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LaDONNA: So you see when I suggest that if there’s any area of bondage I’m serious. Some people would, listen, some women will say when I’m depressed they have to go shopping. Don’t say that. Don’t even think it. Because you don’t have to. You don’t have to. We are not in bondage. Jesus has set us free. We are of the free. Most free! When Bulgaria was…the collapse of the Soviet Union and Bulgaria was able to be an independent nation again I sent a message to Bulgaria. I had such a compassion for these people. I had been among the people of the Soviet Union for so much, so much ministry, had such compassion for them. And my message to them was what do you do with freedom? Because it… rah, rah freedom. That’s great. It’s like nice slogan. But now what do you do when you’re free? You know we have to learn how to, how to administer freedom. We have to learn how to take responsibility. How to make decisions. We have to learn what are our values. What is worthy of our lives. We have to… if you’re really free and no one can force you to do anything, no, no spirit can dominate your life, then we look to the direction of the Holy Spirit and God’s Word to find out what do we really do with this freedom. We’re not free just to be free. We’re free for specific reasons. So I want you to think about this. A woman… we’re talking about the lie, the power of Satan’s lie. His lies spawn thoughts, fears. You know fear is one of the greatest tools of the enemy? It’s all rooted in lie. People are afraid of this, afraid of that, afraid of that and mostly things don’t even happen that they’re afraid of. You know that. I know that. But yet that’s… the devil just keeps getting by with that. We need to, we need to call him on it and say Hey, buddy, no more! I’m not going to stand for that. I know better. I’m not stupid. I’m not… I’m not… I can’t just be yanked around by your falsehoods, by your lies, stuff you make up. There’s no truth in you. We have to take a stand! A woman called me one day on the telephone. She was a woman minister that had been…. I knew her, she knew me. She never really sat under our teaching but she knew some, she studied some of our redemption teachings. Well she called me and said… oh, she was crying, she was just broken. And she said oh, I just came out of the doctor’s office and he said I have bone cancer. And the woman was just broken. I’m telling you friends, I’m almost embarrassed to tell you cause it was very rude but out of me came what does that have to do with you? I felt bad that I was so blunt but I couldn’t take it back because it was the truth. And so I talked to her and I said, I said if the word of God is your truth and if Jesus bore your sickness how can you have bone cancer? And she stopped crying and started listening and I didn’t know if she was mad at me or what but you know you… I put my… I had stepped into it so I pressed on. And I prayed with her and encouraged her faith. She called me back in two weeks and she says I’m just so excited to tell you I went back to the doctor. He did all the tests, all the x-rays and he says I don’t have cancer. It was a lie!
