FREEDOM RAVE
What makes mJa member Amy Williams rave with excitement...

"…if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8:36)

WHEN YOU become a Christian, you realise what it really means to be free. I was brought up in a Christian home, but before I'd really made the decision to accept Jesus for myself, I was quite shy and self-conscious. Jesus broke through that.

When I received the Holy Spirit for the first time, I was filled with a new confidence and began to discover the kind of person that God had really intended me to be. Because we can give Him our worries and trust Him for everything we need, it gives us a freedom from worldly cares.

It's so refreshing, so releasing to be able to surrender to Jesus and be free from your old nature, to have your sins washed away. I've seen people completely changed by God's power: they've been freed into the character that God really wants for them.

I'm someone who naturally worries about a lot of things, so the freedom I've found in God has given me a real sense of peace. Through freedom in God I am able to not worry about what people around me think, not to look at myself and see what's wrong with me, but to look upwards to God, to let His Spirit lead me where He will.

We all still get insecure sometimes, but when we've found our place in the church and when we have a relationship with Jesus, we can find a true release. The amazing thing is that this freedom is available to anyone who accepts God into their life and is willing to trust Him enough to break out of all their insecurities.