See every single person has chains on them they may not be physical chains like Peter had
that are made of iron or steel but every single person on planet earth is chained up in some way
or somehow and Jesus is the only one that can set you free he can break every chain that binds us
some people feel that they are chained and they are not getting out of their chains
they're not the chains are so tight they are so thick you know they feel that they are
so lost that there is no hope for their life now a lot of people feel that way and
maybe it's because they have a certain problem maybe they're bound by alcohol
maybe it's an unforgiveness problem maybe somebody hurts you a parent or an old boyfriend or whatever
and you just can't let it go maybe it's a drug a problem a bondage to certain drugs and whatever
you have chains on your life and it feels like you will never get free from them and you seem
hopeless it doesn't matter how tight they are it doesn't matter you know how long that you've been
living that way it doesn't matter how hopeless you may feel in your life Jesus can set you free
and so the question is today do you want to be set free because Jesus is the chain breaker
he can break any chains he can set anyone free some people don't want to be set free they like
their sin they like what they're involved in and they're not looking for freedom but if you're here
today you want to be free you want these chains that are binding you to be set free you want to be
delivered I'm here to tell you Jesus can do it to you today he's it's available freedom is available
today through Jesus Christ think about what chain is binding you what what's mistake what sin is
holding you captive today see there's no middle ground in this you're either free or you're bound
you're not kind of in the middle you know you're either free or you're bound see I know what it's
like to be bound and I know what it's like to be free and I'll tell you what I'd rather be free
I'd rather have freedom I'd rather have the chains fall off of me just like they fell
off of Peter and those chains can fall off and you can walk out of here a new man a new woman
and not be bound anymore imagine what you could become without the chains that are limiting you
what could you accomplish without the chain of fear the chain of insecurity what kind of
relationship could you have without the chain of guilt anger feeling wrong about yourself
or how high could you go without that chain of negative words spoken over you people telling
you that you're not going to be successful that you don't have what it takes it's time
to step in to your freedom your destiny is too important your assignment is too great for you
to go through life bound what's holding you back does not have the final say the chain breaker
the most high God is working in your life right now he's about to shift things in your favor
you are not going to be a slave to sickness a slave to depression a slave to fear what are
you holding on to that's holding you back what are you holding on to that actually if you're
honest has a hold on you and what are you holding on to that has a hold on you that
the people around you who love you secretly or maybe not so secretly wish that you would let
go of what's weighing what is weighing you down because you refuse to let it go what's weighing
you down because you it's really up to you because you refuse to let it go and initially you thought
this would make your life better but actually it's just made your life more complicated what
is slowing you down what is slowing you down because you just won't put it down what are you
what are you holding on to what are you holding on to that you kind of feel compelled to keep hidden
you just don't want her to ever find out you don't want him to find out you don't want them to find
out if your kids knew you would just be humiliated if they found out at work if your friends knew if
he knew if she knew if your roommate found out I mean if they found out you would be so humiliated
but you keep dragging this thing around hoping nobody's going to find out and the truth is come
on they know something's up right what has the thing you're clinging to offered for you
what has the thing that you won't let go of sacrificed for you what price has this paid in
order to benefit you the truth is it's costing you why honor this why empower this why bow down to
this why make something that's actually hurting me and the people I love why allow it to be my master
what are you holding on to that's holding you back
what are you holding on to that's holding your back holding you back from being able to have a
clear conscience with your father in heaven what are you holding on to that's holding you back
you owe it to yourself you owe it to your father in heaven you owe it to your future you
to just let it go so in addition to letting go of what's holding you back I hope that you will
take hold of the one who brought you back and bought you back Jesus does not leave us
in the in prison imprisoned in the in the in behind the bars that we've imprisoned ourselves in
he comes to set us free he comes to set the captives free and we're not always captive and
imprisoned by something externally we're usually imprisoned by a belief that has held us back
from all that God has for us you have to refuse to let moments become mindsets things are going
to happen in life but you can't let that moment become your mindset you can't let what happened
to you in that moment that trauma that accident that tragedy that that thing somebody did to you
the failure that somebody uh committed against you the sin that somebody committed against you
you can't let that moment become a mindset you can't let what somebody did to you to become the
expectation of how your life is going to be going forward you know every one of us has bad moments
every one of us has moments where somebody has hurt us where we've hurt ourselves where we've
made a terrible mistake almost a fatal flaw but there are no fatal flaws in Christ there are no
there are no flaws that will ruin your life forever when you're born again child of God
there's always hope the righteous can always get up when you fall you can get up God never gives
up on you hope will not disappoint because the love of God has been shed abroad in your heart
by the Holy Spirit listen to me though we must not let moments become mindsets just because something
happened in that moment just because something happened in that mistake you made don't let
that become the mindset don't set the temperature don't set the thermostat on expecting that to be
the way that you live the rest of your life you can't choose all the moments that happen to you
but you get to choose all the mindsets that you adopt in your thinking
listen you're more than a conqueror but there are many there every one of us have failed
every one of us have fallen every one of us has been conquered by something
but we're not letting that circumstance or that experience dictate what we believe we're letting
Romans 8:37 dictate what we believe we're more than conquerors because God said so we're more
than conquerors because of his love for us so that's what determines what we believe
a limiting mindset is a way of thinking that keeps you in bondage to your previous condition and
keeps you imprisoned to your previous condition I want to say something about being imprisoned
to things whether it's an addiction whether it's a way of of acting whether it's a habit whether
it's um an emotion some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside all it takes is their
perception that they belong there I'm going to say that again in a different way some prisons don't
require bars to keep people locked inside all it takes is their belief that they belong there
if you believe that you belong defeated you will be imprisoned to failure the rest of your life
even though there is no lock and there is no cell and there are no bars but it's a belief system
that imprisons us it's wrong thinking that imprisons us it's wrong mindsets it's wrong
believing that limits us what's limiting you today what are the beliefs that are limiting you today