08/19/2026
To be delivered from addiction, abandonment, anxiety, fear, rejection, or anything else that has kept us in bo***ge, we have to understand that true freedom begins with the Spirit of God.
We are made up of body, mind, and spirit, and what affects one area of our lives can affect the others. Addiction can affect the body. Trauma, fear, and rejection can affect the mind and emotions. And when we are spiritually empty, wounded, or disconnected from God, we may try to fill that emptiness with things that can never truly satisfy us.
That is why freedom isn’t just about stopping a behavior.
You can put down the drug and still carry the rejection.
You can stop drinking and still live controlled by fear.
You can leave a toxic situation and still carry the wounds from it.
You can change your surroundings without allowing God to change what’s happening inside you.
Jesus wants to make us free from the inside out.
Whether someone describes their bo***ge as addiction, anxiety, abandonment, pride, control, manipulation, or spiritual oppression, our focus should ultimately be the same: Jesus Christ is our Deliverer.
Freedom begins with surrender.
“Lord, I give You my mind.
I give You my body.
I give You my emotions.
I give You my wounds.
I give You my addiction.
I give You the things I understand and the things I don’t understand.
Search me. Heal me. Renew my mind. Fill me with Your Spirit and teach me how to walk in freedom.”
Romans 12:2 tells us to be “transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
God doesn’t only want us delivered from something—He wants us transformed into someone who knows how to live free.
That is where the journey begins: surrendering to God, allowing the Holy Spirit to expose what needs healing, renewing our minds through His truth, and learning day by day to walk according to His Spirit.
Body. Mind. Spirit. Surrendered to God.
Because deliverance isn’t only about getting something out of your life.
It’s about allowing Jesus to become Lord over every part of your life.
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
— 2 Corinthians 3:17