“For freedom, Christ has set us free; stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”
The children of Israel had a problem. Actually, they had many problems. Coming out of Egypt, they attempted something they were not yet equipped and prepared to do. They came fresh out of the bonds of slavery and were led into the wilderness to become a great nation. This nation would include an educational system, religious system, judicial system, health codes, economic system and a standing army that would eventually cross over Jordan and take the land of promise.
As you know, only a few weeks into the journey, they blew it. Coming to the borders of Canaan, they declared themselves unfit for the task. Their exact words were: “We were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight” (Numbers 13:33). After seeing the great cities, high walls and giants that inhabited the land, they declared themselves unfit for the task. Turning around, they spent the next 40 years wandering in the wilderness until an entire generation died off.
What can we learn from them? Plenty! The root of many problems they portray is found in the fact that these people thought like slaves. The slave mentality dominated their thinking. They saw themselves as weak and hopeless. Therefore, when viewing the challenges that awaited them, they concluded that defeat was inevitable.
Life always seems unconquerable to a slave. Challenges always appear larger than they are. Victory is not in their vocabulary.
The subject matter of slavery cuts across everyone in Africa, either as Africans or foreigners living in the continent. Slavery as a concept is as old as man. If we look closely at the lives of slaves throughout human history, we find that the core characteristics of slavery are the same. Slavery means the loss of free will, it means that violence will be used to maintain control over the slave, and it means that the slave will be exploited, normally in some sort of economic activity, but possibly for sex or even as an object of conspicuous consumption.
Slaves may be kidnapped or captured, tricked into slavery, or born into slavery, but their lives will be controlled through violence and they will be exploited. Normally, the life of a slave is marked as well by the fact that they receive no payment for their work; only subsistence.
Prayer
* I release myself from any inherited bondage in Jesus name.
* O Lord, send your axe of fire to the foundation of my life and destroy every pillar/wall of slavery.
* Let the blood of Jesus flush out from my system every inherited satanic deposit in the name of Jesus.
* I release myself from the grip of any slavery power transferred into my life from the womb in the name of Jesus.
* I break and loose myself from every collective evil covenant that keeps me in the land of slavery in the name of Jesus.
* I command all foundational strongmen attached to my life to be paralysed in the name of Jesus.
* Let any rod of the wicked rising up against my family line be rendered impotent for my sake in the name of Jesus.
* I cancel the consequences of any evil name attached to my person in the name of Jesus.
* I break loose out of every inherited financial slavery in Jesus name.
* He that the Lord has set free is free indeed, I am free! Say it seven times
I decree as a prophet of God that every work of the devil in your life will be destroyed totally in Jesus’ name.
