Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (cross, wood),” in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:13-14.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
How is it that you have eternal life and how does that make you an overcomer even now?
These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
In Jesus, I have redeemed you from the curse of the law of sin and death and have blessed you with every spiritual blessing in Heaven. I have given you through redemption the blessing of Abraham (righteousness by faith, increase, and every good thing) and the promise of the Spirit (resurrection power in you unto healing, restoration and eternal life). And how do you receive all this? By faith. Galatians 3:13-14.
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is the one who overcomes the world, he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 1 John 5:4-5.
What does it mean to be redeemed?
Basically it means that someone pays the price to get you out of a bad and oppressive situation, such as release from slavery, debt, evil, and abuse, and by paying the redemption price, takes you out to freedom, abundance, goodness, and lovingkindness. And to define it as I do is as follows: TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE FROM HELL TO HEAVEN WITHOUT YOUR HAVING THE MEANS TO DO IT, BUT DONE BY ONE WHO DOES HAVE THE MEANS AND USES THEM TO YOUR BENEFIT. A FREE GIFT THAT SETS YOU FREE.
Jesus overcame for you and that makes you an overcomer because He paid for you—He paid your ticket to freedom at a very great price—His precious eternal blood poured out for you.
From Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood, and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Revelation 1:5-6.
And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins. Matthew 26:27-28.
To bring My people out from under the yoke of slavery, I had to redeem them. How did I do it? By the blood of the unblemished lamb. All they had to do was apply it over the doors to their dwellings and the ransom (the redemption amount) was paid to deliver them and shield them from destruction (the judgment).
“I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the LORD.” Exodus 6:6-8.
Do you see? Delivered from the burdens of bondage by redemption with My outstretched arm (to whom has My arm been revealed? Isaiah 53:1, Jesus is My strong arm of salvation by which I came down to redeem you) and receiving My redemption you become My people and I your God, and you shall all know Me from the least to the greatest for your sins and offenses I remember no more, they were all borne by Jesus in His own flesh on the cross, and I give you the promised land, My Kingdom, with joy. For the joy that lay before Him Jesus endured the cross and the grave to redeem you.
And He brought forth His people with joy, His chosen ones with joyful songs and a joyful shout. Psalm 105:43.
And everyone was healed on that night of redemption and came forth out of slavery as the redeemed loaded with silver and gold.
Then He brought them out laden with silver and gold, and among His tribes there was not one feeble who stumbled. Psalm 105:37.
So to repeat, how do you get redeemed when you are in captivity and cannot pay the price of freedom? Someone pays what you owe to get you out of oppression and evil that you could not pay. And what did your freedom cost? An eternal life given for the eternal life you lost. A life for a life is the law.
Adam, by murdering the eternal life that was in him by sinning in the flesh put all under the law of sin and death rather than the law of eternal life. And what is allowed in with the law of sin and death? The curse of that law is sickness, poverty (lack), and eternal death. It is exactly the opposite of what I had freely given as My Will for you in the abundance of the Garden of Eden, which was operating under the laws of the Kingdom of Heaven.
I have redeemed you, not because of your good works or your payment of the eternal life that was spurned by you in sin, but as My free gift to you because of the great love with which I love you whom I have made from within My deepest self. You were unable to pay. No man born of the corrupted seed of Adam had an eternal life to give. Lies corrupt and perish, only truth is imperishable and is forever. My Word, Jesus, is truth. In Adam’ rejection of the truth of My Word, from which he had been born and formed, he planted the perishable seed of the lie in his spirit and death came. Lies die only the truth lives forever. So through Adam death descended to everyone born of his line, which is all of you according to the flesh.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23.
To redeem you in justice cost Me a lot, but for you it is My free gift to you. What you have been freely given, freely give to others to redeem them as well. You have been redeemed from eternal death to eternal life, from sickness to health, from poverty to abundance, from all the curse of the law of sin and death (drought, famine, disasters, all disease, oppression, depression, abuse, mental and emotional illness, and so much more). Now go and do the same, tell everyone the good news of salvation, of redemption, of the freedom of My children, of eternal life. Let the redeemed say so. Psalm 107:2.
And how do you go out to do this in the face of opposition? The devil will oppose you, for he does not want to lose his hold on those he has taken captive to do his will who through lack of knowledge of redemption, and rejection of that knowledge, he is controlling many nations through deception. You overcome the world, the flesh and the accusations of the devil by the blood of the Lamb (Jesus) and the Word of your testimony! The good news of redemption and eternal life! Learn from the first Passover.
The answer to evil in the world is REDEMPTION. Enforce it. Is there none to say “Restore!”?
But this is a people plundered and despoiled; all of them are trapped in pits of destruction, or are hidden away in prisons; they have become a prey with none to deliver them, and a spoil, with none to say, “RESTORE!” [in the Hebrew language in which this passage was originally written the word used here is “shuv (שׁוּב),” which means repent, return, turn back, and restore]” Isaiah 42:22.
For redemption brings restoration of the Eden blessing and the blessing of Abraham, which are one in the same.
It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich, and He adds no sorrow to it. Proverbs 10:22.
But how do you do this, how do you call upon Me, how do you set nations free? How do you give this redemption to those trapped in abuse, evil, poverty, and the deception and lies of the devil? How do you get in your watchtower and pray in a way that is powerful and effective? The answer is extraordinarily simple but works awesome miracles of deliverance. Yet most have missed it but those who know it have seen WONDERS.
How do you release My glory on the people? Remember glory is the exercise of My awesome power in love to produce goodness and eradicate all evil.
Let us go to the Words I gave My prophet Isaiah to begin our journey to redemption, for I have redeemed you. I so loved the world that I gave My only begotten Son that all who believe will never perish but have eternal life.
Thus says God the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it, “I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I will also hold you by the hand and watch over you, and I will appoint you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations, to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon and those who dwell in darkness from the prison. I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, nor My praise to graven images. Behold, the former things have come to pass, now I declare new things; before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” Sing to the LORD a new song, sing His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it. You islands, and those who dwell on them. Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices, the settlements where Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud, let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains. Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the coastlands. The LORD will go forth like a warrior, He will arouse His zeal like a man of war. He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry. He will prevail against His enemies. Isaiah 42:5-13.
You release My power to take down your adversary the devil and his demonic forces by singing joyful praises full of My powerful and anointed Word, which is truth, and that is ultimate overcoming, stronghold destroying, fully releasing, redeeming and most effective prayer of the redeemed. Just read 2 Chronicles 20, Acts 16:25-34, and the Psalms of David. Why? Singing joyful praise full of declarations of My promises, My goodness, My redemption, and My love is the ultimate expression of confident, unshakable faith that stands firm in the face of contrary facts, opposition, deceptions of the world, and the darkness of evil and thus treads upon the lies of the devil. Singing My magnificent promises and Covenant Names in praise releases My power to perform My Word to take down strongholds and release those taken captive by Satan who are living under the curse.
I am singing the victory already, you just are joining with Me. Have you never read the following witnesses in My Word, they are for your instruction and application to be an overcomer:
The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; He will renew you in His love, He will rejoice over you with songs of joy. Zephaniah 3:17.
You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. Psalm 32:7.
And in the darkness of evil, I give you the songs to sing in the night to wake the dawn.
“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’” Job 35:10-11.
And when in the miry pit of destruction, depression, oppression, and/or abuse what do I give you to pull you out or pull another out? I put a song of praise in your mouth to lift you up to the flow of My Kingdom that rescues you from the realm of darkness to your inheritance with the saints in light where they are singing songs of redemption: the Song of the Lamb, which is the Song of your Redeemer, and the Song of Moses, which is the song of the redeemed.
I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; many will see and fear and will trust in the LORD. How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust. Psalm 40:1.
Release My power to rout and hold back your adversary, the devil, no matter who he is acting through to abuse and oppress My people, especially the children, with songs of praise. I am enthroned, dwell in, your praises for that is how you put your mind above where Christ is seated by My right hand and we can go to work, for in the praising you have entered to My throne with confidence and can receive mercy and find grace in time of need. You cannot enter My gates except by thanksgiving and My courts but with hymns of praise.
Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. . . Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Colossians 3:1-2;16.
O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD, let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, let us sing and shout joyfully to Him with psalms. Psalm 95:1-2.
There are no particular qualifications you must have to do this. Even babies can do it.
And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise’?” Matthew 21:16.
How majestic is Your name in all the earth, who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength because of Your adversaries, to make the enemy and the revengeful cease. Psalm 8:1-2.
The devil tries to trap little children in foolish nursery rhymes, you probably still remember some of them, because he knows if they get praise songs in their hearts and mouths they can take him down and stop the abuse they are under. Sing praises of My Word and My Names to and with your little ones, even from the womb, and watch the enemy have no part in them.
And even if you have no children, stand in your room to pray and sing songs of praise, redemption and deliverance over those trapped in abuse, trafficking and the like by evil men and break the chains and take those strongholds down. Sound impossible? Nothing is impossible with Me, you just have to be willing and obey and release My power into the earth. Swiftly runs My Word. Paul and Silas sang praises over that jail and it was not only their chains that fell off, but it was also the chains holding every prisoner in there and every gate opened to freedom as well. And everyone got saved, even the jailer and his whole household! Take note, have you been stepping up and singing praise and thanksgiving when you reach your midnight hour? It is time you learned how to take down the realm of darkness. Singing My praises with My anointed Word brings the light of Heaven in and the darkness must flee in the purity of that light.
My servant James tells you if you have joy, you are to sing praises. James 5:13. The anointing lifts the burden and destroys the yoke, and you have the same anointing as the head of the body, Jesus, and as your great High Priest. And what do I tell that I have anointed Jesus with? The oil of JOY! My joy is your strength. And what does joy do? Sings praises. Selah. You need strength, a strong arm, to take down evil strongholds of abuse and slavery, but Jesus is that strong arm by which I saved you with joy. You go out with joy and are led forth by peace.
So will My Word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Isaiah 55:11-12.
I am your strength and song and that makes for salvation! With joy you draw the living water of the Spirit and can put out all the flaming darts of the evil one.
“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for the LORD God is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation (Yeshuah, Jesus).” Isaiah 12:2-3.
You have been redeemed. That is shouting ground, the joyful shout of victory.
My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You; and my soul, which You have redeemed. Psalm 71:23.
You have been forgiven. Repent, confess your sins and let Me cleanse you of all unrighteousness and then you can let go of the guilt and do what? Yes, sing the accusations of the accuser of the brethren down.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness. Psalm 51:14.
You have the victory already in Christ Jesus over sin and death. Sing about that and take out the opposition of the evil one.
For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock. And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, and I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD. Psalm 27:5-6.
I am your refuge, but how do you get into that refuge to be so safe and secure? You should know by now.
But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength; Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning, For You have been my stronghold And a refuge in the day of my distress. Psalm 59:16.
When faced with what looked like certain defeat as three united armies came against Judah at Jerusalem, at first they feared but Jehoshaphat their king and a descendant of David knew what to do. He called everyone to My house to pray and they prayed a prayer of exultation and confidence in My ability and desire to save them, confessed they did not know what to do as they were so few, but put their eyes on Me. And I gave them My Word through a prophet (who was also a singer of praise) and said I would fight for them and show them My Salvation but they had to go out the next morning and face the enemy armies that had gathered against them in the valley of trouble. What did they do? All they had was My Word spoken by a prophet. And you have even more, a whole book called the Bible of My magnificent promises to you that are all “YES” in Christ Jesus for you who believe in His Name. So now that they had found a Word what did they do? Cry and beg? No way, they never would have had the victory in that case. What did they do? Yes, sang praises.
Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshiping the LORD. The Levites, from the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons of the Korahites, stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel, with a very loud voice. 2 Chronicles 20:18-19.
But they did not stop there. The next morning, in obedience to My Word they rose early and got ready to march out to face their enemies who had come to take them captives as their slaves and ransack their city and all the treasures therein. But Jehoshaphat and the people decided to put the choir at the head of the army to march out in holy attire singing My songs of praise that David had introduced in the tabernacle of praise he set up on Zion during his reign. So out they marched singing to face their enemies.
He appointed those who sang to the LORD and those who praised Him in holy attire, as they went out before the army and sang, “Give thanks to the LORD, for His lovingkindness is everlasting.” When they began singing and praising, the LORD set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; so they were routed. For the sons of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir destroying them completely; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another. 2 Chronicles 20:21-23.
As soon as you are facing an attack of the enemy or hear of an attack of the enemy against any follower of Mine anywhere in the world or of the little children, of helpless people trapped in a ruthless regime, disasters, famines, war, floods, you who are My redeemed know what to do. Stand up point out your window and SING THE PROMISE THAT TAKES DOWN THE ENEMY! Give Me something to work with. For as soon as they started singing with joyful thanksgiving of My everlasting lovingkindness (chesed, which is love, kindness, mercy, compassion, and grace all in one word), I went to work on the enemy, those intending oppression and evil to My faith filled people.
When Judah came to the lookout of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude, and behold, they were corpses lying on the ground, and no one had escaped. When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found much among them, including goods, garments and valuable things which they took for themselves, more than they could carry. And they were three days taking the spoil because there was so much. 2 Chronicles 20:24-25.
Not only a great deliverance but they went out laden with silver and gold, goods, garments, and valuable things. Sound familiar? Exodus 3:22; Exodus 12:35. I have a way of delivering you out healed, strong, victorious, and rich. It is the blood of the Lamb. My Blessing makes rich and adds no sorrow with it. The wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous.
Then on the fourth day they assembled in the valley of Beracah (Blessing renamed by them from the Valley of Achor (trouble), for there they blessed the LORD. Therefore they have named that place “The Valley of Blessing” until today. Every man of Judah and Jerusalem returned with Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies. They came to Jerusalem with harps, lyres and trumpets to the house of the LORD. And the dread of God was on all the kingdoms of the lands when they heard that the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel. So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at shalom peace, for his God gave him rest on all sides. 2 Chronicles 20:26-30.
The Holy Spirit hovers to perform My Word with power so get filled with Him by joyful songs, making melody in your heart unto Me and addressing one another in songs of the Spirit. Ephesians 5:17-20.
The devil brags that he took all your treasures and you never even chirped.
“And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a nest, And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.” Isaiah 10:14
Birds sing constantly. There is a reason. Start singing praises with joy and thanksgiving and the devil cannot take your treasures—your children, your marriage, your health, your prosperity, and all the other benefits I give you freely in Christ.
I could tell you many more incidents of the atomic bomb of praise but I think you get the idea. The shouting, singing voice of thanksgiving works wonders. Learn from Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah, learn from David who was never defeated because he sang songs of praise, as king he even appointed singers and musicians, Levites, to stand 24/7 before My ark of the covenant in groups of 12 to sing songs of praise day and night before Me without cessation. And during that period Israel never lost a battle. And Paul and Silas released and converted all the prisoners in a Roman prison by singing praises chained to the floor at midnight. Are you ready to intercede joining with Jesus your great High Priest?
I love you. But before we close, let Me ask you a question. Jesus kept ALL My commandments. He is forever making intercession for you in the true Holy of Holies in Heaven upon the mercy seat with His eternal blood of eternal redemption. Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 9:11-14. How do you suppose He enters My gates and courts which He opened again to you when He redeemed you? Yes, with songs of thanksgiving and praise as I command. Join with Him, willing obedience gives you the best of the land.
My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing, I will sing praises, even with my soul. Awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn! I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among the peoples, and I will sing praises to You among the nations. For Your lovingkindness is great above the heavens, and Your truth reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and Your glory above all the earth. That Your beloved may be delivered, save with Your right hand, and answer me! Psalm 108:1-6.