Too Big For Bondage

Would you ever sit in a chair that was too small for you if you knew you had to sit for a long time? Would you sleep in a bed where your feet hang off the end? Would you wear clothes that a 7 year old would wear? Would you wear a ring or a bracelet that wouldn't fit your hand? Would you wear a hat that was too small? Would yo try to sit it in a desk that was too small? Excessive? Maybe it was but there is a point to be made. Naturally when things are too small we do not accept them. We recognize that we are too big for those things and go to the things which fit us. I can tell you honestly and boldly that Bondage Does Not Fit You!


"You've gotten too big for bondage! You've outgrown it! It doesn't fit you anymore! Just like when a person tries to put on shoes that are sizes too small for them, you cannot walk in bondage because you have grown too much. Just like when clothes don't fit and it's uncomfortable and looks silly on you that is what bondage is for you. I've caused you to be bigger than any bondage that can ever try to contain you! You're just too big for it! You're just too big! You're just too big!"

This statement is not arbitrarily contrived or made up. It's not something that I thought would be something good to post or nice to say. God said this to me in a moment of seeking his face and worshiping Him. He plainly said that we have outgrown bondage. He has grown us to a point where the very notion of bondage is foolish. When Jesus went to the cross and died for our sins, arose with all power, and ascended to heaven; He then made bondage too small for us.

Jesus said, "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36). This wasn't something optional or an accessory of salvation. When Jesus died He made all those who would accept Him free. With that freedom we shall surely, without a doubt be free! He has secured that "we are more than conquerors through him that loved us" (Romans 8:37). It was His love for us that made it possible for us to be free. No one will bail you out of jail if they don't love you. There is always a relational connection to purchasing freedom. Jesus saw us in the bondages of sin and death and made sure we would be free.

1 Corinthians 15:57 says, "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." We see here that victory ore the power to overcome is in Christ. A person who is free has the victory over anything that tries to hold him.  If we are indeed more than conquerors then we can do more than what a conqueror does. Think about that. We know that conquerors have victory and overtake whatever is in their way. Since we have been called more than conquerors, you mean to tell me that we more than overcome and have the victory? The only thing that equates to in my mind is being larger than any bondage. There were times when conquerors lost but us being more than those, we will never lose in Christ!

It was God's intention from the beginning for us to overcome anything that even tried to put us in any situation or predicament. Genesis 1:26-28 says:

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:  and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth on the earth."

God created man to subdue and dominate! That was his intention. He created man with the capacity and ability to overcome anything on the earth. At creation Adam and Eve were already too small for bondage. Sin and death came in though and temporarily suspended the ability, but Christ came and redeemed it. If it was God's plan for us to be able to subdue and dominate then that is what we shall do. Christ secured the rights for us to be larger than bondage. Bondage is not a good look on anyone anyway. It is restrictive, cruel, and just downright unrighteous.

Know today that God has allowed you to be too big for any bondage that could ever try to take hold of you! Whatever it may be know that you are too big for it. 1 John 5:4 declares that "whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." If we have the ability to overcome the world, being born of God through Christ, then clearly everything else that may try to hold us back is too small. If I have already overcome anything of world size proportion just by my faith, in Christ, then clearly everything else is peanuts.

Whether it is nail biting, overspending, guilt, shame, unbelief, doubt, lust, disobedience, insensitivity, or anything else that may hinder you from being full in God, know that God has caused you to be larger than that. Your relationship with Christ has cause you to be too big for bondage. You are too big in the spirit in order for some weak devil to try and hold you back from fulfilling destiny. Whatever it is today assert your authority over it. If it is trying to hold you back know that you've outgrown it. You're too big for bondage; it's not a good look on you!

Be More. Hear More. See More. Do More.
You can do anything [through Christ]