T. D. Jakes - Woman, Thou Art Loosed! Devotional

Woman, Thou Art Loosed! Devotional
Copyright 1997
T.D. Jakes

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To all the women across the world who
have received healing and restoration through the
Woman, Thou Art Loosed! message.
Your healing has made my life more meaningful.
It is my prayer that this devotional will assist you
in keeping the chains of the past from
refastening themselves in your life.
When all is said and done, you are a significant part
of the pulsebeat of Gods divine purpose in the earth.
Maintain your focus, and whatever you do...
keep moving!

CONTENTS

Introduction

ITS TIME FOR YOU TO BE LOOSED!

Someone once said to me, I heard about your Woman, Thou Art Loosed! presentation. The Bible tells us that in Christ there is no male or female. You ought to just preach, Thou Art Loosed! I said to this person, I think Im going to continue to say what Jesus said. And what Jesus said is, Woman, thou art loosed!

One of the issues that we must come to grips with is that those of us who are born again do not have a problem in our spirit. If we have been truly born again, our essencewhat I call our is-nesshas been changed. We have been given an incorruptible nature in our spirit and we are forever changed.

The problem lies in our soulthat part of us that gives rise to our minds, emotions, memories, affections, and desires. If we were only spirit, we would have no need to be loosed of anything once we were born again. But we are not just spirit. We still live in a fleshly body and we have a worldly soul that needs to be transformed. That is a process that continues after our salvation experience.

Some of those things that tie up a woman in her soul are directly related to her feminine heart. They are part of her feminine nature, not her spirit.

God wants to loose something in the souls of women today. Theres something He desires to set free. I believe that today is the day God wants to loose you in your heart,

your attitude,

your emotions,

your spirit,

your finances,

your marriage,

your work,

your ministry,

your praise.

He wants you to experience a freedom in Hima freedom from temptation,

sin,

guilt,

things that are past,

relationships that are over

in order that you might LIVE.

God has a healing for your thoughts,

your emotions,

your attitudes.

He desires to heal you completely.

And then once you are loosed and made whole, His desire is that you never,

ever,

ever,

ever

go back into

bondage again.

Jesus wants to make you whole.

Are you willing to let Him do His work in you?

An Unwanted Woman

Leah was the elder daughter of Laban and the older sister of Rachel. She was the ugly duckling in the family, the old maid. When Jacob went to work for Laban, he fell in love with Rachel and was willing to work seven long years to have her as his wife. Laban, however, tricked Jacob into marrying Leah first and then he required seven more years of labor from Jacob for Rachel. Leah was the unwanted bride, a woman scorned in favor of her beautiful, younger sister.

God, however, had a plan and purpose for Leah. He had created her for a divine role in His eternal plan, and when He saw that Leah was despised by Jacob, He opened her womb and allowed her to bear children. In all, she bore six sons and one daughterher sons became the founders of six of the twelve tribes of Israel.

From the Scriptures:

And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel .

Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured .

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter .

And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me .

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her .

And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her .

And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast .

And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her .

And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid .

And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the first born .

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years .

And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also .

And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid .

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years .

And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren .

And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben .

G ENESIS 29:1632

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YOU ARE A DESIGNERS ORIGINAL