Steeped in the Word
April 9, 2025 – 04/09/2025
4 – Creation and Things That Are Made
9 – (+) Fruit Bearing (-) Judgment
So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world? Galatians 4:9 NLT
Free In Deeds
At the age of 18, I was graduating high school with hope for the future. That same year, Isabella turned 18 and was sold into sexual slavery to pay her family’s debts to the Mexican drug cartels. She entered into a life of hopelessness.
By the time we met, we were both 36. No longer young and beautiful, she had been thrown into the trash, literally, by her pimps. Forced to scavenge for anything of value her bosses could sell, Isabella spent her life in a toxic, festering, stinking environment, enslaved in every way.
We met when I took a mission team to the trash dumps of Matamoros. Upon learning her story, we asked Isabella’s boss how much a human being cost. The answer? A scant $631.
We set Isabella free that day. She was free to find her family – free to live wherever she wanted. My heart soared to be part of setting someone free from the evil of slavery. I had visions of her happiness.
Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. – John 8:36
But Isabella wasn’t free. Knowing only physical, mental and emotional slavery her entire adult life, she was unable to leave the trash dump. She was still there four years later, of her own free will, gathering cardboard along with her husband and child. “Forgive me,” she said. “I don’t know how to live out there. I only know how to live here.”
Because of the mercy given me by Jesus Christ, I was able to hug her and encourage her. Yes, I was disappointed she decided to stay in the dump, but I see many of us in her.
Despite the freedom Christ gives us when we get saved, we remain in our trash heaps – unhealthy relationships, addictions, negative thought patterns, violent behaviors, immaturity and other things we need to put in our past. It’s hard to see yourself as clean and set free when, on the inside, you feel filthy and tied up.
But hear me on this: you are clean! You are free! You are now righteous in the sight of God despite not having everything together! Work toward getting out of your personal trash dump. Isabella did. She eventually left and I know I will see her in Heaven to get the rest of the story. What about you?
Grounded in Faith
Declare!
There is now no condemnation for those in Jesus. I am His, so I don’t let the enemy tell me who I am not. I know my identity in Christ. He says I am more than a conqueror. I rise up and walk in the righteousness that Christ died for me to have!
Pray a-Latte
CALLING ALL PRAYER WARRIORS! JOIN THE BATTLE CRY TRIBE!
Leanna, myself, and our team are constantly on the move—taking the Good News to the nations, rescuing women and children, and standing in the places where giants still roam.
Every mission, every breakthrough, and every soul saved comes with spiritual warfare, and we need YOU—our Battle Cry Tribe—to stand in the gap, covering us with prayers of victory, protection, and supernatural favor.
The Kingdom of darkness trembles when the saints of God lift up a battle cry in unity, covering the frontlines with prayer, power, and prophetic declarations!
Blessing,
Pastor Troy Brewer
