Let my people go…

 Let my people go….

Yesterday right before my church services started, I watched, teary eyed, as three hostages were released from captivity of 400+ days…(praying that it will continue successfully)…and to make it more teary eyed, they were given into their mother’s arms…what a gift…a  promise of love and care…

Then, arriving at church, the pastor began a series on the book of Exodus…the Israelites leaving the capture/slavery of Egypt…into a land of promise after a sojourn in the desert…

Following that, parts of our family were  treated to a luncheon by friends from Mongolia…my husband’s first short term mission trip was to Mongolia shortly after they were freed from the Russian empire…few Christians, needing the gospel message after living in the darkness of godlessness, he was part of a team that showed the “Jesus Film” in various parts of the country from gers/yurts to walls on buildings, driving around in Russian jeeps, setting up projectors over and over again…the people “drank “ up the Word, the promises after decades of  a long drought…and many accepted Jesus as their Savior and still are…

These three events so fit together for me…the whole theme for the day was “let my people go”…letting captives free …whether from a hostage situation, slavery, darkness to light…God was working in each situation…just as He is each day…finding freedom in Christ over the darkness and deception of Satan…

Thank YOU…

 I will walk about in freedom,for I have sought out your precepts.

Ps.119.45

 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom.6.15-18,Rom.6.22-23

 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 

2Cor.3.17

 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

Gal.5.1

Jesus we need you…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvMEGoa7FLE

The people were singing this as the hostages were being released…

Bring them home…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A55H5oDLxOI