[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Break free from that yoke

Read: Genesis 27: 1-40

Meditation verse:

“You will live by the sword, and you will serve your brother. But when you grow  restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck”. (Genesis 27:40).

Jacob had stolen his older brother, Esau’s blessings again by pretending to be  him. So, when their father Isaac blessed Esau, he told him that he would serve  his younger brother, until he became restless. Only then would he throw away  the yoke from his neck.  

There are certain things that you tolerate in your life even though they are not  serving you. Because they have been part of your life for a long time, you have  come to accept the fact that things cannot be better. They could be conditions,  circumstances, bad relationships, people who are abusive and who put you  down, toxic workplaces, abusive marriage, sinful habit, addiction, health issue,  weight problems, financial difficulty, or some other condition. These things are  undermining you severely, but you allow them, you permit them even though  you do not like them. These are yokes on your neck. A yoke is a wooden piece  fastened over the neck of two animals and attached to a cart for them to pull.  Scripturally, yoke depicts servitude, bondage, and burden. There is nothing good  about a yoke. Itslows you down, causes you to bend over or even disfigures you.  

Change does not occur by happenstance. That situation is persisting because  you are not yet fed up with it. When you get fed up, you will find a way to break  free. Fed up with being a supplanter, Jacob wrestled with the angel, until  daybreak. He refused to let go until God gave him a new name and changed the  trajectory of his life. Fed up with being childless, Hannah prayed until she was  mistaken for a drunk. Fed up with the life-draining disease, the woman with the  issue of blood, pressed through the crowd to touch the helm of Jesus’ garment.  

You are a partaker of God’s divine nature, and you deserve to live a fulfilling and  abundant life. Refuse to settle for anything less. Receive this life changing word  today, get restless and break free in Jesus’ name.

IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Pst (Mrs) Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).

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