Ready to Break your Chains??

The Lord shared a wonderful revelation with me that I want to share with you. All of us have chains from which we want to be free—addiction to one thing or another, bad relationships that we know we need to leave behind, but just can’t, habits we can’t shake …

As a hobbyist horse trainer, the very first lesson I teach a horse is” the rope is greater than you.” I have to make sure that the horse understands that the rope will hold him and he must submit to its authority. One way to do this is to put a halter on a horse and tie him up to a tree and leave him. He fights and resists, but soon learns that he can’t go anywhere. Now I had one stubborn horse that broke the ropes, so I had to tie the rope up high putting him in an uncomfortable position where the rope had leverage instead of him—he learned it. All of them must … if you are going to make them lead on a rope. Once they learn this lesson, you can time them to a milk crate and they won’t go anywhere, not because they can’t, but because they think they can’t because “the rope is greater than he.”

God showed me that before we began to follow God, life taught us that the rope is greater than we are. Circumstances teach us that we can’t overcome poverty because of this or that, we can’t get an education because of this or that, etc. See, Satan has used events and everyday life to tie us to a lie that holds us in a place where we don’t belong. We have to understand our identity in Christ!

A 1,200 lb horse can easily break a well tied lead rope and/or a halter if he knows he can—even if it’s tied to a stationary object. How much easier is it for him to walk away if he’s tied to a light object? I once watched a spooked horse drag a basketball goal 300 yards in a matter of seconds—these animals used to be used to pull great weight—remember those days?

What is your identity and how do you get free?

There is another way to train horses—it’s of relationship. Certainly, you have heard of a horse whisperer—well that simply is a person that uses trust, love and relationship to train a horse. Funny thing about these horses, they don’t need a lead rope—they follow their trainers—because they trust them and know that the trainer will never demand anything from them they cannot do or that will hurt them. (Check out this link to see an amazing display of this type of horsemanship: Awesome Horsemanship)

This is the good news—Jesus came to set you free—and the way to do that is to follow him. He says in John 10:27 ”My sheep HEAR my voice, and I know them, and they FOLLOW me.” That means that He is talking to you and leading you … just follow Him. As you do, you will notice that whatever lie you were tied to is no longer holding you. Sure, it might get drug along behind you for a bit, but keep following and you will see it either break off or Jesus will come over and remove it himself. He is good like that :)

So get free my friends! God Bless!