March 7
FROM FETTERS FREE
"The Lord looseth the prisoners" Ps. 146:7
He has done it. Remember Joseph, Israel in Egypt, Manasseh,
Jeremiah, Peter, and many others. He can do it still. He breaks the
bars of brass with a word, and snaps the fetters of iron with a look.
He is doing it. In a thousand places troubled ones are coming forth to
light and enlargement. Jesus still proclaims the opening of the prison
to them that are bound. At this moment doors are flying back and
fetters are dropping to the ground.
He will delight to set you free, dear friend, if at this time you
are mourning because of sorrow, doubt, and fear. It will be a joy to
Jesus to give you liberty. It will give Him as great a pleasure to
loose you as it will be a pleasure to you to be loosed. No, you have
not to snap the iron band: the Lord Himself will do it. Only trust
Him, and He will be your Emancipator. Believe in Him in spite of the
stone walls, or the manacles of iron. Satan cannot hold you, sin
cannot enchain you, even despair cannot bind you, if you will now
believe in the Lord Jesus, and in the freeness of His grace, and the
fullness of His power to save.
Defy the enemy, and let the word now before you be your song of
deliverance: "Jehovah looseth the prisoners."