Most of us are familiar with this chapterâs opening verse found in the book of Romans. Its message to us is simply to âowe no man anything.â However, very few experience its freedom. Instead of it being a message of freedom, it instead puts a burden of heaviness on most of us when we think of the amount of debt that is looming over usâa mountain of debtâowed everywhere!
âBut Jesus was matter-of-fact: âYesâand if you embrace this kingdom life and donât doubt God, you'll not only do minor feats like I did to the fig tree, but also triumph over huge obstacles. This mountain, for instance, youâll tell, âGo jump in the lake,â and it will jump. Absolutely everything, ranging from small to large, as you make it a part of your believing prayer, gets included as you lay hold of Godâ (Matthew 21:21â22 MSG).
Each and every burden that befalls us was designed specifically as an opportunity (not a burden) to gain an increased intimacy with the Lord, our Beloved, as He calls us to, âCome to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is easy and My burden is lightâ (Matthew 11:28â30). What He is saying is that each and every time we find something too heavy, we are to yoke ourselves with Him. Each burden was lovingly designed for His brides to simply turn around, handing the burden to our capable Husband.
Whether or not you accept yourself as His bride, in the Bible He refers to us as His sheep. Sheep are not burden-bearers like oxen, but are simply âfearful little creaturesâ who need a Good Shepherd.
It was while I was encouraging my future daughter-in-law that this entire principle became so real to me. Â My DIL was telling me about her desire to keep working after she married to pay off her student loans, but, she said, âit seems so impossible!â As I shared with her, itâs true, yes, our mountains are meant to be impossible so that instead of us foolishly trying to dig ourselves out, we will see the impossibility of trying. We can even acknowledge the impossibility, but then, as believers, we need to wisely give the mountain to Godâthe God of impossibilities!
What He says is this, âI am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for Me?â (Jeremiah 32:27 NLV). So, when God asks you this question: âIs anything too hard for Me?â will you speak to your mountain and answer Him, âDear God, my Master, You created earth and sky by Your great powerâby merely stretching out Your arm! There is nothing YOU canât do. Youâre loyal in Your steadfast love to thousands upon thousandsâ (Jeremiah 32:17, 18a MSG)? Or will you say and profess the opposite, as most Christians do?
When I reminded my DIL that God told us to âowe no man,â she said, âI know! Thatâs what makes me feel so sick!â Rather than focusing on how Heâs asked us to âowe no man anythingâ and then come to the false conclusion that WE are expected to carry the burden of debt and work harder. Instead, He wants us to trust Him to do it for us because our burdens are always a signal that we are not yoked to Him. âFor My yoke is easy and My burden is lightâ (Matthew 11:30).
Let us look at owing no man financially as huge and impossible as my DIL felt. Whatâs even more huge and impossible is asking us to be responsible for paying the price for our sins. Why use finances as a comparison? Because throughout Scripture, God uses financial debt to help us understand our debt for our sins and every other burden in our livesâwhat Jesus has paid forâHe paid it all for us! Isnât our part to simply believe it and accept it?!?! God helped us with the greatest impossibility of all; am I right? Now read this story regarding a manâs financial debt that He used to explain our spiritual debt.
âTherefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
âThe servant fell on his knees before him. âBe patient with me,â he begged, âand I will pay back everything.â The servantâs master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
âBut when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him. âPay back what you owe me!â he demanded.
âHis fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, âBe patient with me, and I will pay you back.â
âBut he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.
âThen the master called the servant in. âYou wicked servant,â he said, âI canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldnât you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?â In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owedâ (Matthew 18:23â34).
Most preachers use this as a message to explain why we are to forgive others, and rightfully so; however, I believe, as with most Scripture there are many other meanings to this message that our Beloved wanted to teach us. Â One thatâs very important is that of the debt we owe others, and how God chose a way to have that debt paid for us. When our Beloved, while on the cross, paid the price for all our mistakes, it had to include all our debt, or itâs not finished. Yet we knowâHe paid the price for us, for everythingâ because we never could.
âHe saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but because of His own pity and mercyâ (Titus 3:5 AMP). The point is this: He saved us because we couldnât save ourselves! He set it up this way so we would depend on Him. The old saying, âGod helps those who help themselvesâ is not only stupidâit is unbiblical. Instead, He tells us in Ephesians 2:8-9Â âFor by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.â
Itâs interesting that we are only allowed to boast in two things: two things onlyâfirst, âBut HE WHO BOASTS IS TO BOAST IN THE LORDâ (2 Corinthians 10:17). The second is, boasting about our weaknesses, and for good reason, âAnd He has said to me, âMy grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weaknessâ Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in meâ (2 Corinthians12:9).
It is the pride of man, that we all know, which leads to utter destruction. Thinking we can do it alone, or even to try to do it on our own, without going to Him for help, is pride. It is not just us being âresponsibleâ as many foolishly think and try to make us believe. Instead of working to pay off our debt and trying to do it alone as being a âgood thingâ and it a sign of our maturityâwhen it actually proves our spiritual immaturity.
What parent doesnât know that it is the self-centered, immature little two-year-old who puts his shoes on backward but proudly wants no help!
Once again, our Heavenly Husband paid the price and made a way for us to live an abundant life, which includes being debt-free, pain-free, worry-freeâsince without this freedom we cannot enjoy the life that He said He overcame! âI have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]â (John 16:33 AMP).
How can any of us âbe of good cheerâ if we have a mountain of debt hanging over us?
How can any of us âbe of good cheerâ if we have a mountain of physical pain hanging over us?
How can any of us âbe of good cheerâ if we have a mountain of sin hanging over us?
How can any of us âbe of good cheerâ if we have a mountain of emotional pain hanging over us?
Having our âemotional pain goneâ is a good place to build our faith as women. Have you found the secret of no more emotional pain dear one? Youâll find it with the same Person where we find relief for all our worriesâin Him and in His love. His love is the greatest power on earth. Itâs what never fails. âAbove all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sinsâ (1 Peter 4:8). Also in 1 Corinthians 13:8 He gives us a clear promise: âLove never fails,â and when itâs HIS love, it will set you free and move the mountain of your emotional pain.
*If youâre still not free from the emotional pain (which as women, is the first mountain to be moved), then Iâd encourage you to go back to the first book in the Abundant Life Series, Finding the Abundant Life because emotional pain and baggage is too heavy to carry and leads to a host of consequences.
My Fault
What makes us believe that our Heavenly Husband will not get us out of debt? It is because of the guilt that we did it to ourselves! True, you were totally irresponsibleâŠyes, you knew betterâŠyou should have heeded the warnings. Does that mean you are excluded from your Husband helping you? My dear sweet bride, you couldnât be any more wrong.
If this were true, then God would tell us, âOkay, hereâs the way things are done. The blood that my Son shed will only pay for the sins that you did that you didnât know were wrongânot the ones you did intentionally. The ones you did intentionally, those you knew were wrong, YOU will have to pay that debt yourself!â
Your reasoning might be saying, âWell thatâs fair; I should have to pay.â But God is not a God who is fair: God is a God of justice. And more importantly, PRAISE GOD, He is a God of mercy. Mercy, which means He chooses âcompassion and forgiveness shown toward us, even though it is within His power to punish or harm usâ the very definition of mercy.
Think of it. He chose to bless us, the offender, with kindness and forgiveness, overcoming every power of sin over us. It is His disposition. Itâs His nature to be compassionate, forgiving us. And this, dear bride, should be a welcomed event since it is preventing the most unpleasant from happeningâa burden. By paying for all our sins, even those we deserve to have to pay, He lifts the distress of our burden, which reminds us of who we are in Him, His bride, and proves His love for us! Oh, to be His bride keeps me in complete and utter awe!
Without the burden, we are free to give Him the love He deserves from usâthe devotion of Him being first in our lives, being our First Love. Not accepting His full payment for all our burdens, the Church is unable to experience the freedom, which leads to hearing these words, âBut I have this against you, that you have left your first loveâ (Revelations 2:4).
So then, the question is this, dearest bride, why would you or I even attempt to try to pay a debt we canât pay for, especially when He has already paid for it? Think of it like this: What if He went on ahead to the best restaurant in town and paid for you to receive an extravagant meal. But instead of accepting it and enjoying it, and then thanking Him, praising Him and falling in love with Him even more for what He has done. Instead, you tell everyone after youâve eaten that you canât pay, youâre in debt, and make a plan to try to pay the cost yourself?
Believe it or not, there are some who would argue that salvation is just too simplistic and that if the Good News were true, if people are just forgiven, they would begin abusing their freedom by sinning even more. Yet, we know this is just simply not true. We know that the opposite is actually true. Once we really understand the magnitude of what He did by paying for our sins âwhile we were still sinners,â this understanding causes us to seek Him more and devote more of our love to Him. And in fact, due to His love, we can begin to âsin no more,â because itâs the natural process and it proves our love for Himâall due because of His love!
If my Husband truly paid for my debt, then that means ALL my debtâwhich includes my financial debts as well as any sins committed. Because if Godâs grace is limited to only certain things, then we are all in trouble.
Thankfully, the truth isâHis grace is limitless! And since He tells us to give our burdens to Him, while at the same time telling us to owe no man so that we are free to love them (because how can we honestly âloveâ anyone we are in debt to?). Then clearly, we can believe and wait with an expectancy that our Husband will move our mountain of debt if we simply believe He will and accept it from Him just as we accepted our salvation.
âJesus answered them, Truly I say to you, if you have faith (a firm relying trust) and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, be taken up and cast into the sea, it will be done.
âAnd whatever you ask for in prayer, having faith and [really] believing, you will receiveâ (Matthew 21:21â22 AMP).
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que maravillosa lecciĂłn, gracias mi amado por pagar todas mis deudas y todos mis pecados y hacerme libre para adorarte y alabarte đđđ
What a wonderful lesson, thank you my beloved for paying all my debts and all my sins and making me free to worship and praise you đđđ
Gracias mi amado por esta maravillosa lecciĂłn, gracias mi amado por este maravilloso ministerio RMI.
Gracias mi amado por tĂș gracia inmerecida, gracias por pagar todas mis deudas espirituales, emocionales y tambiĂ©n financiera.
Gracias mi amado porque aunque soy culpable de todo, ti me perdonas y cargas con todas mis cargas, para que yo solo te alabe y te adore.
Para que yo solo piense en ti y por medio de mi animar a las mujeres que tĂș traes a mi vida de que solo tĂș nos ama u que en ti todas las cosas son posibles.
Que tĂș pagaste todas nuestras deudas y pecados y que solo tĂș nos puede dar la vida abundante que tanto buscamos en lugares y personas que no lo tienen.
Y todo lo que pidĂĄis en oraciĂłn, teniendo fe y [realmente] creyendo, lo recibirĂ©isâ (Mateo 21:21â22).
Esta lecciĂłn es una verdad, cuando nuestras cargas nos desvĂan del propĂłsito de Dios,debemos detenernos y entregarle todo solo a Ă©l.,
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Thank you my beloved for this wonderful lesson, thank you my beloved for this wonderful RMI ministry.
Thank you my beloved for your undeserved grace, thank you for paying all my spiritual, emotional and also financial debts.
Thank you my beloved because although I am guilty of everything, you forgive me and carry all my burdens, so that I only praise and adore you.
So that I only think of you and through me encourage the women that you bring into my life that only you love us and that in you all things are possible.
That you paid all our debts and sins and that only you can give us the abundant life that we seek so much in places and people that do not have it.
And whatever you ask for in prayer, having faith and [truly] believing, you will receiveâ (Matthew 21:21â22).
This lesson is a truth, when our burdens divert us from God’s purpose, we must stop and give everything to him alone.