True Freedom – The Presidential Prayer Team

Present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. – Romans 6:19

Enslaved people have very little freedom. Being a slave is something no one would intentionally strive for. Countless lives have been and are being lost in the effort to achieve liberty… or in defending it. Imagine what it would be like to have almost no say over what you do. Yet, citizens are subject to the laws of the land in order to live safe and peaceful lives. Paul says Christians are to be subject to each other. Today’s verse commands believers to be slaves to righteousness. Being a slave to righteousness is a good thing.

This servitude means you let God dictate what you do, what you think, and what you say. You let His love direct your relationships. It is like the default setting on a computer or device. It goes back to that certain setting automatically. Let your personal default be to love. When in doubt on what to buy, where to go, what to do, what to say, ask the Lord to reveal what the loving action is. Being a slave to righteousness is true freedom.

This leads to sanctification, the process of becoming a holy vessel set apart for God’s use and service. You become free from the bonds of sin and deception. You become sanctified as you live out God’s purpose and plan for your life. It is the work of the Spirit (1 Peter: 1:2), but also something you do in partnership with Him (2 Corinthians 7:1). Remember to pray for the country, for God’s will to be done in it and in each heart. Pray as this nation’s freedom is under attack. Ask at the same time that people would be slaves to what is right and good in God’s eyes.

Today’s Verse: Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

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Recommended for further reading: John 17:6-19

⁶“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. ⁸For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. ⁹I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. ¹⁰All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. ¹¹And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. ¹²While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. ¹⁴I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. ¹⁶They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁷Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.