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09/04/2026

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09/04/2026

This is our Free From Bo***ge study guide. We pray that it would be a blessing to you.
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09/04/2026

09/04/2026

DAY 5 — HEARING AND FOLLOWING THE SHEPHERD
Scripture
John 10:27 (KJV)
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”

Devotional Thought
Jesus gives us three powerful truths in this verse:
My sheep hear My voice.
I know them.
They follow Me.
Spiritual freedom is not merely about what we leave behind.
It is also about Who we choose to follow.
Jesus does not free us so that we can wander without direction. He frees us so that we can walk with Him.
The more time we spend in God's Word, prayer, worship, and obedience, the more familiar His voice becomes.
Hearing God's voice requires relationship.
Following God's voice requires obedience.
There will be times when our feelings tell us one thing and God's Word tells us another.
Freedom comes when we choose the Shepherd.
When He says forgive—we forgive.
When He says wait—we wait.
When He says move—we move.
When He says release it—we release it.
When He says leave something behind—we do not return to it.

Relevant Story — Following the Light Out
A group of people were trapped inside a building after the electricity failed. Everything around them was dark.
Someone standing near an exit had a flashlight and called out, “Follow my voice. I know the way out.”
The people could not see the entire path.
They could only see a little distance ahead.
Those who stayed close to the voice eventually reached safety.
They did not need to know every step in advance.
They simply needed to keep listening and following.
Sometimes God will not show us the entire journey.
He simply says:
“Follow Me.”
Freedom is found when we trust the Shepherd enough to follow His voice one step at a time.

Reflection Point
1. What is God telling me to do that requires my obedience today?
2. Hearing without following does not produce the life God desires for me.

Declaration
I am a sheep of God's pasture. I hear the voice of my Shepherd, He knows me, and I will follow Him.

Prayer
Lord Jesus, You are my Shepherd. Teach me to recognize Your voice more clearly. Give me courage to follow You even when I cannot see the entire path ahead. I surrender my desires, thoughts, habits, and decisions to You. Lead me into the liberty You have prepared for me.

CLOSING: WALKING IN FREEDOM
Being free from bo***ge is more than experiencing one moment of deliverance. It is learning to live every day according to the freedom Christ has provided.
Remember These Five Truths
1. Continue in the Word.
Truth exposes bo***ge and reveals freedom.
2. Stand fast in liberty.
Do not return to what Christ delivered you from.
3. Renew your mind.
Reject thoughts and desires that oppose God's Word.
4. Reject the wrong voice.
Every voice does not deserve your attention or obedience.
5. Follow the Shepherd.
Freedom is maintained through a continuing relationship with Jesus Christ.

Final Declaration
I am no longer a servant to the things that once controlled me. Jesus Christ has made me free. My mind is being renewed, strongholds are being pulled down, and every thought is coming into obedience to Christ. I reject the voice of the stranger. I hear the voice of my Shepherd, and I will follow Him. I will stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made me free, and I will not become entangled again with the yoke of bo***ge. In Jesus' name, Amen.

09/03/2026

DAY 4 — STOP LISTENING TO THE WRONG VOICE
Scripture
Genesis 3:1 (KJV)
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said…?”
Supporting Scripture
John 10:5 (KJV)
“And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.”

Devotional Thought
Bo***ge entered humanity when Adam and Eve began listening to the wrong voice.
Notice how the serpent approached Eve:
“Yea, hath God said?”
The strategy was to cause her to question what God had already spoken.
The enemy still operates in similar ways.
“Did God really say that?”
“Can you really trust Him?”
“Do you really have to obey?”
“Maybe doing it your way will be better.”
Every voice that speaks into our lives is not a voice we should follow.
The wrong voice can come through temptation, culture, other people, our emotions, or even our own unrenewed thinking.
Freedom requires spiritual discernment.
Before accepting what we hear, we must ask:
Does this agree with God's Word?
If a voice leads us away from truth, obedience, holiness, love, faith, and the character of Christ, we should not follow it.
Jesus said His sheep do not follow strangers.
They flee from them.

Relevant Story — The Counterfeit Call
A shepherd once explained that several flocks could gather around the same watering place. To an observer, it might seem impossible to separate them.
But when one shepherd began walking away and called his sheep, only his sheep followed.
Another shepherd called, and another group followed him.
The sheep had learned their shepherd's particular voice.
They were surrounded by many sounds, but they recognized the one voice that belonged to their shepherd.
The believer lives in a world filled with competing voices.
Freedom comes when God's voice becomes the voice we recognize above all others.

Reflection Point
1. Whose voice has the greatest influence over my decisions—God's Word, my feelings, other people's opinions, culture, or temptation?
2. I must stop giving authority to voices God never instructed me to follow.

Declaration
I will not follow the voice of a stranger. I reject every voice that contradicts God's Word.

Prayer
Father, sharpen my spiritual hearing. Help me recognize every voice that attempts to draw me away from Your truth. Give me discernment to distinguish Your voice from the voice of the enemy, the world, and my own desires. I choose to follow You. In Jesus' name, Amen.

09/02/2026

DAY 3 — FREEDOM THROUGH A RENEWED MIND
Scripture
Romans 12:1–2 (KJV)
“Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God… And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Supporting Scripture
2 Corinthians 10:4–5 (KJV)
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations… and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”

Devotional Thought
Some of the greatest battles for freedom take place in the mind.
Before bo***ge becomes an action, it often begins as a thought.
Thoughts become beliefs.
Beliefs influence choices.
Choices develop into habits.
Habits can eventually become strongholds.
That is why Paul teaches us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
We cannot continually feed our minds the patterns of the world and expect to live in the liberty of Christ.
We must stop yielding ourselves to outward desires that contradict God's will.
Not every thought deserves permission to remain in our minds.
Some thoughts must be challenged.
Some imaginations must be cast down.
Some memories must be brought under the authority of God's Word.
Some lies must be replaced with truth.
The believer's weapons are spiritual, and through God they are powerful enough to pull down strongholds.

Relevant Story — Replacing the Old Recording
A woman struggled for years with the belief that she would never succeed. Every time an opportunity came, an inner voice seemed to say, “You are going to fail.”
Eventually, she realized that this thought had been planted in her mind through painful words spoken over her years earlier.
She began deliberately replacing those words with God's truth.
Whenever the old message said, “You cannot,” she answered with what God had spoken.
Over time, the old recording became weaker because she stopped agreeing with it.
The situation did not change first.
Her thinking changed first.
Then her actions began to change.

Reflection Point
1. What thought have I been repeatedly accepting that does not agree with God's Word?
2. I cannot control every thought that attempts to enter my mind, but through Christ I can determine which thoughts I allow to remain.

Declaration
My mind is being renewed by the Word of God. I cast down every imagination that opposes God's truth and bring my thoughts into obedience to Christ.

Prayer
Father, renew my mind. Reveal every thought pattern that has become a stronghold in my life. Teach me to recognize thoughts that contradict Your Word. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, help me cast them down and replace them with Your truth. In Jesus' name, Amen.

09/01/2026

DAY 2 — STAND FAST IN YOUR LIBERTY
Scripture
Galatians 5:1 (KJV)
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bo***ge.”

Devotional Thought
Christ makes us free, but Scripture tells us that we must stand fast in that freedom.
This means freedom must be guarded.
There are things from our past that may attempt to pull us back into old patterns. The enemy would love for us to return to what Jesus delivered us from.
Paul uses the word entangled. Something that is entangled becomes wrapped up, trapped, or restrained.
Bo***ge often does not return all at once.
It begins with one compromise.
One wrong thought.
One wrong conversation.
One old habit.
One decision to return to something God already brought us out of.
That is why we must stand fast.
Freedom is not permission to return to bo***ge. Freedom is the ability, through Christ, to live according to God's purpose.

Relevant Story — The Bird That Would Not Leave
A bird had lived in a cage for years. One day its owner opened the cage door and left it open.
The bird walked toward the opening but quickly moved backward.
It had wings.
It had the ability to fly.
The cage was open.
Yet the bird had become accustomed to captivity.
Finally, it stepped through the opening, stretched its wings, and discovered that the sky had been waiting for it all along.
There are spiritual places God wants us to experience that cannot be reached while we remain comfortable with the cages of our past.
Christ has opened the door.
Now we must stand in the liberty He has given us.

Reflection Point
1. What am I tempted to return to that God has already delivered me from?
2. Freedom requires me to stop romanticizing the place from which God brought me.

Declaration
Christ has made me free. I will stand fast in my liberty, and I will not become entangled again with the yoke of bo***ge.

Prayer
Lord Jesus, thank You for making me free. Give me the strength to stand when old habits, desires, and temptations try to pull me backward. I refuse to return to what You have delivered me from. Teach me to walk daily in Your liberty. Amen.

08/31/2026

BEING FREE FROM BO***GE
A 5-Day Devotional
Theme Scripture
John 8:31–32 (KJV)
“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Bo***ge can be understood as being held, restrained, controlled, or placed in the position of a servant.
Liberty means freedom from restraint.
Jesus did not come only to forgive us—He came to make us free. Yet freedom must be understood, received, protected, and walked out daily. We can be physically free while still being bound mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or through unhealthy habits and desires.
True liberty begins when the truth of God's Word becomes greater in us than the things that once controlled us.
DAY 1 — KNOWING THE TRUTH THAT MAKES YOU FREE
Scripture
John 8:31–33 (KJV)
“If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Devotional Thought
Jesus connected freedom with continuing in His Word.
Freedom is more than having information about God. Jesus said we must continue, remain, dwell, and live in His Word. As we remain in His Word, truth becomes an unveiled reality in our lives.
The people speaking with Jesus believed that because they were Abraham's descendants, they had never been in bo***ge. Yet Jesus was revealing a deeper bo***ge—the bo***ge that can exist within a person's heart and life.
Sometimes we can become so accustomed to a pattern that we no longer recognize it as bo***ge.
Fear can become normal.
Anger can become normal.
Unforgiveness can become normal.
Negative thinking can become normal.
Wrong relationships can become normal.
But when God's truth enters our lives, it exposes whatever has been controlling us.
The truth does not merely show us that we are bound. The truth introduces us to the One who can make us free.

Relevant Story — The Open Prison Door
Imagine a man who had been imprisoned for many years. One morning, the prison guard came to his cell, unlocked the door, and told him, “You are free to leave.”
The man stood looking at the open doorway.
The chains were gone.
The door was open.
The sentence was finished.
Yet because he had lived behind those walls for so long, he was afraid to step outside.
His prison was no longer the locked door—it was now the way he thought.
Many believers experience the same thing spiritually. Christ has opened the door, but old thoughts, fears, habits, and memories try to convince us that we are still prisoners.
Freedom begins when we believe what Christ has declared concerning us.

Reflection Point
1. What has God's Word declared me free from that I may still be allowing to control my thinking or behavior?
2. I must stop identifying myself by my bo***ge and begin identifying myself by the truth of God's Word.

Declaration
I will continue in God's Word. I will know the truth, and the truth of Jesus Christ will make me free.

Prayer
Father, reveal Your truth to me. Show me every area where I have accepted bo***ge as normal. Help me continue in Your Word until my thinking, choices, and lifestyle come into agreement with Your truth. I receive the freedom Jesus has provided for me. In Jesus' name, Amen.

08/30/2026

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