Are you allowing yourself to be a HOSTAGE?

We have all seen movies on television where their was a hostage taken, someone was taken without their consent! This might seem like a weird question, but it is really a relevant question to a christian who is not experiencing a joyful, overcoming, winners attitude  life! A  right attitude in their thinking! I use that word because in someways many Christian's are trapped in their"wrong thinking", and"wrong belief" of who they are in Christ! Their thinking does not line up with how God wants them to succeed, how God loves them, and who they are in Christ. So who has taken them HOSTAGE?  The bible says in John 10:10- The thief comes to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

First of all if you don't believe Jesus himself quoted that verse, and, that it was a direct warning from him, then you are already a hostage in your  thinking! We corporate when we lower our thinking, and say I'm only human, it's only normal for me to feel this way or act this way. I can't stop myself from doing all these bad things, something just makes me do it.  If you get a doctors report that said theirs nothing they can do for me, and we say IF YOU SAY SO! These are total lies, and  you can stop them because of what JESUS did at the  cross and  his Resurrection!

Psalm 103:3- who forgives all your sins and HEALS ALL YOUR DISEASES
Psalm 91:9- If your make the Most High your dwelling even the Lord who is my refuge- then no harm will befall you


We must not embrace the mind set of defeat, Satan's" ONLY" authority into our lives rest on the fact that we start agreeing with our" circumstances" that try to defeat us. That is his inroad into our lives, and the only way he can attack a born again child of God! No one is alone, we all have struggles at times, BUT,First of all we must believe we have authority in the name of Jesus, and that Satan is defeated. He only has the power we give him, to twist things, and then believe things. That is why it  is so important to know what the word of God says in this area!

We need to take responsibility for our actions, and start acting like sons and daughter of the most high God. Christianity is not what we can get God to do- Its a finished work. We need to find out what He's done in the word, and reach out and take it! When we find ourselves saying I can't, I tried it, BUT, it's not working! That feeling of Powerlessness is a revelation of your unbelief - or ignorance, and you are defeated the moment you believe that. You have separated yourself from God, and are allowing yourself to be held Hostage in your thinking. Your missing your authority in Christ! Unlike a person who has literally been taken hostage in the natural, you can free yourself through believing what the word says and start speaking to your circumstances to change in the name of Jesus!


We should be atmosphere changers, not hostages in our own circumstances of defeat! We are alive and as born again sons and daughters of God,  their is a world of people out their who need to see the light in us, we need to start being bold.What goes in comes out, Jesus said it himself! Matthew 12: 34- 37 - For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks . The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted . and by your words you will be condemned. 

Whatever is in your heart will create the world you live in, our future is in our heart. That's what that verse speaks! HOSTAGE, OR FREE!

The good news is we can put Gods laws into motion and start persevering, resist the devil because he will flee James 2:6 says it. The law of hearing, the law of actions and the law of saying something. These are kingdom laws for us to act upon and see results

God won't force you to do anything, but we must cooperate, line ourselves up with His word. A good example, I like, is the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5:25-This woman suffered and was subject to bleeding, and was under the care of doctors. What this woman did, she put these spiritual laws into action, she first HEARD, FAITH COMES BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD.  Romans 10:17. Then she SAID, Mark 11:23- Whoever would say to the mountain, ,Proverbs 18:21- Death and life are in the tongue. Then she was aggressive, pushed through the crowd Matthew 11:12- From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it.

She wasn't going to let anything stop her from receiving her healing that day. This woman was not sized up by Jesus to pass approval, he didn't even know who touched him, but said "who touched me"? He made laws of gravity and they work when we put them into motion. He created laws how his power works - through putting into action His WORD. That is what this women did that day, and that is why it worked! We just need to do the same and not be Hostage to our circumstances!