Chain Breaker

“Fear is faith in the Enemy” In this message, Louie Giglio talks about possibly the most universal chain yet, the chain of fear. So many of us live bound up in this chain, allowing it to dictate how we spend our days. The truth is this if we are bound up in fear, we are not walking in the freedom that Jesus purchased for us at Calvary.

“God wants to cultivate in us a new mindset of stewardship instead of ownership.” God wants us to live fearless and free, and one of those things is living free from debt. By shifting our mindset away from ownership of our finances, and towards the reality that God has entrusted us to be good stewards over it, we’ll begin to see Him working through our lives in ways we didn’t know was possible.

God desires for us to have margin in our lives financially so that we can live generously and leave a wake of generosity for others. This week, Louie Giglio reminds us of the difference between living at the forefront of God’s plans for us versus living reactionarily at the tail.

What have you allowed to DEFINE you? Is it who God says that you are, or is it the memory, the guilt, or the shame of your past mistakes? Many of us walk around daily carrying a chain of shame, preventing us from walking in the freedom that was purchased for us at the Cross. But the pathway to freedom is open to all in the covering of Grace. After all, grace redefines us from failure to family.

Bitterness, comparison, envy; these chains are some of the most deadly that we can find ourselves bound up in. We feel as if we aren’t good enough, and so we look at people who seemingly have it all and begin to resent both their gifting and our own, along with the God who gave out those giftings. Aaron Coe wants us to realize the true danger of bitterness, that if we let it in, it will creep into the deepest parts of us and eat away at our souls. But there is good news. Jesus came not only to bring us from death to life but to give us life in the full. He has conquered each and every chain, including the deadly chain of bitterness, and we can look to Him to walk free of it forever.

There are things that we have to walk away from in life. Chains that will bind us up despite the freedom given to us in Christ, and if we aren’t willing to let them go, will keep us from living in the fullness of God’s plan for our lives. In this message, Brad Jones wants us to not only realize what chains of bitterness we are holding on to due to the actions of people, but the chains of bitterness are we holding in regards to our relationship with God.

For a lot of us, the thing that’s keeping us from living fearless and free is that we are chained to the past. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”2 Corinthians 5:17 The enemy will attempt to use the chain of our past to keep us from fully stepping into the freedom that Jesus is offering. Our past is much more of a weapon to be used to tell the story of who Jesus is than it is something that we should be ashamed to talk about. The invitation to freedom and empowerment is on the table. Let go of the chain of your past and step into it.

Jesus has come to set you free. How many of us really are living in the truth? The truth is that long before we were born our fight came to an end. Are we walking in the reality that Jesus won the war, that our chains are broken and dealt with, and that we are truly free? What do you do when you doubt God? In the first message of our Chain Breaker series, Louie Giglio looks at the chain of Doubt and the One who is able to break this chain along with every other, Jesus.