Welcome to Walking In Freedom! My name is Amy, and I have a growing passion to help others discover who they are in Christ and find freedom in becoming who God created them to be. I have an awesome husband and two very energetic little ones. This is a picture of my husband Kevin and I. (One of these days I hope to get a picture of all of us, but that is not easy to do. Someone is always running away!)
Luke 4:18-19 says, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Jesus has set me free in countless ways, and I want to share that with as many people as I can. He has healed and delivered me in ways that I thought were “just me” and impossible to change. He set me free, and He is STILL setting me free!
Can you relate to any of these thoughts?…
- “This is just the way I am. I don’t like it, but I just can’t seem to change!”
- “I can’t seem to stop falling into this particular sin, even though I hate it!”
- “I don’t know anyone else who struggles with this. I’m all alone in this.”
- “Why do I always feel this way?”
- “I hate this about myself.”
- “I feel like I’m living a lie.”
These are just some of the ways that you can recognize bondage in your life. When we give our lives to Christ, we become new creations. I didn’t realize for so long that I needed to know who I am in Christ and renew my mind in order to break free of the bondage I was in. I also never recognized what demonic oppression was and how it affected my life. I was stuck in so many areas, and I couldn’t figure out why. (Click here for my testimony.)
Do I live a perfect, struggle-free life now?
No. I’m realizing, though, that there will always be trials, days when I feel like I have messed up so badly that I would have been better off to stay in bed that day, times when it seems like God is so completely distant, and times when I feel like nothing has changed. My goal isn’t perfection, though, because that’s impossible this side of heaven. My goal is to keep my focus on Jesus and learn how to walk in the freedom that He has provided for me. I have many good days and bad days, failure and successes, but my ultimate goal is to keep my eyes on Jesus no matter what happens in my life, until the day comes when I meet Him face to face.
I have shared many stories with you in this blog, because I want you to experience the freedom that Jesus died for you to have. A lot of these things are not easy for me to talk about, because they can be quite personal. I am naturally a private person, and there’s no way I would have the courage to write this blog if it wasn’t for God leading me to do so! (Just ask my family!) Many of these things I thought I would never tell anyone, but then I began to realize that God was asking me to share them with others in order to draw them to Him and help set others free. I am also so blessed to have such a supportive husband, family and pastors who have given me their blessing to share this journey of mine with you.
John 8:36, “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed”.
~Amy
