to any of you who have already read this on facebook ... =)

Last night at Alpha (our church's youth/young adults gathering) we were singing "I Am Free" and I was thinking about the lyrics and how I should do what I am saying. So here they are:

Through You the blind will see

through You the mute will sing

through You the dead will rise

through You all hearts will praise

through You the darkness flees

through You my heart screams 'I am free'

I am free

I am free to run (I am free to run)

I am free to dance (I am free to dance)

I am free to live for You (I am free to live for You)

I am free (I am free)

yes, I am free (I am free)

I am free!

I am free to run (I am free to run)

and I am free to dance (I am free to dance)

I am free to live for You (I am free to live for You)

I am free (I am free)

yes, I am free (I am free)

through You the kingdom comes

through You the battle's won

through You the price is paid

through You all hearts will praise

through You there's victory

because of You my heart screams 'I am free!'

As we were singing this, I thought about how I was singing about being free to dance, but I didn't really feel like dancing. I knew that I was free to dance, but a thought was running through my head that I was just as equally free to not dance, so why should I have to? Why should I have to get out of my comfort zone and do something that I'm not particularly feeling like doing at the moment? God understands that I love Him even if I don't feel like dancing. And espectially since most people aren't currently dancing. I don't want to look like a fool, afterall. But then God invaded my self-absorbed thoughts and asked me why I was free. See, if I'm free, then I must have been a captive of something. I don't wake up in the morning screaming: "I'm free of sleep!" If you know me at all, you know that I LIKE to sleep. So to be free, He asked me what I'm free of. And then showed me: I'm free from the chains of sin and death! I'm free from the enemy having my destiny. I am not bound for hell and death, I'M FREE! I'm free to dance because He has given me strength and life; He has put breath in my body and supernatural joy and peace! He has turned my mourning into dancing! Through Him the blind WILL see! Not maybe! Through Him the mute WILL sing! Through Him the dead will rise! Through Him all hearts will praise! It's because of Him and ONLY Him that my heart screams that I am free! This should not have been a song that I stood quietly by and just clapped my hands and sang. This song proclaims the goodness and mercy of GOD! He is a loving Father who gives His children good gifts.

I remember when I was younger my parents always wanted to give us the best things, the things that they weren't able to have when they were younger. Only sometimes they weren't able to do so; we didn't really have a lot of money growing up. But if we really wanted something that was good for us they would do their best to be able to get it for us. My GOD owns all the cattle on the hill! He has no limitations; He owns everything in the world anyway. He is a good God who delights in His people! He could have set the world in motion and then said "well, have fun screwing up your lives" but He didn't. Oh, how He LOVES us!! Instead of me trying to get myself into the song and trying to start dancing, there should have been people trying desperately to get me to stop! Through Him the kingdom comes! Through Him the battle is WON! Through Him the price for my salvation, freedom, healing, redemption, you NAME it, is PAID! Through Him I'm not afraid! No weapon formed against me shall remain! ARE YOU GETTING THIS?!

I

AM

FREE!

Guys if Jesus doesn't inspire you to dance and to shout because of who He is and what He has done, if it doesn't make you want to change your life and worship Him because of who He is, then I doubt that you've ever really had an encounter with His love. I don't have to look at Him and say "ok, eyes. look at Him with love. Come on, you can do it." I can't look at Him with anything BUT love! I have to dance! I have to shout! Because I am so in love with Him that to not express that love is to deny the very core of who He is and what He has done in me! You can't smack the loving out of me, I am in love with my Savior!