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Beth Moore, Breaking Free Session 3 video notes

"satan sets the free captive through lies; Christ sets the captive free through truth" (54)

Psalm 40:11

"Withhold not Your tender mercy from me, O LORD; let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me."

Psalm 145: 18

"The LORD is near... to all who call on Him in truth."

My truth (environment + experience) is incomplete; I don't even know all my own truth.
My truth is subject to perception.
My truth + satan's lie that God MIGHT tolerate me= captivity (54-55).

God's truth is more powerful to free me than my truth is to keep me in bondage (55).

My truth + God's truth = FREEDOM!



Develop/Adopt a "God-glorifying attitude" (61).

God wants to
- get to my heart
- free me from hindrances in my past
- treat me with His Word
- set me completely free
- bring me out of dark closets
- help me with constraining problems
- make me strong in Him

Pride
- covers my heart
- refuses to look back
- doesn't like being told what to do
- thinks I am free enough
- says secrets are nobody else's business
- denies there is a problem
- won't admit weakness (63).

Rolling away the boulder of pride:

View pride as a vicious enemy.
Proverbs 11:2, Amplified: "When swelling and pride come, then emptiness and shame come also; but with the humble (those who are lowly, who have been pruned or chiseled by trial, and renounce self) are skillful and godly Wisdom and soundness."

View humility as a friend.
James 4:6, 10, Amplified: "But He gives us more and more grace (power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully).... God sets Himself against the proud and haughty, but gives grace [continually] to the lowly (those who are humble enough to receive it).

Humble myself before God
"... humility is not something [I] have until humbling myself is what I do" (64).... [I] choose to humble [myself when I submit] to His greatness every... day" (64).

Psalm 16:7, 11

"I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel; My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.... You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore."

How do I record this as a prayer or as a "calling those things that be not as though they were? "I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.... Uphold my steps in Your paths, That my footsteps may not slip."

Isaiah 43:10-11

"You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know Me, believe Me, and remain steadfast to Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the LORD, and besides me there is no Savior."




Week 3

"'Help me overcome my unbelief!'" (58)

Isaiah 57:15, Amplified

"For thus says the high and lofty One--He Who inhabits eternity Whose Name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, but with him also who is of a thoroughly penitent and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the thoroughly penitent [bruised with sorrow for sin]."

5 major obstacles to God's might work:

1. unbelief
2. pride
3. idolatry
4. prayerlessness
5. legalism

Again, calling those thing that be not as though they were, "O LORD, [I] wait [expectantly] for You; [my] heartfelt desire is for Your Name and for the remembrance of You."